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Field Manual *FM1-140
No. 1-140 Headquarters
Department of the Army
Washington, DC, 29 March 1996
HELICOPTER GUNNERY
Table of Contents
PREFACE .................................................................................................................................................v
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................1-1
Training Strategy .............................................................................................................1-1
Gunnery Standards..........................................................................................................1-2
Gunnery Tables...............................................................................................................1-2
Readiness Reporting....................................................................................................... 1-3
Master Gunner Program.................................................................................................. 1-4
Weapons Training Standards ..........................................................................................1-5
CHAPTER 2. HELICOPTER GUNNERY TRAINING STRATEGY........................................................ 2-1
Section I. Training Assesment and Planning..............................................................2-1
The Commander's Assesment......................................................................................... 2-1
Planning the Training.......................................................................................................2-2
Effective Assesment and Training ................................................................................... 2-3
Section II. Pregunnery Training....................................................................................2-3
Subject Areas and Techniques........................................................................................2-3
Table V ............................................................................................................................2-5
Section III. Helicopter Gunnery Range Training..........................................................2-5
Qualification Gates ..........................................................................................................2-5
Individual Gates............................................................................................................... 2-6
Crew Simulator/Ground Training Gates...........................................................................2-7
Crew Live-Fire Gates.......................................................................................................2-8
Engagement Scoring System ........................................................................................2-10
Scoring Criteria.............................................................................................................. 2-11
Engagement Scoring.....................................................................................................2-11
Scoring Moving Engagements....................................................................................... 2-12
Scoring Hellfire Engagements with the VRS and AVTR ................................................ 2-12
Remote Hellfire Engagement Scoring............................................................................2-13
DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTION: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
publication supersedes TC 1-140, 30 September 1991.
