FM 6-50 ·Army ·1980 The Field Artillery Cannon Battery (C1)
This revised manual is designed to serve as the reference document for the cannon battery for both training and fighting. Its primary target audience is the cannon battery leader. The purpose of this preface is to highlight the major areas…
FM 44-16 ·Army ·Undated Platoon Combat Operations - Chaparral, Vulcan, and Stinger
Chaparral, Vulcan, and Stinger ADA units provide low-altitude air defense for our field forces. These units can deny or limit enemy air attack on our maneuver, combat support, and combat service support forces. They can deny enemy aircraft…
FM 3-01.48 ·Army ·2003 Divisional Air and Missile Defense Sentinel Platoon Operations
Chapter 1 Organization and System Capabilities of the Sentinel Platoon This chapter discusses the mission, organization, system capabilities, limitations, responsibilities, and early warning of digital divisional AMD Sentinel operations.…
FM 44-15-1 ·Army ·1987 Operations and Training: Patriot
Patriot is an air defense missile system designed to counter the air threat of the 1980s and beyond. This chapter discusses the role of the Patriot system, the mission of the Patriot firing batteries, and the major items of Patriot…
FM 44-18-1 ·Army ·1984 Stinger Team Operations
The purpose of this manual is to provide guidance for the Stinger team in support of air defense operations. It is also written to support the training of individuals to function as members of a Stinger team. When skilled individuals are…
FM 6-161 ·Army ·1981 Field Artillery Radar Systems (C1)
Cl, FM 0-161 CHAPTER 1 THE THREAT Paragraph Purpose and Scope 1-1 Characteristics of Field Artillery Radars 1-2 Operations Security Indicators 1-3 Countermeasures 1-4 1-1. Purpose and Scope The purpose of this chapter is to describe the…
FM 6-140 ·Army ·1965 Field Artillery Cannon Battalions and Batteries
Plans the maintenance workload con- sidering the availability of parts and tools, as well as the level of experience of personnel and the tactical situation. e. Supervises the scheduling of equipment for the prescribed preventive…
FM 6-60 ·Army ·1993 Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Operations
The multiple launch rocket system Is a highly mobile, rapid-fire, surface-to-surface, free-fllght rocket and guided missile system. It Is designed to complement cannon artillery; to attack the enemy deep; and to strike at counterfire, air…
FM 6-11 ·Army ·1985 The Pershing II Firing Battery
CHAPTER 1 SYSTEM DESCRIPTION Pershing I1 (PII) is a ground-mobile, surface-to-surface, nuclear weapon system. It is a solid-propellant missile with ground support equipment (GSE) mounted on wheeled vehicles. The missile may be launched…
FM 44-10 ·Army ·1963 Air Defense Fire Distribution System AN-FSG-1
Sean similar to those procedures for air defense missile systems. (2) Any significant reduction in maintehance personnel requirements will be in the procedures area (i.e, maximum utilization of available personnel in the using unit will…
FM 44-2 ·Army ·1956 Light Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons
1. Purpose and Scope This manual is for the use of battalion commanders and staff, battery commanders, platoon leaders, and fire unit leaders of AAA (AW) (antiaircraft artillery automatic weapons). It covers the organization,…
FM 6-5 ·Army ·1939 Field Artillery Field Manual
4-6 ORGANIZATION AND DRILL SECTION II ORGANIZATION · 4. GENERAL.-For command and administrative purposes, the Field Artillery is organized into batteries, battalions, regiments, and brigades, and for ammunition supply purposes into…
FM 3-09.15 ·Army ·2007 Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Field Artillery Meteorology
This publication provides the United States Army and United States Marine Corps (USMC) commanders, artillerymen, and meteorology (MET) crew members with tactics, techniques, and procedures for the employment of MET sections. This…
FM 6-40 ·Army ·1957 Field Artillery Gunnery
General will make possible the proper use of one of the a. Purpose. This manual presents and explains most effective tools available to the combat field artillery gunnery and presents a solution, commander. The principal characteristics…
FM 6-42 ·Army ·1980 Field Artillery Battalion, Lance (C1)
