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C Board on Army Science and Technology Review of the Army's Assessment Methodology for Combat Vehicle Vulnerability to Anti-Armor Weapons
Pages 78-80

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From page 78...
... address issues that will help the Army define the objectives of its vulnerability assessment program, (2) define and analyze alternative ways to balance computation and live fire testing in reaching conclusions about vehicle vulnerability, (3)
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From page 79...
... Based on a review of the BRL data, encompassing unclassified as well as classified data, but not including sensitive compartmented information, it is evident that there is a significant lack of experimental information, particularly concerning the more sophisticated armor designs and anti-armor weapons represented representative of modern practice. A principal reason appears to be that in recent years the experimental work has tended to be conducted on an ad hoc basis for different development programs.
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From page 80...
... 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 that the test results will be carefully observed during the approval process leading to large-scale production, the program manager and his staff will be motivated to ensure that adequate weight is given to vulnerability considerations throughout the design process. and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted.
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