Abstract: A military range safety light signaling system used on combat vehicles of e type having a freely rotatable gun turret. The signaling system is comprised of a vertical column of lights, preferably three lights from top to bottom of red, amber, and green in a regular traffic light pattern and a rotating flashing light mounted on the left rear of the gun turret. The rotating flashing light is preferably an interchangable infrared beacon mounted high above the turret for use in live fire exercise or an amber light for use in highway movement of the combat vehicle. An operator inside the combat vehicle may selectively switch on any combination of the vertical column of lights and the rotating flashing light to represent the operating status of the vehicle weapons system and its movement.

Abstract: An infrared safety beacon apparatus used on manned U.S. Army vehicles during live fire training exercises to distinguish them from heated silouette targets when exercise personnel use infrared viewers to observe the accuracy of fired rounds hitting the silouette targets. The apparatus includes a cylindrical shaped heater fixed to a vertical hollow tube attached to the tank. The infrared radiation emittal from the heater toward a viewer is controlled by a rotating cylindrically shaped chopper positioned over the heater. The chopper has openings over about one half of the circumference to provide intermittent flashes of infrared spectrum energy toward the viewer. The flashes are easily distinguishable from the steady infrared spectrum emitted from the silouette targets.