Army Testing MCS Cannon

[unhappycamper]

Army Testing MCS Cannon
January 26, 2009
Army News Service

ABERDEEN, Md. – The lightweight Future Combat Systems XM-360 120mm cannon -- designed to sit atop the new Mounted Combat System -- was test-fired here Jan. 22.

The XM-1202 Mounted Combat System is one of eight new vehicle types that the Army is developing through its FCS modernization program. The FCS vehicles will be lighter and more mobile than current Army combat vehicles; yet officials promise they will have greater lethality and survivability.

Lighter and more survivable vehicles are required to combat a growing array of new and more sophisticated threats, officials here said. Greater speed and mobility, coupled with better surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, can enhance operational effectiveness, while improving survivability, they said.

Composite FCS armor, for instance, which is being developed at Aberdeen, provides better armor protection at significantly less mass and weight.

“This will change the nature of warfare,” said Rick Crozby, an official with the Combined Test Organization for the FCS Brigade Combat Team at Aberdeen. “With these new (FCS) technologies, our Soldiers will have the ability to checkmate their enemies before their enemies even know that they’re there.”


Rest of FCS article at: http://www.military.com/news/article/army-news/army-testing-mcs-cannon.html

[.... callchet ....]

1. ....greater lethality ....

Foot soldiers killing foot soldiers. Make our weapons designed to kill the bad guys leaders? Wars wouldn't last very long then, would they ? The point of diplomatic immunity?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. Diplomatic immunity has nothing to do with combat or war

[.... callchet ....]

3. It was made for combat and war.

Gave diplomats of warring nations ingress and egress into opponents countries. That was its only purpose ,to carry out wars.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. Actually it was not

It provides immunity for criminal prosecution and civil suits. This was done so that a host nation could not harass other nations diplomats. It has morphed to include immunity from parking tickets.

Diplomats of warring countries do not go in and out of their opponents territory since they have broken diplomatic relations. Instead its handled through a third party often Switzerland.

[.... callchet ....]

5. My point

is that we don't need to be gentlemen about war. We just don't need war. If certain levels lost their protection, wars might start to dwindle a little.