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Army

FCS Manned Ground Vehicle Active Protection System Moves Forward

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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt After a year of testing, the short-range countermeasure portion of the Army Future Combat Systems' (FCS) layered survivability approach successfully completed an end-to-end system test and moves another step toward prototypes. "It's our first end-to-end system test and defeat of an RPG in a relevant environment," Maj. Lewis Phillips, Army FCS assistant product manager for Hit Avoidance, told Defense Daily. "We're going to continue to build on that and then in October we're going to add the…

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