Weapons Classification Guide – April 5, 1960

Background

The following document was requested in June of 1999, and took approximately 8 years to obtain.

It was listed in a DTIC bibliography, with no report title, and no information.  So, intrigued, I requested the report number, and this is what came up.

What is interesting, is that the document, now more than 45 years old, is still heavily classified.

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This post was published on March 4, 2015 3:29 am

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