STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich., July 14 (UPI) --The U.S. Marine Corps has extended a contract to General Dynamics Land Systems to continue development of a new amphibious combat vehicle, the company reports.Something is going on. What it is I just don't know.
The extension is for five months and carries a monetary value of $7 million.
Work under the extension includes flexibility and modularity analysis of the vehicle requirements and concept refinement and experimentation planning.
General Dynamics Land Systems in 2012 and 2013 had funded its own internal testing to assess the performance of its hull design against the Marine Corps' mine blast requirements for the amphibious vehicle, providing an early assessment of the low-risk, mature and affordable ACV solution.
The Marines are to issue a request for proposals for new ACVs this year. The vehicles must be able to self-deploy from a ship at least 12 miles from shore and travel in water at a speed of at least 12 knots.
From the outside looking in, I would guess that we're seeing the first fingerprints of General Dunford setting our armored house in order. Additionally have you heard anything about the industry day for the ACV 1.1?
I haven't.
So General Dynamics and I would assume BAE are going to continue to work on the ACV 1.2 till the end of the year.
Something is brewing. We'll have better visibility if the Marine Personnel Carrier gets delayed....again....like I've been hearing but can't confirm. Wouldn't it be ironic if this whole thing spins back to a simplified EFV?
Well lets Pray the ACV is back on the table. Really, a wheeled vehicle has no business ship to shore swimming - or expected to move inland.
ReplyDeleteThe hydroplane feature is outstanding and really is just basic engineering problem now, i.e, hydraulics, mechanical...
12 knot requirement makes this one vehicle competition ,as 99% of amphibus CV are limited to 4-5knots.
ReplyDelete12knots is already in planing speed domain so expect the vehicle to be pretty much EFV withut much simplification as it still needs a huge powertrain and all the transformers features that make it plane.
Process rotten to the core sometimes it seems its like its in some banana republics not a functioning state.
the very first LVT was doing 8 knots back in WW2. doing 12 is a significant reduction in speed and will not require planning to be achieved. quite honestly you can do it with proper hull form and power jets.
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