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Chapter 7 Fires battalion assigned fire direction net (as necessary). Troop command net (when the FSO is not physically located with the troop commander). Troop fires net. Through the pocket-sized forward entry device. The pocket-size forward entry device is a small hand-held digital call for fire device used by the FOs to call for fire. The device is integrated with the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System. Squadron fires net (for example, when the FSO is physically located with the commander and calls for FS from assets other than FA observers). Additional nets as necessary. PLANNING AND COORDINATION 7-11. To provide the DRT commander with the necessary support, the FIST conducts planning specific to the type of operation that the troop is conducting. Fire support planning and coordination begin on receipt of a mission and continue throughout planning and execution. (For additional details of this process, including the roles of the commander and FSO, refer to the discussion of fires planning and coordination later in this chapter.) COMBAT OBSERVATION AND LASING TEAM 7-12. A COLT is a FIST controlled at the brigade level that is capable of target acquisition day and night and has both laser range finding and laser designating capabilities. 7-13. The DRT may request indirect fire through the COLT, which has a secondary mission of processing these requests. The COLT may monitor the reconnaissance platoon net and handle the fire request and subsequent adjustments in the same manner as a FIST. The COLT can enter the information gained through its primary mission, laser target location, or laser target designation for guided munitions and CAS, directly into the fire control system. When pushed forward with the DRT, the COLT may collocate with one of the platoon OPs for local security and protection. Leaders often link a COLT’s observation of a TAI with a scout team’s coverage of an NAI. This technique allows the scout team to act as a trigger, with the COLT executing and adjusting fires. INDIRECT FIRE ASSETS AND CAPABILITIES 7-14. Indirect fire systems available to the DRT include organic mortars and the brigade fires battalion. Other systems that may be available include mortar systems found in the mounted troops, rifle battalions, and cannon or rocket/missile systems from a fires brigade. MORTAR EMPLOYMENT 7-15. The troop mortar section provides organic indirect FS that is extremely responsive to the troop’s tactical needs. The section can place a heavy volume of accurate, sustained indirect fires that can disrupt threat fires and movement, allowing the troop to maneuver to positions of advantage. Mortars are effective in covering obstacles or dead space, engaging dismounted threats, marking targets for air attack, or providing screening smoke. They are ideal weapons for attacking targets on reverse slopes, in narrow ravines, in built-up areas, and in other areas that are difficult to strike with low-angle fires. The DRT has a section of two 60-mm mortars and a fire direction center. 7-16. The troop commander uses available indirect fires from organic mortars to: Cover scouts during the conduct of their mission. Suppress the enemy while scouts are maneuvering to develop the situation or disengage. Screen enemy observation of scouts. Cover a likely enemy avenue of approach. Support the scouts on a screen line. 7-4 ATTP 3-20.97 16 November 2010
CONSIDERATIONS Augmenting Combat Power 7-17. The commander considers the following while planning for the employment of the mortars: METT-TC analysis. ROE. Scheme of maneuver. Ammunition constraints by type and quantity. The mortar section is dismounted and must carry their mortars either conventional (with bipod and base plate) or hand-held mode (with small base plate without bipod). DRT platoon scouts carry a designated amount of mortar rounds for the mortar section when conducting a tactical move. The rounds are dropped off at the mortar firing position. If the mortars displace, the unfired rounds are moved also. Colocating the mortar section with the DRT CP would allow for additional security and the possible use of CP vehicles to support the displacement of the mortar section and ammunition. Priority of fire to a designated platoon. Anticipated changes in mortar employment. Communications constraints. Designation of positions (mortar firing points). Movement guidance including triggers. Coordination requirements. Clearance of fires. If firing from the hand-held mode, fires are normally cleared at the troop level. Normally, due to the maximum ordinate of fire, the conventional mode is more restrictive. Resupply. Capabilities. A close working relationship with reconnaissance platoons. Fast response time. Effectiveness against low-density targets. Limitations. Range is 3,500 meters conventional mode and 1,350 meters hand held mode. Limited types of ammunition. Vulnerability to threat counterfire radars because of the high angle of fire. Limited basic loads of ammunition. TYPES OF MORTAR SUPPORT 7-18. Troop mortars are organic to the DRT and are most often used for immediate suppression and disengaging of fires. Without revealing their locations, all scouts engage targets through the fires network with a variety of indirect means, depending on the requirement. 7-19. Mortar firing positions are often planned to allow the mortars to fire two-thirds maximum range forward of the reconnaissance troop or to cover likely enemy avenues of approach. Troop mortars are always placed in positions that effectively support the indirect fire plan. The range limits of the DRT mortars may not allow for full mortar coverage of the troop based on the mission. 7-20. The DRT uses its organic mortars for three main types of support: suppression, obscuring and screening smoke, and illumination. Suppression 7-21. Unless a direct hit is achieved, high explosive (HE) rounds will not destroy armored vehicles; however, their use can greatly disrupt threat movement. High explosive rounds can force mounted threat 16 November 2010 ATTP 3-20.97 7-5
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Preface This Army Tactics, Techniqu
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