FM 6-40 provides an explanation of equipment and munitions and their associated fire direction procedures for the field artillery (FA) cannon systems. This publication serves as the basis for operational procedures for technical fire direction and as a guide for unit training. It has been developed with the five basic rules of combat applied: move, shoot, communicate, secure, and sustain. The target audience of this publication includes trainers and supervisors of cannon fire direction centers, battalion/brigade operations sections, and others who need an understanding of technical cannon fire direction. Certain chapters are the "how to" references for 13E soldier's manual tasks. Users must be familiar with and use FM 6-20, FM 6-20-1, FM 6-30, FM 6-50, and FM 6-141-1/2. It is envisioned that this will be the final edition of FM 6-40.
DesignationFM 6-40
EditionDec 1984
StatusSuperseded
Pages428
FunctionFires
CollectionRecent Archive
Public domain (U.S. Government work)