landing crafts
Shore assault boats
Landing crafts is the plural of landing craft, a flat-bottomed boat designed to transport troops and equipment from ship to shore during amphibious military operations.
The vessel's shallow draft allows it to approach beaches directly and unload via a hinged bow ramp: Landing crafts delivered tanks onto the Normandy beaches.
The standard plural is landing craft, unchanged from singular.
- beachheadSecured landing zone
- amphibiousOperating on land and water
- rampSloped connecting surface
- flat bottomLevel undersurface
- Gallipoli campaignWWI strait invasion failure
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Underwater naval vessels
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