M104 Wolverine

In recent years, however, the Army discovered that the aging M60 AVLB was too slow to keep up with the M1 Abrams main battle tanks' top speed of roughly 70 km/h during field maneuvers.

Program development for a new armored bridge-laying vehicle began in 1983, and by 1994 General Dynamics Land Systems and the German MAN Mobile Bridges GmbH (since 2005 Krauss-Maffei Wegmann) had been awarded a contract.

Because the Wolverine is essentially an M1A2 SEP tank with Leguan[1] bridge-laying gear instead of a turret, it shares virtually all of the parent vehicle's speed, mobility, survivability, and automotive components.

Once operations are complete, the Wolverine drives across the bridge and retrieves it from the other side simply by reversing the process.

[2] The Wolverine thus allows the heaviest of vehicles to cross craters, ditches, and damaged bridges at combat speed.

[3]: p.154 In 2006, Anniston Army Depot completed a demonstrator AVLB based on the TITAN bridge from BAE Systems and an M1A1 chassis.

In 2016, the U.S. Army awarded DRS Technologies an indefinite quantity contract worth up to $400 million to build the new M1074 JAB.

M104 Wolverine Heavy Assault Bridge from 59th Mobility Augmentation Company (MAC), 20th Engineer Battalion , U.S. Army.
The 2nd Engineer Battalion, 40th Mobility Augmentation Company, makes a bridge for the 3rd Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment near Oro Grande Range, N.M., during Iron Focus.