FM-3-09 Fire Support and Field Artillery Operations Download
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Fire Support and the Operations Process 30 April 2020 FM 3-09 3-37 Mutual support and continuity operations. Communications requirements - use and positioning of retransmission equipment, use of voice versus digital. Utilizing a PACE plan. Survey requirements. Timing and synchronization of FA efforts with maneuver and airspace operations. Clear understanding of ROE and procedures for clearing fires. MET requirements. Resupply triggers, especially for low-density munitions. CBRN decontamination locations. Protection requirements for FA units (infantry, ADA, engineer, military police). Ensure protection battle drills are developed and rehearsed to account for reaction to enemy air, ground, CBRN, indirect fire, jamming, or CEMA attacks. Reconstitution procedures. FIELD ARTILLERY TECHNICAL REHEARSALS 3-91. FA technical rehearsals are support rehearsals that ensure the supported higher HQ' fire support plan will be executed by the FSEs, fire control elements, the JAGIC, and subordinate FA unit's OPLAN or OPORD properly addresses FA technical fire direction and exercise the technical fire direction process. It is a network rehearsal technique. FA technical rehearsals focus include: Technical execution of FA essential tasks and the FA support matrix - digital links and primary and backup methods. Integration of voice and digital operations. Rehearsal of backups includes evaluation of reactions to catastrophic loss of digital or voice capability. Integration of tactical and technical fire control processes and computation of firing solutions, to include the communication and interaction among the FSEs, fire direction, and firing elements. Identification of technical fire direction issues - site to crest, high-angle fire, minimum safe distance, target, ammunition, range, FSCM and ACM conflicts. Digital database verification - setup, communications, positions, FSCMs, ACMs, target and attack guidance, mission routing and intervention points, target list, and scheduling data. Digital continuity of operations - actions for minor and catastrophic failure. Digital interface requirements -fire direction system, digital version differences, and any other digital systems, including Air Force, Navy, Marine, and multinational unified action partners. Technical rehearsal of the echelons above brigade TA capability sensor-to-shooter links. 3-92. Safeguards must be taken to prevent live rounds from being fired at technical rehearsal targets while maintaining the capability to react to real threats. Units must retain the ability to terminate or postpone rehearsals instantly when an actual fire mission needs to be processed. FIRE SUPPORT BATTLE DRILL OR STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES REHEARSALS 3-93. FS related battle drills or SOPs should be rehearsed either independent from the above rehearsals or preferably, integrated as vignettes into the combined arms rehearsal and FS Rehearsal. Examples include: Clearance of fires (air and ground). Cross boundary fires. Unplanned SCAR procedure and coordinated attack. Counterfire. FSCM movement triggers. Reconstitution operations. SECTION IV – FIRE SUPPORT EXECUTION 3-94. FS execution begins when the maneuver commander issues the execute order for the operation to commence and continues until the operation is terminated or the mission is accomplished. FSCOORDs and