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‘FCS Is Real,’ Army Chief of Staff Says On Debut of Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon

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Thursday, June 12th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt In Washington yesterday, the Army displayed the first of its Future Combat Systems (FCS) Manned Ground Vehicles (MGV): the Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon (NLOS-C). "FCS is real and relevant...What you see around you are the results of a decades worth of work," Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey told a large crowd of interested onlookers examining the NLOS-C and other FCS equipment on the National Mall. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) checked out NLOS-C stem-to-stern and told the crowd,…

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