Two years ago the U.S. Marine Corps began using their new Amphibious Combat Vehicle/ACV in overseas training operations. This involved live fire exercises using the marine ACV vehicles. The ACV ...

But the AAV7 is lightly-armored and vulnerable to enemy attack. Fourteen Marines died when a roadside bomb struck their AAV7 in Iraq in 2005. The Marine Corps in the 1990s began developing a ...

July 17, 2018: On schedule the U.S. Marine Corps has selected a design for its new ACV 1.1 (Amphibious Combat Vehicle). There were five proposals offered in 2015 and the marines spent $240 million so ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The military is reviewing its AAV7 Amphibious Assault Vehicles after nine crew members of a similar armored troop carrier died in an accident off southern California on July 30.

Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's soldiers take positions after landing on the beach near U.S. Marine Corps AAV7 armored personnel vehicles (behind them) during a joint landing exercise at Marine ...

Japan exhibited its AAVP7A1 amphibious assault vehicles to media at Camp Fuji on 9 February 2015. To date, the Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF) has ordered six BAE Systems AAV7 RAM/RS ...

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 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - In January, a top U.S. Marine general visited Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan to look at a prototype of an amphibious assault vehicle that could one day be a key pillar in Prime ...