Tamiya 35159 - U.S. Marine AAVP7A1 w/UGWS  [35159]

Amphibious operations (the landing of workers, equipment and materials from vessels onto an aggressive coast) are thought by military tacticians become the most complex and hard of most army operations. The U.S. aquatic Corps will be the armed forces organization in the usa up against this obligation. Formerly known as the LVTP7A1, the FMC produced AAVP7A1 now gets the element of an Assault Amphibious car, Personnel, to counter any aggressive danger during landing operations. This versatile vehicle can navigate into the ocean waves 3 meters high while carrying 25 fully equipped Marines and certainly will even withstand total immersion without sinking. It is a really big tracked car, being nearly the very same size while the U.S. M1A1 Abrams primary battle tank. The most up-to-date version comes with a newly designed turret named "Upgunned Weapons station", that will be manufactured by the Cadillac Gage company, in america. The turret is an individual guy armament destination mounting the MK 19 Model-3 40mm (grenade) machine gun and a coaxially installed M2 hefty barrel .50 caliber device gun. The primary mode of procedure the armament place is handbook. But in azimuth the equipment includes an electric powered Assist Travers (PAT) system. The PAT permits the gunner to fast slew under energy at least price of 45 deg./sec., after which it manually fine lay their tools in the target. This highly solid weapon area replaces the prevailing M85 .50 cal. item currently integrated regarding Marine Corps fleet of AAVP7A1.