The new AAV7 is meant to ensure just that. The U.S. Marine Corps finally is getting new, swimming armored vehicles. Also in the works — a new strategy for deploying them. The Marines since 1972 ...

When the search for a AAV7 replacement began in the late 1990s, the U.S. Marine Corps had over 1,100 in service and many of these had already been refurbished and upgraded in the 1980s and would need ...

From ship to shore to objective, no equipment better defines the distinction and purpose of Marine Corps expeditionary capabilities than the AAV-7 Amphibious Assault Vehicle. Designed to assault ...

the ACV was be a 21st century version of the AAV7, optimized to pass all its development tests and get into service as quickly as possible. DARPA quickly did its job but the resulting ACV was still ...

If chosen, it will replace the aging AAV7. As a service dedicated to the art of hitting the beach, the U.S. Marine Corps currently rely heavily on the AAV7 amphibious assault vehicle to carry ...

The U.S. Marine Corps’ plan to replace its aging fleet of Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV7) is about to take a major step forward. By the end of June, the two teams vying for the contract to ...

The LVT-7 (Landing Vehicle Tracked) when first fielded by the US Marine Corps in 1972 was vast improvement over its predecessor the LVT-5. It was more mobile on land, faster in the water, better armed ...

The cost of the AAV7 acquisition was not mentioned ... the AAV-7A1 is the current amphibious troop transport of the U.S. Marine Corps. The vehicles, once commissioned, will be part of a 1,400 ...

Japanese soldiers fast roping from a U.S. Marine Corps Osprey tiltrotor, 2018. The ARDB will get around with a combination of hovercraft (US LCACs license-built in Japan), refurbished AAV7 ...

To date, the Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF) has ordered six BAE Systems AAV7 RAM/RS (Reliability and Maintainability/Rebuild to Standard) vehicles. The JGSDF obtained its first four ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Marine Corps sent amphibious vehicles to a beach in ... and the beaches of Bali District in New Taipei City, on Thursday, the AAV7 amphibious vehicles rolled across a beach ...

The Republic of China Navy and Marine Corps deployed AAV7 amphibious vehicles (an example pictured above) in the drills to boost operational preparedness to counter Chinese amphibious landings on ...