BAE Systems has delivered the first production command and control variant of the Amphibious Combat Vehicle, the ACV-C, to the Marine Corps, the company said.
The ACV-C is now the second of four variants to be delivered to the Marine Corps, with the base personnel variant also in full-rate production and being delivered to the service, while BAE Systems is also building several ACV-30 turreted variants for testing and the ACV-R recovery variant is going through the design and development phase.
“We are thrilled to deliver this critical capability into the hands of Marines in the field,” Garrett Lacaillade, vice president of BAE Systems’ amphibious vehicles product line, said in a statement last Friday. “As the Marines begin to familiarize themselves with the new ACV-C, we remain ready to fulfill any of the Corps’ critical amphibious warfighting needs to ensure the Fleet Marine Force is mission ready.”
The Marine Corps in May 2022 awarded BAE Systems an $89.5 million full rate production order for 14 ACV-Cs, which was followed by $111.5 million last March for more than 15 of the command and control platforms (Defense Daily, March 6 2023).
“The ACV-C will provide Marines with a mobile command center which enables situational awareness and operations planning in the battlespace,” BAE Systems said. “ACV-C provides true open-ocean and ship-to-objective amphibious capability, land mobility, survivability and ample growth capacity and flexibility to incorporate and adapt future technologies.”
BAE Systems in March 2022 received a $34.9 million deal for design and development of the ACV-R, which was followed by an $88 million deal that August to build several ACV-30s for testing (Defense Daily, Aug. 16 2022).
The ACV-R recently completed the first phase of the design process, BAE Systems confirmed on Friday, with plans to deliver the first production representative test vehicles in 2025.
BAE Systems in May 2020 selected Kongsberg to provide its unmanned RT-20 medium caliber turret for the ACV-30 (Defense Daily, May 13 2020).