#1 Anti-Submarine & Surface Warfare Stack 1-30 Flashcards
Who serves as the safety observer during an ASW operation?
(CO as in the) Conning Officer or OOD/JOOD.
Who coordinates CIC/CDC functions, assist the TAO/Evaluator, and monitors CDC communications?
CDC Watch Officer.
Who assist the TAO and monitors communications during IAS?
CDCWO / CICWO.
Who issues torpedo countermeasures, weapons policy, and ETA to TDA to other separately detached from a formation in order to search for and attack submarines?
The Search Attack Unit (SAU) Commander.
Who’s executes Red and Black plans?
Scene of Action Commander.
Who coordinates supporting TACAIR and long-range patrol aircraft ASUW actions with surface cruise missile ships?
Surface action group commander (SAGC).
What is the role of the SWG-1A Engagement Planner?
Enters target and background ship contact data received from various plots and TDPs into the HSCLCS to support harpoon engagement planning.
Who is responsible for accomplishing the mission in the tactical direction method of air control?
The aircraft commander.
Who is responsible for coordinating targeting efforts and refining target data, supervising planning procedures, and monitoring safe employment criteria?
The ASUW Evaluator.
What activity manages the Blue Force contact database beyond any particular battle group area of interest?
The Fleet Commander Center (FCC).
What ASW evasive measures should a screen unit use in a submarine threat area?
Should employ towed decoys;
Patrol sector at a 3-6 knot advantage to ensure a complete patrol; and remain on a steady course no longer than three minutes.
What responsibilities may the OTC delegate to the screen commander (SC)?
Ordering actions to be taken by screen units if a ship is torpedoed and designating air control units for screening helicopters.
What directives contain anti-submarine warfare (ASW) airplans and air attack methods?
ATP-1 (C) volume I; NWP 3-22 (series); and ASW TACAID.
Airborne radar is primarily limited by what factor doing an ASW search?
The sea state; in the sea state 4 and above, the probability of periscope detection is significantly decreased.
What P-3C system processes active or passive sonobuoy signals to detect, analyze and classify submarines?
DIFAR (Directional Frequency Analysis and Recording).
What are the primary aircraft ASW weapons?
Torpedoes, rockets, depth charges, harpoons, mines, and bombs.
What area must a submarine enter to be within maximum striking distance of a mission essential unit?
Torpedo Danger Zone (TDZ).
What is a Limiting Line of Approach (LLA)?
A change of station from datum to optimum firing position (TDZ).
What must be known or assumed to construct a Limiting Line of Approach (LLA)?
The formation’s base course and speed and the submarine’s approach speeds (Max sonar speed, quiet speed, etc.).
What sound-powered phone circuit is used for one-way communication from sonar to CIC/CDC?
61JS.
What is the best capable mine laying aircraft in the US inventory?
B-52D Stratofortress.
What is CAPTOR?
Encapsulated Torpedo ASW (mine) with a MK 46 torpedo.
What is the SSQ-77B?
Passive Vertical Line Array (DIFAR {VLAD}).
What is the SSQ-62B?
Directional Command Activated Sonobuoy System (DICASS).
What type of special purpose bowie is used for air-subsurface communications?
ATAC (air-dropped two-way communications).
What is indicated by the CERTSUB (certain submarine) classification?
A contact that has been sighted and positively identified by competent personnel as a submarine.
What is indicated by the PROBSUB (probable submarine) classification?
A contact displaying strong cumulative evidence of being a submarine.
What assessment must always accompany a POSSUB classification?
Low or High Confidence Contact.
What is indicated by the NONSUB (non-submarine) classification?
A contact has characteristics that exclude the possibility that it is a submarine.
What type of search is used when a torpedo-firing submarine is in position to menace a mission-essential unit (MEU)?
An intercept search (application of a close search).
