71-CO-8509 OPFOR Antilanding Actions

Status	Approved 25 Feb 2010
Effective Date:	11 Nov 2016
Task Number:	71-CO-8509
Task Title:	OPFOR Antilanding Actions
Distribution Restriction:	Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Destruction Notice:	None
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Conditions

The OPFOR is conducting operations independently or as part of a larger element or force and receives an operation order (OPORD) or fragmentary order (FRAGORD) to conduct a mission at a location and time specified. The order includes all applicable overlays and graphics. Task organization provides the combat power capabilities to accomplish the task. The OPFOR has communications with higher, adjacent, subordinate, and supporting elements. Friendly force and enemy coalition forces, noncombatants, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, and local and international media may be in the operational environment (OE). The OPFOR is not constrained by standardized rules of engagement (ROE) and does not necessarily comply with international conventions or agreements on the conduct of warfare. Some iterations of this task should be performed in MOPP 4. This task should be trained under IED Threat conditions.

Standards

The OPFOR conducts antilanding actions in accordance with (IAW) TC 7-100.2 and TC 7-100.3, the order, and higher commander's guidance. The OPFOR, IAW the mission order, conducts antilanding actions to support accomplishing the commander s mission. Elements, on order, conduct varied follow-on tasks to the antilanding actions that can include but is not limited to reconnaissance and surveillance and coordination to disrupt, delay, suppress, neutralize, defeat, or destroy designated enemy air drop or air landed elements, ground maneuver elements, and support capabilities. The OPFOR continues the mission.

NOTE

TADSS and Materiel Items quantities are based on an armor company headquarters with two armor platoons, one IFV platoon and one dismounted infantry platoon to replicate non-conventional threat. Adjust as needed based on the force size and type of unit used to replicate the OPFOR.

NOTE

The Objective Task Evaluation Criteria Matrix is provided for reference only. Operational and Training Environments will be IAW the BLUFOR Commanders training plan and guidance.

NOTE

Access the Virtual OPFOR Academy at https://tbr.army.mil for electronic copies of OPFOR doctrine, references, Decisive Action Training Environment (DATE), and instructional and immersive videos on conducting this task.

Live Fire Required

No

Objective Task Evaluation Criteria Matrix

Plan and Prepare			Execute						Assess
Operational Environment		Training Environment (L/V/C)	% of Leaders Present at Training/Authorized	% of Soldiers Present at	External Eval	% Performance Measures 'GO'	% Critical Performance Measures 'GO'	% Leader Performance Measures 'GO'	Task Assessment
BDE & Above
Dynamic and Complex (All OE Variables and Hybrid Threat)	Night	Operational Environment variables and OPFOR use of L/V/C are executed IAW BLUFOR	>=85%	>=80%	Yes	>=91%	All	>=90%	T
			75-84%			80-90%		80-89%	T-
Dynamic and Complex (All OE Variables and Single Threat)			65-74%	75-79%	No	65-79%			P
	Day		60-64%	60-74%		51-64%	<All	<=79%	P-
Dynamic and Complex (<All OE Variables and Single Threat)			<=59%	<=59%		<=50%			U

Remarks

None

Notes

None

Safety Risk

Low

Cue

None

DANGER: Safety briefings should alert users to the possibility of personal injury or damage to equipment that may result from long-term failure to follow correct procedures.
WARNING: Safety briefings should alert users to the possibility of immediate personal injury or damage to equipment.
CAUTION: None

Performance Steps and Measures

NOTE: Assess task proficiency using the task evaluation criteria matrix.

NOTE: Asterisks (*) indicate leader steps; plus signs (+) indicate critical steps.

