M1117 Armored Security Vehicle

The M1117 Guardian Armored Security Vehicle, or ASV, is an internal security vehicle manufactured bi Cadillac Gage o Textron for uise bi the U.S. Airmy's Military Police Corps. Its armament consists o an Mk 19 grenade launcher an M2 Browning Machine Gun, muntit in a turret seemilar tae that uised on the US Marine Corps' Amphibious Assault Vehicle; an a M240H Medium Machine Gun muntit ootside the gunner's hatch. The vehicle haes acome vera popular wi U.S. Military Police Units an Convoy Security Units in Iraq. It is a mair hivily protectit an hivily airmit alternative tae the airmort Humvee which wis no oreeginally designed tae be a protectit fechtin vehicle.

Variants
The follaein variants are kent tae be in production/service:Armoured Security Vehicle (ASV) in demand in Iraq.
 Command & Control
 Recovery Vehicle (Each ASV can flat tow anither ASV or HMMWV)
 Reconnaissance Surveillance & Target Acquisition (RSTA)
 Ambulance
 Infantry Carrier Vehicle (ICV, fancy name for an Armored Personnel Carrier (APC))
 M1200 Armored Knight FiST-V

Export variants
Bulgarie uises a variant o the M1117 APC fittit wi a NSVT hivy machine gun insteid o the M2. No aw vehicles hae been convertit this wey.

The Iraqi Armored Personnel Carrier ASV variant is configured for transport.

Operators
  - 7 (6 wi the troops in Afghanistan), mair tae be delivered. General Defence Staff o Bulgarie haes put a requirement for additional 30 units tae the Parliament.
  - 39, Uised bi the Airmy, it is expectit the acquisition o a batch o the same amunt. Thir vehicles are the Infantry Carrier Vehicle version, purchased tae supplement Colombie's recently acquired fleet o BTR-80's, anither 39 wur expectit tae came in operational service in 2012. 
  - 184, uised bi Iraqi Naitional Polis units. 80 mair tae be delivered.Iraqi Army beefs up airmoured forces.
  - 1,836. The vehicle is primarily uised bi U.S. Military Police Units an Convoy Security Units in Iraq.

See an aw
Infantry fechtin vehicle
Leet o AFVs
BRDM Soviet designed airmoured caur series
Bravia Chaimite

References
Doyle, David. Cadillac Gage V-100 Commando. 2008, Squadron Signal Publications. ISBN 978-0-89747-574-7.

Freemit airtins
GlobalSecurity.org site on ASV
Armored Security Vehicle Data Sheet (PDF) 
Video o ASV
M1117 in Iraq video
Army Technology article

Category:Textron
Category:Internal security vehicles
Category:Airmored personnel carriers o the Unitit States
Category:Airmoured fichtin vehicles o the post–Cauld War period
Category:Airmored fichtin vehicles o the Unitit States