Planning Alternatives for Naval Aircraft Gun System Acquisition.

Abstract

This report provides examples of the services' sometimes responding to too specific requirements with resultant limited system adaptability. The report then chronologically presents the OSD guidance and the services' response on gun and ammunition standardization. The increasingly definitive direction emanating from OSD rather effectively narrows the options available to the services. The calibers and families of ammuntion to be used are defined and candidate guns are defined. The report concludes that the Navy needs to define its requirements and examine them in comparison with current OSD direction. Recommendations are then made that the Navy get involved in joint service programs where indicated. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA032601

Entities

People

  • Leonard E. Young Jr

Organizations

  • Defense Systems Management College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aircraft Guns
  • Aircrafts
  • Ammunition
  • Automatic Cannons
  • Contracts
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Explosives
  • Exterior Ballistics
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Firing Rate
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Munitions
  • Procurement
  • Standards
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • ballistics.