Weapons

Question 1

What are the different weapon effects?

Answer 1

Blast
Fragmentation
Armor penetration
Cratering
Incendiary

Question 2

What are the types of CAS weapons?

Answer 2

Guns
Bombs
Rockets
Missiles

Question 3

What different kind of bombs is there?

Answer 3

General purpose
Guided bomb unit
Cluster bomb unit

Question 4

What kind of guidance system does GBU bomb have?

Answer 4

GPS/INS
Laser guided

Question 5

How does a laser guided bomb works?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

How does a GPS/INS bomb work?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

How does a hybrid bomb work?

Answer 7

It gives several guidance options
- Laser only
- GPS/INS only
- GPS/INS with laser Override
All Weather capable

Question 8

Give at least three Examples av missiles

Answer 8

AGM 65 - Maverick
AGM 114 - hellfire
DMS brimstone

Question 9

What are the characteristics of AGM 65 maverick?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What kind of delivery methods are there?

Answer 10

Dive - all weapons possible
Toss - GB/GP/Rockets
Level - GB/GP low drag
Low level lay down - GP high drag

Question 11

What kind of fuses is there?

Answer 11

Impact
Delayed
Airburst

Question 12

What does TLE stand for?

Answer 12

Target location, error

Question 13

What is target location error?

Answer 13

The difference between your reported, target location, and the actual location

Question 14

What is CEP?

Answer 14

Circular error probable

50% of the ordinance will land within the CEP

Question 15

What is REDs?

Answer 15

Risk estimate distances NOT minimum safe distances

Question 16

What is the least minimum of a cloud base for a full performance of a GPU 12?

Answer 16

5000 feet cloudbase

Question 17

What type of guidance system does a GBU 49 have

Answer 17

Laser and GPS/INS

Question 18

What is the normal GBU delivery characteristics

Answer 18

Normally dropped from 20-25,000ft
Normally dropped from 4-12 nautical miles

Question 19

What are the two different methods of attack?

Answer 19

Bomb on coordinate
Bomb on target

Question 20

When is it advantageous to use bomb on coordinate?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Name at least three bomb on coordinate considerations?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Name at least three bomb on target considerations?

Answer 22

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