US Army Future Combat System

[pdoktar]

"--5 liter displacement common engine"

Seems rather small displacement for a combat vehicle engine..?

[Marcello]

"Seems rather small displacement for a combat vehicle engine..?"

It is probably a new, high performance design. Besides I guess they can also draw extra juice from the batteries for the short duration, high speed dashes.

[MarkSheppard]

The slide said "5L common engine" I assumed that it was it's displacement.

There's also an assload of unmanned sensors; including "smart" minefields, which can "Self heal"; e,g move around and close up gaps; along with acting as sensors...

[SGTGunn]

I recently saw (on the Army's FCS site I think) that the smaller of the ARV family was going to mount a turret with twin M240C 7.62mm MG and 4 Javelin ATGM (2 per side) ready-to-launch. Anyone planning to do FCS Icons? an FCS OOB mod would be pretty cool, but I'm not sure if all of the systems cababilities could be accuratelly modeled with the game - for example the NLOS LS. A precision, indirect attack munition - would it be artillery? Perhaps mod it as an aircraft launched weapon (with a no-icon, very high ECM "aircraft")? Essentially the same problem with M1202 Mounted Combat System (MCS)firing beyond line-of-sight munitions.

Adrian

[RecruitMonty]

And one nuke detonated above the battlefield renders all this lovely tech useless. Ahh EMP how wonderful you are. Now if only someone could find a more efficient delivery system.

If going modular is supposed to cut costs then why up those costs by putting all this extra equipment in the vehicles afterwards? Doesn't that defeat the object somewhat? Do they really need to be able to text each other?

I assume those last set of features (white boards etc are for a command module) otherwise that is just ridiculous. Don't the army use paper, radios and maps anymore?

Honestly, too much tech can be a weakness too.

[Marcello]

"And one nuke detonated above the battlefield renders all this lovely tech useless. Ahh EMP how wonderful you are."

AFAIK modern military electronics are all somewhat hardened against EMP effects. I imagine the trasmissions would be jeopardized for some time, thus in theory negating the supposed FCS networkcentric advantages for the units involved but that would be a small consideration compared to the fact that the nuclear threshold was crossed. The adversary would have brought nuclear retaliation upon itself.

[RecruitMonty]

Exactly, hence the necessity to develop a more efficient delivery system.