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B The General Accounting Office Study: Live Fire Testing; Evaluating DoD'S Programs
Pages 70-77

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... Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution. Live Fire Testing; Evaluating DoD'S Programs B The General Accounting Office (GAO)
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From page 71...
... • JLF has been further hindered by competing governmental and non-governmental interests and negative attitudes toward destructive testing. Statistical Validity • In general, the sample sizes of JLF and related live fire testing have not been sufficient to produce statistically reliable results.
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... • Random sampling from combat distributions is a reasonable way to preclude intentional or inadvertent and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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... 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 (Both Land and Air Targets) ADVANTAGES OF LIVE FIRE TESTING • As the only method providing direct visual observation of the damage caused by a weapon/target and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted.
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... 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 (Both Land and Air Targets) Subscale Testing • Subscale tests can support larger sample sizes than and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted.
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... community.• Claims that vulnerability models predict poorly are somewhat overstated, often referring to predictions from older models not expected to be used in live fire tests, and insufficient test or combat data to permit unqualified conclusions. Additionally, little attention has been paid to the different levels of accuracy required for different user's purposes.• The stochastic components introduced into vulnerability models after the Bradley Phase I tests provide an unknown level of protection from invalidation by test data.• There are no clearly specified mechanisms for using live fire test data to calibrate or revise models.
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... Begin We suggest that DoD by replacing noninstrumented plywood mannequins and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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... Conduct full-up tests of developing systems, first elsewhere, there is a need to resolve current at the subscale level as subscale systems are conflicts about the purpose of live fire tests and developed, and later at the full-scale level mandated and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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