This is the literal "turnover".
The website of the US Naval Society said on the 14th that since an ACV amphibious wheeled armored vehicle "overturned" during maritime training near Camp Pendleton, California, the US Marine Corps immediately ordered the suspension of water activities of such advanced amphibious vehicles in open waters, and only allowed training on land and protected waters.
reported that the US Marine Corps said at a press conference that at around 7:45 pm on the 13th, an ACV under training reported a "mechanical failure". Then the car capsized in the waves and was still trapped on the beach the next morning. But fortunately, none of the three occupants in the car were injured or needed medical treatment, and the incident is currently under investigation.
As for why "again" is said? If the veteran driver remembers correctly, American amphibious tanks have been banned due to various "overturned" accidents over the past year.
The most tragic thing is that in July 2020, an AAV amphibious assault vehicle of the US Marine Corps suddenly entered the water and sank during the exercise, resulting in the death of 8 Marine Corps soldiers and 1 sailor. The U.S. military later investigated and found that the direct cause of the accident was a vehicle leak.
AAV is really too old
Four subsequent investigations by the U.S. Marine Corps and Navy found that sinking was "preventable", including poor vehicle maintenance and insufficient training. US Marine Corps Chief of Staff Greg Olson admitted that not only did the AAV amphibious assault vehicle have water leakage, but even the entire US Marine Corps' amphibious assault vehicle cannot meet combat standards. In April 2020, a total of 13 AAV amphibious assault vehicles were transferred to the 15th Expeditionary Detachment of the US Marine Corps, 12 of which were considered "unusable". After months of restoration, the Marines believed they had the ability to perform water operations, and one of them sank during the exercise.
The US Marine Corps explained that the sunken AAV was the equipment of the Vietnam War era and was 17 years older than the youngest Marine who died in the accident. In December 2021, the U.S. Marine Corps finally decided that the Marine Corps would keep its decades-old AAV amphibious assault vehicle “off the waters” and no longer be deployed regularly unless in an emergency.
However, the tragedy did not end there.
As the new generation of the main amphibious tank of the US Marine Corps, ACV did not start service until October 2020. However, in September 2021, the US Marine Corps announced that due to the failure of the ACV traction mechanism, all the same type of combat vehicles were temporarily stopped.
ACV had several "overturns" accidents not long after it was put into service
On July 19 this year, due to the attack of big waves, two ACVs at Camp Pendleton (yes, here again) were paralyzed during training, and one of them fell over. Although both ACVs were salvaged out of water, the relevant training was stopped for three weeks. The investigation found that before the overturn, the National Weather Service had issued a warning for high sea waves to nearby areas. The weather forecast has clearly informed that the highest waves in the waters near Camp Pendleton are as high as 9-10 feet, and the rated operating wave height of the ACV is not more than 3-4 feet, but the outside world still does not know why the US Marine Corps sends ACV to train in such a situation.
html Whether this "overturn" on October 13 is also a similar reason, remains to be investigated.
But no matter what, as the vanguard of the US military's foreign interference and the claim to carry out the new concept of "expeditionary advanced base combat" mission in the Western Pacific region, the US Marine Corps performed so poorly, which is really not a good sign.
Source: Privy Council No. 10
