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<p>The Army <a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/post.html">envisioned</a> &quot;fleets of new armored vehicles, ground robots and flying drones &#8230; linked together by a wireless internet for combat.&quot; Known as Future Combat Systems (FCS), the cost <a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/post.html">so far</a> is steep: </p>
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<p>[Slated] at $200 billion, Future Combat Systems is already the biggest modernization program in the history of the Army &#8212; enough, approximately, to buy 200,000 of the new, heavily-armored vehicles bound for Iraq (more than 20 times the number slated to go); 1,000 of the Air Force&#8217;s latest, most expensive stealth fighter (about 50 times more than planned); or 25 next-generation aircraft carriers, (more than double the current fleet). </p>
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<p>And it could be junked. </p>
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