Aviation Tactical Employment (.1) Flashcards
What are the components of any plan?
Task org, mission statement, commanders intent, concept of the operations, task to suborindate units, coordinating instructions and control measures
What does the commanders intent include?
Expanded purpose, key tasks, end state
What should concept of the operation include?
nesting of operations, sequencing of actions, decisive points, lines of effort, cooridnating instructions, tasks to suborindate units, control measures
What planning process does the company use?
TLPs
Receive the mission
Issue the WARNORD
Make a tentative plan
Initiate movement
Conduct recon
Complete the plan
Issue the order
Supervise and refine
How should the company organize planning cells?
threat planning cell
maneuver planning cell
fires planning cell
protection and contigency planning cell
sustainment planning cell
command and signal planning cell
How do we validate mission planning products?
Triple check mission parameters, sanity check, kneeboard products
What are the mission variables?
METT-TC
What is the standard landing point for aircraft?
AH/UH: 50m
CH: 80m
When generating a route, what is the first consideration?
Threat location
What should routes avoid?
Populated areas and man-made features
What are some pros/cons for NOE flight?
Pros: limits enemy LOS, maintains element of surprise, decreased audio signature, quickly mask aircraft
Cons: fatigue, greater risk at CFT, reduced visbility, easiest for direct fires, low situational awareness for surrounding area, LOS communications degraded
What are some pros/cons for contour flight?
Pros: may draw fires off friendly forces, faster method of maneuver, reduced power demand
Cons: minimal time to react to aircraft malfunction, risk of inadvertent exposure to enemy early waring
What are some pros/cons for low level flight?
Pros: altitude for maneuvers, increased reaction time
Cons: aircraft are continuously exposed
What are the pros/cons for flying greater than 500’ AHO?
Pros: least fatiguing, most time to react, enhanced communications LOS
Cons: Aircraft continually exposed, weather may become factor, may be above coordination level,
What are the pros/cons of flying below 40kts?
Pros: easier to detect threats and obstacles
Cons: highest power demand and fuel consumption, poor maneuverability, large power application required to initiate maneuvers, easier target, susceptibility to winds
What are the pros/cons flying 40-70 kts?
Pros: most stable platform, good sprint speed, reduces power requirements and avoid ranges
Cons: Increased risk of obstacles when flying NOE, not fast enough to break LOS with enemy systems
What are the pros/cons flying 70-110kts?
Pros: lowest power demand/fuel consumption rates, best maneuvering characteristics, harder to be engaged by unguided munitions
Cons: requires more area to maneuver, increased risk of obstacles when NOE, less time to observe targets
What are the pros/cons flying more than 110kts?
Pros: cover large areas quickly, best range speeds, best speed to escape enemy WEZ
Cons: hard to observe objects, well space formations, unable to quickly react to contact
What can aviation do to support a deception plan?
False insertions, flying multiple alternate routes, deception fires on ADA, false task org movements
What should planners ask themselves when planning for SEAD?
Can the system be avoided? Can this system be suppressed? Must this system be destroyed?
What are the 2 types of personnel recovery?
Immediate and unassisted
What are the advantages and disadvantages of combat cruise?
A: excellent control, excellent firepower at the flanks, quickly change to other formations, rapid movement, increased security
D: Limited firepower towards front and rear, had to control as formation elongates
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the wedge?
A: excellent fires forward and good to the flanks, platoon leader has good observation
D: difficult in closed terrain, entire formation can be exposed at once
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the line?
A: maximum fire power to the front, Maximum exposure. Of aircraft over a certain point on the ground, Maximum visibility at the front, easily maneuver forward.
D: providing minimal observation and fire to the flanks, limiting maneuverability to the flanks, limited control due to flexibility,
What are the movement techniques?
Traveling: enemy not likely, using low level or contour
Traveling overwatch: enemy possible, use contour or NOE
Bounding overwatch: enemy expected, use NOE
What are the actions on contact?
deploy and report
evaluate and develop the situation
choose a COA
execute COA
Recommend COA to higher
What does the combat maneuver circle explain?
Proximity to the threat and maneuverability. If you are within 1.5km from the threat, you may do things like a break turn or split turn
What are the forms of security?
screen, guard, cover
What are the pros/cons of exiting the UH60 on one side?
Pros: simplifies control, gunner opposite of exit side can still engage targets without field of fire being restricted
Cons: Slowest
What are the pros/cons of exiting the UH60 on both sides?
Pros: quickest
Cons: Masks both door gunners fires to the front
How many soldiers can SPIES extract?
14
What does FRIES provide?
Rapid insertion when an aircraft can’t land but limits the equipment that can be taken
What are the 2 types of air movements?
Tactical-facilitates the accomplishment of a higher tactical mission
Nontactical-expedites movement and optimizes time/resources with limited to no enemy threat
What resupply routes are there?
Hub and spoke: smaller routes typically lead to more efficient use of transportation resources, complex operations can be carried out at the hub. Daily operations become highly predictable which increases susceptibility to enemy attack, can bottleneck, and scheduling can be tough
Point to point: reduces mission time and eliminates connections, less prone to delays.
