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Amphibious armored personnel carrier
Assault Amphibious Vehicle is a amphibious armored personnel carrier originating in United States. It was built by United Defense (until 2005) BAE Systems Platforms & Services (from 2005).
Assault Amphibious Vehicle
Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet · Public domain · Resized · Public domain · Source ↗ · ModifiedAmphibious armored personnel carrier
United States
1972–2025 (United States Marine Corps)
See Operators
Falklands War Lebanese Civil War Invasion of Grenada Persian Gulf War Somali Civil War Iraq War 2025 Cambodia–Thailand conflict
FMC Corporation
1964–1969
United Defense (until 2005) BAE Systems Platforms & Services (from 2005)
1972–present
29.1 t (64,000 lb)
7.94 m (26 ft 1 in)
3.27 m (10 ft 9 in)
3.26 m (10 ft 8 in)
3+21
45 mm (1.8 in)
Mk 19 40 mm automatic grenade launcher (rounds: 96 ready; 768 stowed) and 12.7 mm M2HB heavy machine gun (rounds: 200 ready; 1,000 stowed)
Detroit Diesel 8V-53T (AAV7), 300 kW (400 hp); Cummins VTA-903T (AAV7A1), 390 kW (525 hp)
torsion-bar-in-tube (AAV7A1); torsion bar (AAV7A1 RAM-RS)
480 km (300 miles); 20 NM in water, including survival in Sea State 5
24–32 km/h (15–20 mph) off-road, 72 km/h (45 mph) surfaced road, 13.2 km/h (8.2 mph) water
Argentina
Brazil
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Philippines
Romania
Taiwan
Spain
South Korea
Thailand
Venezuela
[乗員] 24名
[重量] 24t
[全長] 8.2m
[全幅] 3.3m
[全高] 3.3m
Reference text from Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
True scale
Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Points represent sourced observations, including revisions. Revisions on the same effective date are not separate inventory events. Ranges appear in the table and are not plotted as exact points.
| Observation / report period | Value | Source | Claim state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.94 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.94 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.94 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.94 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.94 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.94 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.94 m | Wikipedia contributors | approved |
Assault Amphibious Vehicle equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Marines exact named equipment holdings: LVTP-7. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / AAV. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Number column of the Wikipedia list table under "Personnel carriers". The list's own wording applies; it is a compiled secondary source, not an official census.
Reported count for AAV7 · LVTP-7A1 AAV7A1. Service scope: Indonesian Navy; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Excludes retired/reserve/on-order rows. Count column(s): quantity: 120. Origin: United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
Reported count for AAV7-A1. Service scope: Italian Army; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Excludes retired/reserve/on-order rows. Count column(s): quantity: 17. Origin: United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
Marines exact named equipment holdings: LVTP-7. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / AAV. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Reported count for AAV-7A1. Service scope: Republic of China Army; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): in service: 90 (78 personnel, 6 command and 4 recovery variants) + 1 AAV turret trainer. Origin: United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
Marines exact named equipment holdings: LVTP-7. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / AAV. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Marines exact named equipment holdings: LVTP-7. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / AAV. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Philippines, Romania, Taiwan, Spain, South Korea, Thailand, Venezuela
Equipment reference ↗Reported count for AAV7A1 · KAAV7A1. Service scope: Philippine Marine Corps; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): in service: 8. Origin: Republic of Korea United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2019), not the article revision. Cited source 2019-08-28; Cited source 2019-09-22. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.