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The US is developing the "Future Combat System" - which consists of a combination of manned and unmanned ground vehicles, i.e. robotic and remote-controlled, intelligence and surveillance aircraft, and sensor arrays. These tools are linked through laser-based satellite communication with the headquarters of the fighting units on the ground: infantry, armor and marines.
Engineers and scientists from the companies Boeing, Lockheed-Martin and Northrop-Grumman, as well as lesser-known companies in the field of electronics and communications, are partners in this ambitious venture. Its stated goal was to boost the army's capabilities in terms of mobility, communication, speed of execution, accuracy and lethality at once in two technological generations. But what was called until recently a "revolutionary approach" is very moderate to a slow "evolutionary approach" of the integration of military systems. This is because the power also has no. 1 There are oppressive budget problems in the world - and the companies that produce these weapons systems are now experiencing a significant contraction in the budgets they were promised.
As things stand now, about 100 days before the presidential elections, all the beautiful ideas that were before the eyes of the planners of the future warfare system, will be rejected. At the time they were talking about them being operational in 2012, and now they are talking about the fact that the first buds of the fruit of this development will be seen in the army units not before 2014 - most likely only after. The development project was allocated only 2.9 billion dollars for 2005 - a tenth (!) of what the government demanded.
"The Pentagon won a period of peace and rest when it comes to the investments required for the weapons of the future" commented an American military expert. Before the drastic cut was made, the engineers of the US Air Force believed that their project, which should be integrated into the huge project - satellites that would be able to track vehicles and infantry units when the information about them includes the transmission of voice, computer data and video images using laser beams - would require an investment of 50 billion dollars in the next 20 years. The drastic cut in the plans required a change from end to end in the project. The Pentagon asked for approval to allocate 320 million dollars this year for the development of radar in space - but received only 75 million. "We are blessed with a small future" said the head of the development team.
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