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.

Artillery STA 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.

Units Australian Army 9th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery 20th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery British Army Regular army

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

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

French Army 1er régiment d'artillerie 35e régiment d'artillerie parachutiste 61e régiment d'artillerie

German Army Artillerieaufklärungsbataillon 131, Mühlhausen

Italian Army 01.09.2004 - today 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"

United States Marine Corps Target Acquisition Platoon (TAP)

Equipment Counter-battery radar (CoBRa) Mobile Artillery Monitoring Battlefield Asset (MAMBA) Advanced Sound-ranging Programme (ASP) Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

See also Akashteer C4ISTAR RSTA (U.S. Army) CARVER matrix

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