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[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Imagine this big beast rolling up on your position and just vomiting troops out. Oversized land vehicles are a gift and I will hear nothing to the contrary.

[–] Track_Shovel 5 points 9 months ago

Well shitty little boats did NOT do the job as well as this thing might have on D Day. Can't have a funnel of death if there is no funnel!

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The structural rigidity of that thing looks… a bit floppy.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

Well if it's a landing craft then it's mostly hollow . I wonder how many combat landings they see these things taking part in before they're scrap.

[–] robdor@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 9 months ago

Service guarantees citizenship.

[–] Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 8 points 9 months ago

Thing looks like it’s skinned with waxed cardboard.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

What’s wild is they ultimately deemed this capability very useful and now they use LCAC (hovercraft).

[–] PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago
[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 5 points 9 months ago

Thank you for posting the original and not a colorized or even worse AI colorized version. Having color in an old pic can be nice, but it's also rewriting history and replacing something original with something fake.

[–] dasgoat@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

The war museum in Overloon, The Netherlands has one of these on display. It's massive. Bigger than you can imagine.