What are the steps of the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP)?
Receive Mission
Mission Analysis
COA Development
COA Analysis
COA Comparison
COA Approval
Orders Production
What is PTL and STL?
an azimuth assigned to a weapon system or
unit along which the system fire control personnel and or gunners focus
their attention.
a pre-planned alternative target line used to
shift the orientation of fires to assure all likely threat avenues of ingress
are adequately defended
What are the three types of defense?
Area Defense
Point Defense
Self Defense
What is the Mutual Support employment tenet?
Fires on one weapon can engage targets in dead zone of adjacent weapons
What is the Kill Chain?
the successive linkage of commanders who can authorize
engagements of air and missile threats
What is the Fire Control Orders ROE?
•Engage
•Hold Fire
•Cease Fire
•Cease Engagement
•Engage Hold
•Stop Fire
•Cover
What are the 7 Rules of Engagement (ROE)?
• Rights of Self Defense
• ID Criteria
• Weapons Control Status
• Level of Control
• Modes of Control
• Autonomous Operations
• Fire Control Orders
What are Engagement Operations?
establishing an air picture,
determining the classification and identification of all tracks, evaluating the
threat these tracks pose to the defended assets, and exercising engagement
control over subordinate units
What is the Overlapping Fires employment tenet?
Engagement areas of both weapons overlap.
What are the five functions of Sustainment Activities?
•Manning
•Arming
•Fueling
•Fixing
•Moving
What are the Army Command Relationships?
• Organic.
• Assigned.
• Attached.
• Operational Control (OPCON).
• Tactical Control (TACON).
• Administrative Control (ADCON).
What is the Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) process?
Define the OE
Describe OE effects
Evaluate the threat
Determine threat COAs
What are Force Operations?
the conditions for successful and sustained
engagement operations
What is the Balanced Fires employment tenet?
Weapons positioned to deliver equal volumes of fires in all directions
What are the Defense Readiness Conditions?
progressive alert postures primarily for use
between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the commanders of unified commands
What are the ADA employment principles?
Mass
Mix
Mobility
Integration
Flexibility
Agility
What are the ADAFCO?
the single point of contact between Army land-based AMD fire direction centers and the joint/Army controlling authority
What are the four support relationships, describe them?
General Support, General Support- Reinforcing, Reinforcing Support, Direct Support
What is the Weighted Coverage employment tenet?
Concentrate fire on the most likely enemy avenue of approach
What is Offensive and Defensive Counterair?
offensive operations to destroy or
neutralize enemy aircraft, missile launch platforms, and their supporting structures and systems
all defensive measures designed to
neutralize or destroy enemy forces attempting to penetrate or attack through friendly airspace
What is the Engagement Sequence?
Surveil
Detect
Track/ID
Threat Evaluation
Engage
Assess
What is TADIL?
Tactical Digital Information Link, used for distributing air picture data and C2
data such as real-time tracks, unit status information, engagement
status, and engagement operations orders among joint service
TAMD systems and C2 level nodes
What are the Methods of Fire?
Shoot-new-target-shoot, Shoot-look-shoot, Ripple,
Salvo
What is the Early Engagement and Defense in Depth employment tenet?
Position weapons and sensors so they engage before ordnance release
and
Position weapons so threats come under increasing volume of fire
How do we determine Air and Missile Defense Priorities?
Criticality
Vulnerability
Threat
(CVT)