On Board The Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector (UHAC)



Similar to DARPA's CAAT's air-filled track system in design, the 1/2-scale UHAC (Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector) tracked amphibious vehicle makes its way from the USS Rushmore to Marine Corps Training Area Bellows during the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory's Advanced Warfighting Experiment (AWE) in Hawaii.
The UHAC demonstrator is 42 ft (13 m) long, 26 ft (8 m) wide, 17 ft (5 m) high, weighed 38 tons, and traveled at 4-5 knots on water; the hull was made of aluminum, with a small pilothouse mounted on the bow. Using track feet fitted with dense air-impregnated foam blocks make it buoyant in the water and propel it on land, allowing it to traverse through mud, sand, and marshland when ashore. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Captive_Air_Amphibious_Transporter
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