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[DRG]

Originally Posted by Suhiir

With the plow attachment the LVT isn't amphibious either. Makes them a "bit" bow heavy.

Hmmm.. so you cannot land them at the beach with the plows on and therefore cannot use them on the beach ( in retrospect I can see your point that they wouldn't swim well with that on . I will make the adjustments in the OOB)

So would the plows be transported to the beachhead separately then installed later?


Don

[FASTBOAT TOUGH]

Don,
If I understand what you're looking for this might help.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita.../1984/DDWF.htm
About half way down it talks about the need to use local indigenous plows or bulldozers to keep the beaches clear and at the time the need of landing with D-5 CATs for beach clearing ops in the second or third wave of a beach assault as an option. It does discuss warm weather ops and note this is from 1984. So I would agree later they must have decided to bring them in during later waves and field attached them. Best that I can do on the quick! Hope it helps?

Regards,
Pat

[Suhiir]

Originally Posted by DRG

So would the plows be transported to the beachhead separately then installed later?

Don

Yup.

Pretty much the same with the plow on the Abrams too.
I'm not sure if an M1A1 with the plow attached will fit on an LCAC, it may be too long for the cargo bay.

Since the subject sorta-kinda seems to be "assault beach landings"...
For an assault landing the USMC generally relies on man-portable obstacle breaching devices.
Since WinSPMBT doesn't deal with line-charges, bangalores, etc. just add some extra infantry engineers for a beach assault scenario to represent the breaching devices that would be issued to the regular infantry units in such a situation.

Should the need arise there are plans (on paper anyway) to land armored bulldozers via LSTs. As I understand it the armor came from the old WWII CA's that were broken up. With like 8 inches of armor the dozers would only move like 3mph *LOL*