America test extremely large amphibian tank

Posted on 30-07-2014 at 18:03 by MrBrown – 37 Comments”

The Us navy is busy with the development of a huge amphibian vehicle; a sailing vessel.

The unit has the name Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector (UHAC). It is simply a floating tank that flippers on his tracks has to be both on land and in the sea ahead. Currently, the navy the device to the test in Hawaii.

It is still a prototype at scale. It measures 13 metres long, 8 metres wide and 5 metres high. And that is small for American standards, the production instance is up to four times as large.

The UHAC should the old hovercraft-vehicles replaced, and the navy in places where it can’t do now. The prototype weighs 38 tonnes and has a top speed of about 8 km/h. The final amphibian tank will be 100.000 kg weight to a top of 40 km/h and a range of 350 km.

Waves up to 4 metres high should not be a problem for the UHAC. On board of the final model, there is space for four ‘normal’ tanks. In addition, he is armed with machine guns of .50-caliber. The tests with the prototype and walk according to the U.s. Navy prosper, but if and when we get to the official stuff to expect is unknown until now. (via stripes.com)