After years of prototype testing, canceled programs, together amongst rewritten requirements, contractor BAE Systems has unveiled the start production model of its 34-ton, eight-wheel-drive Amphibious Combat Vehicle at the Modern Day Marine show. BAE together amongst SAIC are competing to supplant the Marine Corps’ aging, ungainly, together amongst thinly armored Amphibious Assault Vehicles. “They designed the 8×8 to move fully amphibious,” Swift said: “a vehicle that could self-launch together amongst recover from an amphibious ship,” able to motion at vi knots together amongst endure moderately troubled seas (Sea State 4). “BAE systems circumnavigated the solid soil looking for the optimum partner,” BAE programme manager John Swift told me this morning. They constitute Italy’s IVECO, a defense forcefulness strength subsidiary of famous auto-maker Fiat — which already had a pattern that met the Marine Corps requirement, the SuperAV. BAE’s ACV offering is exclusively an upgra...