Vulnerability Assessment of Aircraft A Review of the Department of Defense Live Fire Test and Evaluation Program (1993) / Chapter Skim
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4 Live Fire Test Programs of the Three Services, and Views of the Test Community and Industry
4 Live Fire Test Programs of the Three Services, and Views of the Test Community and Industry
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program, they lacked adequate test facilities 1 for conducting some of the tests; and they did not have any The 1987 General Accounting Office study presented in Appendix B addressed the issues of the status of the JLF test program, the long-term experience in preparing the test plans for, and methodological quality of the testing and evaluation process, and how to conducting, such tests.1 Finally, because of the confusion improve live fire testing.
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According to that evaluated in the step-by-step test program, starting from document, LFT&E will be integrated into the overall T&E section/ coupon testing, proceeding through static/dynamic program strategy. The Live Fire Tests are part of technical component testing and full-up component and subsystem testing, and the scope of the program will build on early testing, and finishing with full-up complete system Live Fire testing of components and on modeling.
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On the other hand, his The Navy LFT&E Programs summary says the program will operate in compliance with the current Live Fire Test law. The presenter from the Army Test The Navy Live Fire Test philosophy and the program for the and Evaluation Agency left no doubt of the Army's position; it V-22 were presented to the committee by a representative of will do full-scale, full-up testing.
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This is contrary to the of the law by establishing realistic operational requirements requirement in the law that the testing shall be carried out and combat threat scenarios, establishing explicit sufficiently early to allow any design deficiency Survivability and vulnerability design requirements, and demonstrated by the testing to be corrected before proceeding requiring Live Fire Testing and Evaluation as part of the beyond low-rate initial production. In summary, Live Fire development process using a shoot-fix-shootagain approach.
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The program is old enough to be grandfathered that the aircraft would become a candidate for LFT when it no for Live Fire Testing even though the summary page says the longer was a black program. According to one of the briefers, current program meets the Live Fire Test law.
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According to the presenter, the Air Force Fire Testing. Some of the assessments to be conducted to policy is in compliance with the reporting requirements of the verify the design include fuel tank inciting using a rig test, LFT&E Office.
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Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution. 48 FIGURE 4-3 Vulnerability assessment methodology for the F-22.
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hinge fitting; and a functional 8-foot section of the wing Test candidate and expects to see Live Fire Testing leading edge. The leading edge section is to be Live Fire conducted on the C-17 aircraft (Bennett, 1991)
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are the users of the results of the Live Fire Tests. The four industry representatives were unanimous in their belief that the LFT law as described in the LFT Guidelines and Planning The Test Community's View of Live Fire Testing Guide does not require a full-scale, full-up aircraft to be tested.
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The results of the threat projection typesetting files. Page breaks are true to the original; line lengths, word breaks, heading styles, and other typesetting-specific formatting, however, cannot be retained, About this PDF file: This new digital representation of the original work has been recomposed from XML files created from the original paper book, not from the original assumption is made that the more lethal overmatching threats, appear in STAR.
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equipment previously delivered to the field to severe requirement to fit the program into a somewhat warrant legislative direction of DoD test certification to inflexible overall resource schedule, both in time and in include live fire testing of full-scale, full-up systems using dollars. In summary, LFT represents a considerable source of munitions likely to be encountered in combat.
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