The United States Navy Comparative Anchor Tests

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!