USMC Should Cancel EFV, Re-examine MV-22

The U.S. Marine Corps should cancel the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) and re-examine its decision to replace CH-46E helicopters with tiltrotor MV-22 Ospreys, a Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) study says.

Analyst Dakota Wood recommends in a study this month that the armed service cancel its EFV in favor of an armored combat vehicle better suited for post-9/11 land warfare.

The EFV substitute would have to possess “some modest ability to traverse water obstacles,” Wood writes, and be combined with an air-cushioned landing craft-type vehicle to “better address the evolving anti-armor and precision-guided weapons” deployed by foreign regimes.

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