The New Amphibious Vehicle expected to replace the aborted Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle program may have to travel as few as 12 nautical miles from ship to shore, Navy and Marine Corps officials told the House Armed Services Committee in a hearing today. The EFV was designed to travel 25 nautical miles over sea, matching the Marine Corps' doctrinal requirement -- set in the 1980s -- that an amphibious ship should be 25 miles from the beach before dropping Marines in...
