Abstract: According to characteristics of target allocation in beyond visual range formation cooperative air combat,some issues about the application of distributed market mechanism to target allocation are studied.Firstly,the theory of distributed market mechanism is introduced and target announcement finished by active coordinator agent is brought forward.Then,the target allocation algorithms about initial state and combat process are set up.Furthermore,a new calculation method of target function is put forward.The simulation results and time complexity analysis prove that distributed market mechanism not only can finish target allocation in initial state and combat process,but also has better time efficiency than target allocation using predominance matrix.