LAV-25

The LAV-25, short for Light Armored Vehicle, is a member of the LAV II family: an eight-wheeled amphibious armoured reconnaissance vehicle built by General Dynamics Land Systems and used by the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army. In the early 1980s the Marines sought a light armoured vehicle, and in September 1982 the General Motors of Canada submission, an eight-wheeled development of the Mowag Piranha, was chosen over designs from Alvis and Cadillac Gage. The vehicle entered Marine service in 1983 and first saw combat in the invasion of Panama in 1989, then served in the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan. It runs on diesel fuel and is planned to stay in Marine service until 2035.