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Originally Posted by Vespers War
The Army also fielded a hovercraft in the 1960s, the Air Cushion Vehicle. Unlike newer hovercraft, it was armed with varying combinations of .50 machine guns, 7.62mm machine guns, 7.62mm miniguns, and 40mm grenade launchers. I've seen the sole survivor at Fort Eustis (there's also a surviving Navy PACV cousin in California). |
Ah, yes! They were reportedly very effective at catching the VC unawares, when they were field-operational. AFAIK, there were no combat losses of PACVs either.
And it probably inspired the G.I. Joe vehicle that I really wanted- but never got- as a kid: the Killer W.H.A.L.E. !
https://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/84/whale/
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Originally Posted by Vespers War
I haven't used any in my campaigns because generally they're expensive, maintenance-heavy, and fragile, the latter two of which make them difficult for post-apocalyptic use (and the first of which makes it difficult to justify large numbers existing).
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I threw one of the apocryphal Soviet combat hovercraft, v1's KvP-92, at the PCs in a
Pirates of the Vistula PbP that I ran a few years back. Dubbed the "Winged Hussar", it was operated by a Kurtzean US Green Beret team that had set up a little fiefdom in Tarnobrzeg. It was supposed to be a wow moment.
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