Soldiers suspended in the air in moon boots and sniping unsuspecting targets on the ground might sound like a battle tactic from a future war, but such a concept for an Army hovercraft actually traces ...

Sunseekers enjoying the white sands of Russia's Baltic Coast got an experience they would not have expected when a military hovercraft made a surprise appearance. Russian authorities confirmed the ...

With North Korea gearing up to hold a military parade Thursday, signs have emerged that the reclusive regime is increasing the number of troops practicing for the event and building new hovercraft ...

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Here’s What You Need to Know: Moscow has some impressive hovercraft to transport their soldiers and equipment about. As with other commercial hovercraft, the Project 1232.2 Yevgeny Kocheshkov utilizes ...

There's something otherworldly about hovercraft. The way they glide over water and land, usually with billows of spray or sand, is pure mechanized spectacle. There was a time when it seemed hovercraft ...

Russia will procure more Zubr (“bison”) hovercraft, a sixty-two-foot-long, 555-ton air-cushioned behemoth that can ferry three tanks, ten smaller armored vehicles or five hundred troops. Construction ...

The Navy said it was a plane, not a boat. The Air Force said it was a boat, not a plane. The hovercraft is an ACV (Air Cushion Vehicle). Seriously, that’s the technical term. The inventor of the ACV ...

The Zubr-class landing craft, originally developed by the Soviet Navy, is the world’s largest military hovercraft — capable of carrying hundreds of marines or multiple armored vehicles across long ...

While commercial hovercraft faded from everyday use, the U.S. Navy’s LCAC (Landing Craft Air Cushion) kept the technology alive. Introduced in the 1980s, this military hovercraft can carry tanks, ...

Sept. 3 (UPI) --The Navy took delivery of two of its newest Landing Craft Air Cushion hovercraft at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Panama City, Fla. Wednesday. The two craft, which were escorted ...

Ignited by lightning, as many as four fires blazed Saturday night on Santa Catalina Island, threatening 10 buildings, Los Angeles County fire officials said. At least 20 fire engines and more than 100 ...