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General Dynamics Offers Seaworthy Stryker Relative For Marine Corps ACV Program

General Dynamics Offers Seaworthy Stryker Relative For Marine Corps ACV Program
General Dynamics Land Systems' entry for the Amphibious Combat Vehicle competition.

QUANTICO, Va. -- General Dynamics [GD] was able to look within its existing portfolio for a base vehicle that could be tweaked to meet the Marine Corps requirement for an off-the-shelf amphibious personnel vehicle. It settled on evolving the Stryker 8x8 combat vehicle for use at sea as well as on land and offered the resulting vehicle for the Marines' personnel carrier trials, which is now serving as the basis for the amphibious combat vehicle (ACV) 1.1 program. “To some…

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