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Aviation Employment Considerations Flashcards

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USMC Offensive Air Support (OAS) operations are divided into two major categories

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CAS (Close Air Support)

DAS (Deep Air Support)

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What is Offensive Air Support

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Air operations conducted against enemy installations, facilities, and personnel to directly assist the attainment of MAGTF objectives by the destruction of enemy resources or the isolation of his military force

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What is Deep Air Support

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Air action against enemy targets at such a distance from friendly forces that detailed integration of each mission with fire and movement of friendly forces is not required

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What is Air Interdiction

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Air operations conducted to destroy, neutralize, or delay the enemy’s military potential before it can be brought to bear effectively against friendly forces at such distance

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What is Armed Reconnaissance

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Locating and attacking targets of opportunity, i.e., enemy material, personnel, and facilities, in assigned general areas or along assigned ground communication routes, and not for the purpose of attacking specific/located briefed targets

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What is Strike Coordination and Reconnaissance

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A mission flown for the purpose of acquiring and reporting deep air support targets and coordinating armed reconnaissance or air interdiction missions upon those targets

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What is a Close Air Support

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Air action against hostile targets which are in close proximity to friendly forces and which require detailed integration of each air mission with the fire and movement of those forces.

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What are the 2 types of Close Air Support missions

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Preplanned, Immediate Mission

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What is a Preplanned Mission

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program and planned in advance of operations

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What are the 2 types of Preplanned Mission

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Schedule, On-call

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What is a schedule preplanned mission

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Executed at a specific time against a specific target at a known location

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What is a on call preplanned target

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aircraft that are preloaded for a particular target or array of targets and target area and placed in an appropriate ground/air alert status

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What is a Immediate Mission

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Missions that arise during battle, strike unanticipated targets, and are generally urgent in nature

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What are the 2 types of Immediate Mission

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Divert, On-call

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What is a divert immediate mission

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Require aircraft be re-tasked in air via radio in order to support a different mission

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What is a on-call immediate mission

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Employment of aircraft from a standby status (strip alert)

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What is Anti-air warfare

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destroy or reduce to an acceptable level the enemy air and missile threat

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What are the 2 general types of AAW

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Offensive AAW (OAAW) and Air Defense

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What is Offensive AAW (OAAW)

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operations conducted against enemy air or air defense systems before they can launch or assume an attacking role

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What is Air Defense

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Defensive measures designed to destroy attacking enemy aircraft or missiles or to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of such an attack

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Air Defense can be broken into 2 categories

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Active Air Defense/ Passive Air Defense

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What is Active Air Defense

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Direct defensive action taken to destroy attacking enemy aircraft or missiles or to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of such an attack

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What is Passive Air Defense

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Minimize the effects of hostile air action. These measures include the use of cover, concealment, camouflage, deception, dispersion, and protective construction

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What is the primary purpose of AAW

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Gain and maintain AIR SUPERIORITY

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What are general categories of assault support

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  • Combat Assault Support
  • Air Delivery
  • Aerial Refueling
  • Air Evacuation
  • Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel
  • Battlefield illumination
  • Air Logistical Support
  • Battlefield Illumination
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What is a Close Air Support

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Air action against hostile targets which are in close proximity to friendly forces and which require detailed integration of each air mission with the fire and movement of those forces.

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What are the 2 types of Close Air Support missions

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Preplanned, Immediate Mission

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What is a Preplanned Mission

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program and planned in advance of operations

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What are the 2 types of Preplanned Mission

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Schedule, On-call

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What is a schedule preplanned mission

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Executed at a specific time against a specific target at a known location

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What is a on call preplanned target

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aircraft that are preloaded for a particular target or array of targets and target area and placed in an appropriate ground/air alert status

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What is a Immediate Mission

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Missions that arise during battle, strike unanticipated targets, and are generally urgent in nature

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What are the 2 types of Immediate Mission

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Divert, On-call

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What is a divert immediate mission

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Require aircraft be re-tasked in air via radio in order to support a different mission

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What is a on-call immediate mission

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Employment of aircraft from a standby status (strip alert)

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What is Anti-air warfare

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destroy or reduce to an acceptable level the enemy air and missile threat

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What are the 2 general types of AAW

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Offensive AAW (OAAW) and Air Defense

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What is Offensive AAW (OAAW)

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operations conducted against enemy air or air defense systems before they can launch or assume an attacking role

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What is Air Defense

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Defensive measures designed to destroy attacking enemy aircraft or missiles or to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of such an attack

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Air Defense can be broken into 2 categories

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Active Air Defense/ Passive Air Defense

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What is Active Air Defense

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Direct defensive action taken to destroy attacking enemy aircraft or missiles or to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of such an attack

