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State Department Approves $107 Million Deal With Spain For Amphibious Assault Vehicles

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, March 15th, 2019

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State Department Approves $107 Million Deal With Spain For Amphibious Assault Vehicles

Assault Amphibious Vehicle Photo: BAE Systems

The State Department has approved a potential $107 million deal with Spain for BAE Systems’ Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV). The Defense Security Cooperative Agency notified Congress of the foreign military sale on Thursday. The 11 AAVs Spain would receive under the deal include eight personnel variants, two command and control variants and one recovery variant. “The proposed addition of these 11 vehicles to Spain’s fleet will afford more flexibility and maintain Spain’s expeditionary capability to counter regional threats and continue…

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