Weighing 70 tons, traveling up to 45 mph and possessed of a smash-mouth name, the Assault Breacher Vehicle is the Marine Corps’ latest answer to a perennial problem of offensive warfare ...

Reporting from Camp Pendleton — Weighing 70 tons, traveling up to 45 mph and possessed of a smash-mouth name, the Assault Breacher Vehicle is the Marine Corps’ latest answer to a perennial ...

We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. The Assault Breacher Vehicle, or ABV, has been in the works since the late 1990s, and it combines the brawn of an Abram's tank and its 1,500 horsepower ...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Weighing 70 tons, traveling up to 45 mph and tagged with a smash-mouth name, the Assault Breacher Vehicle is the Marine Corps’ latest answer to a perennial problem of ...

The Marines currently rely on an Assault Breacher Vehicle, which has an M1A1 tank chassis with a full-width mine plow and mine clearing line charges. But the vehicle is not designed to operate in ...

When the U.S. Army developed a new vehicle designed to literally blast and plow its way through enemy defenses, the M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle, it decided only the M1 Abrams main battle tank ...

A robotic Assault Breacher Vehicle cleared mines during a combined arms breach exercise at Yakima Training Center in Washington state. (Jen Judson/Staff) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is digging ...

The Joint Assault Bridge and the Assault Breacher Vehicle are tracked vehicles both manufactured at the depot by government civilians for use by the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps.