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US Marines get next-gen missile-launching boats with helicopter-like striking power
The U.S. Marine Corps has received the first batch of Whiskey Bravo multi-mission reconnaissance boats with advanced ...
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Foreign customers mull buying Russian amphibious assault boats
South Africa is considering buying 12 transport and landing and assault boats from Russia’s Kalashnikov ... the spokeswoman said at the Army-2017 military and technical forum outside Moscow ...
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How an often overlooked World War II-era shipbuilder designed the boat that Eisenhower said 'won the war for us'
Two and a half years later, on the morning of June 6, 1944, the LCVPs — short for Landing Craft ... 30-caliber machine guns, and room for some 36 infantrymen, "Higgins Boats" proved instrumental ...
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Russian Navy warship holds artillery firing drills in Sea of Japan, Interfax reports
(Reuters) - The Russian Navy's large landing ship ... The crew also fired large-caliber machine guns at small maneuverable targets simulating unmanned boats of a mock enemy.
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Army holds live-fire test of TOW 2B missiles
The TOW missiles can also be used to strike bunkers and landing boats, further bolstering ... equipped not only with a 76mm fast gun, but also with air-defense and anti-warship missiles. China’s ...
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Russian Navy warship holds artillery firing drills in Sea of Japan (East Sea): Report
The Russian Navy’s large landing ship ... The crew also fired large-calibre machine guns at small manoeuvrable targets simulating unmanned boats of a mock enemy. The exercises were carried ...