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Jul 16, 2014

MARINE CORPS TRAINING AREA BELLOWS, Hawaii – The Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector showcases its capabilities to advance through different terrain during a Marine Corps Advanced Warfighting Experiment at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, July 9. The AWE is a culmination of a decade of progressive experimentation conducted by the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab and is committed to demonstrating potential future technologies and solutions to future Marine Air Ground Task Force challenges during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014. Lt. Col. Don Gordon, the current technology officer at MCWL, said the UHAC is one of those experimental technologies that displays a possible capability of being able to insert Marines in areas where current technology wouldn’t be able to insert them based on current systems that are fielded. The UHAC prototype is a ship-to-shore connector and is half the size of the intended machine. Currently, the UHAC travels at four knots using a track system with floatation-like pads that propels itself through different terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Matthew J. Bragg)

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