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Review of Army's Efforts To Develop TACFIRE

LCD-78-116 Published: Jun 02, 1978. Publicly Released: Jun 02, 1978.
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After more than 10 years of effort, the Army's Tactical Fire Direction System (TACFIRE) was completed in January 1978. The Government must now decide whether TACFIRE should enter full-scale production while communications, maintenance, equipment, and software problems still exist.

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