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Future Combat Systems Overview - North Korea 2014 scenario

submitted by Farhad2000

1 decade 6 years 4 months 2 weeks ago

A slick Future Combat System overview video with a scenario based on a engagement with North Korea in 2014. This is what the US army wants it develop as a system to combat future threats. The cost of the program must be astronomic.

Future Combat Systems (FCS) is the United States Army's principle 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 test begins 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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Combat_Systems

5 Comments

i dunno man. i really can't upvote this total tragedy.

It is a total tragedy.

I love the optimistic bravado all these promo-ganda ads contain, about as far from reality as possible.

However unfortunately all these systems will eventually become reality, the pork barreling of the defense industry will continue.

We need to research long range EMP weaponary.

Pretty cool, but of course this means more money wasted on military, instead of I dunno... healthcare, fighting poverty, fixing the economy, education etc. And of course the more military power the US has, the more it will abuse it, the more the US will try to police the world, the more hatred towards the US, the more world tension, the more wars.

Is it me or did they just gank most of the footage from and old Command and Conquer game?

Seriously though, I haven't seen anything in there that isn't already a reality. With the exception of them having colored screens. Not gonna happen. I work with some of the most technical shit and were still using monochromatic CRTs. There are some many weak points with a system like this. Again, with the system i work with, we are tied in as a joint service deal, and its a clusterfuck. The technology may be ready on time, but people are still douchebags.

Discarding this video. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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