Full scale testing of transaction systems with significant simulated historical data, like a year, is basic common sense unless you like production system emergencies.

The JTAC LTD incorporates Elbit Systems' high performance miniaturized Rattler designator, currently in full scale production and implemented to date on numerous airborne and ground based programs.

Indeed, a spokesman for Sanofi's own vaccine unit, Sanofi Pasteur, says it could probably produce both types "in parallel" for a time, before ramping up full-scale production of a swine-flu vaccine.