Low Altitude Air Defense Training System

The Army has a significant training gap for Stinger gunners and teams. In particular, there is no solution that enables Stinger teams to get credit for successful engagements in large force-on-force exercises if the aircraft are not equipped with MILES detectors, which is apparently usually the case. This paper describes the development of a surrogate Stinger missile that facilitates both home station and deployed force-on-force training. The effort described in this paper resulted in a single device that addresses the training previously addressed by the three other devices, all of which are aging and often irreplaceable. This paper describes the design of the Low Altitude Air Defense Training System (LAADTS), the implementation of the prototype and results, and the future work.