page_title: Seaborne target
section_title: Free-floating targets
hierarchical_section_title: Seaborne target / Free-floating targets
caption_attribution_description: English: Baltic Sea (Jun. 11, 2003) -- Sailors launch a "killer tomato" prior to executing a small arms training exercise aboard the Ticonderoga class cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) during the annual maritime exercise Baltic Operations 2003 (BALTOPS 2003). A "killer tomato" is a large orange balloon used as a target during live fire targeting exercises for small caliber weapons. The United States and 12 other nations are participating in this year's exercise. BALTOPS 2003 is intended to improve interoperability between allies and Partnership for Peace countries by conducting a peace support operation at sea including exercises in gunnery, replenishment-at-sea, undersea warfare, radar tracking, mine countermeasures, seamanship, search and rescue, maritime interdiction operations, and scenarios dealing with potentially real world crises. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Michael Sandberg. (RELEASED)
context_page_description: Seaborne targets are vessels or floating structures that are shot at for practice by naval or air forces. They may be remotely controlled and mobile, or towed behind other craft, or just set adrift in the sea.
context_section_description: Navies have used all sort of equipment thrown overboard for gunnery practice, such as empty barrels. 
  Modern free-floating targets are large, inflatable and bright orange; hence the nickname "killer tomato".
caption: Sailors launch a "killer tomato" for use in a small arms training exercise
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