Marine Corps insists new parachute is needed, rejects legacy and Army systems

By Justin Katz / April 6, 2018 at 10:35 AM
In a new report to Congress, the Navy Secretary rejected the notion that legacy Marine Corps and Army parachute systems will satisfy the service's requirements, and defended the Navy's testing strategy of its new system, according to documents viewed by Inside the Navy . The Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act prevented the Navy from using all of the funds appropriated for the Enhanced Multi-Mission Parachute System (E-MMPS) until Navy Secretary Richard Spencer submitted a report to Congress answering...

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