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From: fiddler@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Superheavy tanks
Message-ID: <10106@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Oct 89 03:36:58 GMT
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From: fiddler@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)

In article <9871@cbnews.ATT.COM>, amdcad!well!nagle@lll-crg.llnl.gov (John Nagle) writes:
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> From: amdcad!well!nagle@lll-crg.llnl.gov (John Nagle)
> 
>        Military hovercraft have been proposed at various times, usually
> as naval vessels.  But have any ever been built?  Hovercraft were discussed
> as part of the Fast Deployment Logistics Force (a Carter-era idea) but
> not much came of it, apparently.

The Russians have one or more classes of fast assault transports that are
hovercraft.  The U.S. Marines are supposed to be getting some hovercraft
landing craft in the future.

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