USER GUIDE

Entering a Call-For-Fire

VBS3Fires v3.6.3 User Guide

7 Entering a Call-For-Fire

In the Menubar you will find the Fire Mission menu which provides facilities to enter and control

calls-for-fire.

Trainee can enter a call for fire either free text entry, or using the Transmissoin panels. The Fire

Mission menu provides the panels to enter a call-for-fire. Entry support for US Doctrine.

VBS3Fires supports generic versions of NATO and Commonwealth doctrines. Selecting a Doctrine

can be viewed from Doctrine section of Preferences panel. To open the panel, go to: Menubar

Tools Preferences. In Preferences panel open the section General  Doctrine. This will

described later further in detail.

The doctrine of a Battery can be set while creating the Battery or by editing its parameters. Doctrine

is one of the parameters of a Battery accessible in VBS3 Offline Mission Editor (OME). The doctrine

of a Battery is not affected by the doctrine settings in VBS3Fires application.

7.1 NATO Trainee Call For Fire Terminal

VBS3Fires enables data entry panels in VBS3 that allows you to rapidly and easily build a call-for-fire

transmission. This set of panels is introduced as NATO Trainee Calls for Fire.

Each of the panel of NATO Trainee Calls for Fire constructs the text of a call-for-fire transmission

which is then sent across the radio network.

The VBS3 Direct Call-For-Fire terminal is available with Stand-alone mode and in a network scenario

it is available for VBS3Fires Trainee mode.

7.1.1 Panels of NATO Trainee Calls for Fire

NATO Trainee Calls for Fire consists of four panels, each one appearing one after the other. For

instance you have to complete the first panel and only then the second panel appears. The panels in

sequence,