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A U.S. Marine Corps Amphibious Combat Vehicle (right) and an Amphibious Assault Vehicle (left) outside the II Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Building at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Aug. 2018. The first phase, will consist of several hundred, commercial off-the-shelf wheeled armored vehicles, each costing $3–$4.5 million.
The LAV platform is planned to remain in service with the Marine Corps until 2035. [10] The Marines aimed to have prototypes for the LAV's replacement, dubbed the Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV), by 2023. The ARV was initially planned to be a networked family of wheeled vehicles capable of performing various mission sets, with 500 to be ...
UC-35D Marine One. Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle M88x, M89x, and M1010 series; M1030M1 Motorcycle; various GME vehicles, to include the John Deere Gator; C-9B Skytrain II VIP passenger; C-12 Huron VIP passenger; UC-35D VIP passenger; C-20G Gulfstream VIP passenger; F-5E/F Tiger II opposing force trainers; HH-1N SAR helicopter; Marine One. VH ...
The gangway was completed in November 2021, said Rabon. “There should be very, very little maintenance to an aluminum gangway like that,” he said, adding there were “almost daily inspections.”
A makeshift gangway provides a safe walkway for workers to board the back deck of the tugboat Samuel de Champlain while docked at a shipyard. The port and starboard gangways of the Duquesne can be seen at the right and left of the ship's boats. The port side is fully careened, while the starboard side shows the inner structure of the woodwork.
The name DUKW comes from General Motors Corporation model nomenclature: [6]. D, 1942 production series; U, Utility; K, all wheel drive; W, tandem rear axles, both driven; Decades later, the designation was explained erroneously by writers such as Donald Clarke, who wrote in 1978 that it was an initialism for "Duplex Universal Karrier, Wheeled".
The Logistics Vehicle System (LVS), nicknamed by U.S. Marines as "Dragon Wagon", is a modular assortment of eight-wheel drive all-terrain vehicle unit combinations used by the United States Marine Corps. The LVS was fielded in 1985 as the Marine Corps heavy tactical vehicle system. [1] It was designed and manufactured by the Oshkosh Corporation.
The Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) is a series of vehicles used by the U.S. Marines. [1] [9] The first MTVRs were delivered in late 1999.The MTVR is the equivalent of the U.S. Army's Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV); the Marines do not use the FMTV (with the exception of the FMTV-based HIMARS) and the Army does not use the MTVR.