Assault Breacher Vehicle

The Joker, the nickname given by the crew to one of the 72 ton, 40 foot long Assault Breacher Vehicles. quot;The Jokerquot; is seeing its first combat duty in Operation Cobraapos;s Anger in Afghanistan. ABVapos;s are fitted with a plow and nearly 7,000 pounds of explosives. The Breachers are the Marines Corpsapos; answer to the deadliest threat facing United States and NATO troops in Afghanistan, thousands of land mines and roadside bombs aka improvised explosive devices, that litter the Afghan taliban region.