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What ADP covers FIRES? |
ADP 3-09 covers Fires |
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What do Fires Forces create for the Army and Joint Force Commander? |
Fires Forces create Responsive, Scalable, and Accurate Fires providing Unprecedented Reach and Mobility |
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What type of Strategy has The Fires Center of Excellence Developed? |
The Fires Center of Excellence has Developed a Fires Strategy that provides an Excellent Framework for the Evolution and Synergy of the Air Defense Artillery and the Field Artillery |
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What does the Acronym AMD stand for? |
Air and Missile Defense |
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What does the Acronym EA stand for? |
Electronic Attack |
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What is Fires? |
the Use of Weapons Systems to Create specific Lethal or Nonlethal Effects on a Target |
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What is the Fires Warfighting Function? |
the Related Tasks and Systems that provide Collective and Coordinated use of Army Indirect Fires, AMD, and Joint Fires through the Targeting Process |
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What are the Tasks of the Fires Warfighting Function? |
Deliver Fires 2. Integrate All forms of Army, Joint and Multinational Fires 3. Conduct Targeting |
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What is Fires responsible for Synchronizing? |
Army Indirect Fires, AMD, and Joint Fires with the effects of other Warfighting Functions |
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What are the Tasks the Fires Function Must Accomplish to Complement and Reinforce the other Warfighting Functions? |
Planning for Targeting; providing Fire Support; Countering Air, Ballistic Missile, Cruise Missile, Rocket, Artillery, Mortars, and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Threats; and Integrating Joint and Multinational Fires |
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What do Fires Leaders use for Ground Threats? |
For Ground Threats, Fires Leaders use the Army’s Targeting Methodology to Plan, Prepare, Execute and Assess Effects on the Ground |
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What do Fires Leaders use for Aerial Threats? |
For Aerial Threats, Fires Leaders use Air Defense Planning to determine Air Defense Priorities and the Tailoring of Air Defense Artillery Capabilities to Defeat Aerial Threats |
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What is the Role of Fires? |
The Role of Fires is to Enable Army Forces to Seize and Retain the Initiative, Prevent and Deter Conflict, Defeat Adaptive Threats and Succeed in a Wide Range of Contingencies |
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What are the Core Competencies of Fires? |
1. Air Defense Artillery 2. Field Artillery |
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What are Critical Capabilities of Fires? |
1. Target Acquisition 2. Target Discrimination 3. Target Engagement |
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What are the Principles of Fires? |
1. Precision 2. Scalable 3. Synchronized 4. Responsive 5. Networked |
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What are the Characteristics of Fires? |
1. All Weather 2. Precision/Near Precision Fires 3. Mass Area Fires 4. Air and Space Integration 5. Inherently Joint |
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What does Fires Support for Unified Land Operations? |
Offensive, Defensive and Stability Tasks |
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How does Fires Disrupt and Destroy Enemy Capabilities Command and Control and /or Sensors and overall Capability to Wage War? |
by Integrating and Synchronizing their EA Capabilities |
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How do Army and Joint Force Commanders Ensure Timely and Effective Fires? |
by Developing Control Measures Early and Emphasize them continuously throughout Unified Action |
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What Six Tenets of Unified Land Operations does Fires Align with? |
1. Flexibility 2. Integration 3. Lethality 4. Adaptability 5. Depth 6. Synchronization |
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How does Fires Support the Offensive Task? |
Attacking Targets throughout the Area of Operations with Massed or Precision Fires, Mortars Offensive Counter Air, Rotary and Fixed Wing Air Support, Electronic Attack and other Joint Fires Assets |
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How does Fires Support the Characteristics of Offensive Tasks? |
1. Surprise 2. Concentration 3. Tempo 4.Audacity 5. Enable the Supported Force in Seizing, Retaining and Exploiting the Initiative |
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How does Fires Support the Defensive Task? |
by Providing Persistent 360-Degree Protection, Early Warning, and Supporting of Airspace Control |
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How does Fires Support the Characteristics of Defensive Tasks? |
Gain Time, Economize Forces, and Develop Conditions favorable for Offensive or Stability Tasks |
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How does Fires Support Stability Task? |
by Saving Lives, Restoring Essential Services, Maintaining and Restoring Civil Order, and Disaster Relief |
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What is Air Defense Artillery? |
the Defensive Measures Designed to Destroy Attacking Enemy Aircraft or Missiles in the Atmosphere, or to Nullify or Reduce Effectiveness of such Attack either through Surveillance Actions or Active Engagements of Aerial Threat |
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What are the Active Measures that Fires Employs to Defend against Aerial Threats? |
Minimize the Effectiveness of Aerial Attack through Passive Air Defense Measures on the Ground, and to Attack the Enemy’s Ability to Launch Aerial Platforms to include Ballistic Missiles, Rockets, Artillery, and Mortars before they can be Employed Against our Forces |
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What is Fire Support? |
Fires that Directly Support Land, Maritime, Amphibious, and Special Operations Forces to Engage Enemy Forces, Combat Formations, and Facilities in Pursuit of Tactical and Operational Objectives |
Support |
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What is a Nonlethal Effect that Fires can Employ? |
Electronic attack (EA) |
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How is Fires Integrated into Joint and Army Capabilities? |
Through targeting |
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What is a Target? |
an Entity or Object considered for Possible Engagement or Other Action |
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What is Targeting? |
the Process of Selecting and Prioritizing Targets and Matching the Appropriate Response to them, Considering Operational Requirements and Capabilities |
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What is an Essential Part of Targeting? |
An Essential Part of Targeting is the Identification of Potential Fratricide Situations and the Necessary Coordination Measures to Positively Manage and Control the Attack of Targets |
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What is the D3A Fires Methodology? |
Decide, Detect, Deliver, and Assess |
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What are the Two Targeting Categories? |
Deliberate and Dynamic |
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What does Deliberate Targeting Prosecute? |
Planned Targets |
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What does Dynamic Targeting Prosecute? |
Targets of Opportunity and Changes to Planned Targets or Objectives |
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What is The objective of Fires planning? |
The Objective of Fires Planning is to Optimize Combat Power |
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