The PLA Navy says the GJ-21 has completed its first takeoff and landing aboard the Type 076 amphibious assault ship, which is ...

After roughly 50 years of service, the US Marine Corps has retired its iconic AAV amphibious assault vehicle and begun replacing it with the newer Amphibious Combat Vehicle, or ACV. Unlike earlier ...

BEIJING, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- China's first shipborne stealth reconnaissance-strike integrated drone GJ-21 has recently completed its first takeoff and landing operation aboard the Sichuan, China's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amphibious Combat Vehicles of the Marine Corps’ 3d Assault Amphibian Battalion arrive on an Australian beach on July 24, 2025.

Hanwha Aerospace has publicly unveiled the prototype of South Korea's next-generation amphibious assault vehicle — the KAAV-II — for the first time, revealing a heavily armed, faster successor to the ...

Few military platforms have transformed as dramatically as the amphibious assault ship. What began as flat-bottomed wooden boats scraping onto contested beaches has become a floating fortress capable ...

ACVs are wheeled armored combat vehicles that to move Marine Corps infantry from ships offshore to fight their way onto invasion beaches. QUANTICO, Va. – U.S. Marine Corps amphibious warfare experts ...

IntroductionI have previously posted satellite imagery analysis of Chinese shipyards sporadically on X (formerly Twitter), ...

February 8, 2026: Two years ago the U.S. Marine Corps began using their new Amphibious Combat Vehicle/ACV in overseas training operations. This involved live fire exercises using the marine ACV ...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the USS Tripoli amphibious assault ship, its attached Marine expeditionary force and their loaded vehicles and gear, and associated escort and support ships ...

BABADAG TRAINING AREA, Romania (June 14, 2026) — The first time U.S. Marine Corps Master Sgt. Daniel Porter saw an assault amphibious vehicle, he felt the ground shake. He was a young Marine, fresh to ...

The new “ACV-130” amphibious armored vehicles are in a sense a substitute for the Marine Corps’ tank units, which are currently being phased out. In an effort to return the United States Marine Corps ...