Hey, don't I get a gratuity or at least a comp on this?
Please Save the Date: Feb. 7, 2012Hat tip Maggie.
On Tuesday, Feb. 7, Gibbs Technologies will unveil Phibian – one of the largest and fastest amphibians ever built – at an event preceding the annual American Society of Naval Engineers conference. Phibian is a high-speed amphibian (HSA) with humanitarian and military capabilities. It can travel on land at speeds in excess of 50 mph and more than 40 mph on water.
Please join us at 1 p.m. (13:00) for a special presentation at the Columbia Island Marina in Washington, D.C. At the event you’ll have an opportunity to ride in Phibian and experience HSA technology for yourself.
Look for additional details soon. To reserve a spot, or if you have questions, please contact MSL Detroit in care of Katie Barnes (katie.barnes@mslgroup.com) or Stephanie Lowet (s_lowet@verizon.net).
They've been working on this market for a while ... wheels and waterjets combined.
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I bet SEALs could find use a for few such vehicles...
ReplyDeleteOh Jesus. That didn't take long, did it? 8-)
ReplyDeleteComped? Here is your souvenir ball-point pen and mechanical pencil set.
Still, I wonder how much weapons/protection would eat into stated performance and lift capacity.
But it would be interesting to see an amphibious assault looking like merging traffic on I-395.
I thought this was the fastest amphib.
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The narrator must have been Mike Mullen.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a waterhummer. Cool.
ReplyDeleteYou are going to be asking them for an invite, right?
ReplyDeleteThat's wicked cool. I'd sue for copyright infringement, but that's just me. :)
ReplyDeleteBefore you take into the Front Porch Fleet, Phib, you better let me do the structural inspection first...dont' want another LCS, do we? 8-)
ReplyDeleteFREAKING AWESOME! You haven't seen the honey badger one yet?
ReplyDelete<span>I have now!
ReplyDeleteOoh, look, it's chasing things and eating them!!!</span>
Honey Badger don't care!
That went viral and one of the platoons called themselves the Honeybadgers. Sounds a bit fruity, and when they were told that, they would say in unison, "Honebadgers don't give a $h!t!"
ReplyDeleteLOL. Actually, my favorite are the signs that tell you on I-95 that "speed limits enforced by aircraft." I have this image of gunships coming down over the roadway turning all the traffic into some highway of death. (If they weren't all stopped already.)
ReplyDeleteI used to work with an ex-marine mortar type. We thought it would be fun to post a speed enforced by mortar sign.
ReplyDeletesomebody already thought that...
ReplyDeleteYou know the company commander musta been thrilled with that!
ReplyDeleteback about 25 years ago ++, at the Main Gate (it was the only gate) onto the Dam Neck Training base, there was a sign that stated, "Speed enforced by stopwatch".
ReplyDeleteIt was posted about 30 yards past the gate as you were driving towards the beach. I never actually saw any gate guards brandishing a stopwatch at the entering vehicles.
What they don't advertize is that it has a max range of 10 miles.
ReplyDeletebeen down the Potomac in a high speed RHIB. Watch out for the DC water police, they do ticket~
ReplyDeleteI saw this awhile back and laughed so much I forgot to FWd it to you.
The Marines neverending quest for a new assault swimmer is being aided by a custom car builder. Wonder if its IED proof?
you haven't seen the guns carried by police helos? Border Patrol and USCG are inner circle of DC air defense, US Park Police and FFX county have AUF too~ watch out cause they are watching you
ReplyDeleteGets me to the duck blind. Hush now, you are taking away the fun of this! :)
ReplyDeleteWish I could like that more times!
ReplyDeleteMoving targets are not so much the forrte for mortars...but the general public doesn't know that.....
ReplyDeleteBesides the pen mentioned, maybe a coffee cup and a patch for your heisted flight jacket....
ReplyDeleteNo, but if you got a slick observer....
ReplyDeleteAnd that the main crossmember split when it was in the shop getting new iPod connectors.
ReplyDeleteCan you get it in Blueberries?
You know, I seem to recall something like this was one of my kid's "GI Joe" toys a while back. 8-)
ReplyDeleteBack in 1970 or so, I had the GI Joe DUKW. Man, that was cool, I wish I still had it.
ReplyDelete"The Flying Frog"..."Littoral Combat Vehicle"..."The 'Howlin' Mad' Hissa"..."Jet-ski Jeep"...
ReplyDelete... I want a 1/6 scale R/C version first. You know, for test and evaluation.
How would those tires hold up on reefs? If, say, you had to prowl around the Spratleys running in and out of shallow water?
Did anyone notice that NOT A SINGLE model of the EFV was ever issued? You can buy all manner of current and historical amtrac model kits from the LVT-1 up to AAV7, but it's as if the manufaturers looked at the AAAV program and passed.