Tactical Employment of Mortars and Fire Support Coordinating

A detailed military diagram showcasing mortar operations in a battlefield setting, emphasizing tactical employment and fire support coordination.

Master Mortar Tactics Quiz

Test your knowledge on the tactical employment of mortars and fire support coordination. This quiz comprises 20 multiple-choice questions covering crucial concepts and roles related to mortar operations.

Understand the objectives of different mortar fires.
Learn about fire support coordination measures.
Enhance your strategic military knowledge.

20 Questions5 MinutesCreated by FiringFalcon275

What is the primary role of Mortars?

To support friendly elements during battle suppress the enemy

To provide the commander with immediately available, responsive and both lethal and nonlethal indirect fires in support of company or battalion maneuver

To counter the enemy's indirect forces as well as support ground troops when needed

To harass and interdict enemy movement to prevent enemy success

What are the purposes of Mortarfire?

Grid mission, Shift mission, Polar mission, Registration mission, Immediate suppression missions

Close support fires, counter fires, interdiction fires, harassment fires, deception fires

To maintain fire superiority over the enemy

To destroy, neutralize, obscure, illuminate or suppress the enemy

What is counter fires?

To fire upon the enemy's artillery to prevent counter battery

To prevent the friendly forces from being destroyed in battle

Immediate action to restore the freedom of action to the maneuver commander

Deliberate action to emplace mortars in a strategic location to range all elements

How is interdiction fires used?

To destroy, neutralize, obscure or suppress the enemy to prevent them from harming friendly units

To provide the maneuver commander with freedom of action

To lower the enemy's morale in the battlefield while protecting the maneuver commander

To divert, delay or destroy an enemy's surface military potential before it can be used effectively against friendly forces

How are harassment fires used?

To take freedom of maneuver away from the enemy to prevent mission success

To disturb the rest of the enemy troops, curtail movement, and lower morale by the threat of losses

To disrupt the enemy's battle rhythm and gain a strategic advantage in the battlefield

To deceive and confuse the enemy

How are deception fire used?

To obscure the enemy's vision to limit movement

To disturb the rest of the enemy troops

To deceive and confuse the enemy

To divert, disrupt, delay or destroy an enemy's surface military potential

How can mortar fires be effective?

Must be dense and must hit the target at the right time with the right projectile and fuze

Must have enough rounds to engage all targets within the battlefield

Must properly hang the round with the right amount of charges

Must conduct pre-fire checks beforehand

What are 5 types of mortar effects?

Interdiction fires, harassment fires, counter fires, close support fires, deception fires

Illumination, screening, suppressive, marking, prepatory

Destruction, neutralization, suppression, obscuration, illumination

Grid, shift, polar, registration, quick smoke

What is destruction of a target?

Temporarily taking the enemy out of the fight

Prevention of the enemy from firing back

Hampers the enemy's ability to observe and acquire targets

Putting a target permanently out of action

What is neutralization of a target?

Putting a target out of action permanently

Temporarily renders a target ineffective or unusable

To obscure the enemy's vision

Prevents the enemy from firing back

What is obscuration of a target?

Prevents the enemy from firing back

Permanently places the enemy out of action

Hampers the enemy's ability to observe and acquire targets

Illuminates a designated area and used for signaling

What is illumination?

Illuminating a designated area and used for signalling

Renders the enemy temporarily ineffective or unusable

Used to burn the enemy by using ground burst

Prevents an enemy from firing back

Why are fire support coordination measures(FSCM) designed?

To limit mortars from firing upon friendly forces

To ensure the safety of all elements in a training environment

To make rapid engagements of targets easy and at the same time, providing safeguards for friendly troops

To provide the maneuver commander peace of mind in the battlefield

In an OPORD or FRAGO, who are given priority of fires and are the basis of the fire support plan?

Field Artillery

Mortars

Ground Forces

Priority Targets

In the offense and defense, who are normally assigned priority of fires?

Mortars

Field artillery

The main effort

Forward observers

True or False: If a forward observer calls for a priority target, mortars do not have to fire that target if they are currently firing another fire mission

True

False

How many priority targets can a heavy mortar platoon be assigned?

4, 2 each section

6, 3 each section

Unlimited

2, one each section

What do general support missions provide?

Mortar fires, immediately responsive to the needs of the commander

Provides ground troops fire support

To establish a final protective fire(FPF)

To fire priority targets only

What is the difference between a free fire are and a killbox?

Killbox is uncoordinated

Free fire area is uncoordinated

Free fire are is coordinated

Killbox is meant to destroy the enemy

What are the 3 restrictive FSCMs?

Safety fan, no fire area, free fire area

Killbox, free fire area, safety fan

Restrictive fire line, restrictive fire area, no fire area

Coordinated fire line, free fire area, killbox

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