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U.S. Marine Corps Marines, senior leaders, Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory personnel and industry partners from Birdon America pose for a group photograph on an Ancillary Surface Craft (ASC), during ASC Distinguished Visitor Day in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, Aug. 12, 2026. The event provided an opportunity for senior leaders, Marines, allied partners and industry personnel to observe the ASC’s capabilities and discuss its potential to support distributed maritime operations and sustainment in contested littoral environments. The ASC is being developed through U.S.-Australian industry collaboration to support experimentation and inform future amphibious modernization.
The ASC is a significant step towards achieving a capability organic to the Marine Corps for maneuver in the littorals without reliance on large high value Naval assets. This craft, coupled with smaller landing craft, will demonstrate the capability needed by the Corps to maneuver medium, light, and ultra-light tactical vehicles from shore-to-shore and distribute all classes of supply to disbursed forces in archipelagic regions. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Connor Taggart)
| Date Taken: | 08.12.2026 |
| Date Posted: | 08.20.2026 16:07 |
| Photo ID: | 9877998 |
| VIRIN: | 260812-Z-WB553-1088 |
| Resolution: | 5510x3673 |
| Size: | 2.18 MB |
| Location: | BAYOU LA BATRE, ALABAMA, US |
| Web Views: | 1 |
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