US Marine Corps Mission: The ABV is a path-clearing vehicle built atop of a M1A1 Abrams Tank chassis. The vehicle is equipped with a mine-clearing plow, a .50 caliber machine gun, and a launcher ...

A US Marine Corps M50 Ontos on June 1, 1967. US Marine Corps/Pfc Kenneth L. Fuller But the M50s did suffer from undeniable limitations.

For many decades the Marine Corps even had tanks for its ground forces --it still has many other armored vehicles-- but when it comes to the sea, the USMC has primarily relied on its brothers and ...

The EFV represents the Marine Corps primary means of tactical mobility during the conduct of amphibious operations and subsequent ground combat operations ashore. The EFV is a self-deploying, ...

Marine Light Armored Vehicles equipped with anti-tank weapons are getting upgraded turrets that can fire radio frequency-guided TOW missiles, officials said.

The remaining pair, the Cannon (ACV-30) and Recovery (ACV-R), are in the Production Representative Test Vehicles (PRTV) stage. The Marine Corps seems determined to get its hands on as many of ...

BAE Systems has secured a contract valued at $188.5m to produce 30 Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV)-30mm vehicles for the US Marine Corps. The full-rate production (FRP) contract also encompasses ...

US Marine Corps picks 2 ... research and development of an ARV prototype as part of its pursuit to replace roughly 600 1980s-era LAV-25s so light armored ... The vehicles will ...

A U.S. Marine with A Company, 2nd Light Armor Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, provides security with an M240B machine gun from a Light Armored Vehicle as part of Exercise Trident ...

Every year, the United States Army spends roughly $5 billion modernizing its ground-based combat vehicles: tanks, artillery, personnel carriers, and other armored vehicles. Of that, some portion ...

FRIGAARD CAVE, TRONDHEIM, Norway — Deep within a Norwegian hillside, thousands of US Marine Corps combat veterans await their next assignment. They are lined up in rigid rows. They are clean ...

For many decades the Marine Corps even had tanks for its ground forces –it still has many other armored vehicles– but when it comes to the sea, the USMC has primarily relied on its brothers ...