 A critique of the ACV effort authored by retired infantry officers and armor experts and published by "Marine Corps Times" in June 2014 were critical of developing a new amphibious personnel carrier.Due to the proliferation of anti-ship missiles, Navy ships will have to remain some 100 miles from a landing area.The critique claimed that an armored ACV would swim too slowly through the water and that the Marines would be relying on the Navy for the use of connectors to travel from the stand-off distance, despite the fact that no connectors currently exist to transport a mid-sized landing force.