STEP/MEASURE	GO	NO-GO	N/A
Plan
+ 1. Plan
+ a. Identify situational awareness and understanding requirements for antilanding collection and analysis.
+ b. Collect current information on enemy element capabilities and limitations and operational environment information to be obtained or confirmed.
+ c. Identify locations or predict enemy airfields; forward arming and refueling points (FARPs); drop, landing, and pickup zones (DZ/LZ/PZ); and helicopter firing positions.
+ d. Identify locations or predict enemy probable or possible air and ground avenues of approach, air infiltration routes, and air routes into and throughout the OPFOR area of responsibility (AOR).
+ e. Identify OPFOR elements to be protected as point or area air defense.
+ f. State priorities of air defense support to the antilanding actions mission.
+ g. Determine decision points for simultaneous, sequential, or selected engagement by OPFOR air defense systems.
+ h. Analyze action and enabling functions that must be performed to achieve task success. Consider the requirements for antilanding actions to deceive, disrupt, suppress, fix, contain, breach, defeat, and destroy.
+ i. Identify regular elements and affiliated elements such as insurgent organizations, guerrilla units, criminal organizations, and coerced or willing relevant population that can perform air defense warning or other air defense functions.
+ j. Determine the functional tactics to be applied by action and enabling elements.
+ k. Plan for mutually supporting and overlapping air defense coverage to air defense priorities of support antilanding actions.
+ l. Task-organize elements-forces for antilanding actions by function IAW TC 7-100.2/TC 7-100.3.
Prepare
+ 2. Prepare
+ a. Evaluate ongoing reconnaissance, surveillance, and intelligence update reports to provide situational understanding of the enemy and operational environment required for success.
+ b. Coordinate for the situational awareness and understanding of designated LZs and DZs, aerial axes and routes, and objectives in the disruption, battle, and support zones and zone of reconnaissance responsibility (ZORR).
+ c. Confirm support relationships and priorities of effort of higher headquarters fires and air defense to the antilanding actions mission.
+ d. Coordinate direct and indirect fires and air defense measures into antilanding actions for the tactical echelon maneuver unit.
+ e. Coordinate and emplace selected countermobility obstacles in conjunction with concealment, camouflage, and deception (C3D) actions.
+ f. Coordinate tactical plans with regular elements and affiliated elements.
+ g. Confirm how and when functional elements act or enable to achieve the designated effects on an enemy aerial element and transition to other tasks-subtasks.
+ h. Confirm communications requirements and capabilities.
+ i. Conduct antilanding action rehearsals of combined arms capabilities, and command and control procedures.
+ j. Position a reserve for rapid maneuver on order of the OPFOR commander to support antilanding actions.
+ k. Execute information warfare (INFOWAR).
Execute
+ 3. Make Contact
+ a. Detect and track enemy aerial approach in coordination with tactical updates from the higher headquarters.
+ b. Report enemy aircraft by type, number of aircraft, direction of movement or maneuver, and other situational information from predicted enemy locations (PELs) and kill zones.
+ c. Coordinate with higher headquarters to deceive, disrupt, delay, fix, suppress, neutralize, defeat, or destroy enemy ground or aerial maneuver prior to enemy entry.
+ d. Report any enemy airborne or heliborne elementsby unit echelon, type, location, and capabilityif enemy elements arrive on the ground.
+ 4. Execute Antilanding Actions
+ a. Engage enemy aircraft prior to air drop or airland of enemy units.
+ b. Maintain observation and technical sensor contact with enemy aircraft to confirm antilanding action effects.
+ c. Report update details of enemy location, disposition, composition, and assessment of enemy combat power in contact.

