Wednesday 12 September 2018

Overloon Museum - LARC-X


For the final part of my Overloon report I have saved this oversized outrage against sanity. Basically an amphibious barge, this was originally designed to support US beach landings and could carry up to 100 tons - I have seen a photo of one disgorging an M-60 MBT! 
Maximum speed on land when empty was a gentle 15mpg (24kph) which is probably fast enough for something 8 metres wide..  In the photo above your humble correspondent can be seen.  I am 6 feet 2 inches tall (1.88m).  This thing is very big!


3 comments:

Peter Douglas said...

What a behemoth! You'll need a bigger garage to fit that one.

David Bradley said...

You could sail the Channel in that!

Geordie an Exiled FoG said...

Gotta say Big sometimes is an understatement!