ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Marine Corps will test out its first stern landing vessel at an Army event this spring, a top general said Wednesday, as the service prepares to create a fleet of shore ...

The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory contracted the stern landing vessel to experiment with maneuver and sustainment options for stand-in forces to inform the development of its landing ship ...

The current ship being used for testing is the stern landing vessel, a modified commercial watercraft that allows users to offload and onload directly from the beach.

The stern landing vessel (SLV) being tested at Camp Pendleton by the Marines and the Army wasn’t built from scratch. It is a 254-foot leased commercial offshore support vessel that was modified ...

A Tactical Resupply Vehicle-150 takes off from a Stern Landing Vessel to conduct a ship-to-ship experimentation as part of Project Convergence Capstone 4. (US Army 24th Theater Public Affairs ...

The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory contracted the Stern Landing Vessel for experiments that would help inform the development of the Landing Ship Medium. (Kevin Ray J. Salvador/U.S. Marine ...