Artillery STA

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Artillery Surveillance and Target Acquisition is a military role assigned to units and/or their equipment.

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

[edit] Units

[edit] Royal Artillery

[edit] Regular army

• 5 Regiment Royal Artillery
• 32 Regiment Royal Artillery

[edit] Territorial Army

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

[edit] Royal Australian Artillery

• 20th Surveillance and Target Acquisition Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery

[edit] Equipment

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

[edit] See also

• C4ISTAR
• Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance
• RSTA (U.S. Army)
• STA sniper (USMC)