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The first development was the Landing Craft, Personnel (Ramped) , which added a bow ramp to the LCP(L) design for faster egress. The concept came from the Japanese Daihatsu-class ramped landing craft. The second development, the most-produced of the three, was the Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel . This widened the bow to the full width of ...
A reference landing page presents information that is relevant to the visitor. These can display text, images, dynamic compilations of relevant links or other elements. [citation needed] The idea is to isolate the visitor in this landing page from any other distractions, like full website menu or "similar products", and surround the visitor with all available information about the targeted ...
Pockets of enemy resistance still fought on behind the American front line, and the whole beachhead remained under artillery fire. At 21:00 the landing of the 26th RCT completed the planned landing of infantry, but losses in equipment were high, including 26 artillery pieces, over 50 tanks, about 50 landing craft and 10 larger vessels. [101]
In May 2017, construction on a second, smaller pad began, called Landing Zone 2. This pad is located about 1,017 feet (310 m) to the northwest of the first pad and is used for landing Falcon Heavy side boosters. [12] By June 2017, the landing pad was modified with a radar reflective paint, to aid with landing precision. [13]
In computer networking, localhost is a hostname that refers to the current computer used to access it. The name localhost is reserved for loopback purposes. [1] It is used to access the network services that are running on the host via the loopback network interface.
A dock landing ship (also called landing ship, dock or LSD) is an amphibious warfare ship with a well dock to transport and launch landing craft and amphibious vehicles. [1] Some ships with well decks, such as the Soviet Ivan Rogov class , also have bow doors to enable them to deliver vehicles directly onto a beach (like a tank landing ship ).
In aviation, a water landing is, in the broadest sense, an aircraft landing on a body of water. Seaplanes, such as floatplanes and flying boats, land on water as a normal operation. Ditching [1] is a controlled emergency landing on the water surface in an aircraft not designed for the purpose, a very rare occurrence. [2]
Port William, Kentucky is a fictional American rural town found in each of the novels and short stories [1] and some of the poems [2] of Wendell Berry.The larger region, set along the western bank of the Kentucky River, consists of Port William proper and several outlying farms and settlements around the also-fictional Dawe's Landing, Squire's Landing, Goforth, and Cotman Ridge.