Crusader rising from the ashes.

• Author: Erwin, Sandra I.
• Position: Washington Pulse - Brief Article

To appease lawmakers who resisted the Pentagon's decision to cancel the Crusader cannon-artillery system, the Army assured them that the funding would be transferred to a replacement system, also manufactured by United Defense, under the Future Combat Systems program. But when the Army decided in July to delay the FCS by two years, the schedule for the Crusader replacement, called the "non-line-of-sight cannon," actually was accelerated by two...