the present invention relates to an object oriented architecture that includes a plurality of host aircraft interface objects that enable a plurality of different host aircraft or variants to be attached or interfaced to an associated store , such as a targeting pod or a weapon system . the union of all aircraft hosts and variants are packaged and maintained as one executable capable of adapting to the predetermined suite of identified hosts and host variants . at least one or more interface objects provide a virtual translation layer which is dynamically determined and allocated during instantiation . auto detection of the host aircraft / host aircraft variant provides the specific interface protocol by which the store can process and provide status via a predetermined signal format .