FCS正式結束了

克里斯Chris

FCS正式結束
消息提供：幻客
原文：It’s Official: FCS Cancelled


價值1600億美元的FCS於6月23日被五角大樓正式取消了。FCS載人車項目終止，其他部分轉為旅戰鬥隊現代化策略。
（Brigade Combat Team Modernization Strategy）




It’s Official: FCS Cancelled
By Greg Grant Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 5:41 pm
Posted in Land, Policy



The Army’s flagship FCS modernization program was officially cancelled today with the stroke of a pen wielded by Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Ashton Carter. The $160 billion program was really cancelled back in April by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, but today’s acquisition defense memorandum makes it official.


The ADM ends the Army’s troubled effort to field a family of manned ground vehicles under FCS but paves the way for a new vehicle program. “The ADM directs the Army to identify the most efficient means to end the manned ground vehicle development effort with the least cost to the taxpayer and to use work already completed in any follow-on ground combat vehicle developmental programs.” It directs the Army to undertake, along with the Marine Corps, an assessment of “joint capability gaps for ground combat vehicles.” The assessment is to inform requirements for a new Army combat vehicle, a development effort that is already underway, with the intention of launching a new acquisition program by 2010.

Replacing FCS will be the “Army Brigade Combat Team Modernization,” that collects the remaining bits of FCS under a “modernization plan” consisting of a number of “separate but integrated” acquisition programs. These include efforts to provide technological upgrades, or “spin outs” as they’ve come to be called, to seven infantry brigades in the near term and plans to develop and field additional upgrades to communications networks, new aerial drones, unmanned robots and sensors to all Army brigades some time in the future.
It would appear that OSD is not exactly sure what to do about the Non-Line of Sight Cannon.


A Pentagon press release says that by cancelling the FCS vehicles, the ADM will “negatively impact the Army’s ability” to build the cannon as required by a line inserted into the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act of 2009, thanks to Sen. James Inhofe, R-Ok. It goes on to say, “The department is working closely with the Congress to determine the appropriate path forward for the NLOS-C.” My guess is that the work around to all this will probably be the inclusion of a self-propelled cannon as part of the Army’s new combat vehicle plan.

克里斯Chris

對於FCS計畫遭到五角大廈取消後，幻客這裡補充了幾點：


FCS確實取消，但只是名義上被取消，FCS的主要內容是重建美國未來新型陸軍，這個主要內容永遠也不可能取消，主要內容肯定會被繼承。從科研特點看，FCS內容有三大科研標誌：

1、網絡化。
2、精確化。
3、輕型化。

從目前看，美國成立了下轄500個左右司令部的網絡戰司令部；美國對導彈炮彈精確化投資更集中高效；美國對未來輕型裝甲材料的研製也沒有停止。所以，只能是說FCS確實只是名義上被取消了，實際上其三大科研精華不僅都在，而且今後的研製速度還會加快。

在這個時候取消FCS計劃，只不過是不再需要FCS這個帶有布希政府色彩的計劃名稱而已，正好借經濟危機撕了FCS這塊面紗的歷史機會，用更正規化的機構更普通化的計劃來推行重建美國未來新型陸軍的計劃，同時把一些不符合網絡化、精確化、輕型化科研思路跑題的東西扔掉，這樣做更符合歐巴馬政府的形象。

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其實，FCS除了載人車之外的其餘部分都保留了。至於裝甲戰車，今年將會出台一個新項目。
原來FCS一期螺旋發展涉及的子系統：一級UAV，SUGV，NLOS-LS，UGS，網絡，這些成為旅戰鬥隊現代化策略，按原計劃如期部署，而且是擴大到全軍推廣了。


隨著FCS裁減和JLTV推遲，可以預想美陸軍未來10年，地面車輛6大金剛（艾布拉姆斯，佈雷德利，史瑞克，悍馬，帕拉丁，MRAP）的格局不會變動。這些平台的改進升級，都會陸續得到FCS網絡終端。最早獲得新一代戰術信息網的將是步兵旅裝備的悍馬。首批安裝WIN-T的悍馬已開始試驗。FCS網要比美軍現在使用的FBCB2/BFT，是天壤之別。

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而目前舊式裝甲車要進行數位化改造，存在兩大問題。

首先是車內安裝電腦，空間不足。1990年代之前設計的裝甲平台，均是用模擬儀表和通信技術，沒有考慮到空間來安裝電腦和螢幕。第二，供電不足，車際信息系統和數位化，建立在電腦在內的硬體和軟體上。設備耗電量巨大，再加未來單兵系統電子化，電池充電要在車內進行，進一步提高對電力需求。FCS採用混合動力系統，有發電機能力。