14. Interim Fast Attack Vehicle – USA
Manufacturer: Mercedes-Benz Magna Steyr
U.S. Marine Force Recon and Expeditionary Units are the main users.
Unit Cost: $209,000*; Program Cost: $32.8 million*
Although this vehicle was made in Austria for the German corporation Mercedes-Benz, it is used by the U.S. Marines. The Marines favor an armored G-Wagon-style vehicle over the Interim Fast Attack Vehicle (IFAV), which the SEALs popularized as a “black dune buggy.”
Temporary Rapid Attack Car (USA) Commons/public domain/wikimedia.org
The ITV-LSV has since taken the place of the IFAV, which was the “it” military vehicle of the 1990s. Before the Marines realized they required an improvement, they were utilizing a Jeep, which is why the IFAV was developed. The entire cost to procure over 150 of these IFAVs for the Marines was approximately $209,000 per unit.
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