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What is Passive Air Defense

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Minimize the effects of hostile air action. These measures include the use of cover, concealment, camouflage, deception, dispersion, and protective construction

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What is the primary purpose of AAW

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Gain and maintain AIR SUPERIORITY

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What are general categories of assault support

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  • Combat Assault Transport
  • Air Delivery
  • Aerial Refueling
  • Air Evacuation
  • Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel
  • Air Logistical Support
  • Battlefield Illumination
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What is the purpose of Air Reconnaissance

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Reduce the commander’s unknown risks

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What are the 2 types of Air Reconnaissance

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Strategic Reconnaissance and Tactical Reconnaissance

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What is Strategic Reconnaissance

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Gathering of information, used to affect policy on the national or international level

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What is Tactical Reconnaissance

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use of air vehicles to obtain information concerning terrain, weather, and the disposition, composition, movement, installations, lines of communications, electronic and communication emissions of enemy forces

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What 3 subsection Air Reconnaissance broken down to

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Visual, Multi-Sensor Imagery, Electronic

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What is Visual Air Reconnaissance

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Gathering of information by aircrew by looking through the window of the cockpit or through sensors and verbally passing what is seen to the ground forces

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What is Multi-Sensor Imagery Air Reconnaissance

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passing of imagery from aircraft to ground forces

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What is Electronic Air Reconnaissance

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Gathering of information on how the enemy is utilizing the electromagnetic spectrum

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What subset is Electronic Warfare consist of

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  • Electronic Attack (EA)
  • Electronic Warfare Support (ES)
  • EP (Electronic Protection)
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What is Electronic Attack (EA)

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Use of electromagnetic energy to determine, reduce, exploit or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum and action which retains friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum

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What is Electronic Warfare Support (ES)

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Actions taken under direct control of an operational commander to search for, intercept, identify, and locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition

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What is EP (Electronic Protection)

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Actions taken to protect personnel, facilities, and equipment from any effects of friendly or enemy employment of EW that degrade, neutralize, or destroy friendly combat capability

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he principle objectives of the Marine Air Command and Control System (MACCS) are to

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  • Enhance unity of effort
  • Integrate the elements of the command and control system.
  • Disseminate common situational awareness
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What is TYPE 2 Terminal Control

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  1. Used when FAC/JTAC is unable to acquire the target and/or the attacking aircraft.
  2. Attacking aircraft is unable to acquire the target or mark prior to weapons release.
  3. FAC/JTAC is in control of individual attacks.
  4. “Cleared Hot” for each attacking aircraft.
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What is Air Control

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Authority to direct the physical maneuver of aircraft in flight or to direct an aircraft or surface-to-air weapon unit to engage a specific target

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What is Airspace Management

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Coordination, integration and regulation of the use of airspace of defined dimensions

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What is Airspace Control

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Authority to direct the maneuver of aircraft so that the best use is made of assigned airspace

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What control of aircrafts and missiles

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TPS-59 = Long Range Radar System

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What is TYPE 1 Terminal Control

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  1. FAC/JTAC can see both the target and the attacking aircraft during terminal control.
  2. Attacking aircraft must visually acquire the target or mark.
  3. FAC/JTAC is in control of individual attacks.
  4. “Cleared HOT”for each attacking aircraft.
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What is TYPE 3 Terminal Control

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  1. AO boundaries
  2. Target Precedence
  3. Time
  4. Geometry
  5. “Cleared to Engage”
    Pilot will respond back with “Commencing Engagement”
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What basic conditions must be employed to optimize CAS employment

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  • Effective training and proficiency
  • Planning and integration
  • Command, control, and communications (C3).
  • Air superiority
  • Target marking and acquisition
  • Streamlined and flexible procedures
  • Appropriate ordnance
  • Favorable weather
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One nautical mile equals in KM

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2KM

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9 Lines Brief =

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  1. IP/BP
  2. Heading (OffSet)
  3. Distance
  4. Elevation*
  5. Description
  6. Location*
  7. Mark
  8. Friendlies
  9. Egress
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Line 3 = Distance

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  1. Fixed wing
    - Straight line distance from IP to target in nautical miles to the nearest tenth
  2. Rotary wing
    - Straight line distance from center of BP to target in meters to the nearest 100 meters
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Line 4 = Elevation

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  1. Communicated in Feet
  2. Most military charts have conversion intervals in Meters
    - Meters x 3.3 = Feet
  3. Needed for weapons accuracy
  4. At completion of 9 Line, Aircraft is required to read this line back.
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Line 9 = Egress

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“Egress,” is used before delivering the egress instructions

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What is TOT

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  1. Based on GPS time
    - Any Accessible GPS
  2. Used to coordinate/integrate fires
  3. Clock time (in minutes) bombs impact target
  4. Pilot will read back lines 4, 6, and restrictions

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