The Multinational Aircrew Electronic Warfare Tactics Facility Polygone, known more briefly as Polygone, is an

Electronic Warfare Tactics Range Electronic warfare (EW) is any action involving the use of the electromagnetic spectrum (EM spectrum) or directed energy to control the spectrum, attack an enemy, or impede enemy assaults. The purpose of electronic warfare is to deny the opponen ...

located on the border between

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and

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. It is a tri-national facility operated by France, Germany and the United States. Insigne PGE

Purpose

The range, also referred to as the Multi-national Aircrew Electronic Warfare Tactics Facility (MAEWTF), is jointly operated by personnel from the United States, German and French Air Forces.

Training areas

Multinational Aviation Live Virtual Constructive Training System exercise at the Polygone Control Center

The particular sites of the range are coordinated by CCC systems provided by Computer Application Services (www.casltd.co.uk) - SPICCCS at RAF Spadeadam & EPICCCS at Polygone. These systems additionally provide debrief products for aircrew. Training sites are in: * Bann Alpha (Germany) * Bann Bravo; with the ''Polygone Coordination Center (PCC)'', responsible for the co-ordination oft the missions *

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- Grünbühl (Germany) * Zweibrücken-Oberauerbach (Germany) *

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(France) *

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(France) *

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(France)

Civil-military ATM co-ordination

In order to provide ''civil / military air traffic management co-ordination'' the

EUROCONTROL The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, commonly known as Eurocontrol (stylised ''EUROCONTROL''), is an international organisation working to achieve safe and seamless air traffic management across Europe. Founded in 1960, Eur ...

software tools

ADMAR ADMAR, an initialism for the German titleAbgesetzte Darstellung von MADAP Radar data, was the predecessor product of CIMACT. Definition The EUROCONTROL software product ADMAR did combine and merge several civilian surveillance- and military ...

and ADMAR 2000 have been used. These products were replaced by

CIMACT CIMACT is EUROCONTROL's Civil-Military Air Traffic Management Co-ordination Tool. Definition CIMACT is a EUROCONTROL software, that is combining and merging civil and military data sources (mainly surveillance and flight plan data) into a cor ...

in 2005.

References

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