*FM1-140
| Field Manual 1-140 |
Headquarters Department of the Army Washington, DC, 29 March 1996 |
FM 1-140 |
HELICOPTER GUNNERY |
Table of Contents
PREFACE
Training Strategy
Gunnery Standards
Gunnery Tables
Readiness Reporting
Master Gunner Program
Weapons Training Standards
CHAPTER 2. HELICOPTER GUNNERY TRAINING STRATEGY
Section 1. Training Assesment and Planning
Section 2. Pregunnery Training
Section 3. Helicopter Gunnery Range Training
Qualification Gates
Individual Gates
Crew Simulator/Ground Training Gates
Crew Live-Fire Gates
Engagement Scoring System
Scoring Criteria
Engagement Scoring
Scoring Moving Engagements
Scoring Hellfire Engagements with the VRS and AVTR
Remote Hellfire Engagement Scoring
Section 4. Posttraining Assesment
CHAPTER 3. RANGES FOR HELICOPTER GUNNERY TRAINING
Section 1. Range Requirements
Section 2. Personnel Responsibilites and Duties
Officer in Charge
Range Safety Officer
Master Gunner
Laser Range Safety Officer or NCO
Radio Operators
Class III/V OIC or NCOIC
Section 3. Helicopter Gunnery Range Safety
Section 4. Range Layout
Considerations
Multipurpose Range Complex
Aerial Weapons Scoring System
Attack Helicopter Gunnery Range
Section 5. Successful Training
CHAPTER 4. BALLISTICS
CHAPTER 5. MUNITIONS FOR HELICOPTER WEAPON SYSTEMS
Section 1. Linked Ammunition
7.62 Millimeter for M60/M60d Machine Gun
.50 Caliber for OH-58D Kiowa Warrior
20-Millimeter for AH-1E/F
30 Millimeter forthe AH-64 M230 Cannon
Section 2. Rockets
Section 3. Missiles
CHAPTER 6. CREW WARFIGHTING
Section 1. Fratricide Prevention
Section 2. Target Aquisition
Acquisition Defined
Target Acquisition Process
Crew Search
Aerial Search Techniques
Techniques for Crew Search
Target Detection
Target Detection Challenges
Target Location
Target Classification
Confirmation
Section 3. Range Determination
Section 4. Crew Communications
Crew Communications
Fire Commands
Lines of Communications
Phraseology
Remote Hellfire Missile Firing
Remote Call for Fire
Call for Fire Description
Example of Call for Fire, One Missile, Two AHs
Example of Call for Fire, Two Missiles, Ripple Fire, Two AHs
Autonomous Fire Mission to Apache
Section 5. Precombat Checks
CHAPTER 7. ENGAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
Section 1. Modes and Types of Fire
Section 2. Terminology and Information on Weapons
Section 3. Crew Techniques
Section 4. Night Gunnery for Non-C-NITE AH-1
Section 5. Air Combat Weaponeering
APPENDIX A. HELICOPTER DOOR GUNNERY
APPENDIX B. HELICOPTER GUNNERY TABLES
APPENDIX C. ENGAGEMENT TIME POINT CALCULATION SHEETS
GLOSSARY
REFERENCES
AUTHENTICATION
DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTION: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
This publication supersedes TC 1-140, 30 September 1991.
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