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Principles of Fire Support Flashcards

1
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What are the 4 types of assets for fire support?

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Mortars, Artillery, Naval Surface Fire Support, and Aviation assets.

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How many tubes in a 60mm section?

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3

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How many total Marines are in a 60s section?

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10 (3 Marines/tube + 1 Section Leader)

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What is the ECR of a 60mm mortar?

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30 meters

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What is the minimum range for a 60mm mortar?

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70 meters

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What is the maximum effective range for a 60mm mortar?

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3500 meters

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What is the rate of fire for a 60mm mortar (maximum and sustained)?

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Maximum - 30 rds/min

Sustained - 20 rds/min

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What are the ammo types for 60mm mortars?

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HE, WP, Illum, IR Illum

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What is the distance and duration of the illum for 60mm mortars?

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600m (300m in each direction) and 45 seconds

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What are the 3 types of fuzes for the 60mm mortar?

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Point Detonating (PD) or Quick (Q), Delay (D), Proximity (Prox) / Near Surface Burst

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How many 81mm mortars platoons are there per Battalion?

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How many 81mm mortar tubes per platoon?

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8 (4 tubes/section; 2 sections)

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How many Marines per tube?

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6

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How many Marines in a 81mm mortars platoon?

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69

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What is the ECR of 81mm mortars?

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35 meters

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What is the minimum range of 81mm mortars?

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83 meters

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What is the maximum effective range of 81mm mortars?

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5700 meters

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What is the Rate of Fire for 81mm mortars (maximum and sustained)?

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Maximum - 30 rds/min

Sustained - 15 rds/min

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What are the different types of ammo for 81mm mortars?

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RP, WP, Illum, IR Illum, HE

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What is the distance and duration of the illum for 80mm mortars?

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1000 meters and 60 seconds

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What are the 5 mortars capabilities?

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  • High volume of fire
  • Highly responsive asset
  • Light, mobile, and flexible
  • Fires from and into defilade
  • CO’s “hip pocket artillery”
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What are the 3 limitations of mortars?

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  • Long time of flight
  • Ammunition consumption
  • Multiple and frequent displacement
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What are the HE shell/fuze combos?

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  • PD/Q
  • Delay
  • Proximity/NSB
  • Time
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What are the WP/RP shell/fuze combos?

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  • PD/Q

- Time

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What are the illum/IR illum shell/fuze combos?

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  • Time
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What are the considerations of HE/PD?

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  • Blast and fragmentation

- Used for personnel and light-skinned vehicles

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What are the considerations for HE/Prox/NSB?

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  • Blast and fragmentation

- Personnel in open

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What are the considerations for HE/Delay?

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  • Blast, heat, and fragmentation
  • Penetrates hard targets (bunkers)
  • Personnel with overhead cover
  • Desire to reduce shrapnel in battlefield (friendly troops in maneuver)
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29
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What are the considerations for WP/RP / PD/Q/Time?

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  • Marking (day/night)
  • Incendiary (POL sites)
  • Screening or obsuring
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30
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What is the mission of Marine artillery?

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Destroy, neutralize, and suppress the enemy by cannon, rockets, and missile fire and to integrate all fire support assets into combined arms operations.

31
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What three tasks accomplish artillery’s mission?

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  • Provide close and continuous fire support to the maneuver units
  • Give depth to the battlefield (with long ranges, they are bale to attack reserves and assembly areas, interdict supply lines, and disrupt the enemy’s command and control facilities)
  • Deliver counter fire withing the range of our weapon systems to ensure freedom of movement for ground forces
32
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What is a Blast Attenuation Device (BAD)?

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It reduces the blast effects on the mortar crew for 81mm mortars

33
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An artillery battalion consists of what?

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  • (1) HQ battery

- (3) firing batteries

34
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How many Howitzers in each artillery battery?

35
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How many Marines per cannon section?

36
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How many Marines in an artillery battery?

37
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What is the ECR of a Howitzer?

38
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What is the maximum effective range of a Howitzer (with and without RAP)?

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  • 18,100m

- 30,100m

39
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What is the rate of fire for a M198 Howitzer (maximum and sustained)?

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Maximum - 4 rds / 3min

Sustained - maximum rate followed by 2 rds/min

40
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What are the three missions of Naval Surface Fire Support (NSFS)?

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  • Destroying or neutralizing shore installations that oppose the approach of ships and aircraft
  • Destroy or neutralize defenses that oppose the actual landing of the landing force
  • To provide support for the advance of the landing force ashore
41
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What are the 3 types of ships that provide NSFS?

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  • Destroyers (DD)
  • Guided Missile Destroyers (DDG)
  • Guided Missile Cruisers (CG)
42
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What are the NSFS capabilities?

