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improvements for Chieftain including an
advanced fire-control system.
Mines
34.
Development is well advanced of a new anti-tank mine,
with increased lethality, and of an associated anti-personnel
mine.
Small Arms
35.
Development has begun of a new family of small arms
and ammunition to replace the 7.62mm self-loading rifle, the
9mm sub-machine gun, and the 7.62mm general purpose machine
gun in the light role. This family is planned to contend in
NATO trials to select the small arms ammunition on which NATO
forces may standardise as far as possible in the future.
QUALITY ASSURANCE
The
36. Our policy continues to aim at placing the maximum respon-
sibility on the contractor for the quality assurance of his
products. Since April 1973 new quality assurance requirements,
published as Defence Standards, have applied to most contracts
for defence materiel placed by the Procurement Executive.
Procurement Executive assesses the quality control and
management systems of its suppliers against the requirements
of the Defence Standards, with the agreement and full co-operation
of the defence industries.
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