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At the Army's Project Convergence 2021 tech demonstration and experimentation event, IBCS was used to pass information from ground, air, and space sensors to a fire control system. [50] IBCS passed sensor data from an F-35 to AFATDS (Army Field Artillery Tactical Data System), using the aircraft as a spotter for artillery fire.
M18: FADAC (field artillery digital automatic computer), [1] [2] an all-transistorized general-purpose digital computer [3] manufactured by Amelco (Teledyne Systems, Inc.,) [4] and North American—Autonetics. [5] FADAC was first fielded during 1960, [6] [7] and was the first semiconductor-based digital electronics field-artillery computer.
AN/TPS-58 Moving-Target-Locating Radar (MTLR) is a vehicle-mounted radar set used by the United States Army for general surveillance and artillery burst detection. The AN/TPS-58 weighs 3,500 pounds and utilizes a truncated parabolic reflector (65 × 52 cm) antenna. [1]
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.
Field guns are one of two primary types of field artillery. Guns fire a heavy shell on a relatively level trajectory from a longer barrel, allowing for very high muzzle velocity and good range performance. Guns are most adequate for providing long-range fire support and counter-battery fire.
A plotting board was a mechanical device used by the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps as part of their fire control system to track the observed course of a target (typically a moving ship), project its future position, and derive the uncorrected data [note 1] on azimuth (or direction) and range needed to direct the fire of the guns of a battery to hit that target.
The Mini TSFO (Training Set, Fire Observation) was the first artillery call-for-fire simulation designed for the personal computer.It was started in 1985 as an outgrowth of a Field Artillery Officer Advanced Course battlefield research project at the U.S. Army Field Artillery School (USAFAS) to develop a concept for incorporating PCs into artillery training, and was completed in 1986.
Adding to the problem is the fact that traditional artillery shells make for difficult radar targets. Counter battery radar of the 19th Engineer Battalion in Vietnam, 1968. By the early 1970s, radar systems capable of locating guns appeared possible, and many European members of NATO embarked on the joint Project Zenda.