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Pentagon Weapons Tester Faults Ship Self-Defense

Monday, January 30th, 2012

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The Navy has not been able to successfully demonstrate the reliability of its suite of integrated systems to defend against anti-ship cruise missiles and other threats, according to a report by the Pentagon’s top weapons tester. The report released earlier this month by the Office of the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E), said the integrated sensor and weapons systems represent an improvement over their non-integrated counterparts, but still had a ways to go to show capability. “The ability to…

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