Everything you wanted to know about the future of the military but were afraid to ask.

Secret weapons? Wuzzat?

Why classify information when the idiots brag about it?

...FCS is On Schedule, On Cost and Executing to Plan. The FCS System Development and Demonstration program has been ongoing since May 2003. In July 2004, the Army identified and announced adjustments to strengthen the FCS program and simultaneously improve the Current Force through early delivery of selected FCS capabilities. The adjustments maintain the Army focus on FCS-equipped UA development and substantially reduce program risk. The adjustments to the FCS Program acquisition strategy fall into the primary categories:

* The five previously deferred FCS core systems: 1) UAV Class II, 2) UAV III, 3) Armed Robotic Vehicle (ARV) (Assault and Reconnaissance), 4) FCS Recovery and Maintenance Vehicle (FRMV) and 5) integration for the Intelligent Munitions System (IMS) have been fully funded and will be fielded with the first FCS-equipped UA, allowing UA fielding of the complete 18 + 1 FCS core systems to begin delivery to the Army in 2014.
* The SDD program was restructured into a series of integration phases (IPs) that will cyclically develop, build and test FCS components and systems. These IPs incorporate robust experimentation, evaluation, and technology maturation efforts to prove out revolutionary concepts, mature the architecture and components, and assist in Spin Out development.
* A series of Spin Out (SO) packages, associated with IPs, will begin in 2008 and continue every two years through 2014 to evaluate and insert FCS capability into the Modular Units of Action consisting of mixed current fleet systems. These Modular UAs will have enhanced capability over Current Force Units and become the stepping stones to full Future Force capability...

Here's ARV checking you out:

In case you haven't been keeping up, what's going on is probably the most successful part of Darth Rumsfeld's Pentagon black budget-open military budget shell game. It not only enriches the Bu$hCo crime syndicate, it creates useful hunter-killers too. The problem is, the ultimate design they're aiming for, isn't exactly Top Secret.

Although Dear Leader might actually claim it is if he sees those pics in The New York Pravda.

You can not make this up: a D.o'D. run by a crew of Imperial Storm Trooper wanna-bees trying with some success to create nightmares used by Hollywood to scare excite teenage boys for the last 60 years.