Applications: Targeting Systems

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Targeting Systems

Far target location (FTL) systems are essential to military operations to provide situation awareness and knowledge of both the enemy and friendly force location.  Soldiers use these systems to locate and call-out targets for direct and indirect fire missions, reconnaissance, surveillance, and critical maneuvers missions.

Moog Crossbow’s inertial sensor products provide critical inputs to calculate a high accuracy and high precision targeting solution.  By minimizing target location errors soldiers can reduce undesired collateral damage and non-combatant casualties, increase engagement ranges, and enable more precise maneuvers.

Recommended products:

1. CXTD02 – The CXTD02 is a high resolution and high accuracy inertial tilt sensor using MEMS accelerometers.  The system was designed for the most demanding military applications, where high accuracy must be maintained over a wide temperature range of -40°C to 85°C.   The CXTD02 is currently fielded on U.S. Army and USMC LRAS and ITAS targeting systems.

2. North Finder System (under development) – Current man-portable targeting systems rely on a digital magnetic compass (DMC) to determine azimuth.  Unfortunately, DMC are highly suitable to interference from nearby magnetic interference causing significant target location errors.  Moog Crossbow is developing a compact MEMS-based North Finder that determines azimuth non-magnetically and at high accuracy, while retaining the man-portable characteristics of the digital magnetic compass.

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Benefits to Customers:

• Field Proven in Targeting Applications- Moog Crossbow’s products are deployed on over 1,000 targeting systems serving missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
  
  
• High Reliability – Moog Crossbow products achieve greater than 35,000 MTBF.
  
  
• Mil Qualified --- Most products are tested MIL STD-810, MIL-STD-704 and MIL-STD-461