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From: carmi@ipla01.hac.com (Aviram Carmi)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Know anything about the FOG-M
Summary: FOG-M ==> NLOS ==> terminated by Army
Keywords: FOGM FOG-M Fiber Optic Guide missle NLOS Non Line Of Sight
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.040941.4494@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 04:09:41 GMT
References: <1991Feb4.053534.16085@cbnews.att.com>
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From: carmi@ipla01.hac.com (Aviram Carmi)

In article <1991Feb4.053534.16085@cbnews.att.com> tborge@viewlogic.com (Tom Borge) writes:
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>From: tborge@viewlogic.com (Tom Borge)
>I seem to recall 3 or 4 years ago I heard or read about the FOG-M (Fiber Optic
>Guided Missle).  As I recall, it was developed privately and was touted as far
>superior to the TOW.  
> ...
>Does anyone else remember the FOG-M, and if so do you know whatever
>happened to it?

The Non-Line of Sight (NLOS), earlier known as FOG-M, was part of the Army's
Forward Area Air Defense System (FAADS).  The missile system was designed to
allow Army gunners to attack and destroy enemy helicopters and armored vehicles
masked by terrain or hidden from direct line-of-sight by sending commands
through a fiber optic link.

In December 1988, following a technical competition in which the competitors
submitted cost proposals, the Army awarded a cost-type development contract
to the team of Boeing and Hughes Aircraft Missile System Group (MSG).
MSG has been a pioneer in the development of fiber optics for missile guidance
and NLOS was the fruit of this pioneering effort.

The MSG and Boeing team received word from the Army in December 1990 that the 
NLOS program is being terminated.  In the announcement, the Army said it is 
taking this action because of the program's unanticipated cost growth.  The 
Army said it suspected that the proposals were unrealistically low.  According
to the Army the award was well below the government's estimate of the cost
to complete the full-scale development of the NLOS system.



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