LAV-M

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The Light Armored Vehicle-25 (or LAV-25 for short) is an 8-wheeled amphibious recon vehicle, manufactured by GMC Canada. In America, its one of the USMC's premier armored fighting vehicles, who's speed and amphibious nature, plus its decent weaponry, lent well to the marines' tactics as forward vanguards.

The vehicle is crewed by 3 people: a commander, gunner, and driver, plus it can also transport 4 fully-geared soldiers who are there to act as scouts, or to assist the LAV with dealing with targets that they are not equipped to handle. The M variant switches out it's turret entirely, for a folding roof hatch that allows it to deploy an M252 81mm mortar. This allows it to act as a mobile artillery piece, bombarding one position, then quickly re-positioning elsewhere to avoid being caught by enemy squads, or counter-artillery fire (also known as the "shoot-and-scoot" tactic). That said, the loss of the turret means that it lost anti-infantry capabilities, as it lost one of it's M240 machine guns.

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The Stats

As you can see, uh... The armor is shit. Seriously. 1 armor. So basically everything will defeat the armor pretty easy. And like the M113 VADS, it's open top, so aircraft will love this. Generally, keep it damn well away from any AT and protected by something less squishy. Upside to this is that the Brutal rule doesn't apply because is still has armor better than infantry plating.

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