For the U.S. Navy, boats perform missions from mundane maintenance chores such as hull scraping and cleaning overboard ...

Southern Tagalog District has confirmed that a landing craft transport (LCT) vessel named San Juan Bautista sank between Romblon Island and Sibuyan Island in the province of Romblon before noon today.

Helicopters can land just about anywhere but they're mostly restricted to landing at airports and helipads, with a few other ...

DeVita's main job as part of the landing craft's crew was to raise and lower the front ramp on orders of the coxswain, or boat driver, to allow more than 30 troops from the 1st Infantry Division ...

Nearly 1,000 U.S. and Indian military personnel took part in a large-scale amphibious landing drill on Kakinada Beach in Andhra Pradesh, on Friday, for the culminating event in the Indo-U.S ...

The air cushion allows it to easily maneuver across land and water, making it an efficient transport vessel. Over 70% of the world's coastline is accessible to the landing craft.

Posted: March 24, 2025 | Last updated: March 24, 2025 The U.S. Navy's LCAC is a high-speed hovercraft designed to transport troops and equipment from ship to shore efficiently.

The Defense Acquisition Program Administration noted on the 5th that it has delivered a three-dimensional (3D) simulator for high-speed landing craft (LSF-II) pilot training to the navy. The high ...

Japan Marine United and Britain's BMT have secured a multimillion-dollar contract to build the next-generation, high-speed vessels for the SDF.

Griffon Hoverwork is pleased to announce that its new class of Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC), the Wyvern, has been granted Approval in Principle (AiP) by Lloyd's Register.

A private jet was forced to make a “precautionary landing” at the airport this afternoon after it encountered problems with landing gear shortly after take-off.

There is a crew of 1,100 sailors and capacity for carrying up to 1,200 troops who are put ashore using about 20 transport helicopters and a few landing craft. There is a well dock in the rear for ...