Report to Congress on Marine Corps’ Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle Program
May 14, 2021 10:04 AM
The following is the May 13, 2021, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, Marine Corps Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV)
From the report
ARV Desired Operational Capabilities According to a Marine Corps May 2019 briefing to industry, some of the ARV’s desired operational capabilities include an automatic medium-caliber cannon capable of delivering anti-personnel, anti-materiel, and anti-armor munitions on the move (such as the Army’s XM813 30 mm weapon system); anti-armor capability to defeat close-in heavy armor threats;
precision-guided munitions (PGMs) to defeat threats beyond the engagement range of threat systems;
unmanned systems swarm capability to provide persistent, multifunction munitions;
advanced, networked, multifunctional electronic warfare (EW) capabilities;
a modern command-and-control suite and a full range of sensors to enhance and extend reconnaissance and surveillance ranges;
organic unmanned aerial and ground systems (UAS/UGS) that can be deployed from the ARV;
active and passive vehicle protection capabilities to sense, orient, classify, track, and defeat incoming rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), and PGM threats with hard-and softkill capability;
https://news.usni.org/2021/05/14/report-to-congress-on-marine-corps-advanced-reconnaissance-vehicle-program#more-85901
