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Austal Defence Australia will be responsible for the two projects: 18 Landing Craft Medium (LCM) vessels and 8 Landing Craft ...
Austal Limited has secured a landmark agreement with the Australian Gov't to become the strategic shipbuilder for Tier 2 ...
An LCM landing craft manned by the U.S. Coast Guard, evacuating U.S. casualties from the invasion beaches, brings them to a transport for treatment.
The Australian Army has relied on 15 ageing LCM-8 landing craft for more than five decades, but two new types of domestically built, independent, long-range landing craft will give the army a ...
The new RFT is restricted to the landing craft replacement, which the minister said in February would be larger, faster, and better protected than the 59-tonne LCM-8s that entered service with the ...
The Defense Department is auctioning a Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM-8) boat, used exclusively by the U.S. Military, on its online auction site GovernmentLiquidation.com. The starting bid is $25.
Our ship, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary 'Derwentdale', an oil tanker converted to carry our LCM landing craft, four along both port and starboard sides, lay at anchor in the River Clyde.
Two Vietnam-era vessels docked at the Naval Station Great Lakes north of Chicago, landing craft that can hold 200 people each, are for sale, the U.S. Navy said.
As early as 1936 the Navy experimented with tank lighters, and from these tests emerged the LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized)., a 50-footer which carries a crew of four and a medium tank.