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Tango0111 Sep 2014 12:45 p.m. PST

… Combat Vehicle.

"A new research program aims to get the next-generation ground combat vehicle off the drawing board.

And if the drawings of it by an Army civilian are any indication, future soldiers could be riding in a lightweight, agile, easy-to-deploy platform ripped straight from the pages of a graphic novel.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the launch of the Ground X-Vehicle Technology program last month, but in May, a report called "GXV Operational Vignettes" went out from the Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center. It includes more than two dozen pages of drawings from James Scott, with TARDEC's advanced concepts team, offering views of a possible GXV design in a variety of scenarios:…"
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Rod I Robertson11 Sep 2014 3:04 p.m. PST

As opposed to, "Fat and Bloated: Vision for the Military Industrial Complex", which lobbies to start the wars in the first place. A delicious contrast, no? Poor men die and rich men get richer! Let's buy more cool weapons and kill our own and foreign sons and daughters. And the bloody wheel turns on and on. Make these new weapons in 15mm (or some other scale; before someone complains) and let's use them on the tables rather than in real life. That would be a revolutionary change in warfare.
Cheers.
Rod Robertson

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