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Navy/USMC

Textron Starts At-Sea Testing For First Ship-to-Shore Connector

Wednesday, April 18th, 2018

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Textron Starts At-Sea Testing For First Ship-to-Shore Connector

Rendering of the Ship-to-Shore Connector, a replacement for the landing craft air cushion (LCAC) built by Textron. (Image: Textron)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Textron’s [TXT] Maritime and Land Systems’ Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) hovercraft started its first at-sea on-water testing, company officials told Defense Daily during the annual Sea Air Space Expo last week.The SSC is the next-generation Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC), improving over the legacy craft with more powerful engines, a fly-by-wire control system, increased payload, fuel efficiency, reduction in crew from four to three, a new propulsion and drive system, and fewer parts to simplify maintenance.It is…

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