Surveillance and Target Acquisition


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 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 system to offensive support systems.

Units

British Army

Regular army

01.09.2004 - today