Fire Support Planning Flashcards
What is the purpose of fire support planning?
- To achieve effectiveness and efficiency from fire support assets in meeting fire support requirements of the force
- To determine the proper allocation of fire support
What is the FSCC?
Fire Support Coordination Center
- The agency where supported units plan and coordinate fire support
- Located with the combat operations center (COC)
The FSCC consists of what parts?
- Fire Support Coordinator (FSC)
- Liaison section
- Tactical Air Control Party (TACP)
- Shore Fire Control Party (SFCP)
- Mortar section
What is Targeting?
The process of selecting targets and matching the appropriate response to them taking into account operational requirements and capabilities.
What is a Target?
A target is a geographical area, complex, or installation planned for capture or destruction by military forces.
What do we target?
Known, suspected, and likely enemy positions
What’s the difference between a list of targets and a target list?
Lists of targets - a list of all targets that a subordinate commander feels are necessary to be engaged with indirect fires to support his scheme of maneuver
Target List - the consolidated list, sent from higher, with all the approved targets and their numbers
What are the two types of target?
- Point (200m in length and width or less)
- Linear (200 - 600m)
What is a target list worksheet?
- Document that facilitates fire planning by the FSC
- Preliminary listing of all targets and their descriptions from which the FSC can select and plan
What are planned targets?
Prearranged targets against which fires can be delivered quickly
What are the 4 types of planned targets?
- On-call targets
- Scheduled targets
- Priority targets (offense)
- Final Protective Fire (FPF) (defense)
What are the two categories of Fire Support Coordination Measures (FSCMs)?
- Permissive
- Restrictive
What are boundaries?
- Describe the zone of action or sector of a maneuver unit.
- Are usually assigned along terrain features easily recognizable on the ground.
- Are so situated that key terrain features and avenues of approach are completely included in the area assigned to a unit
- Also serve as the basic FSCM
What are the 3 types of restrictive FSCMs?
- Restrictive Fire Line (RFL)
- Restrictive Fire Area (RFA)
- No Fire Area (NFA)
What is an RFL?
A line established between converging friendly forces that prohibits fires, or effects of fires, across the line without coordination with the affected force
What is an RFA?
An area in which specific firing or coordination restrictions are imposed and into which fires in excess that exceeds those restrictions will not be delivered without coordination with the establishing headquarters
What is an NFA?
An area into which no fires or effects of fire are allowed
What are the command relationships for Fire Support Planning?
- General
- Direct
- Attached
What is the purpose of fire support in the preparation phase?
- Attacking targets as part of a deception effort
- Using smoke to screen the movement of friendly forces preparing for the attack
- Softening enemy defenses before the attack by engaging enemy indirect fire weapons, observation posts (OPs), reserves (or second echelon forces), command and control centers, logistic and assembly areas, or front line defenses
What is the purpose of fire support in the conduct phase?
Supporting the movement/maneuver and potential meeting engagements by:
- Providing responsive fires to leading elements
- Implementing an aggressive counter fire plan to prevent enemy indirect fires from unnecessarily delaying the advance
What is the purpose of fire support in the consolidation phase?
- Protecting friendly units during reorganization
- Breaking up enemy counterattack
- Preventing enemy reinforcement, disengagement, or resupply
What is the purpose of fire support in the exploitation phase?
- Providing mobile, flexible fire support for maneuvering units
- Placing fires on bypassed enemy pockets of resistance to fix them for attack by a more suitable means of fire and/or by follow-up forces
- Providing fires to slow enemy retreat
Defensive fire support planning is broken down into:
- Long range fires
- Close defensive fires
- Final Protective Fires (FPFs)
What are long range fires used for?
- Engage the enemy with deep fire to create confusion and cause him to deploy forces early
- Provides fire for security units such as patrols
- Use all available fire support to support the security force fight
What are close defensive fires used for?
- Mass fires to canalize and slow enemy forces
- Fire on obstacles to disrupt breaching effort and to inflict maximum casualties
- Use fire support to isolate enemy forward echelons
- Use smoke and other fires to assist supported units in disengaging and moving
- Fire to separate infantry from armor
What is an FPF?
An immediately available prearranged barrier of fire designed to impede enemy movement across defensive lines or areas
What are the lengths of FPFs?
Artillery - 300m
81mm - 280m
60mm - 90m
What are the Essential Fire Support Tasks (EFSTs)?
- Disrupt
- Delay
- Divert
- Destroy
- Limit
What are Fire Support Effects?
- Suppress
- Neutralize
- Destroy
- Screen/Obsure
EFST will be briefed through ______.
TPME
For a Platoon or Squad level, method is briefed using _________.
TTLODAC
What does TTLODAC stand for?
- Target
- Trigger
- Location
- Observer
- Delivery system
- Attack guidance
- Communications net
For a Company level or higher, method is briefed using ________.
Priority, Allocation, and Restriction
