ACV News. General Dynamics is finally seen...

pic via Defense Daily.com

The above pic (click on it for a high rez version) is the first look at General Dynamics entry in the ACV program.

Where did I find it?  Defense Daily.com!

My usual afternoon sweep through the internet for news on the program led me to a 9/26/2014 article (can't believe I missed it...but it was behind a paywall) that you can catch a tidbit of below......

“Our vehicle is basically another family member of the most experienced 8x8 armored vehicle on the planet, the most combat experienced…from Strykers to Canadian LAV-3,” program manager Gary O’Brien said. “We built the MPC off the LAV-6.0 chassis, so it comes with all that credibility from the start.”
GDLS believes its ACV competitor is the most survivable light armored vehicle it has built, saying that it meets or exceeds many of the ACV requirements already. It swims above expectations, at 6.5 knots, and has 25 percent buoyancy.
O’Brien said the company’s MPC offering performed very well in testing but “was ugly as sin,” so GDLS hired a team to redesign the exterior and make it look sleeker. The vehicle was also lengthened to accommodate more Marines–meeting the threshold 10 Marines–but overall the vehicle design was kept the same from MPC to ACV.
O’Brien said his vehicle has 15 percent growth capacity built into it, the company has its supply chain in order, and “what we’re doing now is just basically confirming and bringing all the data together for the RFP.” He said he was comfortable he was prepared to move forward quickly if selected despite the tight schedule. “It’s up to the Marine Corps to maintain its schedule. They’ve set a very aggressive schedule, whether they can maintain it or not will be for them to say. We’re very agile” and ready to begin work quickly if chosen.

My take?

We're looking at an enlarged Piranha 5.  Remember the vehicle that was caught being tested by GD?

I captured that screen grab from a vid of GD conducting tests.  I thought it looked like a "big" Piranha 5 then and the latest graphic confirms it.

It also closes the loop on something else.

The teaming of GD and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries might actually have to do with improving the hydrodynamic performance of the vehicle.  6.5 knots won't do.  That will not do at all.  The talk about the vehicle being butt ugly has nothing to do with the redesign that took place.  It had to do with water performance.  I'd bet body parts.