AERIAL TARGETS

Abstract

Aerial Targets support Army Transformation and the Overseas Contingency Operations by providing for development, acquisition, operation, storage, update, and maintenance of realistic surrogate or acquired threat high-performance, multi-spectral aerial targets and development of virtual target computer models of aerial targets. Modern weapons require test, evaluation, and training using threat representative aerial targets to assess their effectiveness on the battlefield. This program encompasses a family of rotary and fixed-wing targets; full-scale, miniature, and subscale targets; virtual targets; ancillary devices; and their control systems. These products are required to adequately stress weapon systems undergoing test and evaluation (T&E). In order to stress systems during T&E, aerial targets must have flight characteristics, signatures, and other performance factors that emulate the modern threat. This program includes long-range planning to determine future target needs and development of coordinated requirement documents; the management of target research, development, test and evaluation process; execution of the validation process to ensure that surrogate targets adequately represent the threat; development and acquisition of surrogate and acquired targets; and continuing maintenance, storage, and development/enhancement/update via engineering services of the developed and acquired threat targets to ensure availability for the T&E customer. The Army is the Reliance lead for rotary wing targets and towed target developments and the Tri-Service lead for procurement and enhancement of the MQM-107 fixed wing target.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: 238_0604258A_6_2040_PB_2012

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• Aerospace Engineering
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.