Conducted by the U.S. Navy at the Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Norfolk, Virginia in May 1989. These tests were in support of a special Navy project to find lightweight, high performance anchors for its high-tech fleet of 90 ft. long “LCAC” Assault Hovercraft.

Several sizes and types of anchor designs were tested, including several Navy design fluke anchors, such as the “Stato”, “NAV-Moor” and “LWT” which are not available to the public. These anchors weighed up to 300 lbs. The tests were conducted in a variety of bottoms over a two day period. In every test, the FORTRESS anchors set faster and out performed all other anchors!