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The Captive Air Amphibious Transporter, or CAAT, runs on an old principle that the U.S. Army has been testing since the early 1960s. By combining a tank trend with low-pressure air bags, the CAAT can spread its weight over a massive area while using air pressure to stay afloat in aquatic territory.

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Thank you DARPA
http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/u-military-crawler-prototype-drives-water-land-everything-211658115.html

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The Captive Air Amphibious Transporter, or CAAT, runs on an old principle that the U.S. Army has been testing since the early 1960s. By combining a tank trend with low-pressure air bags, the CAAT can spread its weight over a massive area while using air pressure to stay afloat in aquatic territory.

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How is this better than air cushion vehicles that have existed for decades? I've crossed the English Channel on a hovercraft, and driven the US Navy's LCAC simulator.
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I'm Jesus and I approve this vehicle.:)


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How is this better than air cushion vehicles that have existed for decades? I've crossed the English Channel on a hovercraft, and driven the US Navy's LCAC simulator.

Good question, Doc.

Perhaps the power or maintenance requirements are lower or it can handle steeper inclines. Maybe initial costs might be less. You know every vehicle is a compromise of many, many factors.

I will say that it's a funky cool ride, but a hovercraft is dead sexier in comparison. B|

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THe knock on hover craft is always been, they can't side hill. They are also really and not economical. Takes a lot of fuel to move them so this limits their carrying ablity. And they kind of suck in rough water. Personally I think they are a blast.
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THe knock on hover craft is always been, they can't side hill. They are also really and not economical. Takes a lot of fuel to move them so this limits their carrying ablity. And they kind of suck in rough water. Personally I think they are a blast.


There ya go, the Princess of ATV's. Sometimes dead sexy just ain't practical. :)

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I hope it has better success than the first attempt in WWII.
The Duplex Drive was pretty good...not so much on the flotation...
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Cool! I never heard of that before.B|
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Thank you DARPA
http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/u-military-crawler-prototype-drives-water-land-everything-211658115.html

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The Captive Air Amphibious Transporter, or CAAT, runs on an old principle that the U.S. Army has been testing since the early 1960s. By combining a tank trend with low-pressure air bags, the CAAT can spread its weight over a massive area while using air pressure to stay afloat in aquatic territory.

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How is this better than air cushion vehicles that have existed for decades? I've crossed the English Channel on a hovercraft, and driven the US Navy's LCAC simulator.


It's DARPA.

For every success story, there's hundreds of very silly and obviously ridiculous creations that don't pass practicality sniff tests or common sense.
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I hope it has better success than the first attempt in WWII.
The Duplex Drive was pretty good...not so much on the flotation...
[:/]

Donald Ducks

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Cool! I never heard of that before.B|


There's a bunch of 'em underwater around Normandy...seems they did better in a calm lake that an ocean.










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Omaha was painful on most of them, Juno not so much.
I do recall seeing some clips of them crossing the Rhine too.



At the end of that clip is the Remagen 'Cross the Rhine with dry feet courtesy of the 9th Armored Div.'

That was my Dad's outfit, in fact he was one of the 1st across in a recon jeep.
Don't know about elsewhere but the floaty tanks weren't used there.

They used the railroad bridge until it collapsed then the pontoon bridge next to it.

We saw a display of the floaty tank when I was a kid touring Ft. Knox, Dad said ya know what they called the those? ARMY Submarines!

Had the same skirt idea on deuce and a half's, worked a lot better that the tanker edition.










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