New Thermal Sights for the USMC AAVP7

[Suhiir]

I'm guessing 2015 myself.

As to the AAVE7, yeah it's just a matter of hanging a mine rake off the bow and sticking a line-charge in the back of any AAVP7 rather then a custom built variant.
But that's the whole point - not needing a custom built variant.

As to actual use, yeah we used them in Gulf War I when breaching the minefields.
I remember some Iraqi's on the other side watching us while they were waiting to surrender and a couple running over to see what we'd fired across the mine field when the engineers cut loose with the line-charge and it didn't go off immediately ... the engineers tried to wave them off but ...