General Peter Chiarelli, US Army Vice Chief of Staff, on 10 September provided an outline of the service's future vehicle plans in the wake of decisions earlier this year to disband the Future Combat Systems (FCS) modernisation programme.rnA ground combat vehicle (GCV) and augmentations to legacy platforms will replace FCS's family of combat vehicles, which were cancelled in part due to force protection concerns. A successful GCV effort will require designs that include significant growth potential, GenrnChiarelli said during a speech at an Association of the US Army breakfast. "The key to the GCV is that the vehicle of 2017 will be upgradable to the specifications of the GCV of 2037," he said.
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