AAVP7

Its a boat, with tracks!

The AAVP7 (Assault Amphibious Vehicle, Personnel 7) is a tracked amphibious assault landing vehicle employed by the United States Marine Corps. The AAVP7 is armed with a MK19 40mm automatic grenade launcher and a coaxial M2HB .50cal. Crewed by four and with enough space to load up to 25 men, two AAVP7s are quite capable of carrying an entire Marine platoon to the beaches of a foe and beyond.

In Team Yankee

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OOH-RAH Marines! Our AAVP7 is the largest transport in the entire goddamn game. Capable of carrying a full 7 infantry teams into battle, more than twice that of any other tracked personnel carrier. It also has the strongest frontal armor of any transport, tied with the M113 at an armor rating of 3 (in fact its more like an overgrown M113 than we would care to admit THATS ENOUGH OF THAT BULLSHIT PVT. PYLE! DO YOU SUCK DICKS?!). Aside from carrying more than double the number of infantry teams then that other amphibious transport the AAVP7 has a 40mm Grenade launcher in addition in to its .50 AA MG. Both weapons are good for suppressing enemy infantry but will struggle against any armor it runs up against.

Marine Rifle Platoons get 2 of these amphibious monsters, which with a combined max occupancy of 14 is fully capable of transporting the entire unit. This lethal combo will cost you 6 points at minimum strength, 9 points without any additional weapons teams, and a max of 14 points with all the fixins.

Truly, we have the best buoyant box in the entire god damn world.

IRL

The Grumpy Cat of Metal Boxes

Manufactured by FMC, the AAVP7 "Amtrak" replaced the LVTP-5 in 1972 as the US Marines Corps' primary assault transport. Its predecessor had been a literal boat-on-tracks that carried a full platoon but could barely turn on land, where this new design was intended to be a fully amphibious IFV. The AAVP7 and has served a multitude of conflicts around the world since its introduction Seeing Service in the intervention in Lebanon, Grenada, the Persian Gulf War, and the War on Terror.

It is positively one of the worst vehicles to ever serve in. Imagine a vehicle built in the 70s, last updated in 2004, that has been run into the dirt for 15 years. That's the AAV. It breaks all the time, it's loud as hell, and you'll positively get some sort of disease from using diesel fuel to clean the walls. Oh, and all the embarked infantry will leave piss bottles and MRE trash on the deck whenever they disembark. Your rear crewman is a glorified janitor. Their moto is YAT YAS, "You Ain't Tracks, You Ain't Shit."

The AAVP7 is slated to be replaced by the USMC with the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (which came in under budget and on time for once). A variant of the Italian Iveco SuperAV. The first shipment of which was delivered at the end of 2018. It is currently undergoing a transition into the Fleet Marine Corps. Whether it will actually replace the AAVP7 any time soon remains to be seen, just ask the M113 how that whole replacement thing goes. Meanwhile Japan is purchasing licensed copies from the US to form an amphibious readiness force.