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Government Operations: TRESTLE Electromagnetic Pulse Simulator Program Should Be Reevaluated

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Nov. 4, 1977
Report No. PSAD-77-159
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Summary:

TRESTLE is a special Department of the Air Force facility now under construction originally designed to simulate threat-level, electromagnetic pulse stresses on large aircraft generated by a high-altitude detonation of a nuclear weapon. Program costs have increased by l30 percent, or $34 million.

Because of technical problems, TRESTLE will not meet its original objective of being a threat-level simulator and, if completed as currently planned, could not provide test results to confirm that an aircraft can survive threat conditions and still meet its mission. Its use is further questionable because it will not be available for timely testing of prime candidate aircraft.

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