Summary of Research on Combat Vehicle Identification Completed at ARI (Army Research Institute) Fort Hood Field Unit, Fort Hood, Texas, 1980-1985
Abstract
This historical review was prepared to provide the Army proponent for vehicle recognition, the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center (CAC), with a summary of research and development products emanating from the Army's Target Acquisition and Analysis Training System (TAATS) during the period 1980 to 1985. The report was prepared by the Fort Hood Field Unit of the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Sixty research projects (including 15 ARI- conducted TAATS efforts) that contributed to the TAATS research effort are summarized in this report. The summaries are extensive in that both the research methodology and the major research conclusions are presented and well documented. The Commander, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), in 1979 centralized the proponency for vehicle recognition within the Combined Arms Center (CAC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This action focused attention on the need for an effective and uniform combat vehicle recognition and identification program as a total Army requirement. In coordination with CAC, the ARI Field Unit at Fort Hood initiated the TAATS research program in 1980. The major conclusions having the greatest impact on training and doctrine development are: The quality of a combat vehicle's image is not a critical factor in identifying the vehicle or in learning identification skills provided gross cues (e.g., chassis shape, turret shape and position, relative length of gun tube) are discriminable. The use of motion in depicting a vehicle is not critical in training soldiers in CVI.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA217451
Entities
People
- Norman D. Smith
- William L. Warnick