Improved Elevated Site Marker

Abstract

There has been a continuing need for an efficient position marking device for use in heavily forested areas by personnel of all three services. The position marking device must enable personnel on the ground, under a heavily forested canopy, to make known their precise location to friendly and support aircraft overhead. The needs of the three services are similar, but vary according to the function of each. The Naval Air Arm and Air Force require a fast acting, lightweight device that can mark the position of downed airmen for air rescue teams. The Army and Marine Corps depend upon position marking for medical evacuation, resupply and direct fire support and, therefore, require a longer lasting marker. Speed of deployment, while valuable, is not as essential to ground units as for the downed airmen. The development described in the report is of a system designed for ground units and is not directly applicable to the downed airmen problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0775463

Entities

People

  • Benjamin F. Wood

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Assembly
  • Detection
  • Fire Support
  • Forests
  • Governments
  • High Pressure
  • Lithium Hydride
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Medical Evacuation
  • Meteorological Balloons
  • Pressure Vessels
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.