Six functions of Marine Aviation/ Aircraft and Air assault operations Flashcards
What are the six functions of Marine Corps Aviation?
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1. Ant-air Warfare
2. Assault Support
3. Air Recon
4. Control of Aircraft and Missiles
5. Electronic Warfare
6. Offensive Air Support
What are the two categories of air recon?
Strategic and Tactical
What are the three types of air recon?
Visual, Multi-sensor imagery, Electronic
What are the two types of anti-air warfare?
Offensive Anti-air warfare (OAAW) and Air defense?
What are the three categories of Offensive anti-air warfare?
pre-emptive measures, Suppression of enemy air defense, local air superiority measures
What are the two categories of Air defense?
active and passive
What are the subsets of electronic warfare?
electronic warfare support (ES), Electronic attack (EA), Electronic protection (EP)
What are the two categories of offensive air support?
Deep Air Support (DAS) and Close Air Support (CAS)
What are the seven categories of Assault support?
- Air logistical support
- air delivery
- combat assault support
- Air evacuation
- Battlefield illumination
- aerial refueling
- tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel (TRAP)
what functions does control of aircraft and missiles provide?
Air direction and air control
What are Vertical Assault Operations
- Tactical movement of Marines, weapons, and material to support the ground tactical plan
- Conducted with max speed, flex, and timeliness
- deliberate, precisely planned
What are the capabilities of vertical assault operations?
- Attack enemy positions from any direction
- bypass obstacles and barriers in inaccessible areas
- conduct deep attacks and raids beyond the foward line of friendly troops
- rapidly able to extend area of influence
- provide responsive reserves
- fast paced ops over extended distances
- rapid reinforcement
- night terrain flight via nvd’s and w/o illum
What are the limitations associated with vertical assault operations?
- severe weather and other environmental conditions
- reliance on airborne comms
- reduced ground mobility once inserted
- limited accessibility to supporting arms especially IDF
- increase logistical considerations
Wht are the vulnerabilities associated with assault support operations?
- AA defense during movement
- attack by NBC systems
- attacks during loading and unloading phase
- EW (jamming) due to reliance on comms
What is a ground tactical plan and what does it consist of?
- developed prior to air assault ops
- is the basis for derivation of other plans
- specifies actions in the objective area IOT accomplish the mission
- constructed and conducted with all the elements of a typical infantry attack
What is a landing plan and the considerations that must be made in its development?
It is the ground commander’s guidance on desired time, place, and sequence of arrival of units.
- smallest tactical unit in one wave should be a platoon
- assault force must be prepared to fight in any direction
- # of aircraft in each wave
- orientation of landing force and prior briefed plan
what is an air movement plan?
- based on ground tactical plan and the landing plan
- specifies when and how troops and other logistics are transported from PZs to LZs
- provides coord instructions for ingress and egress routes, Air control points, speeds, altitudes, and formations
The loading plan is designed to __________.
establish, organize, and control activities in the PZ , plan for movement of troops and equipment to the PZ, and establish priority of loading units.
Various aircraft capacities for planning purposes:
CH-46E = 12 troops
CH-53 = 24 troops
MC-22 = 24 troops
What is a stick?
the tactical unit, equipment, and supplies lifted in one aircraft.
What is contained within an LZ brief?
- mission number
- location
- unit call sign
- frequency
- LZ marking
- Wind direction and velocity
- Elevation/size
- Obstacles
- Fr pos: dist and dir
- En pos: dist and dir
- last fire received
- dist and dir of fire
- Clearance to fire: dist and dir
- approach
- personnal/equipment
- other
