Also, electric vehicles are stealthy in nature and do not require a noisy combustion engine. Moving troops onto mountain ranges is a grueling task, whereas EUCs, Jetsons, and Electric Bikes can make short work of it and can get there faster than a wheeled or tracked vehicle can, if at all. EUCs leave hands free, and can transverse up to 70 mph, and can go in reverse 20 mph, very easily. Everything has their pros and cons, and selection is the key of the game for the tasks at hand.
Yes, water is hard to transverse. Our only solution is hovercraft. The 2 seater jetsons, could get a small force on land much quicker, as hovercraft carry larger, slower payload. Imagine having one ship that is dedicated to these types of units similar to the Tripoli. The Tripoli carriers around 40 planes, that must deploy serially, one at a time. You could launch about 100 hundred of these by the time you launch one plane. The eyes on and dispersion factor would outweigh one fight for covering a beachhead. Then a hovercraft moves in with armed EUCs to take disperse positions across the coast line quickly covering all types of soldiers, machine gunners, snipers, shotgun droners, medics, stinger operators, riflemen, etc… Then followed by another hovercraft with hundreds of Ebikes that can carry small amounts of cargo and supplies. All instead of one large vulnerable hovercraft with a valued payload moving slow with not much capability to fire until the payload is offloaded. This makes too much sense and should be deployed immediately for this war. It will save American lives.
They can travel 50 - 100 miles without charging.
This one charges by a three prong cord like from any ordinary computer from empty to fully charged in about 3 1/2 hours, with a range of 100 miles realistically >>24404024. It also has solar charging at 400 watts per hour if needed but that would take 16 hours at least. They also provide a 120volt outlet, for any camping needs, lighting or charging other electronics. They can power computers, tvs, microwaves, coffee makers, chain saws, hole diggers, water purifiers, anything electric or battery operated. You are not thinking. This is not a replacement for anything, but a complementary capabilities. There not a gas station everywhere, but you always have sun right?
And if anything breaks or is destroyed, guess what? You are right where you started from, with troops navigating terrain by foot alone. You need all capabilites. Heavy duty vehicles, foot soldiers, and electrified units. We do not have electrified units. Dispersion and eyes on, navigation and speed, mobile energy sources, is what these provide. An Apache is a great weapon but is subject to drones and missile attacks, and electrified force could provide the cover that it needs to operate in more highly contested environments where an electrified force can provide cover both high and low much quicker than monolithic solutions such as blackhawks which need to unload their payload and have a vulnerability that the electrified units wouldn't. Small Bell helicopters have their niche in this area too.
Hovercraft are our only solution for the Marines. There are various designs that could enhance our MEUs. Think of the concepts, size, and dispersion factors for taking a coastline, recon, or unmanned as water drones. Here is a simple design that could be a water drone.
Hover crafts are incredible machines, but think about the eyes on factor? Not until payload is unloaded. They are best for carrying heavy loads quickly and quickly coming to dry land but they need more eyes on and are not the solution for dispersion. Many are sitting ducks until the payload is unloaded. A couple of small water drones like this design >>24404130 either manned or unmanned would be a good wingman compliment.
Fact is, is that the Iranians took out a vessel in the Straits by an unmanned Kamakazi speed boat deployed late at night. A water drones such as this, could loiter for weeks at a time, or could economically monitor the coast, or quickly attack a hostile boat. You could fit probably 20 of these for every large hovercraft. We need an assets like this for our Marines.