Marine Corps to extend ARV prototyping phase and procure additional mission role variant for testing

By Nick Wilson / December 6, 2023 at 1:58 PM
The Marine Corps is extending the Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle prototype evaluation period until at least fiscal year 2026 and preparing to add an additional mission role variant, equipped with a 30mm gun and turret, to the assessment. After a year of testing initial prototypes , designed by competing contractors General Dynamics Land Systems, Textron Systems and BAE Systems to serve as the ARV command, control, communications and computers/unmanned aircraft systems (C4UAS) mission role variant, the service now plans to procure...

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