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Garm

TRAINING · AERIAL TARGETLive-fire target carrier

A heavy-lift carrier that flies a metal target built to look like a hostile drone, loaded with clay pigeons. Gunners engage a realistic aerial threat with live shot, and score it by the clays they break.

ROLE
TRAINING
TARGET
STEEL PLATE
SCORING
CLAY PIGEONS
ENGAGEMENT
LIVE FIRE

Counter-drone gunnery has an obvious problem: you cannot practise on the thing you are trying to hit. GARM carries a steel-plate replica of a hostile drone, fitted with clay pigeons, and flies it through a realistic profile. Shot breaks the clays and rings off the plate, so the target survives the engagement and the score is visible from the ground.

Design intent
0101 / 03

Practise on the actual problem

A drone-shaped target moving on a drone-like profile is a different training problem from a towed sleeve or a thrown clay. Gunners learn the lead and the sight picture that the real threat demands.

0202 / 03

The target survives being shot

Steel plate takes the hits and comes home. The consumables are clay pigeons, which is a cost measured in pennies rather than in written-off target drones.

0303 / 03

The score is visible

Broken clays are unambiguous feedback from the firing point — no telemetry, no adjudication, no argument about whether that was a hit.

Specification
CARRIER
ConfigurationHeavy-lift multirotor
CarriageSlung target beneath the airframe
StandoffCarrier held clear of the engagement volume
ReleaseTarget jettison available
Payload capacity— (indicative TBC)
Endurance— (indicative TBC)
TARGET
ConstructionSteel plate, drone-representative form
ConsumablesClay pigeons, replaceable between sorties
Effect of hitsClays break; plate is reusable
ScoringVisible from the firing point
Clay capacity— (indicative TBC)
Target dimensions— (indicative TBC)
TRAINING USE
PurposeLive-fire counter-drone gunnery
RealismRepresentative size, speed and profile
AmmunitionShot
ReusabilityTarget recovered and reloaded
Range requirements— (indicative TBC)
Profiles— (indicative TBC)
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