ATP-3-09-90 Division Artillery Operations and Fire Support Download
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Chapter 2 2-22 ATP 3-09.90 Initial Fire Support Coordination Measures The division commander typically establishes all FSCMs, excluding boundaries, on the basis of recommendations by the FSCOORD. The FSCOORD recommendations are based on the division commander’s guidance, location of friendly forces, the scheme of maneuver, and anticipated enemy actions. For considerations on the development of FSCMs see FM 3-09. Plan for Joint Air Support Joint air support planning is crucial in developing the overall division fires plan. The division commander must identify and articulate the desired effects from CAS and AI targets with specifics concerning time, place, desired effects and rational. In most cases, the division will not have sufficient details to approve or submit ASRs for CAS as the primary engagement asset for targets (60-hrs prior to ATO execution). A technique for the division is to send preplanned ASRs for on-call ground alert GCAS or airborne alert XCAS capable air assets. These dedicated alert aircraft missions can be changed from GCAS to XCAS to CAS as the situation develops during ATO execution. The division is normally the first level of command whose battle rhythm is able to submit preplanned ASRs on time to their higher headquarters or the BCD at the JAOC. Therefore, the division fires cell should consider air support requirements for subordinate unit operations two levels down (BCT and battalion) and send preplanned ASRs for dedicated air missions on the ATO to support division operations. The division’s ASOC can manage, redirect, and retarget those sorties on the ATO that are dedicated to division operations. For detail on joint air support, and the JAGIC see ATP 3-09.32, ATP 3-91.1, ATP 3-52.2, FM 3-94, FM 3-09, JP 3-60, JP 3-09, and JP 3-09.3. Plan for Airspace Control Division airspace control involves detailed coordination and integration to enable effective use of CAS, AI, indirect fire, ADA, Army aviation (including unmanned aircraft systems), and maneuver operations. The division staff should establish an airspace control working group that, at a minimum, includes representatives from the fires cell and targeting officers, ALO, TACP, AMD element, UAS planner, and the airspace element to develop the plan to integrate the division’s airspace users in the division assigned airspace. The aviation airspace control officer should lead the airspace control working group. ACMs are developed at the subordinate brigades and are sent digitally to the division airspace element in the form of a unit airspace plan via the Tactical Airspace Integration System (referred to as TAIS). The division airspace element reviews these subordinate unit airspace plans and merges them to form the division’s airspace plan. Once all the airspace has been worked at division level, the airspace element will send the unit airspace plan up to its higher headquarters airspace element if the division is acting as the tactical warfighting headquarters in accordance with FM 3-94. The division’s airspace requirements compete for the use of joint airspace with all the other joint forces. Those ACMs approved are published on the ACO. Airspace control for the division is summarized in FM 3-52 and ATP 3-52.1. SUMMARY At the end of COA development, the fire support planning team has synchronized the scheme of fires and associated fire support tasks for each COA. They know which units will perform each task, where they need to be at the execution time, and when the task is to be executed. MOPs and MOEs and the source of the information required to assess each task are identified. The fire support planning team has organized this information for COA analysis using the scheme of fires and sketches, HPTL, AGM, target synchronization matrix, and other products. COA analysis follows COA development see Table 2-7 on page 2-23. 12 October 2017