Marines at Camp Pendleton held a ceremony to decommission the service's last active duty AAVs. The sea/land assault vehicle entered service in 1972. The Marine Corps formally decommissioned the last ...
The Marine Corps has officially retired the Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV) as part of a broader military transformation.
The burly, tracked vehicles that shuttled Marine grunts from ships to shore for more than five decades were retired from the service last week, making way for the Corps’ next-generation amphibious ...
ACVs are replacing the aging AAVs as the Marine Corps upgrades its amphibious operations. This analysis looks at vehicle ...
The Corps’ next-generation vehicle designed to move Marines from ship to shore. Designed to replace the Corps’ aging Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV), which has been in service since 1972, the ACV ...
After more than 50 years in service, the Marine Corps is sunsetting its Assault Amphibious Vehicle. (Lance Cpl. Brendan Mullin/Marine Corps) From the shores of Grenada to the deserts of Iraq, the ...
A sunken amphibious assault vehicle and eight service members presumed dead following a “training mishap” off the coast of Southern California last week have been found, U.S. Marine Corps officials ...
The U.S. Navy awarded $117.9 million to Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace to continue full-rate production of 101 specially developed, medium-caliber cannon turrets for U.S. Marine Corps amphibious combat ...
The United States continues to modernize the Marine Corps' warfighting capabilities, as the service recently retired an amphibious troop transport platform—designed for ship-to-shore deployment—that ...
The Marine Corps formally decommissioned the last of its “workhorse” amphibious landing vehicles in a ceremony in California last Friday, bidding farewell to the machines that have carried Marines ...