An F/A-18F Super Hornet equipped with the Distributed Targeting System completed its first one-hour test flight Sept. 1 at Naval Air Station China Lake, California.
The DTS itself is a hardware and software system designed to provide precision strike capability against relocatable, targets, such as mobile surface-to-air missile units. The system uses sensor imagery gathered from the radar or infrared signatures emitted by potential targets. It then compares those images to references stored within DTS to determine if the target is a threat.