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Marine Corps Outlines Next Steps For New Autonomous Resupply Vessel And Landing Ship Medium Experimentation

Marine Corps Outlines Next Steps For New Autonomous Resupply Vessel And Landing Ship Medium Experimentation
An Autonomous Low-Profile Vessel (ALPV) sails on the Del Mar Boat Basin to test its capability to provide sustainment to Stand-in Forces operating within contested areas as part of Project Convergence Capstone 4 on Feb. 25, 2024 at Camp Pendleton, Calif. (Photo: U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory by Kevin Ray Salvador)

The Marine Corps is preparing to move an autonomous resupply vessel to the Japan-based 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF) to conduct field testing this fall, an official said Wednesday. “Part of our test plan to make sure that we can demonstrate the capability for this particular ship. We will actually be sending the [Autonomous Low Profile Vehicle, or ALPV] out to III MEF later on this fall for them to start to experiment with it,” Brig. Gen. Simon Doran,…

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