Surveillance and target acquisition-The Daily Ledger

Surveillance and target acquisition (STA) 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

The role of STA artillery is to locate, track, assess and where appropriate cue the attack of hostile artillery, mortars, units and formation.

Surveillance and target acquisition

It provides commanders with surveillance and targeting information across the battle space and is always linked by a robust command-and-control (C2) system to offensive support (OS) systems.

Surveillance and target acquisition

Units

British Army

Regular army

4/73 (Sphinx) Special Observation Post Battery RA

5th Regiment Royal Artillery

Army Reserve

Honourable Artillery Company

204 (Tyneside Scottish) Battery Royal Artillery

269 (West Riding) Battery Royal Artillery

French Army

61e régiment d'artillerie

German Army

Artillerieaufklärungsbataillon 131, Mühlhausen

Australian Army

20th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery

Italian Army

01.09.2004 - today

Com.F.O.Ter. Comando delle Forze Operative Terrestri (Verona) Co.T.I.E. Comando Trasmissioni ed Informazioni dell'Esercito (Anzio - Caserma “Santa Barbara”) Brg.R.I.S.T.A.-I.E.W. Brigata Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition – Intelligence and Electronic Warfare (Anzio - Caserma “Santa Barbara”) 41° Rgt.A.Ter.Sor.A.O. Reggimento Artiglieria Terrestre Sorveglianza ed Aquisizione Obiettivi (Casarsa della Delizia - Caserma “Trieste”) 2° Gr.Sor.A.O. Gruppo Sorveglianza ed Aquisizione Obiettivi (Sora - Caserma “Simone Simoni”) B.A.T. Batteria Aerei Teleguidati

Surveillance and target acquisition

Com.F.O.Ter. Comando delle Forze Operative Terrestri (Verona) Com.F.O.S.E. Comando delle Forze Speciali dell'Esercito 185° Reggimento Paracadutisti Ricognizione Acquisizione Obiettivi "Folgore"

United States Marine Corps

Target Acquisition Platoon (TAP)

Equipment

Counter-battery radar (CoBRa) Mobile Artillery Monitoring Battlefield Asset (MAMBA) Advanced Sound-ranging Programme (ASP) Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)