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Navy/USMC

Marine Corps Looking To Purchase Three ACV Variants

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, January 28th, 2019

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Marine Corps Looking To Purchase Three ACV Variants

BAE Systems' ACV. David Schacher Photography LLC

The Marine Corps is officially looking for three variants of its new Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) with a request for information (RFI) Monday to detail its requirement for command and control, turreted and recovery versions of its latest vehicle. The RFI says the Marine Corps requires 29 command variants (ACV-C), 39 recovery and maintenance variants (ACV-R) and 150 units of a 30mm medium caliber cannon variant (ACV-30). BAE Systems is currently producing the ACV, and the Marine Corps in December…

Congress

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Congress

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