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Post-strike bomb damage assessment photograph of Obrva Airfield, Serbia used in a Pentagon press briefing, May 5, 1999. A legitimate military target is an object, structure, individual, or entity that is considered to be a valid target for attack by belligerent forces according to the law of war during an armed conflict.
Mass (Concentrate combat power at the decisive place and time) Economy of Force (Allocate minimum essential combat power to secondary efforts) Maneuver (place the enemy in a disadvantageous position through the flexible application of combat power) Unity of Command (For every Objective, ensure Unity of effort under one responsible commander)
Targeting is the process of selecting objects or installations to be attacked, taken, or destroyed in warfare.Targeting systematically analyzes and prioritizes targets and matches appropriate lethal and nonlethal actions to those targets to create specific desired effects that achieve the joint force commander's (JFC's) objectives, accounting for operational requirements, capabilities, and the ...
A target of opportunity is a target "visible to a surface or air sensor or observer, which is within range of available weapons and against which fire has not been scheduled or requested." [ 1 ] A target of opportunity comes in two forms; "unplanned" and "unanticipated". [ 2 ]
Autocannon pod (left), S-8 rocket pod (middle) and 9K114 Shturm anti-tank missile (right) mounted on the left wing of a Mi-24W helicopter of Polish Land Forces. Air-to-ground weaponry is aircraft ordnance used by combat aircraft to attack ground targets. [1]
A U.S. Navy A-7E Corsair II bombs the Hai Duong bridge in North Vietnam in 1972.. Air interdiction (AI), also known as deep air support (DAS), is the use of preventive tactical bombing and strafing by combat aircraft against enemy targets that are not an immediate threat, to delay, disrupt or hinder later enemy engagement of friendly forces.
Combat aircraft ROCKS is an autonomous extended stand-off range air-to-surface missile developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems . Designed to engage high-value stationary and relocatable targets, the missile is particularly effective in GPS-denied environments.
This technique is necessary when the target will have significantly displaced its position during the time the projectile would take to reach the target, which can become the case over very long distances (e.g. a long sniper shot), due to fast moving targets (e.g. aerial dogfight against an opposing aircraft, or anti-aircraft fire against ...