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The Multinational Aircrew Electronic Warfare Tactics Facility Polygone, known more briefly as Polygone, is an electronic warfare tactics range located on the border between
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and
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. It is a tri-national facility operated by France, Germany, and the United States.


Purpose

The range, also referred to as the Multi-national Aircrew Electronic Warfare Tactics Facility (MAEWTF), is jointly operated by personnel from the
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,
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, and
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air forces.


Training areas

The particular sites of the range are coordinated by CCC systems provided by Computer Application Services (www.casltd.co.uk) - SPICCCS at
RAF Spadeadam RAF Spadeadam (pronounced "Spade Adam") is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Cumbria, England, close to the border with Northumberland. It is the home of the 9,000 acre (36 km2) electronic warfare (EW) tactics range, making it the large ...
& EPICCCS at Polygone. These systems additionally provide debrief products for aircrew. Training sites are in: * Bann Alpha (Germany) * Bann Bravo; with the ''Polygone Coordination Center (PCC)'', responsible for the co-ordination oft the missions *
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- Grünbühl (Germany) * Zweibrücken-Oberauerbach (Germany) * Grostenquin (France) *
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(France) *
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(France)


Civil-military ATM co-ordination

In order to provide ''civil / military air traffic management co-ordination'' the
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software tools ADMAR and ADMAR 2000 have been used. These products were replaced by
CIMACT CIMACT is EUROCONTROL's Civil-Military Air Traffic Management Co-ordination Tool. Definition CIMACT is a EUROCONTROL software, that is combining and merging civil and military data sources (mainly surveillance and flight plan data) into a corre ...
in 2005.


References

Military installations of France Military installations of the United States Training establishments of the German Air Force {{europe-mil-stub