Twelve amphibious combat vehicles will arrive at the Okinawa, Japan-based 4th Marine Regiment in July, Col. Tim Hough, the Corps’ program manager for advanced amphibious assault, said on ...

The research and design of the Japanese Future Amphibious Vehicle has begun to take shape as the country seeks to shore up defence of remote coral islands to its south. The vehicle development ...

ARLINGTON, Va., April 8 (UPI) --Japan's Ministry of Defense has contracted BAE Systems to supply it with 30 amphibious assault vehicles, or AAVs. The acquisition of the AAVs supports the ongoing ...

Japan recently announced it is procuring up to six AAV-7A1 amphibious assault vehicles of the kind the U.S. Marines use. Such vehicles would afford a platoon of WAIR troops armored protection up ...

A Japan Ground Self Defense Force soldier gives orders to bound after exiting an Assault Amphibious Vehicle, during Exercise Iron Fist 2017, aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb ...

Japan is in the process of building a miniature amphibious assault vehicle (AAV) demonstrator that, if all goes according to plan, will result in a full-scale demonstrator by October of this year ...

Japan plans to buy 52 amphibious vehicles through 2018 but hasn’t yet decided on a model, a Defense Ministry official said Monday.

Japanese Amphibious Raid Deployment Brigade troops maneuver an assault amphibious vehicle inside the well deck of the USS Ashland as part of KAMANDAG 2, October 2, 2018.

The Iron Fist 2019 exercise in California included the certification of Japan's first amphibious assault force, and was held at the same time as the Forest Light 19.2 exercise in Okinawa.

The ARDB will get around with a combination of hovercraft (US LCACs license-built in Japan), refurbished AAV7 amphibious assault vehicles purchased from the U.S. Marine Corps, and a small fleet of ...

Japanese soldiers use their own Amphibious Assault Vehicles during Iron Fist training with Marines at Camp Pendleton on Wednesday, February 9, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register ...

Crack Japanese troops will call Australia home for three weeks as they participate in exercises widely seen as designed to ...