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A The Live Fire Test Legislation
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... a covered system may not proceed beyond low-rate waive the application of the survivability and lethality initial production until realistic survivability testing of the tests of this section to a covered system, munitions system is completed in accordance with this section; program, or missile program if the Secretary, before the "(2) a major munition program or a missile program may system enters full-scale engineering development, certifies not proceed beyond low-rate initial production until to Congress that live-fire testing of such system or program realistic lethality testing of the program is completed in would be unreasonably expensive and impractical, accordance with this section; and "(d)
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... a covered system may not proceed beyond low configured for combat, with the primary emphasis on rate initial production until realistic survivability testing testing vulnerability with respect to potential user of the system is completed in accordance with this section; casualties and taking into equal consideration the "(B) a major munition program or a missile program operational requirements and combat performance of the may not proceed beyond low-rate initial production until system.
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... at the system, 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 apply to the extent that the Secretary of Defense plans for configured for combat, with the primary emphasis on persons employed by that contractor to be involved in the testing vulnerability with respect to potential user operation, maintenance, and support to the system being casualties and taking into equal consideration the tested when the system is deployed in combat.
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