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FRAG DROP BRIEFING GUIDE

1. Admin
a. Intel team introduction
b. Classification of brief and products
c. Intel RFI process

2. Situation Overview
a. Geopolitical Situation
b. Mission Tasking
c. Commander’s Intent and Priorities

3. Blue Assets (if not delivered by MC)

a. Blue assets assigned
i. Types of aircraft and loadouts
b. Any supporting assets or effects
c. Acceptable Level of Risk

4. AO Orientation
a. Blue territory
b. Red territory
c. Neutral territory
d. Key mission territory/features (e.g. targets, drop zones)
e. Other key boundaries (e.g. Marshal Limit Line, Forward Line of Own Troops)

5. Targets
a. Location and number of JDPIs

6. Adversary Command and Control

a. IADS diagram and critical nodes
b. Early Warning/Air Surveillance assets
c. Battle Management assets and authorities
d. Weapons Control assets and authorities
e. Communications methods, redundancies and vulnerabilities
i. Timeline for information passage
f. Decision making centre of gravity

7. Air Threat
a. Location and number of air assets
b. Capability
i. Combat Air Patrol locations

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ii. Ground alert posture

iii. Scramble and commit criteria
iv. Weapons loadouts, employment ranges
v. Tactics
vi. Electronic Attack capability
vii. Integration with wider IADS

8. Surface Threat
a. Location of surface-to-air threat systems
i. Known or last known positions
ii. Assessed operating areas
iii. Unlocated systems
b. Capability
i. Maximum and doctrinal engagement ranges
ii. Maximum and doctrinal engagement altitudes
iii. Mobility
iv. Targeting capability and priorities
v. Shot doctrine
vi. Tactics, techniques and procedures
vii. Key vulnerabilities

9. Ground Forces
a. Location or last known positions
b. Capability
i. Threat to Blue air assets
ii. Threat to supported entities or other defended forces

10. Courses Of Action

a. Adversary Most Likely Course Of Action
b. Adversary Most Dangerous Course Of Action

11. Known Intel Gaps

a. RFIs that have already been submitted

12. Target Information (delivered by targeteer if required)

a. Location and number of JDPIs
b. Specific weaponeering requirements
c. Target information
i. Target significance
ii. Recommendations
iii. Coordinate information

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