Future Combat Systems Overview (2005)

http://www.archive.org/details/future_combat_systems_overview
Future Combat Systems (FCS), the core building block of the Army's future Force, is a joint (across all the military services), networked (connected via advanced communications), system of systems made up of 18 individual systems, the network, and most importantly, the Soldier.

Wiki-wise: Future Combat Systems (FCS) is the United States Army's principal modernization program.

FCS includes 14+1+1 systems consisting of unattended ground sensors (UGS), the Non-Line of Sight Launch System (NLOS-LS), two classes of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) organic to platoon, and Brigade Combat Team (BCT) echelons; two classes of unmanned ground vehicles, the Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV), and Multifunctional Utility/Logistics and Equipment Vehicle (MULE) variants; and the eight manned ground vehicles (14 individual systems), plus the network (14+1), plus the Soldier (14+1+1).

FCS is intended to be a joint (across all US military services) networked system of systems, although it is being developed by a US Army program office. The Boeing Company and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) are partnered together as the lead systems integrator for this program which involves more than 550 contractors and subcontractors in 41 states.

The program has completed about one third of its development which extends to 2030. Technical field tests began in 2008. The first combat brigade equipped with FCS is expected to roll out around 2015, followed by full production to equip as many as 15 brigades by 2030.

On April 6, 2009 President Barack Obama's secretary of defense, Robert Gates announced cutbacks in spending for Future Combat Systems as part of a shift toward spending more on counter-terrorism and less to prepare for conventional warfare against large states like China and Russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Combat_Systems

Official Army site for Future Combat Systems:
https://www.fcs.army.mil/

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[ModelbuildingTANKS]

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[mrHacker160]

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[ModelbuildingTANKS]

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[mrHacker160]

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[ModelbuildingTANKS]

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[mrHacker160]

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[USAmilitarypower]

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[AlexBoy123HBG]

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[USAmilitarypower]

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[USAmilitarypower]

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