Beach armoured recovery vehicle

A beach armoured recovery vehicle, or BARV, is a specialized armoured recovery vehicle built to retrieve disabled or stuck vehicles from the water and shoreline during amphibious landings, a concept that originated in the United Kingdom. The first generation, based on the M4A2 Sherman tank with its turret replaced by an armored superstructure and its hull waterproofed, entered service in time for the 1944 Normandy landings, where about 60 were deployed able to wade in water up to nine feet deep with crews that included qualified divers. It was followed by the Centurion-based BARV introduced in 1963, wading to eleven feet, and the Leopard 1A5-based Hippo BRV introduced in 2003, which currently serves with the Royal Marines and Dutch forces, with the type also operated by Australia. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/