Patent ID: 7690957

Claim:
An amphibious vehicle comprising: elements arranged on a self-propelled rolling base, and oriented essentially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the rolling base, when the vehicle is in a folded configuration, for movement on land, and which can be deployed to form a track or bridge portion oriented transversely with respect to the longitudinal axis of the rolling base, when the vehicle, alone or with another vehicle of the same design, forms a floating bridge or ferry; and a deployment device deploying the elements by pivoting of four groups of the elements around four vertical shafts spaced from one another, in at least three different configurations, each group of the elements having at least one caisson, wherein the deployment device includes a central pivot having a lifting jack supported on the rolling base and one telescopic guiding leg per group of the elements, each of the telescopic legs serving as a vertical pivot shaft for a group of the elements.