
The Marine Corps has awarded Norway’s Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace a contract worth up to $329 million to build medium caliber remotely-operated weapon systems for the turreted variant of the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV-30). The contract, which is planned to be definitized by mid-February, is expected to cover 175 of Kongsberg’s 30mm Protector Remote Turret 20 (RT-20) weapon systems, according to the Pentagon. BAE Systems, which builds the ACV, selected Kongsberg in May 2020 to provide its unmanned RT-20 medium…