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ATC(H) (VUSBX14)
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ATC(H) (VUSBX14)
includes one Armored Troop Carrier boat, with options for the ATC(H) and ATC(H) Aid Boat.
The ATC boats converted from LCM-6 landing craft developed in the 1950s for ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore use. The converted LCM designs added 0.25 inch armor plating in many areas to protect the superstructure from critical damage caused by rockets.
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Brown Water Navy
The waterways of the Mekong Delta are busy with sampans, merchants, villages, and farming communities. They are the life blood of South Vietnam, through which over half of the entire country’s rice flows. It is remote with few roads accessing the interior’s rice fields and jungles. The Viet Cong have launched their liberation movement from within this formidable fortress.
However, the US Army and Navy have come together to create the Mobile Riverine Force, a joint operation of infantry and assault boats. They are reinforced with helicopter gunships, devastating Skyraider aircraft and more. This new force is ready to take the fight upriver.
Learn more about Brown Water Navy here...
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The upgraded armored ATC made up about half of the river craft deployed by the United States during the Vietnam War, in effect making the ATC the "workhorse" of the river war. Some ATCs had helicopter decks added and became ATC(H).
Designed by Evan Allen
Painted by Aaron Mathie
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Length:
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56’ 1” (17m) |
| Beam: |
17’ 6” (5.3m) |
| Draft: |
3’ 6” (1m) |
| Displacement: |
155,000lb (70 tonnes) |
| Speed: |
8.5 knots (16km/h) |
| Crew: |
7 |
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The ATC(H) in Brown Water Navy
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Armour
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Name
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Mobility
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Front
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Side
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Top
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Equipment and Notes
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Weapon
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Range
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ROF
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Anti-tank
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Firepower
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ATC(H)
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Slow Tank
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Assult Boat, Bar-armour, Helipad, Self-defence MG.
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| Two M2 .50cal MG |
16" / 40cm
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3(each) |
4
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Deck turret. |
| Mk 16 20mm gun |
16" / 40cm |
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360-degree turret. |
| with Mk 19 40mm Grenade MG |
16" / 40cm |
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Deck turret. |
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ATC Passengers
The ATC was designed to not only deliver infantry onto the river bank, but also to support them with firepower.
ATC and ATC(H) boats are Tank teams. However, each boat can carry up to 15 Infantry and Man-packed Gun teams as Passengers as if it was a Transport team.
If the ATC and ATC(H) boats are Pinned Down, their Passenger teams are also Pinned Down.
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Helipad
The ATC(H)’s helipad allows helicopter support to resupply the troops and evacuate the wounded during battle.
The flight deck of an ATC(H) counts as an Landing Zone Objective that can hold up to one helicopter team.
A team that is in contact with an ATC(H) is also in contact with a Medevac Slick landed on that ATC(H)’s helipad.
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Aid Boat
The aid boat was essentially a floating hospital. It carried a large medical staff and even had a surgeon on board. All aid boats were equipped with a helipad for dustoff operations to evacuate the most critically wounded. The aid boat also provided the transportation for the battalion scouts.
Medic teams may use their Saving the Wounded rule while mounted in an ATC(H) Aid Boat.
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| Step 1. Add the bow to the hull (you don't have to glue this part). |
Step 2. Glue the pilot's deck to the hull. |
Below. Hull assembled correctly. |
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| Step 3. Glue the guns into their turrets. |
You have the option of replacing one of your Mk 16 20mm guns with a Mk 19 40mm Grenade MG, so four turrets are provided. |
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| Below. Fully assembled ATC(H) |
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| Happy modelling! |
Last Updated On Monday, August 10, 2015
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