Weapons Flashcards
What are the different weapon effects?
Blast
Fragmentation
Armor penetration
Cratering
Incendiary
What are the types of CAS weapons?
Guns
Bombs
Rockets
Missiles
What different kind of bombs is there?
General purpose
Guided bomb unit
Cluster bomb unit
What kind of guidance system does GBU bomb have?
GPS/INS
Laser guided
How does a laser guided bomb works?
The bomb is released on a ballistic path.
The laser seeker in the nose searches for reflected laser energy from the target .
Laser energy, matching the preset pulse repetition frequency is detected the onboard computer and signal to the wings in order to steer the bomb towards the target.
This is a weather dependent bomb
How does a GPS/INS bomb work?
GPS aided on board INS
Bomb is fed with target location and the bombs current position, altitude, speed, and heading shortly before release
INS guidance only until satellites acquired
On board computer send signal to the tail kit wings in order to steer the bomb towards the target
All weather capable
How does a hybrid bomb work?
It gives several guidance options
- Laser only
- GPS/INS only
- GPS/INS with laser Override
All Weather capable
Give at least three Examples av missiles
AGM 65 - Maverick
AGM 114 - hellfire
DMS brimstone
What are the characteristics of AGM 65 maverick?
Guidance is TV IR or laser
Warhead is 300 pounds blast penetrator or 125 pounds shaped charge
Penetrator used against concrete, bunkers and ships
Charge used against tanks
What kind of delivery methods are there?
Dive - all weapons possible
Toss - GB/GP/Rockets
Level - GB/GP low drag
Low level lay down - GP high drag
What kind of fuses is there?
Impact
Delayed
Airburst
What does TLE stand for?
Target location, error
What is target location error?
The difference between your reported, target location, and the actual location
What is CEP?
Circular error probable
50% of the ordinance will land within the CEP
What is REDs?
Risk estimate distances NOT minimum safe distances
What is the least minimum of a cloud base for a full performance of a GPU 12?
5000 feet cloudbase
What type of guidance system does a GBU 49 have
Laser and GPS/INS
What is the normal GBU delivery characteristics
Normally dropped from 20-25,000ft
Normally dropped from 4-12 nautical miles
What are the two different methods of attack?
Bomb on coordinate
Bomb on target
When is it advantageous to use bomb on coordinate?
When the joint terminal attack controller determines that he can create the side effect on the target with close air support aircraft, and ordinance employing on a specified set of coordinates
Name at least three bomb on coordinate considerations?
The aircraft must do a readback from systems
All aircraft employing kinetic effect must read back from systems
TLE main factor must match ground commanders, intent, and rules of engagement
Name at least three bomb on target considerations?
Only the lead aircraft is required to read back the close air support brief all attacking aircraft will conduct readback if requested by the JTAC
It requires that the air crew is tally/contact/captured the JTACs intended target or aim point
Useful also against mobile targets and when JTAC is not able to generate low TLE coordinates
