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The US Marines were looking for a new 8x8 amphibious armored personnel carrier, which would replace their ageing LAV-25 series of armored vehicles, that were used since the early 1980s. The US Marine Corps (USMC) currently operates more than 700 LAVs of all variants. The US Marine requirement was for a wheeled medium-weight fully-amphibious armored troop carrier, that could be launched from amphibious assault ships and operate in the open ocean. It was required that the new vehicle could fight on land alongside M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks. The requirement was for a vehicle produced in the United States. So in order to meet this requirement a number of international companies teamed up with US-based companies as an expediters for the US market. Thus appeared Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) 1.1 - a new armored vehicle designed and manufactured by BAE Systems in collaboration with Iveco Defence Vehicles.
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