{"id":195962,"date":"2008-06-02T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/02\/first-fcs-nlos-c-howitzer-to-be-unveiled\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T04:02:00","slug":"first-fcs-nlos-c-howitzer-to-be-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/02\/first-fcs-nlos-c-howitzer-to-be-unveiled\/","title":{"rendered":"First FCS NLOS- C Howitzer to be Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is, I think, the only variant of the FCS manned ground vehicle (FCS-MGV) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/news\/publish\/army\/First_FCS_Manned_Vehicle_to_Make_Public_Debut110015870.php\">at all likely to see large scale production<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The artillery Mafia in the Army have been clamoring for a replacement for the M109 Paladin for years, and the downsides of the FCS-MGV in a counter-insurgency scenario really do not apply to this vehicle, as a self propelled Howitzer should never be in a position where it would be in close contact with the populace.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, it would have been far cheaper to buy something from our European allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is, I think, the only variant of the FCS manned ground vehicle (FCS-MGV) at all likely to see large scale production. The artillery Mafia in the Army have been clamoring for a replacement for the M109 Paladin for years, and the downsides of the FCS-MGV in a counter-insurgency scenario really do not apply to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1266,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-future-combat-systems","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195962"}],"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=195962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}