Special Reconnaissance

Question 1

Define Special Reconnaissance

Answer 1

reconnaissance and surveillance actions conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments to collect or verify information of strategic or operational significance, employing military capabilities not normally found in conventional forces

Question 2

Define Target Acquisiton

Answer 2

• detection, identification, and location of a target in sufficient detail to permit the effective engagement of the target by appropriate lethal or non-lethal means
• could be tasked to engage, attack, or destroy that target

Question 3

Define Specific Data Collection

Answer 3

consists of all activities to collect a specified piece or type of information for purpose of planning for operations or missions intended to produce a non-lethal effect

Question 4

List the operational phases of a SR mission

Answer 4

Insertion (non-organic assets/resources)
Infiltration (movement to obj)
Collection
Exfiltration (movement from obj)
Extraction

Question 5

What is the difference between covert and clandestine?

Answer 5

Covert-conceal the identity of or permit plausible deniability by the sponsor
Clandestine-assure secrecy and concealment of the act

Question 6

What is the difference between detection and compromise?

Answer 6

detection-presence is known, ID and intent still unknown

compromise-identity, location, and intent is known

Question 7

Define Close Target Reconnaissance

Answer 7

a low-visibility method of gathering intel on an enemy target when conventional recon methods are not practical