Army’s M1A2 SEPv3’s MBTs are too heavy with TUSK and APS to be carried via any U.S.

The main problem with using the LCUs is that it sails at a slow 8 to 11 knots despite its 1,200 nautical mile range. A M1A2 SEPv3 with TUSK, Trophy APS, ballast, and field gear at 80+-tons fully kitted, leaves the Navy’s Landing Craft Utility (the LCU in has three variants), able to carry a 127-metric ton (137 ton) to 183-metric ton (201 ton) payload (or one or two Army M1A2 SEPv3s with TUSK and APS installed) as the only reasonable M1A2 SEPv3 weight-carrying landing craft transport to hit the beach. The Army’s M1A2 SEPv3 weighs in at 66.68-tons basic with no add-on kits (and the LCAC could carry it when operating overloaded) and the M1A2 SEPv3 can weigh in excess of 80-tons with the Tank Urban Survivability Kit (TUSK I or II configurations) and Trophy APS add-on kits installed, six tons more than the allowable on the SSC hovercraft and five tons more than the LCAC operating overloaded.

(The LCAC can transport 60-tons normally, or 75 tons when overloaded). Navy’s Landing Craft Air Cushion’s (LCAC) replacement, the Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC), can transport 74-tons at 35 kts. According to TextronMarineSystems®, the U.S.

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