Sg's Tiger 40 Hovercraft
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Tiger 40 Hovercraft
Designed to be well-balanced in any load state, the Tiger 40 Hovercraft is able to undertake roles such as workboat, patrol, freight carrying or passenger transport with a minimum of design changes.
At last ,we have our own hovercraft.
What can be used--capturing beach head by rolling out LSV or BIONIX?? -
Originally posted by lionnoisy:
Say there's this scenerio where the hovercraft must unload tanks and soldiers at a particular spot 500m ahead right under heavy machine gun fire....can it unload all without sinking?In another words can the hovercraft absorb a few hundred rounds without sinking?Does it have armor?
[b]Tiger 40 Hovercraft
Designed to be well-balanced in any load state, the Tiger 40 Hovercraft is able to undertake roles such as workboat, patrol, freight carrying or passenger transport with a minimum of design changes.
At last ,we have our own hovercraft.
What can be used--capturing beach head by rolling out LSV or BIONIX??[/b] -
Tiger 40 is passe....
There's a new hovercraft being developed by ST Marine, which a photo was shown earlier this year.
Check through the forum, there used to be a thread on this. If you can't find it, try the other Military Nuts forum...
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Well,wonder if we can land the troops safely from the craft to shore under heavy fire.
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STimes 15.03.2005 by David boey
IT IS haze-grey, travels on a cushion of air and is Singapore's biggest
hovercraft yet.
This is a sneak peek at ACV-1, being prepared for its first sea trials by
shipbuilder Singapore Technologies Marine (ST Marine).
The hovercraft - 'Air Cushion Vehicle 1' - is being fitted out at ST
Marine's yard at Benoi Basin in Jurong.
When ready, it will travel at high speed on land or water on a cushion of
air forced under its hull by powerful fans.
ST Marine spokesman Laura Chua declined to comment on ACV-1 or its
capabilities.
A check with Jane's Fighting Ships, which lists almost all naval hovercraft
the world over, and makers of civilian hovercraft showed no hovercraft similar
to ACV-1.
This could mean the hovercraft is of local design or a new design developed
with a foreign partner.
A Straits Times photograph of ACV-1, taken in late January when the shipyard
was open to the media for the launch of another vessel, gives a good indication
of its size.
It is about 45m long and has a drive-through cargo deck, which vehicles can
enter from either the bow or the stern using a hydraulically operated ramp.
Hovercraft can hit the beach regardless of tide and are not affected by
underwater obstructions such as large rocks, which can damage conventional
landing craft.
This gives hovercraft like ACV-1 the ability to land cargo on virtually any
coast.
Such capabilities are likely to interest the Republic of Singapore Navy,
especially after the tsunami relief operation in Meulaboh in Sumatra when army
combat engineers had to toil for hours to remove debris before beaches could be
used by its landing craft.
ST Marine's foray into the specialised field of hovercraft comes after an
18-year break.
In 1987, when the company was known as Singapore Shipbuilding & Engineering,
it unveiled the Tiger 40, a prototype 16m-long hovercraft with an aluminium
hull, jointly developed with a British company, Air Vehicles Ltd.
After a series of sea trials and a marketing drive that failed to find a
launch customer, the project was dropped.
The prototype Tiger 40 was abandoned in a carpark at the Benoi Basin yard.
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I doubt the Tiger hovercraft can land any Bionix class IFV simply because they are too heavy at 21,000kg. The FCU currently with RSN could only carry up to 18 tonnes. Whats more is that if our AMX-13SM1 tanks are to be replaced with new designed tanks, it will definitely weighs much more. So RSN must look for heavier capacity landing craft if future scenario requires fighting with armour from sea.
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I think it's possible.
I have seen images of large armoured hovercrafts , they are very good for breaching beaches/beach landings.
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Hmmm.....they finally revealed it?
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there is a thing called air support..whack the beach with planes and helos arh.....u watch too much saving private ryan...now assaulting a beach head has more steps...Originally posted by ceecookie:Say there's this scenerio where the hovercraft must unload tanks and soldiers at a particular spot 500m ahead right under heavy machine gun fire....can it unload all without sinking?In another words can the hovercraft absorb a few hundred rounds without sinking?Does it have armor? -
Yeap. Pound the beaches to hell, airborne and heli-insertion, dedicated close air support aircraft and gunships, Pathfinders and etc. The amphibious forces are really the LAST to land. Heh.
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Originally posted by lionnoisy:
Sorry man, that tiger hovercraft now sitting there waiting for people to buy it for scrap metal .
[b]Tiger 40 Hovercraft
Designed to be well-balanced in any load state, the Tiger 40 Hovercraft is able to undertake roles such as workboat, patrol, freight carrying or passenger transport with a minimum of design changes.
At last ,we have our own hovercraft.
What can be used--capturing beach head by rolling out LSV or BIONIX??[/b]