FCS - Future Combat Systems - Evolution

[jsport]

U.S. Army Modularity Brief 21 Feb 2004

U.S. Army Modularity Brief 21 Feb 2004 - Download as a PDF or view online for free

www.slideshare.net

1st TSG posting but a genuine Army brief

 

[isayyo2]

U.S. Army Modularity Brief 21 Feb 2004

U.S. Army Modularity Brief 21 Feb 2004 - Download as a PDF or view online for free

www.slideshare.net

1st TSG posting but a genuine Army brief

He’s un-ironically the best repository for these first hand sources.

 

[isayyo2]

Slides from the very early FCS days of the Multi-Role Armament and Ammunition System (MRAAS) cannon system. A high angle, cleft turret with autoloading and ETC propellent shooting cargo round out to 50km! The cannon used 105mm CTA ammunition with Kinect Energy (Sabot), Multi Purpose (HEAT), and Cargo Round as the three options. Also note the turret's RWS was the 25mm OSCW. Not surprisingly MRAAS proved too advanced even for FCS at the time and it was replaced with the more conventional 120mm MCS variant. Read more in the March-April 2002 Field Artillery Journal.

https://studylib.net/doc/9659966/fcs-multi-role-armament-and-ammunition-atd






Neat side note, Mark Ford, the program director MRAAS is still working from the Army at ARDEC.

Edit: Found the slides calling for MRASS to be restructured into the more conventional 120mm and separating its BLOS mission into FCS NLOS...

https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/ndia/2003/gun/cord.pdf

 

[isayyo2]

A "small" booklet of FCS acronyms published by the Army in February 2008.

It's 91 pages long...

 

[jsport]

ETC tech study

 

[jsport]

the M1's gun the M256 120mm smooth bore has been tested as ETC gun firing a modified standard rd.

View: https://youtu.be/u0gneYoV2PQ?t=197

 

[jsport]

45mm CLGG: 7.5km/s
Railgun: 4km/s
Conventional Max: 1.8km/s
Utron Inc depiction of Combustion Light Gas Gun (CLGG) armed vehicle.

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[isayyo2]

Utron Inc depiction of Combustion Light Gas Gun (CLGG) armed vehicle.

I have a feeling that they forgot about the C-130 size constraints

 

[Kat Tsun]

C-130 transportable if you remove the Herc's cargo bay and drive the tank under the plane like a XC-120.

 

[jsport]

45mm CLGG: 7.5km/s
Railgun: 4km/s
Conventional Max: 1.8km/s
Utron Inc depiction of Combustion Light Gas Gun (CLGG) armed vehicle.
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Hydrogen for CLGG perhaps.

 

[Rhinocrates]

Utron Inc depiction of Combustion Light Gas Gun (CLGG) armed vehicle.

I have a feeling that they forgot about the C-130 size constraints

Not necessarily. There's a scene in an episode of From the Earth to the Moon, Part 5 'Spider' where Tom Kelly (played by Matt Craven) peers at a model of the LM and says 'Well, we've solved the weight problem. Now we just need to find some teeny tiny astronauts.'

(It's just before one of the scenes in this:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erw1mpwK8nY
)

 

[isayyo2]

June 2004 document on the LV50 turbine for the Future Combat System, FCS was notable for its hybrid drivetrain in which it would have used the LV50 as an electrical generator. About a year later, Detroit Diesel's 5L890 was selected for the FCS Program. With the earlier cancellation of the XM2001 Crusader, the LV50 and LV100 ground vehicle turbines are evolutionary dead ends for the moment.

Documents on the LV50 Engine for the Future Combat Systems Program : Honeywell : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Documents on the LV50 Engine for the Future Combat Systems Program.Previously available online on the Honeywell website.

archive.org

 

[isayyo2]

Twitter thread on the MRAAS Gun

https://twitter.com/x/status/1276053560531259397

 

[isayyo2]

"The Logic of Future Combat System"

A pro-FCS presentation from 2008 and the height of cancellation threats...

https://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/fcs-the-logic-of-future-combat.pdf

 

[isayyo2]

NLOS-C testing footage, including a full 24 round salvo with the early M777 based turret

 

[jsport]

NLOS-C testing footage, including a full 24 round salvo with the early M777 based turret

wowway ahead its time.

 

[scrubhead]

Went on USAHEC, found some old (1998-2000) presentations and reports from the formative period of FCS. Cool, but nothing new or that interesting:

[SLIDE PRESENTATION HANDOUT] FUTURE COMBAT SYSTEMS, DEFENSE ADVANCE RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY TECH 2000

https://emu.usahec.org/alma/multimedia/262113/20183164MN000466.pdf

Future Combat Systems (FCS) and Future Scout & Cavalry System (FSCS) Briefing

https://emu.usahec.org/alma/multimedia/285261/20183164MN003727.pdf

Future Combat Systems Solicitation (FINAL) 32 page report

https://emu.usahec.org/alma/multimedia/259877/20183164MN002173.pdf

Developing an Army Position on FSCS and Its Role in FCS, just describes US/UK cooperation approaches ( 4 approaches ). 10 slides.

https://emu.usahec.org/alma/multimedia/285270/20183164MN003736.pdf

Sensor Technologies for FCS

https://emu.usahec.org/alma/multimedia/259841/20183164MN002167.pdf

Senior Armor Leader Update 19 page slide

https://emu.usahec.org/alma/multimedia/289261/20183164MN001259.pdf

https://emu.usahec.org/alma/multimedia/289237/20183164MN001245.pdf (Better, Clearer version of some slides, only 8 out of 19)

[REPORT] FUTURE GROUND COMBAT SYSTEMS 26 pages

https://emu.usahec.org/alma/multimedia/259829/20183164MN002162.pdf

Future Combat Systems 23 slides

https://emu.usahec.org/alma/multimedia/290212/20183164MN002007.pdf

 

[Scott Kenny]

I was absolutely fascinated by the FCS. In a way, it's too bad the program got cancelled, but Strykers can do most of what FCS was supposed to do. I need to find the old computer or a backup, dig out the big what-if design project I did. Part of it was upgunning the FCS with autocannons to the 50x228mm Bushmaster 3, but built with a 4-way ammo feed: Sabot, PABMx2, and HESH.

 

[Bruno Anthony]

Beginnings of FCS
The Army After Next

https://emu.usahec.org/alma/multimedia/1042405/20181661MN000375.pdf

 

[isayyo2]

Short presentation and DTIC paper by Benét Labs on the early MRAAS 105mm CTA smoothbore gun. MRAAS was to utilize soft-recoil or Fire out-of-Battery (FOOB) to manage such a powerful gun/launcher on a light chassis. MRAAS utilized a number of innovations from the XM274 and XM291 programs to create a truly remarkable weapon.

https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/ndia/2002/gun/smith.pdf

Defense Technical Information Center

apps.dtic.mil

 

[yeetmahboi]

45mm CLGG: 7.5km/s
Railgun: 4km/s
Conventional Max: 1.8km/s
Utron Inc depiction of Combustion Light Gas Gun (CLGG) armed vehicle.
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Ultron apparently also did some work on a tech demonstrator for 155mm CLGG going by page 4 of this report.

https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/ndia/2010/armament/WednesdayLandmarkADavidKruczynski_StephenFloroff.pdf

and illustrations of notional SPG and supply vehicle.

 

[A Tentative Fleet Plan]

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