This revised manual has been prepared to serve as a single source reference document for Lance battalion operations and training. It is a how-to-train and how-to-fight manual to be used by all levels of command from corps to the platoon.…
FM 44-9 ·Army ·1967 air Defense Artillery Fire Distribution System AN-TSQ-51
Remote radar integration station section. (5) Fire distribution operator team. (6) Terminal data link repair team. (7) Special requirements section. I b. Every defense will not contain the same num- '-./ber of fire units a,nd not all…
FM 44-85 ·Army ·1997 Patriot Battalion and Battery Operations
The purpose of this field manual (FM) is to provide doctrinal how-to-fight guidance for the Patriot battalion and battery in support of force-projection operations. Patriot officers and noncommissioned officers must possess an in-depth…
FM 6-20-1 ·Army ·1979 Field Artillery Cannon Battalion
v4 vr TO 7" j' ••-ift/íy Á.3. In the battles of the next war, effective use of firepower will be more critical than in any land battle the US Army has ever fought. Changes in battle tempo, mobility, and firepower will challenge field…
FM 6-20 ·Army ·1941 Field Artillery Field Manual Tactics and Techniques
FX w 6-20 FIELD ARTILLERY FIELD MANUAL TACTICS AND TECHNIQUE CHANGES 1 WAR DEPARTMENT, NO. 1 J WASHINGTON, January 2, 1941. FM 6-20, July 10, 1940, is changed as follows: * 82. GENERAL. f. The number of available noninterfering radio…
FM 4-143 ·Army ·1943 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Service of Height Finder SCR-547
2-5 ANTIAIRCRAFL ARTILLERY FIELD MANUAL SCR-547 has the following advantages over other methods in common use: a. It provides continuous altitude data. b. It provides continuous slant range data. ce. It requires less skilled operators.…
FM 44-18 ·Army ·1981 Air Defense Artillery Deployment-Stinger
of effective cluster bomb units with vastly improved guidance systems. 1-7
FM 44-3 ·Army ·1981 US Army Air Defense Artillery Employment, Chaparral/Vulcan
Army air defense artillery employment, Chaparral/Vulcan. United States. Washington : Dept. of Defense, Dept. of the Army, 1977. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112101040589 Public Domain, Google-digitized…
FM 20-33 ·Army ·1970 Combat Flame Operations
C 3, FM 20-33 :•b. M202 Rocket Launcher. This standard fires a rocket warhead containing pyrophoric fuel-a fuel that ignites spontaneoqsly on exposure to air. Since exposure occurs on impact, no fuel is wasted by burning enroute to the…
FM 6-38 ·Army ·1970 Field Artillery Battery Sergant
FM 6-38 h. Sergeant Missile—The assembled missile, which consists of the following: (1) A warhead section. (2) A guidance section. (3) A rocket motor section. (4) Four control surface assemblies. i. Transporters— (1) Motor guidance…
FM 4-103 ·Army ·1943 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Employment of Antiaircraft Artillery with Airborne Forces
RESTRICTED FM 4-103 _ WAR DEPARTMENT -ANTIAIRCRAFT ARTILLERY FIELD MANUAL 2 EMPLOYMENT OF ANTIAIRCRAFT ARTILLERY WITH AIRBORNE FORCES 30 September 1943 Dissemination of ‘restricted niatier—-The information conisined in restricted documents…
FM 4-5 ·Army ·1940 Coast Artillery Field Manual Seacoast Artillery Organization and Tactics
FM 4-5 DECLASSIFIED RESOVD COAST ARTILLERY FIELD MANUAL SEACOAST ARTILLERY ORGANIZATION AND TACTICS (The matter contained herein supersedes part one, Coast Artillery Field Manual, volume I, January 3, 1933.) PART ONE ORGANIZATION CHAPTER 1…
FM 4-159 ·Army ·1943 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Service of the Piece. Multiple Gun Motor Carriage M15
RESTRICTED FM 4-159 WAR DEPARTMENT ANTIAIRCRAFT ARTILLERY FIELD MANUAL Co SERVICE OF THE PIECE MULTIPLE GUN MOTOR CARRIAGE M15 28 September 1943 Dissemination of restricted matter.—The information contained in restricted documents and the…
FM 6-56 ·Army ·1966 Field Artillery Battalion Little John
Standard gross weight 778.6 pounds Warhead section weight 262 pounds Empty weight 536 pounds Propellant weight Maximum range Minimum range 2.01 meters 242.6 pounds i 20,400 meters 3,000 meters 4.38 meters i -*—Warhead .Motor 318 mm Fin…
FM 6-21 ·Army ·1960 Division Artillery
1. Purpose This manual is a guide for artillery officers and commanders and staffs of all combat arms. It is concerned with the employment of divisional artillery units in the combat zone. It covers organization, command, and tactical…
FM 6-36 ·Army ·1973