Surveillance Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing or directing. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, such as ...

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target acquisition Target acquisition is the detection and identification of the location of a target in sufficient detail to permit the effective employment of lethal and non-lethal means. The term is used for a broad area of applications. A "target" here is an e ...

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. 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. Spec Obs Badge

Units

British Army

Regular army

4/73 (Sphinx) Special Observation Post Battery RA 4/73 (Sphinx) Special Observation Post Battery Royal Artillery is a surveillance and target acquisition unit of the British Army. It is part of 5th Regiment Royal Artillery and is based at Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire. Organisation 4/ ...

* 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,

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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 * 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 A counter-battery radar (alternatively weapon tracking radar or COBRA) is a radar system that detects artillery projectiles fired by one or more guns, howitzers, mortars or rocket launchers and, from their trajectories, locates the position on ...

(CoBRa) * Mobile Artillery Monitoring Battlefield Asset (MAMBA) * Advanced Sound-ranging Programme (ASP) *

Unmanned aerial vehicle An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which includes adding a ground-based controll ...

s (UAVs)