River Patrol Craft and Airlifts

[Randy]

The tank transporter can carry the small river rafts such as the rigid raiders etc. I took a utility vehicle and put it under the "tank transporter" classification and it works well! Also the Israeli OOB has the "Timsakh" (in the miscelaneous vehicle section) which is similar to the M2 Bridging Raft/Ferry which is used by NATO. This has a road speed similar to a tank transporter and a water speed of about 4. In reality the M2 Ferry is a series of these vehicles which are linked up to form a floating bridge. However, I 'm not sure this will help you if you want to load a PBR/gunboat though. Hope this helps.

[TLAM_Strike]

Maybe TPTB could lower the carry cost of the PBRs etc to around 50-something (or (1)50 I think would put them in line with armored vehicles) to put them in line with the max capacity of the biggest Transports.

An Abrams tank weighs around 60 to 70 tons depending on the model while a a PBR MK II weighs in at only 9 tons. If a tank transporter can carry a 60 ton Abrams it should be able to lug a PBR or two around.

[Randy]

I just checked, and the rigid raiders and zodiacs have a weight of 1. But then you could only carry them on a tank transporter, or heavy lift chopper such as the CH-53/
CH-47.

[TLAM_Strike]

But can you unload them in water? I tried droping them out a C-130 in to a river with bad results (ie they sank).