As the first new high-tech upgraded Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCACs) arrive for the U.S. Navy, the service is also prolonging the service life of its legacy... The U.S.

LCAC 100, Textron’s first-in-class Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC), conducts its first on-water test outside of the company’s facility in Louisiana on April 10, 2018. Textron photo. The Navy’s ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: These improved Ship-to-Ship Connectors are beasts—when fully loaded, they can carry seventy-four tons of men and supplies at a rapid thirty-five knot an hour clip ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland -- The Marines are looking to solve a budget shortfall by trying something totally new. The Navy's Information Warfare Research Project consortium has published a new ...

Two of the Navy’s newest Landing Craft Air Cushion hovercraft arrive at Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division in Florida Sept. 2, 2020. (Navy) VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Two of the ...

LCAC 100, Textron’s first-in-class Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC), conducts its first on-water test outside of the company’s facility in Louisiana on April 10, 2018. Textron photo. Textron executives ...

Textron began fabrication this month of the Navy’s first Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) at its New Orleans plant. The Navy approved Textron In October 2014 to start production following the SSC ...

The first two Ship to Shore Connector craft, LCACs 100 and 101, departed Textron's Louisiana shipyard on Sept. 2, 2020, to head to Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City in Florida for testing.

The Navy’s proposed Ship-to-Shore Connector program reached a production milestone recently when the first hull, LCAC 100, was turned over at Textron Systems Marine & Land Systems. “This significant ...

Textron will continue its work focused on the development of nine Ship to Shore Connector Landing Craft Air Cushion 100-class craft in support of the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense said Friday ...

Textron Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana, is awarded a $7,261,214 cost-plus-fixed-fee/cost modification to previously-awarded contract N00024-17-C-2480 for landing craft, air cushion special studies, ...

The Navy has awarded a new contract for the long-awaited replacement connector that will ferry Marines, weapons and other equipment ashore. Textron Systems was awarded $386 million to build 15 new ...