Landcraft
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Landcraft is a euphonious term that is often a generic term for any vehicle that travels on land, but is sometimes used to describe unusually large terrestrial vehicles. However, certain vehicles may have the word "land" even if they are not terrestrial in nature:
Terrestrial vehicles:
- Land vehicle
- Landship, extremely large terrestrial vehicles that often have multiple decks, hundreds of feet long, and have an excess weight of over 1,000 tons. The majority of these vehicles are restricted to open-pit mining as their sheer weight and size makes them impractical on conventional roads or open fields (e.g., cracking roads from sheer pressure and destroying any terrain that is not reinforced).
Maritime vehicles:
- Landing craft, a class of naval warship that specializes in deploying troops and/or vehicles onto shore. Landing crafts are, therefore, one of the few surface vessels, short of hovercrafts and amphibious vehicles, that is technically incapable of beaching itself.
- Landing Ship, Tank, a large landing craft dedicated to deploying fleets of tanks on the battlefield.
Space vehicles:
- Lander, a spacecraft dedicated to landing on extraterrestrial bodies and deploying either a rover or astronauts. Landers are capable of relaunching themselves to space; however, this is only effective on celestial objects with no atmosphere and weak gravity, as the thrust rockets aren't powerful enough to maintain a strong space launch.
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