Weapons Flashcards
What TC covers rifle and carbine?
TC 3-22.9
What are the three employment skills to achieve accurate and precise shots consistently during combat operations?
Accuracy, precision, and consistency.
What are the 3 components of safe weapons handling?
- Soldier: must maintain situational understanding of friendly forces, the status of the weapon, and the ability to evaluate the environment to properly handle any weapon.
- Weapon: primary tool of soldiers to defeat threats in combat. Soldier must know of and how to operate mechanical safeties built into the weapons they employ, as well as the principles of operation for those weapons.
- Environment: soldiers surroundings. Must be aware of muzzle discipline, the nature of the target, and what is behind it.
What are the 4 rules of firearms safety?
- Treat every weapon as if it is loaded.
- Never point the weapon at anything you do not intend to destroy.
- Keep finger straight and off the trigger until ready to fire.
- Ensure positive identification of the target and its surroundings.
What does the acronym WSS stand for?
Weapon safety status
What three colors are used to represent a weapons safety status, and what do they mean?
- Green: the weapon’s magazine is removed, it’s chamber is empty, it’s bolt is locked open or forward, and the selector is set to safe.
- Amber: a magazine is locked into the magazine well of the weapon, the bolt is forward on an empty chamber, the ejection bolt cover should be closed, and the selector should be set to safe.
- Red: the weapon’s magazine is inserted, a round is in the chamber, the bolt is forward and locked, the ejection port cover is closed, and the selector is set to safe.
What does the acronym WCS stand for?
Weapons control status
Provide a description of the standard WCS used in training and combat.
- Weapons hold: engage only if engaged or ordered to engage.
- Weapons tight: engage only if target is positively identified as enemy.
- Weapons free: engage targets not positively identified as friendly.
What are the 4 attributes that develop the soldiers direct fire engagement skills?
- Smart: the ability to routinely generate understanding through changing conditions.
- Fast: the ability to physically and cognitively outmaneuver adversaries.
- Lethal: deadly in the application of force.
- Precise: consistently accurate in the application of power to ensure deliver of the right effects in time, space, and purpose.
What are the components of overmatch?
- Target detection, acquisition, and identification.
- Engagement range
- Limited visibility
- Precision
- Speed
- Terminal performance
Provide a description of the M-4 series Carbine.
A lightweight, 5.56mm, magazine fed, gas operated, air cooled, shoulder fired carbine.
Depending on the position of the selector lever, how many firing modes does the M-4 series Carbine present?
- Semi-automatic (single shot)
- Three round burst
- Automatic
What are the 8 phases of the cycle of function for the M-4 series Carbine?
- Feeding
- Chambering
- Locking
- Firing
- Unlocking
- Extracting
- Ejecting
- Cocking
What is feeding?
Feeding is the process of mechanically providing a cartridge of ammunition to the entrance of the chamber.
What is chambering?
The continuing action of the feeding round into the chamber of the weapon.
