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Pentagon IG Finds Safety Concerns With Deploying Army Paladin Vehicles

Friday, August 5th, 2016

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Pentagon IG Finds Safety Concerns With Deploying Army Paladin Vehicles

The Army’s Paladin Integrated Management (PIM) program risks deploying vehicles that do not meet performance requirements and could endanger crew members, according to an audit report from the Defense Department Inspector General (IG).In a report released Aug. 5, the IG determined the Army was justified going ahead with the low-rate initial production of 133 Paladins, which includes tracked armored mobile howitzers and ammunition carriers. However, program managers have not nailed down a rate-of-fire requirement for the howitzers, which do not provide…

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