Surveillance and Target Acquisition
- Surveillance and Target Acquisition
"For Artillery STA, see below"
Surveillance and Target Acquisition is a military role assigned to units and/or their equipment. It involves watching an area to see what changes (surveillance) and then the acquisition of targets based on that information.
Artillery STA
Units
British Army Royal Artillery
Regular army
*5 Regiment Royal Artillery
*32 Regiment Royal Artillery
Territorial Army
*The Honourable Artillery Company
*204 (Tyneside Scottish) Battery Royal Artillery (Volunteers)
*269 (West Riding) Battery Royal Artillery (Volunteers)
=German Army Artillerietruppe=
*Artillerieaufklärungsbataillon 131, Mühlhausen
Royal Australian Artillery
*20th Surveillance and Target Acquisition Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery
Equipment
*Counter-battery radar (CoBRa)
*Mobile Artillery Monitoring Battlefield Asset (MAMBA)
*Advanced Sound-ranging Programme (ASP)
*Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
ee also
* C4ISTAR
* RSTA (U.S. Army)
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