USMC awards Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle contracts

[Slater]

Regarding the overall reconnaissance mission, couldn't some (or much) of that be done by drones nowadays?


"The two competitors for the first variant of the US Marine Corps (USMC) Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) have been selected to prototype the second variant as well, the marines announced on 7 March.

Textron Systems and General Dynamics Land Systems received contracts to build one prototype each of an ARV with a 30 mm medium-calibre autocannon (ARV-30), according to a Program Executive Office Land Systems (PEO LS) press release. The technology development milestone comes as the ARV programme is expected to make an engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) decision about the first variant – command, control, communications, and computers/unmanned aircraft systems (C4/UAS)."


https://www.janes.com/defence-news/n...icle-prototype

[chuckman]

This would be a replacement for the AAV, the Marine (LAR) version of army cav scouts. So not a new thing, but an upgraded thing.