The Marines’ Most Wicked Looking Armored Vehicle Looks Even Scarier Making A Beach Landing

Published Mar 22, 2020 6:51 PM EDT

The M1150 ‘Shredder’ Assault Breacher Vehicle is one nasty looking weapon system. Designers leveraged the M1 Abrams main battle tank’s design and adapted it into one of the world’s most capable combat mine clearing vehicles. It is bristling with attachments and specialized gear required for its unique mission, making it look downright evil in its own right. This is especially true when seen wading into the surf during a beach landing.

You can read all about the Shredder in this past piece of mine , but suffice it to say that between its plows, explosive line charges, and other modifications, the meaning of its whole existence is to get Marines from point A to point B without being devastated by mines. With that in mind, you can imagine how important the Shredder is to Marines trying to take an enemy beach and establish a beachhead. Getting the vehicle, which weighs more than 60 tons , from ship to shore is done by the Navy’s heaviest amphibious haulers, the Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) and the Landing Craft Utility (LCU).

Staff Sgt. Mark E Morrow Jr

An M1150 next to an M88 Armored Recovery Vehicle, both belonging to the 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Division., Staff Sgt. Mark E Morrow Jr

In the images above, the Shredder is being brought ashore by a U.S. Navy Landing Craft Utility (LCU) boat (1610/1646 class), which can accommodate the mass and width of the brutish vehicle. The LCUs can run ship-to-shore logistics from the well decks of the ‘Gator Navy’s’ amphibious assault ships, which can include transporting the Shredder.

Practicing for just such a beach landing and, in particular, the command and control complexities surrounding them, is what is being seen in the photos, which were taken at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, as part of a recurring exercise dubbed Type Commander Amphibious Training (TCAT).

Although the USMC is slowly pivoting away from focusing so heavily on large-scale beach landing operations, being able to push very heavy combat vehicles ashore from over-the-horizon remains a critical capability. Maybe the most important of which is getting Marines ashore the protection that the Shredder provides.

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发布于美国东部时间2020年3月22日下午6:51

M1150“碎裂者”突击破障车是一款外形极其凶悍的武器系统。设计者借鉴了M1艾布拉姆斯主战坦克的设计，并将其改造为世界上性能最强的扫雷车之一。它配备了执行特定任务所需的各种附件和专用装备，使其本身看起来就十分邪恶。尤其是在海滩登陆时，当它涉水进入海浪中时，这种感觉更加强烈。

关于“碎裂者”的详细介绍，请参阅我之前的文章。简而言之，凭借其犁式推进器、爆炸线装药和其他改装，它存在的意义在于帮助海军陆战队员从A点安全抵达B点，避免触雷。由此可见，“碎裂者”对于试图攻占敌方滩头阵地的海军陆战队员来说至关重要。这辆重达60多吨的车辆由海军最重型的两栖运输舰——气垫登陆艇（LCAC）和通用登陆艇（LCU）负责从舰艇运送到岸上。

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一辆M1150装甲车和一辆M88装甲抢修车并排停放，均隶属于第二海军陆战师第二战斗工兵营。照片由参谋军士马克·E·莫罗二世拍摄。

上图显示，美国海军的一艘通用登陆艇（LCU，1610/1646级）正在将“碎纸机”运上岸。这种登陆艇能够容纳这辆庞然大物庞大的体积和宽度。LCU可以从“鳄鱼海军”两栖攻击舰的坞舱进行舰岸后勤补给，其中就包括运输“碎纸机”。

这些照片拍摄于北卡罗来纳州勒琼营，照片中展示的正是为此类海滩登陆作战进行的演练，特别是围绕此类登陆作战的指挥和控制方面的复杂性。这是一项名为“类型指挥官两栖训练”（TCAT）的定期演习的一部分。

尽管美国海军陆战队正逐渐减少对大规模滩头登陆作战的过度依赖，但从视距外将重型作战车辆推上岸的能力仍然至关重要。其中最重要的或许是为登陆的海军陆战队员提供“碎纸机”装甲车所提供的保护。

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