Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

is neutralized. Initially :his element was consider- : **:* dyn? . .
t,oo difficult to provide to be considered for inclusion in 3 tL *
tmre we exained the situation, ;rovever, the cleare’r f: c~-r;h. * +.dt
without this element:, atteqts to tesf :he co&at efricirncy .-f the
individual soldier were going to be Loefully inadequate. ‘Lhile Ye
investigated hit-indicator systeas such as laser beazs and rsdfo actfvatr
equip&t, w ‘felt strongly that., to be effective az~d usable, any system
tha: ve dc.Jised had to be free of ccuplicated equi-,=ent.
Eventri;?ly LT devised a sys:ez which uses a t’-o-Cigit nu;=ber pl.lcrd
on each i*:3?v-idual’r; heloet aztd rifles equipped wi:h tcl~scspes. h’hen an
inraotrpan L’an Gistingztsh an o?ponent’s m.mber through his scope and
‘fires a blank round $, it is ass-d that he would have been able to kill
that individual. by plcci~g test controller personnel =ith each of the
opposing elements and equipping the controllers with a radio, individuals
can be knocked out of action on each side as they are effectively engaged
by -the opposing force. The protlen is thus allowed to piay itself out
or. a realistic basis. Bg experfzenting wi:h combinations of color,
background, and size of the numbers and :he power cc the scope, a :onbina-
tion of number- ~olou and umber-size, and scope poser, vas achieved vhicil
duplicates closeI~r the effegtive range of the Xl6 rifle. For
practical purposes this range is 200 meters. Xhile the actual range cf
the .X6 is nuch langer, the combat situation seldozz pro+ +es accessible
targets beyond that distance.
The develbping of this scoring system opened zew possibilities to
the use of combat situat’icns for testing purposes. Tine situations could
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