![]() After this, it should then assume the ‘normal’ role of an Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) on land, and it is these requirements which produce overlapping and contradictory requirements from a vehicle.ĮFV is Desert camouflage. Such a vehicle has to travel quickly across open water to convey troops from ship to shore, offload them under fire, and provide fire support for the assault. It is perhaps surprising then, that within the best funded military force in the world, the USMC does not have a modern amphibious (or amphibian) vehicle to enable them to fulfill their core roles. They have over 180,000 men and women (as of 2017) under arms and, under the 1947 National Security Act, they have the authority to develop vehicles especially suited to their scope of operations. With its own specialized force of vehicles from aircraft to tanks, they provide the shock force for any assault amphibious landing. The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is unlike any other branch in the US military. ![]() ![]() ![]() Infantry Fighting Vehicle/Armored Personnel Carrier – 19 Built ![]()
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