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New in 2022: Marine Corps light armored reconnaissance is at a crossroad
The top Marine wants more recon/counter-recon. This year could see details revealed.
By Todd South
Latest "LAV" stories
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No tanks, but the Corps is still looking for an LAV replacement
Prototypes from two vendors should be ready for evaluations by the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020.
By Shawn Snow
Top Marine says Light Armored Reconnaissance is outmoded on future battlefield
“Light Armored Reconnaissance today is built great for another Desert Shield, Desert Storm,” Berger said Wednesday. “I don’t see that likelihood as being very great.”
By Shawn Snow
Armored reconnaissance vehicle prototypes to be evaluated by the Marines by the end of 2020
The Corps plans to have a replacement for one of its oldest combat vehicles, the light armored vehicle, or LAV, by the end of the next decade.
By Shawn Snow
Marines sailed through the Strait of Hormuz with an armored vehicle on the Boxer’s flight deck
US Marines aboard the amphibious assault ship Boxer recently sailed through the Strait of Hormuz with an armored vehicle strapped to the flight deck, ready to fight off drones and Iranian gunboats.
By Ryan Pickrell, Business Insider