Re: New Thermal Sights for the USMC AAVP7
Same time the LVTP5 was retired, c.a. 1973.
I have no doubt they kept them around "just in case" for several years afterwards tho.
I doubt they could have stripped them off the P5's since they were actually built onto the vehicle. My bet would be it was probably off an Abrams MCBS or borrowed from a US Army M113 Engineer, M2A2 E-BFE, or M1132 ESV system. Or quite possibly something we got from Israel like the armor kits for the D-9 dozers we borrowed.
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