+ d. Conduct direct and indirect fires and information warfare (INFOWAR) to suppress or neutralize designated targets.
+ e. Fix enemy elements at a specific location for a specific period of time.
+ f. Isolate enemy elements.
+ g. Report additional and successive enemy aircraft.
+ h. Destroy enemy air drop or airlanding elements.
+ 5. Report
+ a. Report antilanding action effects to enemy aircraft.
+ b. Report enemy aircraft effects on OPFOR forces.
+ c. Report destruction of enemy air drop or airlanding operations.
+ d. Determine if current tactical conditions require an adjustment to the OPFOR concept of operations support.
+ e. Report reorganization and combat effectiveness of dedicated air defense elements and other capabilities.
+ 6. Continue Mission
+ a. Report regular, periodic, and unexpected information updates in a timely manner to satisfy the commander’s critical information requirements and mission intent.
+ b. Execute tasks with antilanding elements, when required, that can include but is not limited to reconnaissance and surveillance, disrupt, delay, suppress, neutralize, defend, defeat, and destroy tasks.
+ c. Coordinate logistics linkup for combat support (CS) and combat service support (CSS) to replenish ammunition.
+ d. Continue antilanding actions.
Assess
+ 7. Performance Measures
+ a. Know probable-possible enemy air threat capabilities - (Yes/No)
+ b. Know probable-possible enemy air threat objectives - (Yes/No)
+ c. Identify air and ground avenues into zone - (Yes/No)
+ d. State air defense priorities of support - (Yes/No)
+ e. Integrate RISTA and IADS into antilanding actions - (Yes/No)
+ f. Integrate affiliated and regular elements into actions - (Yes/No)
+ g. Rehearse combined arms capabilities - (Yes/No)
+ h. Report all enemy aircraft penetrations to zone - (Time)
+ i. Employ effective countermobility obstacles - (Yes/No)
+ j. Engage enemy aircraft before air drop or landing - (Percent)
+ k. Report enemy aircraft deterred - (Number)
+ l. Enemy destroyed by ground-to-air elements - (Number)
+ m. Enemy destroyed by air-to air elements - (Number)
+ n. Enemy aircraft destroyed - (Percent)
+ o. Defeat enemy airdrop or airlanding operations - (Yes/No)

TASK PERFORMANCE / EVALUATION SUMMARY BLOCK
ITERATION	1	2	3	4	5	M	TOTAL
TOTAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES EVALUATED
TOTAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES GO
TRAINING STATUS GO/NO-GO

ITERATION

1 2 3 4 5 M

COMMANDER/LEADER ASSESSMENT

T P U

Mission(s) supported:

None

MOPP 4

Sometimes

MOPP 4 Statement

OPFOR will conduct operations in an NBC environment based on the training objectives established by the BLUFOR Commander.

NVG

Sometimes

NVG Statement

OPFOR will conduct night time operations based on the training objectives established by the BLUFOR Commander.

Prerequisite Collective Task(s)

None

Supporting Collective Task(s)

None

OPFOR Task(s)

None

Supporting Individual Task(s)

None

Supporting Drill(s)

None

Supported AUTL/UJTL Task(s)

None

TADSS

TADSS ID	Title	Product Type	Quantity
L 30-06S-FSH	OPFOR Uniforms Small	TA	33
L 30-06M-FSH	OPFOR Uniforms MED	TA	69
23-94	MILES XXI (STRYKER) Common Kit	DVC	0
L 30-06L-FSH	OPFOR Uniforms Large	TA	33
23-102/B	Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES), (SLM), RPG7 VISMOD	DVC	10
23-22	M2K Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System 2000 (MILES 2000) M249 Squad Automatic Weapon Kit	DVC	6
23-26	M2K Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System 2000 (MILES 2000) M2 Machine Gun Kit	DVC	18
T 07-115	Machine Gun, PKM	DVC	0
T 07-117	Pistol, Tokarev	DVC	0
L 20-STAR-S	OPFOR Vehicle Marker (Star) SM	TA	36
T 20-007	RPK Squad Machine Gun	DVC	2
GTA 08-11-014	Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) Casualty Cards	GTA	6
L 20-STAR-M	OPFOR Vehicle Marker (Star) Med	TA	6
23-23	M2K Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System 2000 (MILES 2000) M24/M40 Sniper Weapon System Kit	DVC	6
23-25	M2K Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System 2000 (MILES 2000) M240 Machine Gun Kit	DVC	10
23-67	Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System Individual Weapons System (MILES IWS) M16/M4 Rifle Kit, Instrumental	DVC	113
23-85	Soft Cap Man Worn Laser Detector (MWLD) (MILES) PR0 Model	DVC	153
23-92	Main Gun Signature Simulator (MGSS) (MILES 2000)	DVC	10
23-95	M2A2/M3A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, (MILES XXI)	DVC	8
23-96	M1A1/A2/System Enhanced Package (SEP) Tank, (MILES XXI)	DVC	10
T 20-005	RPG7 Anti Grenade Launcher with Round	DVC	10
T 20-006	AK-47 Assault Rifle Model	DVC	16
T 20-008	PM-50 Pistol	DVC	2
T 20-018	SVD Sniper Rifle	DVC	2
T 07-116	Pistol, Makarov, Plastic	DVC	0
L 20-STAR-L	OPFOR Vehicle Marker (Large)	TA	40
23-106	Instrumentable Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (I-MILES) Tactical Vehicle System (TVS)	DVC	18

