It was very cool to be able to ride on one of these at family day at the LCAC base on Camp Pendleton as a kid. My dad was in the reserves at the time as a mechanic on the LCACs and we were able to go on a ride around the area. These things are so amazingly loud when operation it doesn't really carry over through film.

Very impressed

ONLY 23 million? I'll take one!

Remember on way back from Kuwait we did a nght mission over by Bangladesh. Memories

How fast do they go !!!

@UTP_ENT

Жыл бұрын

Idk pretty fast I was just on the highway watching them and they seemed to be keeping up with traffic 😂

@joeyh5172

6 ай бұрын

Mission planning speed is 35 knots. But they go much much faster depending on conditions.

got one in my backyard

If you're looking for a peacetime application for those hovercraft. They would make great evacuation craft for earthquake/ tsunami victims on islands or coastal populated areas. Japan, Haiti, Philippines all good examples of where these could have been used. You could send them with medical supplies, food, water and emergency personnel to the disaster quickly. Also they look big enough to use as a mobile home base for rescue efforts. They could transfer critically injured people to hospital ships off shore and transfer the survivors to unaffected or safer areas. I know what people are going to say. It's too expensive how would you keep them fueled and ready for action? I would set them up in a wide coastal bay and charge a lot of money for the stupid rich to play hovercraft bumper cars and donate the money to Red Cross to buy their own rescue hover crafts and to maintain them.

@zachw.6838

5 жыл бұрын

They have been used in humanitarian and disaster relief efforts in the past. "In 1994, LCAC took part in Operation PROVIDE COMFORT in Haiti. ... Most recently LCAC were sent to the Caribbean to provide humanitarian assistance to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic after Hurricane George devastated the area." www.public.navy.mil/surflant/acu4/Pages/AboutUs.aspx

@zandyco

5 жыл бұрын

we did all of that

@brainsironically

5 жыл бұрын

@@zandyco We? You an lcac-er also? I was at ACU-5 from 90-96.

@zandyco

5 жыл бұрын

@@brainsironically I was there from 87 to 96

@zandyco

5 жыл бұрын

@@brainsironically I was there from 87 to 96

How much to buy this to add to company?

What if you shoot at the rubber looking float???

HOOYAH!!!

23mil? That's a third the cost of a C130J which the has bought and fielded 300 of so far. Sounds like a good deal for military spending.

Well, you can carry lots of shipping containers on that thing...

Hovertank!

Hold up. who made this? 2:56 you sure its F14 not F16? did the Supervisor Rush this video? since When its a well known fact that F14 use Fly by wire?

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The F14 is fly by wire... You learn something new (and wrong) everyday... :-(

@swaghauler8334

4 жыл бұрын

Only the rebuilt Ds which were upgraded in the early 2000s with FbW and digital instrumentation as a test. Then the Navy retired the whole fleet after spending a bunch of money to upgrade a couple of squadrons to D+(?) specs.

@G_de_Coligny

4 жыл бұрын

swaghauler fly by wire retrofit on old turkeys might have been quite an adventure. Is their any docs on the process available ?

@swaghauler8334

4 жыл бұрын

@@G_de_Coligny IDK. I read about them converting the D's in a Janes article. I'm not sure how successful they were but I know the costs per flight hour of the F14s was about DOUBLE the cost of flying an F18. That's why the Navy retired the F14. My guess is the conversion must not have been very successful. If it had been, I'm sure the Navy would have converted more. This was also done in the late 2000s so they only flew for half a decade(?) before being retired with the rest of the F14 fleet.

@swaghauler8334

4 жыл бұрын

That says something because the refits were zero-hour refits at the FACTORY. Not something the Navy did.

@G_de_Coligny

4 жыл бұрын

swaghauler the production line of the F14 were shutdown in 91... and it would be a design retrofit anyway in the sense the plane was never designed with FBW in mind... Now, maybe it’s just plugging the stick to a digitizer box who afterwards control the hydraulics... don’t know, that’s why i’m curious...

my dad piloted thee fucking beasts

23 million for the craft and 30 million for a simulator...weird.

So is it bullet proof ha ::)

@robertbrockway7301

7 жыл бұрын

Elliott J Doesn't need to be, you dumb ass.

@brainsironically

5 жыл бұрын

Parts of it are covered with armor, but not all.

my dad flew one bitch

@non-foldingchair270

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss

my dad flew one bitch

@non-foldingchair270

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss

my dad flew one bitch

@non-foldingchair270

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss

my dad flew one bitch