71-CO-8510 OPFOR Disrupt

Status	Approved 25 Feb 2010
Effective Date:	11 Nov 2016
Task Number:	71-CO-8510
Task Title:	OPFOR Disrupt
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 counterreconnaissance 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 disrupts 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 tactical tasks in order to disrupt selected enemy combat systems. Stay-behind elements, on order, conduct varied follow-on tasks to the disrupt task that can include but are not limited to surveillance, and coordination to fix or delay, suppress, neutralize, defeat, or destroy designated enemy elements. 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 reconnaissance and counterreconnaissance objectives.
+ b. Identify deception objectives.
+ c. Collect current information on enemy element-force capabilities and limitations and operational environment information to be obtained or confirmed in an AOR.
+ d. Analyze action, enabling and support functions that must be performed to achieve mission success. Consider tasks to deceive, suppress, delay, fix, contain, breach, neutralize, defeat, or destroy.
+ e. Determine the functional tactics to be applied by action, enabling and support elements.
+ f. Identify situational awareness and understanding requirements for collection and analysis by ground maneuver, aviation, and other technical capabilities.
+ g. Task-organize elements by function IAW TC 7-100.2 and TC 7-100.3.
Prepare
+ 2. Prepare
+ a. Evaluate ongoing reconnaissance and surveillance and counterreconnaissance actions to provide situational understanding and shape operational environment conditions required for destruction of enemy reconnaissance elements, forces, and capabilities.
+ b. Coordinate the combined arms integration of available RISTA assets for continuous and overlapping coverage of designated areas, counterreconnaissance zones (CRZs), reference zones (RZs), routes, predicted enemy locations (PELs), kill zones, and special objectives in a disruption zone, battle zone, and support zone of an assigned AOR.
+ c. Coordinate for situational awareness and understanding among friendly elements in an AOR and its zone of reconnaissance responsibility (ZORR) such as long-range reconnaissance (LRR); special purposes forces (SPF); mounted, aerial, and dismounted elements operating in the same AOR-ZORR; and signals reconnaissance intelligence.
+ d. Assess current counterreconnaissance actions to prevent enemy RISTA from obtaining situational understanding of OPFOR intentions.
+ e. Conduct mission and task rehearsals of action, enabling, and support elements.
+ f. Confirm secure communications requirements and capabilities.
+ g. Execute information warfare (INFOWAR) in support of the mission.
Execute
+ 3. Find
+ a. Coordinate reconnaissance and counterreconnaissance ground maneuver, fixed-wing and rotary-wing aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and other technical collection or disruption/electronic warfare assets of OPFOR RISTA to locate, monitor, and set the conditions for actions against designated enemy elements, forces, and capabilities.
+ b. Conduct undetected and sequenced movement and maneuver by reconnaissance elements through an area of responsibility (AOR) to locate enemy reconnaissance, surveillance, and other security elements in CRZs, RZs, routes, PELs, kill zones, and special counterreconnaissance objectives. Report enemy security elements, main forces, reserves, combat service support (CSS), and command and control (C2).
+ c. Conduct undetected and sequenced movement and maneuver by counterreconnaissance elements through and into an area occupied by enemy elements in an AOR to locate and act on intelligence as tasked in mission order.
+ d. Conduct actions with counterreconnaissance elements in order deceive, suppress, delay, fix, contain, breach, neutralize, defeat, or destroy enemy security or response elements as part of assigned counterreconnaissance tasks.
+ e. Report regular, periodic, and situational collection updates in a timely manner to satisfy the commander’s critical and recurring reconnaissance, surveillance, and counterreconnaissance information requirements that support the mission intent.
+ f. Destroy enemy RISTA.
+ g. Recommend if current tactical conditions require an adjustment to the time and or tempo ordered for tasks to disrupt the enemy operation.
+ h. Conduct security tasks to provide early warning and protect. [Other tactical tasks may include but are not limited to: block, canalize, contain, delay, destroy, fix, interdict, suppress, or neutralize.]
+ 4. Contain
+ a. Use surprise, limited visibility, complex terrain, emplaced obstacles, and camouflage, concealment, cover, and deception (C3D) and fires to restrict and channel the enemy combat system into the kill zone or kill zones.
+ b. Conduct INFOWAR activities to convince the enemy commander-leader that he cannot move or decides not to move from the present location.
+ c. Employ, when appropriate, INFOWAR activities to block or disrupt enemy command and control the enemy element or combat system being disrupted.