Equipment (LIN)

LIN	Nomenclature	Qty
No equipment specified

Materiel Items (NSN)

NSN	LIN	Title	Qty
1370-00-752-8124	T56265	Simulator, Hand Grenade: M116A1 (DODIC:L601)	108
1330-00-289-6852	J79133	Grenade, Hand, Red Smoke: M18 (DODIC:G950)	6
1330-00-289-6851	J77626	Grenade, Hand Green Smoke: M18	6
1330-00-289-6854	J79955	Grenade, Hand, Yellow Smoke: M18 (DODIC:G945)	6
1005-01-091-7510	F87237	Firing Attachment, Blank Ammunitin: M19 for Caliber .50 M2 Machine Gun	10
1305-00-008-8894		Cartridge, 7.62 Millimeter Blank, Single Round: M82 (DODIC:A112)	320
1330-00-219-8511	J79681	Grenade, Hand, HC Smoke: AN-M8 (DODIC:G930)	12
1005-21-912-8997		Firing Attachment, Blank Ammunition: M249 SAW	6
1305-00-005-8005		Cartridge, 5.56 Millimeter Blank, Single Round: M200 (DODIC:A080)	8400
1005-00-118-6192		Firing Attachment, Blank Ammunition: Rifle, 5.56 MM, M16, M16A1	42
1305-00-166-6371		Cartridge, 7.62 Millimeter Blank, Linked: M82 (DODIC:A111)	1600
1330-00-289-6853	J79818	Grenade, Hand, Violet Smoke: M18 (DODIC:G955)	6
1005-01-480-0289		Chamber, Blank Firing: Machine Gun, 7.62MM, M240B	8
1305-01-078-4879	D31944	Cartridge, Caliber .50 Blank: M1E1 (DODIC:A598)	2000
1005-00-893-0902		Firing Attachment, Blank Ammunition, M14 Rifle	6

Environment

Environmental protection is not just the law but the right thing to do. It is a continual process and starts with deliberate planning. Always be alert to ways to protect our environment during training and missions. In doing so, you will contribute to the sustainment of our training resources while protecting people and the environment from harmful effects. Refer to the current Environmental Considerations manual and the current GTA Environmental-related Risk Assessment card. Consult range control office for specific environmental considerations for the training area(s) being used.

Safety

In a training environment, leaders must perform a risk assessment in accordance with ATP 5-19, Risk Management. Leaders will complete the current Deliberate Risk Assessment Worksheet in accordance with the TRADOC Safety Officer during the planning and completion of each task and sub-task by assessing mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available-time available and civil considerations, (METT-TC). Note: During MOPP training, leaders must ensure personnel are monitored for potential heat injury. Local policies and procedures must be followed during times of increased heat category in order to avoid heat related injury. Consider the MOPP work/rest cycles and water replacement guidelines IAW FM 3-11.4, Multiservice Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) Protection, FM 3-11.5, Multiservice Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Decontamination.

Supporting References

Step Number	Reference ID	Reference Name	Required	Primary
	TC 7-100	Hybrid Threat	Yes	Yes
	TC 7-100.2	Opposing Force Tactics	Yes	Yes
	TC 7-100.3	Irregular Opposing Forces https://armypubs.us.army.mil/doctrine/DR_pubs/d r_aa/pdf/tc7_100x3.pdf	Yes	Yes
	TC 7-100.4	Hybrid Threat Force Structure Organization Guide	Yes	Yes
	TC 7-101	Exercise Design	Yes	Yes