Surveillance and target acquisition

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Surveillance and target acquisition (STA) 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.

The role of STA units is to locate, track, assess and where appropriate cue the attack for friendly artillery units.

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.

• 4/73 (Sphinx) Special Observation Post Battery RA
• 5th Regiment Royal Artillery

• Honourable Artillery Company
• 204 (Tyneside Scottish) Battery Royal Artillery
• 269 (West Riding) Battery Royal Artillery

• 1er régiment d'artillerie
• 35e régiment d'artillerie parachutiste
• 61e régiment d'artillerie

• Artillerieaufklärungsbataillon 131, Mühlhausen

• 20th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery

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• 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"

• Target Acquisition Platoon (TAP)

• Counter-battery radar^[1] (CoBRa)
• Mobile Artillery Monitoring Battlefield Asset (MAMBA)
• Advanced Sound-ranging Programme (ASP)
• Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

• Akashteer
• C4ISTAR
• RSTA (U.S. Army)
• CARVER matrix