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Denied, Degraded and Disrupted Operations 30 April 2020 FM 3-09 C-3 SECTION II – THE FIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR ACCURATE PREDICTED FIRE DURING DENED, DEGRADED, AND DISRUPTED OPERATIONS C-15. Providing responsive fires in support of maneuver is dependent on the ability to achieve the five requirements for accurate predicted fire. In order to accomplish this goal an artillery unit must compensate for nonstandard conditions as completely as time and the tactical situation permit. The five requirements for accurate predicted fire are accurate target location and size, accurate firing unit location, accurate weapon and ammunition information, accurate MET information, and accurate computational procedures. If the requirements for accurate fire cannot be met completely, the firing unit may be required to use adjust-fire missions to engage targets. Adjust-fire missions can result in reduced effect on the target, increased ammunition expenditure, and greater possibility that the firing unit will be detected by hostile TA assets (TC 3-09.81). C-16. If the five requirements for accurate predicted fire (minus target location) cannot be met, registrations can be conducted to compute data that will compensate for nonstandard conditions (see table C-1 on page C- 4). There are two types of registrations: precision registration and high-burst or mean-point-of-impact registration. Applying these corrections to other fire missions will allow the unit to determine accurate predicted firing data. The purpose of a registration is to determine firing data corrections that will correct for the cumulative effects of all nonstandard conditions. All registrations yield total corrections. With these corrections applied to firing data, a unit can rapidly and successfully engage any accurately located target, subject to range transfer limits and the registration point, and have a first round FFE capability. For information on registrations see TC 3-09.81.