DARPA Captive Air Amphibious Transporters (CAAT) For Disaster Relief

This video depicts testing of a 1/5 scale demonstrator of the Captive Air Amphibious Transporters (CAAT). The CAAT has air-filled pontoons on a tank tread-like design, enabling them to carry containers over water and directly onto shore. The vehicle is part of DARPA’s Tactically Expandable Maritime Platform (TEMP) () program, which seeks new sea and air delivery systems to enable direct support to disaster zones from offshore container ships. All technologies developed under TEM