A U.S. Marine Corps AVLB in Iraq in 2003. It’s standard practice, as a defending army is retreating, for it to blow up any bridges after it crosses a river. The idea is to slow down an attacker by ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The United States was the primary operator of the M60A1 AVLB. Whether the U.S. military could ever build a bridge to the future isn’t known, but when the Army comes ...

The Joint Assault Bridge (JAB) is designed to lay bridges over water and other obstacles. The JAB ensures that Army units always have a portable bridge handy capable of handling the weight of tanks.

The AVLB consists of three major sections: the launcher, the vehicle hull, and the bridge. The M60 AVLB or Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge was introduced in 1963. This combat engineer vehicle was ...

WASHINGTON – The Army is readying production of a new bridging system used by Armored Brigade Combat Teams after awarding DRS Technologies, Inc., a $400 million production contract to integrate the ...

The latest $400 million dollar tranche of U.S. military support for Ukraine should frighten Russia. The U.S. is providing Ukraine mobile bridging equipment, and, for the first time, offering Ukraine a ...

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. - The mechanics, welders and other workers in the Bridge Assembly and Repair Branch have often braved the heat of summer and the cold of winter to work on the armored vehicle ...