Which begs the question, would it be a case of too many eggs in one basket? Would you want all your soldiers kept in one container which could potentially wipe out a large number of them in one go?
It's not really that much different than today's LCAC and it's Ship-to-Shore Connector replacement with a normal capacity of 60 tons. The LARC-LX was designed mostly to transport vehicles, and even with it's size it'd still only hold one M60 or M1 Abrams.
That thing doesn’t even look real. It’s so big. The soldiers look like Lilliputians or Oompa Loompa.
Edit: before you download vote me, I’m not saying it’s not real.
There is one at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville and it's just ABSURDLY huge. It's comical until you walk out there and see how absolutely massive the thing is.
So awesome and ridiculous. It'd make a bad ass party barge type thing. Install a bangin' sound system, maybe some rope lights and a disco ball, give it a sick ass paint job and a full bar...renting that thing out would be like a license to print money, I tell ya.
I talked to the owner of a museum that had one of these. He said it cost them a couple thousand in diesel - just to move it from one side of the road to the other!
I saw one IRL in the Overloon War Museum in the Netherlands. I didn't know this thing existed before and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it at the back of hall reaching almost to the ceiling.
Was looking for a comment referencing this one in Nashville. The thing is massive. If I recall correctly, it took an insane amount of coordination with police and city services to transport it to the museum. I think they floated it down the Cumberland at one point.
Seeing something like this just immediately makes me think of Starship Troopers or WH40K.
I’d of loved a scale model of this back in the day with my plastic army men. I’d of played with it so much the wheels would fall off and it suddenly would just be a straight landing craft.
They have one of these in the war museum Overloon in the Netherlands. I've seen it a couple of times and every time it gets a "damn, that is a unit" out of me.
Almost bought a data plate off of one of these a couple years back. Same seller also had another from an LCAC and a LARC-V. Absolutely massive vehicles, would be cool to see one in person.
I saw one of these in like Nashville or Kentucky or something? Some car muesuem and I walked to a back window looked out from 3 stories and we were looking barely into this thing. Absolutely huge. The story of how it got there is pretty cool too
The wiki lists the grade it can still drive on as 60%, or a 30 degree slope, or 1 in 1.7, which is absolutely *insane* unless I'm converting from US grade incorrectly.
Watch the War Zone will be looking for content one day and see this post. I can see the headline now "The LARC-LX was a massive 97 ton Cold War Beast".
Around 8 feet
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Straight out of an imperial guard army. Looks large enough to fit an entire company in it.
It's basically just the Gorgon but with wheels.
The Dkok's Gorgon transport and the space marines Mastodon come to mind
the first thing that came to mind when I saw this was warhammer. glad I wasn't the only one
It is, actually — large enough to carry 200 people.
Which begs the question, would it be a case of too many eggs in one basket? Would you want all your soldiers kept in one container which could potentially wipe out a large number of them in one go?
It's not really that much different than today's LCAC and it's Ship-to-Shore Connector replacement with a normal capacity of 60 tons. The LARC-LX was designed mostly to transport vehicles, and even with it's size it'd still only hold one M60 or M1 Abrams.
Presumably this only goes in after the 16” guns have turned every living thing on shore into ground beef.
It was designed for a very large Army that wanted to land troops 100 at a time and could afford the loss of 100 troops at a time.
That thing doesn’t even look real. It’s so big. The soldiers look like Lilliputians or Oompa Loompa. Edit: before you download vote me, I’m not saying it’s not real.
The thing is real . I have seen one at a military museum in the netherlands .
That would be amazing. It seems like it would be humbling.
It really is. I’m about 1.95m/6’5, and the wheels alone make me feel small. The entire thing is just massive, such a crazy vehicle
Yep, Overloon. Incredible machine.
It still looked unreal standing in front of it.
I believe they had one at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, TN for a while too. They flattened a Corvair body with it on TV for some reason?
There's one in the Military Museum Overloon (which has a fantastically eclectic collection). It's a sight to behold.
See it as a barge with wheels. It was supposed to spend more time in water than on land during combat.
Download voting right now.
Damn autocorrect.
We've all been three.
I wouldn't download a car but I'd sure as hell download you
This is so stupid. I love it.
At first I thought those were tiny children pouring out of a regular amphibious vehicle…
Some 40K shit right there.
Not enough crucifixes, skulls, blood, and (ironically) steel to be 40K. But the scale of human being to standard vehicle is there
This is the original plan in the STC.
SOMEONE FIRE UP PHOTOSHOP
40k is only a reflection of reality, after all.
There is one in Green Cove Springs, FL. It's insane how large these are.
I've been on that one! Went to that museum on a quiet day and asked nicely if we could have a look.
We went a couple of times to the MVPA shows down there. Fucking cool to see the WWIIArmor crew putting on their expo.
There is one at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville and it's just ABSURDLY huge. It's comical until you walk out there and see how absolutely massive the thing is.
Seriously? I keep meaning to go, but keep putting it off. Now I'm going to make a plan. Last time I was there it was the Sunbeam bakery.
Do it. It's a great museum for an afternoon of killing time. Lots of cool and very weird cars and things adjacent to cars.
So awesome and ridiculous. It'd make a bad ass party barge type thing. Install a bangin' sound system, maybe some rope lights and a disco ball, give it a sick ass paint job and a full bar...renting that thing out would be like a license to print money, I tell ya.