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  • Mobility
  • Accuracy
  • Variety of ammunition
  • High initial velocity
  • Narrow, accurate deflection pattern
  • High rate of fire
43
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What are the NSFS limitations?

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  • Effects of hydrography
  • Fixing ship’s position
  • Effects of weather and visibility
  • Change GTL
  • Communications
44
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What is the max range of NSFS?

45
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What are the 4 types of ordnance aircraft carry?

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  • Bombs
  • Missiles
  • Rockets
  • Guns
46
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What is the EFSS?

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Expeditionary Fire Support System (M327 120mm)

47
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How many tubes per EFSS?

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6 tubes/battery

48
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How many Marines per tube (EFSS)?

49
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What is the ECR of the EFSS?

50
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What is the minimum and maximum range of the EFSS?

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Minimum - 1100m

Maximum - 8135m

51
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What is the Rate of Fire for the EFSS (maximum and sustained)?

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Maximum - 6 rds/min

Sustained - 2 rds/min

52
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What is the Rate of Fire for the M777A2 Howitzer (maximum and sustained)?

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Maximum - 5 rds/min

Sustained - 2 rds/min

53
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What are the ammo types for the EFSS?

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HE, WP, Illum, IR Illum

54
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What is a HIMARS?

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High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (M142)

55
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How many launches/battery for the HIMARS?

56
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What is the minimum and maximum ranges of the HIMARS?

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Regular (M31A)
Minimum - 15km
Maximum - 70km

ATACMS (M48)
Minimum - 70km
Maximum - 300km

57
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How many rockets per pod for the HIMARS?

58
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How many rockets per pod for the M48 ATACMS?

59
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Weapons kill and destroy in which 3 ways?

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  • Heat (flame and/or temperature)
  • Blast (concussion)
  • Fragmentation (projectile)
60
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What are the different kinds of bombs?

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  • General Purpose, High Explosive Bombs (dumb bombs)
  • Laser-Guided Bombs (LGBs)
  • Guided Bomb Units (GBUs)
  • Joint Direction Attack Munitions (JDAMs)
  • Fire bombs
    + MK-77 Firebomb
    + Fuel Air Exposive (FAE)
  • Cluster Bomb Unit (CBUs)
  • MK-20 Rockeye
  • Combined Effects Munitions (CEMs)
61
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What are the different kinds of missiles?

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  • AGM-65 Maverick Missile
  • AGM-14 Hellfire Missile
  • BGM-71 TOW Missile
62
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What are the different types of rockets?

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  • 2.75” Folding Fin Aerial Rocket (FFAR) rockets

- 5” “Zuni” rockets

63
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What are the different types of guns?

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  • GAU-12 125mm
  • M61A1 “Vulcan” cannon
  • M197 120mm Turret System
  • GAU-16 50 cal
  • GAU-17 “Minigun”
  • M240E
64
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What are the aircraft capabilities?

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  • Battlefield utility
  • CAS integration
  • Range
  • Maneuverability/Flexibility
  • Speed/Shock/Surprise
  • Shipboard Employment
  • Responsiveness
65
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What are the aircraft limitations?

A
  • Weather
  • Time on station
  • Vulnerability to Air/Ground attack
66
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How many rockets per pod for the ATACMS?

67
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Weapons kill and destroy in which 3 ways?

A
  • Heat (flame and/or temperature)
  • Blast (concussion)
  • Fragmentation (projectile)
68
Q

What are the different kinds of bombs?

A
  • General Purpose, High Explosive Bombs (dumb bombs)
  • Laser-Guided Bombs (LGBs)
  • Guided Bomb Units (GBUs)
  • Joint Direction Attack Munitions (JDAMs)
  • Fire bombs
    + MK-77 Firebomb
    + Fuel Air Exposive (FAE)
69
Q

What are the different kinds of missiles?

A
  • AGM-65 Maverick Missile
  • AGM-14 Hellfire Missile
  • BGM-71 TOW Missile
70
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What are the different types of rockets?

A
  • 2.75” Folding Fin Aerial Rocket (FFAR) rockets

- 5” “Zuni” rockets

71
Q

What are the different types of guns?

A
  • GAU-12 125mm
  • M61A1 “Vulcan” cannon
  • M197 120mm Turret System
  • GAU-16 50 cal
  • GAU-17 “Minigun”
  • M240E
72
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What are the aircraft capabilities?

A
  • Battlefield utility
  • CAS integration
  • Range
  • Maneuverability/Flexibility
  • Speed/Shock/Surprise
  • Shipboard Employment
  • Responsiveness
73
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What are the aircraft limitations?

A
  • Weather
  • Time on station
  • Vulnerability to Air/Ground attack

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