To provide an affordable, quick-reaction, turn-key flight services capability to the U.S. Army and DoD community, as well as to support Foreign Military Sales commitments for live air defense training and weapon system test and evaluation around the world.
DESCRIPTION:
The Aerial Target Flight Services (ATFS) program provides a complete operations and maintenance capability to support U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery training and tri-Service research, development, and test and evaluation requirements for a variety of weapon systems. A myriad of sub-scale, fixed-wing target drones (MQM-107, BQM-34 and MSAT) are flown at various speeds, altitudes and profiles to support tracking missions and live-fire engagements for live training and testing environments. Full-scale, rotary-wing target aircraft (QUH-1) and Ballistic Aerial Targets (BATS) are also used to meet DoD training and testing needs. Unique augmentation devices are used to meet specific weapon system requirements, including scoring devices for missile miss-distance and bullet counting, , cruise missile profile replication, radar cross section enhancement devices, flare and electronic countermeasure pods and various towed targets to offset drone kill costs. Single or multiple target drones can be launched and flown, either in formation or simultaneously with other target systems.
