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Block V Terms and Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| DCA consists of what measures? | Both Active and Passive |
| Joint Force Commander (JFC) | Responsible for the employment of forces assigned, attached, or other wise made available to accomplish the assigned mission or objective. Responsible for development of objectives and priorities for joint forces. |
| Commander, Air Force Forces (COMAFFOR) | The COMAFFOR normally exercises OPCON of all Air Force Force presented (assigned or attached) as part of the Air and Space Expeditionary Task Force (AEFT) |
| Area Air Defense Commander (AADC) | Within a unified command,subordinate unified command or joint task force, the JFC normally assigns overall responsibility for air defense to a single commander designated as the AADC. Normally JFASCC. AADC responsible for integrating the entire air defens |
| Rules of Engagement (ROE) | "Directives issued by competent military authority which delineate the circumstances and limitations under which United States forces initiate and/or continue combat engagement with other forces encountered" (JP 1-02) |
| DCA Controller | is responsible to the SD for providing tactical control and Battle Management (BM) of DCA asset. This normally includes picture calls, threat warnings, and directive targeting as required. See AFTTP 3-1.15 Ch.5 for a more in-depth explanation. |
| Responsibilities of DCA | Know CAP Asset information to include home base, capabilities (ordnance, SEAD, and EW), strike routing, airspace, CAP points, Ref points, etc. |
| Area Defense | Defense of a broad using a combination of weapons systems. |
| Point Defense | Conducted for the protection of a limit area, normally in defense of in defense of the vital elements of forces and installations |
| Self-Defense | Conducted by friendly units to defend themselves against direct attack or threat of attack through the use of sovereign airspace. |
| Alert Scrambles | During normal peacetime operations, aircraft pull alert duty at designated bases throughout America |
| Combat Air Patrols | In transition or wartime, aircraft are placed in predetermined CAP locations at the extremes of sovereign airspace. |
| Land Defense | Common DCA Option. Establishes areas or "lanes" in which specific aircraft are tasked to patrol and defend. |
| DEFCON 5: Fade Out | A normal readiness state where peacetime exists. |
| DEFCON 4: Double Take | Increased intelligence watch and strengthening of security. |
| DEFCON 3: Round House | Readiness above normal peacetime readiness |
| DEFCON 2: Fast Pace | An increase in force readiness but less then maximum readiness |
| DEFCON 1: Cocked Pistol | Maximum force readiness but not wartime until air defense emergency. |
| Air Defense Emergency: Big Noise | Wartime At the declaration of an air defense emergency, probability of attack is specified by one of the three air defense warning conditions. |
| Air Defense Warnings | After Declaration of Air Defense Emergency (Big Noise) |
| Air Defense Warnings Red: Big Noise-Apple Jack: | Attack by hostile aircraft, missiles or space vehicles is imminent or taking place. |
| Air Defense Warnings Yellow: Big Noise- Lemmon Juice: | Attack by hostile aircraft, missiles or space vehicles is probable. |
| Air Defense Warnings White: Big Noise- Snowman: | Attack by hostile aircraft, missiles or space vehicle is no longer probable. Warning White is normally declared only after the previous declaration of Warning Yellow or Red. |
| Weapons Hold Fire: | Fire only in self-defense or in response to a formal order to do so. |
| Weapons Tight: | Fire only at positively identified as hostile according to the current ROE |
| Weapons Free | Fire at targets that cannot be identified as friendly according to the current ROE |
| Cease Engagement | Break the engagement on the specified target; missiles in flight will continue to intercept |
| Cease Fire: | Do not open fire or discontinue firing; continue to track the target |
| Bracket | fighter maneuvers to position themselves on opposite sides, either laterally or vertically of the targets |
| Crank | F-pole maneuver; implies illuminating target at radar gimbal limits |
| Float | directive or informative call to expand the formation laterally within visual limits to maintain radar contact or prepare for a defensive response. |
| Notch | directive/informative for an all-aspect missile defensive maneuver to place threat radar/missile near the beam |
| Pump | a briefed maneuver to low aspect to stop closure on the threat or geographical boundary with the intent to reengage; will be used to initiate a grinder tatic |
| Out | informative call indicating a turn to a cold aspect relative to the known threat |
| Shackle | one weave, a single crossing of flight paths; maneuver to adjust or regain formation parameters |
| Beam | 10 to 110 degrees of aspect |
| Drag | 0 to 60 degrees of aspect |
| Flank | 120-150 degrees from tail or 30 to 60 degrees from nose |
| Hot | contact aspect stabilized at 160 to 180 degree angle from tail or 0 to 20 degree angle from nose |
| Pince | Threat maneuvering for a bracket attack |
| Swept | formation with the trailer displaced approximately 45 degrees behind the leader |
| Container | formation with four contacts oriented in a square or offset square. |
| Lead Trail | Formation or two or more contacts separated in range. |
| Line Abreast | Formation of two or more contacts separated in azimuth. |
| Stack | Two or more contacts within GROUP criteria with an altitude separation in relation to each other. |
| Stinger | Three ship inner GROUP formation with two lead CONTACTs line abreast and the Single in trail. |
| Wedge | Three ship inner-group formation with a single contact closest in range and two trail contacts line abreast. |
| Bogey Dope | request for target information as requested or closet group in BRAA |
| Clean | No sensor information on non-friendly aircraft of interest |
| Continue | continue present maneuver, does not imply a change in clearance to engage or expend ordnance |
| Cleared | Requested action is authorized Note: Engaged/support roles not established |
| Cover | directive/informative call to assume a supporting position that will allow engagement of a specified track or threat to the flight if required |
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