Block 6: Missions-C. Warfare Missions Flashcards
What does AAW stand for?
Anti-Air Warfare
What is the AAW?
The detection, tracking, destruction or Neutralization of enemy air platforms and airborne weapons, whether launched by the enemy from air, surface, subsurface, or land platforms.
What are the hornet’s specific strength’s?
They lie in it’s ability to detect contacts at medium range (around 40nms) and contacts that are not hot to the fighters (i.e. beaming, dragging, or flanking).
What are the different areas that the hornet performs AAW?
Pre strike sweep (Offensive Counter Air - OCA), Close Escort - (Defensive Counter Air - DCA), and High Value Airborne Asset Protection (HVAAP).
What does OCA stand for?
Offensive Counter Air
What does DCA stand for?
Defensive Counter Air
What does HVAAP stand for?
High Value Airborne Asset Protection
Describe an OCA area.
A stand-alone sweep into enemy territory to attack enemy aircraft.
Describe an DCA area.
An attached or detached shielding fighter element to a strike package.
Describe an HVAAP area.
Normally escorts the prowler into enemy territory to protect it from enemy airborne attack.
What does AMW stand for?
Amphibious Warfare
What is AMW?
Attacks launched from the sea by naval forces and by landing forces embarked in ships or craft designed to achieve a shore presence in a littoral zone.
What is included in AMW?
Fire support for troops in contact with enemy forces through the use of close air support or shore bombardment.
What does the hornet primarily perform AMW through?
Close Air Support (CAS) and are controlled via a ground based Forward Air Controller (FAC) or a Forward Air Controller - Airborne (FAC-A) an air based controller in an F-14 or A-10.
What does CAS involve during AMW?
Pilot checking in with the FAC or FAC-A and having their eyes talked onto the target area from large features to small until they have the actual target in sight. They then drop ordnance on the target, and may get corrections from the FAC for follow on ordnance delivery.
