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Catamaran Landing Craft with Air Cushion Support<br />
Hover cat<br />
Loch Ewe<br />
Northern<br />
Ireland<br />
Ireland<br />
Edinburgh<br />
Scotland<br />
England<br />
Instow<br />
MAP<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> Brown <strong>MTU</strong> Brown<br />
0-17-28-62 80% der Farbe 60% 40% 20%<br />
CMYK CMYK CMYK CMYK CMYK<br />
<strong>MTU</strong> Blue <strong>MTU</strong> Blue<br />
60% 40% 20%<br />
50-25-0-10 80% der Farbe<br />
CMYK CMYK CMYK<br />
CMYK CMYK<br />
London<br />
The perfect landing craft has to be fast, it has to deliver a high payload<br />
and it must be able to beach even where other vessels would<br />
run aground. To meet all these demands, provider <strong>of</strong> technologybased<br />
solutions QinetiQ, has developed its PACSCAT (Partial Air-<br />
Cushion Supported CATamaran) landing craft concept for the UK<br />
Ministry <strong>of</strong> Defence.<br />
Moored in the harbor with the water lapping a round its 30 x 8-meter hull,<br />
the vessel looks like nothing more than a rectangular brown and black box.<br />
Then the engines start up. The sonorous growl <strong>of</strong> the two 16-cylinder <strong>MTU</strong><br />
engines swells and the box begins to move, gliding slowly out <strong>of</strong> the placid<br />
harbor. Then, as soon as it reaches open water, it accelerates and unfolds<br />
its full potential. Despite the characteristic catamaran contours, the faster<br />
it moves, the more it becomes obvious that this is no normal catamaran.<br />
The vessel rises out <strong>of</strong> the water on air cushions because this is a semihover,<br />
catamaran landing craft. The idea is based on a concept developed
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