Quote Originally Posted by Cavguy View Post
Kreker,

What's your make on this?

http://www.cdi.org/friendlyversion/p...ocumentID=4058



Posted today at DefenseTech.

I have to admit, even as an Armor guy I'm a skeptic of the FCS from what I have been briefed - how much armor are we looking at, and what kind of direct fire systems will be incorporated?

After Iraq, most of the FCS assumptions I was presented at CCC in 2001 seem to have been obliterated by reality in Iraq ....
Great post. That was my understanding of the FCS too, that sensors and data processing is supposed to mitigate the need for heavy armor. Don't see how that can possibly work in a low-tech LIC/IW/COIN environment. Seems to me like the RMA meets reality yet again.

T.X. Hammes had a great article on the central assumption of the RMA, eliminating the fog of war, being flawed, and he was writing in about 1998 I believe. I'll see if I can find it.