ATP-3-09-42 Fire Support for the Brigade Combat Team Download

Chapter 6 6-4 ATP 3-09.42 1 March 2016 observers and FSOs at lower levels must verify and refine the plan, and their assigned targets and positioning to ensure they can execute fires needed to support the commander’s intent. TARGETING AS PART OF BCT FIRE SUPPORT PLANNING OVERVIEW 6-16. Targeting is the process of selecting and prioritizing targets and matching the appropriate response to them, considering operational requirements and capabilities (JP 3-0). A target is an entity or object that performs a function for the adversary considered for possible engagement or other action (JP 3-60). See JP 3-60 for additional definitions of target as used in gunnery and military intelligence applications. 6-17. Targeting and its integral functions of decide, detect, deliver, and assess (D3A) (see table 6-1) is an integral part of the operations process. Targeting occurs continuously throughout an operation. Its steps mirror planning, preparing, executing, and assessing. An important part of targeting is identifying potential fratricide and collateral damage situations and implementing fire support coordination and other control measures that both facilitate operations and minimize fratricide and collateral damage. Table 6-1. Synopsis of targeting Decide Detect Determine Based on Determine Based on What (task): Enemy focused. Determine what fire support and information operations tasks are essential to the success of the operation (enemy formation or function and desired effects from attack). Why (purpose): Friendly focused. Determine the purpose for employment of fires (for example to suppress, neutralize, and destroy enemy fire support systems and control nodes). Receipt of Mission  Commander’s intent.  Concept of operations.  Initial planning guidance.  Guidance for fires. Mission analysis:  Specified & implied tasks  IPB  Target Value Analysis. (See ATP 3-60).  High-value targets. Who/Where: Focused on detection. Assets are deployed to detect high-payoff targets. Information collection assets identify and locate targets that can attacked by fires, electronic attack and information-related capabilities. COA Development.  Scheme of Fires.  High-payoff targets.  Target selection standards.  Attack Guidance Matrix.  Fire support tasks.  Electronic attack tasks.  Information operations tasks.  Measures of performance.  Measures of effectiveness. COA Analysis  Refine above products.  High-payoff Target List.  Target Synch Matrix.  Airspace control request.  Information requirements. Orders Production  Finalize above products.  Fire Support Plan.  Information Collection Plan.  Unit Airspace Plan.  OPLAN or OPORD.  Fires Paragraph 2e.  Annex D Fires, with tabs. Assess Deliver Determine Based on Determine Based on Effect: Identifies whether intended effect achieved by attack means and how well attack means functioned.  OPLAN or OPORD  Task execution.  Effects of fire support.  Effects of electronic attack.  Effects of information-related capabilities.  Combat assessment  Measures of performance.  Measures of effectiveness. Who/When: Focused on deliver. Addresses the who and when portion of task (such as the attack of a specified target, duration of attack and effects desired).  COA development  Scheme of Fires  War gaming.  COA decision  OPLAN or OPORD  High-payoff Target List  Attack Guidance Matrix.  Target Synch Matrix.  Information Collection Plan  Unit Airspace Plan Legend COA – course of action IPB—intelligence preparation of the battlefield OPLAN – operation plan OPORD – operation order 6-18. The FSCOORD, brigade FSO, fires cell planners and targeting officers, targeting working group, and targeting board identify lethal and nonlethal targeting options based on the BCT commander’s objectives. Targeting is an integral part of BCT operations. Like other integrating processes, targeting begins in the planning phases of an operation and it continues throughout an operation. Its steps mirror planning,