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Updated December 7, 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 on the battlefield. While the LAV remains
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, networked,
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 1. U.S. Marine Corps Light Armored Vehicle
(LAV)
Source: https://www.marines.mil/News/News-Display/Article/
181 7404/marine-corps-plans-to-replace-lay-with-new-
transformational-arv/, accessed May 5, 2021.
ARV Desired Operational Capabilities
According to a Marine Corps May 2019 briefing, some of
the ARV's desired operational capabilities include
* an automatic medium-caliber cannon;
* anti-armor capability to defeat close-in heavy armor
threats;
* precision-guided munitions (PGMs) to defeat threats
beyond the engagement range of threat systems;
* unmanned systems swarm capability to provide
persistent, multifunction munitions;
* advanced, networked, multifunctional electronic warfare
(EW) capabilities;
* a modern command-and-control suite and a full range of
sensors;
* organic unmanned aerial and ground systems
(UAS/UGS) that can be deployed from the ARV;
* active and passive vehicle protection; and
* robust cross-country/on-road mobility performance with
shore-to-shore water mobility with size and weight
similar to the LAV.
ARY in Marine Corps Force Structure
The ARV is to be the primary combat system in Light
Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) Battalions. The mission of
the LAR Battalion is to
* Conduct mounted and dismounted reconnaissance,
surveillance, and security operations in support of
maneuver.
* Conduct offensive and defensive actions, deception, and
raids to create decisive conditions for the Marine
Division and the supported unit commander.
Program Status
The Marines plan for a number of ARV variants-referred
to as a family of vehicles. The first described variant is to
be the Command, Control, Communications and
Computers/Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C4/UAS) version.
Reportedly, on July 16, 2021, the Marines selected Textron
Systems and General Dynamics Land Systems to build
ARV prototypes with prototype delivery expected in the
first quarter of FY2023 with evaluation of the prototypes
concluding in the third quarter FY2023. If prototype testing
proves successful, the Marines Corps could then initiate a
production effort potentially worth an estimated $1.8 billion
to $6.8 billion over five years. Reportedly, Textron (Figure
2) and General Dynamics (Figure 3) submitted proposals
for prototype ARVs to the Marines for testing and
evaluation in May 2021.
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