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Updated June 10, 2021
Marine Corps Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV)
What Is the Advanced Reconnaissance
Vehicle (ARV)?
According to the Marine Corps, the Advanced
Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) aims to be a new armored
vehicle family to replace the Light Armored Vehicle (LAV)
(Figure 1):
Since the 1980s, the Light Armored Vehicle (LAV)
has supported Marine Air-Ground Task Force
missions onthebattlefield. While the LAVremains
operationally effective, the life cycle of this system
is set to expire in the mid-2030s.... The Advanced
Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) [the LAV's
replacement] will be highly mobile, netwoiked,
transportable, protected, and lethal. The capability
will provide, sensors, communication systems and
lethality options to overmatch threats that have
historically been addressed with more heavily
armored systems. The ARV will be an advanced
combat vehicle system, capable of fighting for
information that balances competing capability
demands to sense, shoot, move, communicate and
remain transportable as part of the naval
expeditionary force.
Figure I. U.S. Marine Corps Light Armored Vehicle
n AVI
Source: https://www.marin es.miVN ews/News-Display/Article/
I 8 1 7404/marin e-corps-plans-to-replace-lav-with- new-
transformational-art/,accessed May5,2021.
ARV Desired Operational Capabilities
According to a Marine Corps May 2019briefmg to
industry, some ofthe ARV's desired operational
capabilities include
* an automatic medium-caliber cannon capable of
delivering anti-personnel, anti-materiel, and anti-armor
munitions on the move (such as the Army's XM813 30
mm weapon system);
* anti-armor capability to defeat close-in heavy armor
threats;
* precision-guided munitions (PGMs) to defeatthreats
beyond the engagement range of threat systems;
* unmanned systems swarmcapability to provide
persistent, multifunction munitions;
* advanced, networked, multifunctional electronic warfar
(EW) capabilities;
* a modern command-and-control suite and a fullrange of
sensorsto enhance and extend reconnaissance and
surveillance ranges;
* organic unmanned aerial and ground systems
(UAS/UGS) that can be deployed fromthe ARV;
* active and passive vehicle protection capabilities to
sense, orient, classify, track, and defeat incoming
rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), anti-tankguided
missiles (ATGMs), and PGM threats with hard-andsoft-
kill capability;
* robust cross-country/on-road mobility performance with
shore-to-shore water mobility (s hore-to-shore mobility
is the movement ofpersonnel and materiel directly from
a shore staging area to the land objective without further
transfers between ships prior to an amphibious assault);
and
* for transport purposes, s ize and weight similar to the
LAV.
ARV in Marine Corps Force Structure
The ARV is to be the primary combat systemin Light
Armored Reconnaissance(LAR) Battalions. The missionof
the LAR Battalion is to conduct mounted (vehicle-borne)
and dismounted (onfoot):
* Reconnaissance, surveillance, and security operations in
support of maneuver.
* Offensive and defensive actions, deception, and raids to
create decisive conditions for the Marine Division and
the supported unit commander.
Program Status
The Marines planfora number of ARV variants-referred
to as a family of vehicles. Thefirst described variantis to
be the Command, Control, Communications and
Computers/Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C4/UAS) version.
Reportedly, the Marine Corps plans to make up to three
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