Air Recon
The three primary categories of air reconnaissance used by military aviation.
What are Visual, Imagery and Electronic
This weapon control status indicates that crews should only fire in self-defense or in response to a formal order.
What is Weapons Hold?
The use of aircraft to provide tactical mobility and logistical support for the MAGTF.
What is Assault Support?
Passive and active means taken to protect personnel, facilities, and equipment from any effects of friendly or enemy employment of electronic warfare that degrade, neutralize, or destroy friendly combat capability.
What is Electronic Protection?
Operations conducted against enemy air assets, air defense systems before they can be launched or assume an attacking role.
What is Offensive Counter Air?
National and international level reconnaissance.
What is Strategic Level?
This mission set focuses on neutralizing or destroying enemy air defenses.
What is SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses)?
The purpose is to provide a standardized format by which units can request helicopter and fixed wing assault support.
What is Assault Support Request?
Involves the use of electromagnetic energy, directed energy, or anti-radiation weapons to attack personnel, facilities, or equipment with the intent of degrading, neutralizing, or destroying enemy combat capability and is considered a form of fires.
What is Electronic Attack?
List of aircraft capable of providing aerial refueling.
What is KC-130J and Ch-53E?
Levels of War.
What is Strategic, Operational and Tactical Reconnaissance?
These are the purpose Anti-Air Warfare are Offensive Counter Air and Defensive Counter Air.
What is Force Protection and Air Superiority?
The acronym of TRAP.
What is Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel?
Actions tasked by or under direct control of an operation commander to search for, intercept, identify, and locate, or localize sources of intentional and unintentional radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition, targeting planning, and conduct of future operations.
What is Electronic Warfare Support?
Marine Corps Variant Electronic Warfare Platform.
What is F-35B?
This sub category of imagery reconnaissance uses infrared and radar sensors to detect targets in-light or obstructed conditions.
What is Non-optical Imagery?
Defined as a U.S Navy / Marine Corps term used to indicate that action required to destroy or reduce the enemy air and missile threat to an acceptable level.
What is Anti-Air Warfare?
Types of Assault Support Requests.
What is Preplanned and Immediate?
Any military action involving the use of electromagnetic and directed energy to control the electromagnetic spectrum or to attack the enemy.
What is Electronic Warfare?
This acronym refers to a defined airspace where the responsibility for engaging air threats rests primarily with fighter aircraft.
What is the Fighter Engagement Zone (FEZ)?
Acquisition of information by employing visual observation and/or sensors in air vehicles.
What is Air Reconnaissance?
Type of measures conducted within Defensive Counter Air.
What is Active and Passive?
The most involved MACCS air control agency, responsible for air operations directly supporting ground and maritime forces as well the execution of anti-air warfare.
What is the Multi-Functional Air Operations Center (MAOC)?
The battalion's mission is to conduct ground-based Electronic Warfare, primarily communication-related in nature.
What is Radio Battalion?
The U.S. Marine Corps' strategic overhaul to transform into a faster, lighter, and more technologically advanced force designed to combat near-peer adversaries, particularly in the Indo-Pacific.
What is Force Design 2030?