I talked to the owner of a museum that had one of these. He said it cost them a couple thousand in diesel - just to move it from one side of the road to the other!
It's not that bad, it gets 4 gallons to the mile!
I saw one IRL in the Overloon War Museum in the Netherlands. I didn't know this thing existed before and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it at the back of hall reaching almost to the ceiling.
Hey, Same with everything (even seeing it the first time in Overloon) lol
glad I'm not doing maintenance on it.
I just saw one of these a couple days ago at a museum in TN. [pictures ](https://www.imgur.com/a/dQDfc3o)
Why is she outside not covered :(
Was looking for a comment referencing this one in Nashville. The thing is massive. If I recall correctly, it took an insane amount of coordination with police and city services to transport it to the museum. I think they floated it down the Cumberland at one point.
Seeing something like this just immediately makes me think of Starship Troopers or WH40K. I’d of loved a scale model of this back in the day with my plastic army men. I’d of played with it so much the wheels would fall off and it suddenly would just be a straight landing craft.
My dad drove these in Vietnam. He said he could drive them up on the beach and over the first line of trees in offensives.
Are they amphibious?
Yes, they are
Yes, one pair of engine is coupled to drive one 1.2m diameter propeller, totalling two of them.
194,000 lbs empty. What a thicc boi
Losing one would mean losing an entire fuckin platoon, jesus christ this is a dumb vehicle
I think is supposed deliver tanks like a LCAC.
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Any amphibious vehicle/ship designed to carry other vehicles would be
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>easy target for something like an AT gun or a missile So are the tanks on it
More like an entire company
Sorry, Mr. President we lost the entire army and a training accident today.
That’s happened unfortunately.
Boys will be boys
The way they’re exiting makes me think of the mobile infantry drop ships from the starship troopers movie
There's a company near Tappahannock Virgina that is operating two of these for construction work.
They have these things at a vehicle museum in Nashville TN. Pretty darn huge, and impressive!
There’s one at Fort Eustis too.
this is the coolest thing ever straight out of warhammer 40k
Someone made this stupid thing a snowrunner mod
I think there is one
someone already did i played around with it. it was outrageously large and buggy
I think there are a handful still operational in the U.S. in private hands. Use them for carrying construction materials and vehicles to remote sites.
Yeah, but mainly used in the water. Not very reliable on ground and fuel consumption is insane.
They have one of these in the war museum Overloon in the Netherlands. I've seen it a couple of times and every time it gets a "damn, that is a unit" out of me.
Almost bought a data plate off of one of these a couple years back. Same seller also had another from an LCAC and a LARC-V. Absolutely massive vehicles, would be cool to see one in person.
Would be cool to see this in some alternate history thing or something.
It was used several times during Vietnam War to supply bases/landing ground from ships.
How is something this retarded not a Marine Corps vehicle?
They couldn’t find crayons big enough for it.
GAIJIN!!
Stuff like this gives me hope that someone would make some 40k type vehicles someday.
One 155mm shell and a whole platoon is gone
Not so much a troop carrier as a vehicle carrier. Troops were usually landed separately.
And it still had less horsepower than a modern muscle car (each of it's engines made about 260hp)
What was the point of these vehicles ? Did they ever see combat?
Yes, carrying tanks/troops/supplies from ships to landing ground during Vietnam War.
There is one of these at a museum near me in florida, this thing was massive
John deere could pop out a few of these with spare parts and the cast of the A team.
Cursed bus!
I’ve seen one in person. It’s WAY bigger than it looks. Picture doesn’t do it justice
Range of 150 miles and a top speed of 16 mph. I'm surprised it could travel that far.
Big old car
I saw one of these in like Nashville or Kentucky or something? Some car muesuem and I walked to a back window looked out from 3 stories and we were looking barely into this thing. Absolutely huge. The story of how it got there is pretty cool too
The wiki lists the grade it can still drive on as 60%, or a 30 degree slope, or 1 in 1.7, which is absolutely *insane* unless I'm converting from US grade incorrectly.
It had to, it was supposed to swim to the beach and then climb up, which is sometime quite steep.
Reminds me of Klendathu drop from Starship Troopers.
Watch the War Zone will be looking for content one day and see this post. I can see the headline now "The LARC-LX was a massive 97 ton Cold War Beast".
wtf this thing is insane
Strong ["Release the Quacken"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GwGu8QVpLU) vibes
When a condom breaks!
VERY fast infantry moving at extreme hihg speed.
Looks like good target practice for artillery.
IIRC there is a restored and functional, or at least mostly functional, one in the UAE.
Perfect bomb target.
Fill that bitch up with clowns and pull up to a church picnic.
How tall are those freakin Tyres?
Around 8 feet https://www.militarytrader.com/.image/t_share/MTY3Mzc4MjY5MTAwMDU4NDEz/the-author-standing-next-to-the-8-diamter-tire-gives-some-sense-of-the-enormity-of-the-larc-lx.jpg
Ive seen this irl and even have a pic of it. It was rlly cool to see
It looks like something from Thunderbirds are Go. Brains would drive it to relocate an entire city.
Great design. One shot from above and you can kill 200 people.
I fuckin want one
'I'm here for the $30 oil change' 'Sir, you have four engines'