+ d. Employ, when appropriate, relevant population in the target area to physically block, fix, or contain an enemy element.
+ e. Deliver lethal and nonlethal suppression effects on the designated combat system to isolate the combat system from contact with other enemy elements.
+ f. Conduct direct and indirect fires and associated INFOWAR actions to suppress or neutralize designated targets.
+ g. Execute selected countermobility obstacles in conjunction with direct and indirect fires and obscuration.
+ h. Block, fix, or contain enemy elements in the kill zone or kill zones, and cause enemy elements to center their activity to a given front and prevent them from withdrawing any part of the element-force for use elsewhere.
+ i. Deny enemy elements freedom of movement and maneuver in a designated location or kill zone for specified period of time when in concert with mission intent.
+ j. Degrade designated enemy elements to temporarily prevent those elements from assisting the isolated enemy element.
+ k. Position a reserve element for rapid movement-maneuver, on order of the OPFOR commander, to support the mission.
+ l. Deny the enemy freedom of movement and maneuver along ground or air avenues of approach that can reinforce the enemy combat system or interfere with friendly forces movement and maneuver.
+ 5. Destroy
+ a. Attack with sudden and massed effects by action, security, and support elements, to destroy enemy elements.
+ b. Destroy enemy designated combat systems.
+ c. Destroy enemy designated elements.
+ 6. Continue Mission
+ a. Consolidate and reorganize OPFOR elements to minimize the impacts of combat losses and functional capabilities.
+ b. Reorganize OPFOR elements quickly to adjust to changing conditions.
+ c. Retain a reserve element.
+ d. Conduct timely undetected movement from or into areas under enemy control by stealth, deception, surprise, or clandestine means.
+ e. Execute tasks with stay-behind elements, when required, that can include but is not limited to: surveillance, fix, delay, suppress, neutralize, defend, defeat, or destroy tasks.
+ f. Conduct continuous element reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance in designated zones and areas.
+ g. Report information and intelligence updates to satisfy the commander’s mission intent.
+ h. Coordinate for logistics linkup points for combat support (CS) and combat service support (CSS) in support of rapid offensive or defensive momentum and objectives.
+ i. Recommend if current tactical conditions require an adjustment to the time and or tempo ordered for tasks to disrupt the enemy operation.
+ j. Continue the mission.
Assess
+ 7. Performance Measures
+ a. Reconnaissance locates and targets high value targets - (Yes/No)
+ b. Key operational environment factors confirmed - (Yes/No)
+ c. Counterreconnaissance destroys HVT RISTA - (Yes/No)
+ d. OPFOR security operations provide 360-degree coverage - (Time)
+ e. Information warfare (INFOWAR) deceives enemy - (Yes/No)
+ f. Countermobility obstacles block or canalize in support of scheme - (Yes/No)
+ g. Position action, enabling, and support elements - (Time)
+ h. Camouflage, cover, and concealment effective - (Yes/No)
+ i. Designated combat systems contained or destroyed - (Yes/No)
+ j. All-arms air defense effective against fixed-rotary aircraft - (Yes/No)
+ k. Relevant population provides effective support to task - (Yes/No)
+ l. Reserve in position and ready for immediate action - (Yes/No)
+ m. Elements effectively disrupt enemy scheme - (Yes/No)
+ n. Combat effectiveness of enemy formation - (Percent)
+ o. Friendly elements available to continue mission - (Percent)
+ p. Report mission task success to higher headquarters - (Yes/No)
+ q. Recommend if mission task requires adjustment - (Yes/No)
+ r. Conduct logistic linkup, consolidate, and reorganize - (Time)
+ s. Stay-behind elements achieve mission tasks - (Yes/No)
+ t. Continue mission - (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
23-106	Instrumentable Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (I-MILES) Tactical Vehicle System (TVS)	DVC	18
GTA 08-11-014	Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) Casualty Cards	GTA	6
23-22	M2K Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System 2000 (MILES 2000) M249 Squad Automatic Weapon Kit	DVC	6
23-23	M2K Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System 2000 (MILES 2000) M24/M40 Sniper Weapon System Kit	DVC	6
23-92	Main Gun Signature Simulator (MGSS) (MILES 2000)	DVC	10
23-94	MILES XXI (STRYKER) Common Kit	DVC	0
23-96	M1A1/A2/System Enhanced Package (SEP) Tank, (MILES XXI)	DVC	10
23-102/B	Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES), (SLM), RPG7 VISMOD	DVC	10
T 20-005	RPG7 Anti Grenade Launcher with Round	DVC	10
L 30-06S-FSH	OPFOR Uniforms Small	TA	33
L 30-06M-FSH	OPFOR Uniforms MED	TA	69
L 30-06L-FSH	OPFOR Uniforms Large	TA	33
23-25	M2K Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System 2000 (MILES 2000) M240 Machine Gun Kit	DVC	10
23-26	M2K Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System 2000 (MILES 2000) M2 Machine Gun Kit	DVC	18
T 20-006	AK-47 Assault Rifle Model	DVC	16
T 07-115	Machine Gun, PKM	DVC	0
T 07-116	Pistol, Makarov, Plastic	DVC	0
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
23-95	M2A2/M3A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, (MILES XXI)	DVC	8
T 20-007	RPK Squad Machine Gun	DVC	2
T 20-008	PM-50 Pistol	DVC	2
T 20-018	SVD Sniper Rifle	DVC	2
T 07-117	Pistol, Tokarev	DVC	0
L 20-STAR-S	OPFOR Vehicle Marker (Star) SM	TA	36
L 20-STAR-M	OPFOR Vehicle Marker (Star) Med	TA	6
L 20-STAR-L	OPFOR Vehicle Marker (Large)	TA	40

Equipment (LIN)

LIN	Nomenclature	Qty
No equipment specified

Materiel Items (NSN)

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