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42 Cards in this Set
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What is Target Acquisition?
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The detection, identification, and location of a target in sufficient detail to permit the effective employment of weapons. "eyes and ears of FA"
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What are Fires Target acquisition assets?
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Organic elements of the fires BDE and Fires Battalion that play a key role in the targeting process.
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What is the fires brigade primary means for collecting information on the enemy's indirect fires systems and is used to produce targeting intelligence?
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WLR: Weapon Locating Radars
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What is counter fire?
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is fire intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons, which include counter battery, counter bombardment, and counter mortar fire.
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Who is responsible for integration and synchronization of fires target acquisition assets for collecting and reporting information?
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The target processing and counter fire operations staffs
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What two sections focus on PIRs and answer the CDRs CCIRs?
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The target processing and counter fire operations staffs
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___________ are of limited value without accurate, reliable, and timely target indicator data from the WLR.
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Indirect Fire systems
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The firing battery, fire direction center, and radar require additional support from what?
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MET and survey capabilities in order to achieve the targeting intelligence requirements for scalable fires.
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What type of brigade is a Fires brigade?
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The fires brigade is one of the five types of supporting brigades. It provides general or direct support to a division or corps and is generally attached, assigned or under operational control to a division.
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What assets are organic to the fires brigade?
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MLRS battalion, headquarters battery, and tab battery. It may have additional launchers, cannons, radars, and joint information operations assets.
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What is the purpose of the fires brigade?
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the fires brigades primary task is to support the ground units scheme of maneuver.
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What is organic to the fires brigade?
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target acquisition platoon, target processing section, and combined met and survey team.
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What does the fires brigade radar platoon consist of?
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2 radar sections, 1 LCMR, and 1 AN/TPQ-37
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What does the fires brigade target processing section consist of?
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5 artillery personnel, the section preforms the function of integrating and synchronizing the TA assets IAW the CDRS intent and COA
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List items in the integrating process
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IPB, Targeting, ntelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance synchronization
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Does each brigade combat team have a fires battalion?
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yes
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What does the TA platoon organic to the fires battalion support?
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The heavy Brigade combat team
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The target acquisition platoon is capable of deploying with the heavy brigade combat team with what... when necessary?
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strategic air and sealift
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What is critical when planning for operational sustainability?
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WLR fuel consumption
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what does the target acquisition platoon include?
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counter fire operation, survey, and MET
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How many WLR sections are within the target acquisition platoon for a heavy brigade?
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3
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The fires brigade has_____ target acquisition elements to assist with providing ________________
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2, continuous fires in support of the scheme of maneuver.
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What does the TA platoon, WLRs, in a heavy brigade provide?
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the WLRs provide immediate force coverage and information gathering
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What 3 WLRs are used to support the heavy brigade?
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LCMR, AN/TPQ-36, and AN/TPQ-37
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The Stryker brigade combat team's TA platoon is tailored and task oriented to the heavy brigade combat team with an additional what?
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LCMR
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What capabilities do the WLR have in a Stryker brigade?
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support the BDE in urban and other complex terrain against a wide range of adversaries.
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What does the stryker brigade balance within WLR sections?
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combined arms capabilities
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The infantry brigades target acquisition platoon consists of ?
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AN/TPQ-36 and LCMR
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What do WLRs provide in an infantry brigade?
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the best support for operations in close terrain and densely populated areas
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Each of the three brigade combat teams (heavy, infantry, and stryker) has a ?
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battalion sized fires element organic to the BDE
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each fires battalion has an organic target processing section responsible for ?
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providing responsive and accurate counterfire
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Counter fire operations are both_____ and blank_____
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reactive and proactive countermeasures
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countermeasures serve as what?
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support multiplier
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what do reactive countermeasures provide?
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scalable fires to neutralize, destroy, and suppress enemy indirect fire weapons. "quick response"
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proactive countermeasures consist of
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zone management, site analysis, and position survivability considerations
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when does proactive countermeasures begin?
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with targeting during the MDMP and throughout the OP
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what does the brigade combat team intelligence officer and the fires targeting officer develop?
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Named areas of interest (NAI), and target areas (TA) of interest where the enemy indirect fire assets are expected.
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What does the counter fire operations cell consist of?
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targeting officer, senior field artillery targeting non comissioned officer, and the targeting non comissioned officer.
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What is the MET team responsible for?
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collecting and disseminating valid and timely MET data in formatted messages
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The survey team provides?
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a common grid that will permit the massing of fires, establish survey control point as directed, and near stake and far stake data for the WLR
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The survey capabilities consist of?
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a position and azimuth determine system team and conventional team
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What are critical to the commander concept of operations?
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The combined field artillery MET and survey teams
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