Surveillance and Target Acquisition

For the USMC snipers, see STA sniper (USMC). For the RSTA/ISTAR/STA doctrine, see ISTAR.

For Artillery STA, see below

Surveillance and target acquisition 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.

Artillery STA

The role of STA artillery is to locate, track, assess and where appropriate cue the attack of hostile artillery, mortars, units and formation.

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.

Special Observer Badge, worn by Soldiers of the HAC or 4/73 Battery RA who have passed STA Patrol Training and successfully completed a probationary period

Units

British Army

Regular army

Territorial Army

German Army Artillerietruppe

Royal Australian Artillery

Italian Army

01.09.2004 - today

Equipment

See also

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