A landing craft, air cushion flies over the Pacific near the USS Omaha. Navy photo by Gregory Lomax. The Navy released a photo this week of a landing craft air cushion flying over the Pacific ...

Interesting Engineering. Landing Craft Air Cushion: U.S. Navy’s Shore Assault Power. Posted: March 24, 2025 | Last updated: March 24, 2025. The U.S. Navy's LCAC is a high-speed hovercraft ...

Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a new documentary video about the DARPA/USMC Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector ...

April 5, 2007: The U.S. Navy is refurblishing its LCACs (Landing Craft, Air Cushion), to extend their useful life from 20 to 30 years. The first LCAC was built in 1984, the latest in 2001. The craft ...

The 65-ft. landing craft that skittered across the water and up a Lake Erie beach last week looked like a product out of ... In what may be the first military use of an air-cushion vehicle, ...

The primary use of LCAC (or Landing Craft Air Cushion), is to transport Marines and their equipment from ship to shore. Chief Petty Officer Andrew Jacobson became an LCAC navigator after serving ...

A landing craft, air cushion, assigned enters the well deck of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS New York. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Roland John/Released/U.S ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – The USO’s Military Village event at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront began with the centerpiece of its display, a landing craft air cushion out of Joint Expeditionary ...

The Navy’s next generation air cushion landing craft successfully completes testing in February 2022. (Ronald Newsome/U.S. Navy) ...

The U.S. Navy has taken delivery of the next generation landing craft, Ship to Shore Connector (SSC), Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) 106 following the completion of Acceptance Trials with the ...

ETC Weber navigates the Landing Craft Air Cushion, and said, “We push about a million cubic inches of air a minute down into the bag." Erin Miller. Think of "the bag," as an inflatable raft.