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Italian Navy Gives U.S. Marines Sneak Peek At BAE’s Amphibious Vehicle Offering

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Italian Navy Gives U.S. Marines Sneak Peek At BAE’s Amphibious Vehicle Offering
An Iveco-built production copy of BAE System's Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) 1.1 launches from an Italian amphibious assault ship in the Mediterranean Sea in March. (BAE photo)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – One of the two vehicles that will become the U.S. Marine Corps’ new Amphibious Combat Vehicle exercised its sea legs last month with the Italian military, giving the U.S. sea services a free-of-charge preview of its combat capabilities.Italian marines in March took an Iveco-built Super AV – the vehicle on which BAE Systems' ACV 1.1 is based – to sea aboard their amphibious ships and performed from-shore and ship-to-shore maneuvers. The vehicle the Italians demoed was…

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