{"id":194341,"date":"2008-10-04T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/04\/nlos-c-prototype-fires-first-round\/"},"modified":"2008-10-04T06:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T11:48:00","slug":"nlos-c-prototype-fires-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/04\/nlos-c-prototype-fires-first-round\/","title":{"rendered":"NLOS-C Prototype Fires First Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img442.imageshack.us\/img442\/8365\/353a4e537ed049d59cc8d77mu2.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"350\" \/>They have validated the concept with mockups and breadboards (It&#8217;s why you see the cables running out of the back of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">those<\/span> vehicles) but this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A59d8ca7b-9742-4e90-8b50-3f9d65d9311f\">does represent a step forward<\/a> for the howitzer variant of the Future Combat System:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The mobile cannon, which is crewed by two soldiers, has a fully automated ammunition loading system and on-board projectile tracking. Lieutenant Colonel Robert McVay, Army Product Manager for NLOS-C said in a statement that \u201cThis marks the first 155mm round fired from a fully automated howitzer mounted on an FCS hybrid-electric chassis and remotely commanded through its on-board computers and controls.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You will note in the picture that this is not the full up model firing, but one of the breadboard models, note the cables out the rear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have validated the concept with mockups and breadboards (It&#8217;s why you see the cables running out of the back of those vehicles) but this does represent a step forward for the howitzer variant of the Future Combat System: The mobile cannon, which is crewed by two soldiers, has a fully automated ammunition loading system &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1266,1006,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-combat-systems","category-military","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}