The basic target will be loaded on an aircraft-mounted reeling-machine launcher, streamed and flown as a tow target for air-to-air gunnery or missile training, recovered by the aircraft reeling-machine launcher, and landed with the aircraft aboard a carrier or at land base. Recovered targets will be stored unpacked, until made flight-ready and expended during subsequent towed flights.

The target TDU-34A/A has been designed to be deployed with or without TA/AS depending on mission requirements. The target without the TA/AS installed will be suitable for radar seeking missile firings. Dependent upon the TA/AS installed, the target will also be used to provide threat simulations for the following purposes:

a. infrared seeking missile firings

b. aircraft and shipboard gunnery firings

c. scoring gunnery and missile firings

d. threat missile radar signature simulation

The TDU-34A/A system will be classified as production items and will conform to the design, disclosed by the Master Data List (DL) for the target systems, or an equivalent bill-of-material to the extent that the design disclosed by the DL does not conflict with the requirements specified herein.