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Coordinating Fire Support 1 March 2016 ATP 3-09.42 5-29 Figure 5-1. Sensor-to-shooter challenge 5-123. Individual sensors and shooters should be tasked with and provided with the necessary priorities and targeting information they need to carry out multiple missions against multiple targets to achieve the commander’s desired effects. For each mission, information linkages must be established between sensors and shooters to enable the timely execution of missions, especially time-critical missions. Because, ideally, the sensors can be time shared among many shooters, effective and efficient implementation of these linkages and the ability to pass information through them will inevitably require the establishment of execution controllers. DYNAMIC TARGETING CHALLENGE 5-124. Some of the most challenging threats are those that are highly mobile, display low signatures, and possess a highly lethal capability. Examples of targets of this type include a surface-to-surface missile launcher or a surface-to-air missile system. Because these targets are typically single vehicles, they are difficult to acquire when inactive, provide the least precise targeting when mobile, and pose a significant threat to defended areas or assets if left unengaged. For these target types, the precise, responsive attack of the system and its infrastructure (such as sustainment, command and control, target acquisition, weapons systems) is the rule. The challenge is to fit the engagement cycle for these time-sensitive targets into the target’s movement and firing cycle. See figure 5-2 on page 5-30. For more on dynamic targeting, see ATP 3-60.1.