Little Creek gets first two of U.S. Navy’s newest hovercraft

You can feel the differences in the Navy’s newest hovercraft when the pilot moves the L-shaped throttle handle at his or her left hand forward, and the LCAC-100 speeds away from the well deck of an amphibious ship at 35 knots.

“It just pushes you back into your chair,” said Petty Officer 1st class Jacob Juberville, who’s responsible for the engines as flight engineer on one of the first two LCAC-100s — “landing craft air cushion,” Navy-speak for the hovercraft that skim just above both water and beach to land Marines and their equipment on hostile shores.