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During live fire exercises dealing with air-to-air combat remotely controlled [[drone]]s are frequently used to simulate enemy [[plane]]s. In modern times the drones are fired on by planes loaded with some type of [[air-to-air missile]], with the objective of the exercise being to destroy the drone. These test are usually done to ensure that guidance packages within the missiles will work, although they can be done to test other factors such as a missiles suseptability to [[jamming]] or to see if a new type of dodging technique will work against the missiles fired.

Live fire exercises involving air to surface work are usually centered around [[precision-guided munition]]. In some cases tests involving bombs will make use of [[derelict]] buildings or vehicalsvehicles, more frequently the latter than the former. Live fire bombing exercises are usually conducted with prescion guided munitions to ensure that they work correctly, but are also used to test new and experimental weapons to ensure that they work as they were originally designed to. These test are usually monitered by [[chase plane]]s and by cameras to determine if everything worked as it was orignially intended to.

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