TACFIRE

The tactical fire direction system (TACFIRE) was a successor of the FADAC and was fielded in 1978. It contributed major improvements by automating tactical fire control, target intelligence processing, unit status accounting, target analysis, fire support coordination, and fire planning. TACFIRE consists of a digital loop of computer centers at battalion, division, and corps artillery levels, and includes firing via the battery computer system (BCS) and forward observers via the digital message device (DMD. It was used well into the 90-ties of the last century. In its turn it has been successed by AFATDS.

Important elements within the TACFIRE-system are:

• BDU (battery display unit)

• DMD (digital message device)

• FIRE DIRECTION CENTER, ARTILLERY, OA-8389/GSG-10(V) (NSN 7010-01-017-7039)

• FIST (fire support team)

• FO (forward observer)

• FSE (fire support element)

• FSO ((battalion) fire support officer

• POWER UNIT, PU-732/M, TRL-MTD (NSN 6115-00-260-3082)

• SHELTER, ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, S491/GSG-10(V) (NSN 7010-01-017-7039)

• TRUCK, CARGO, 5-TON, M813A1 (NSN 2320-00-050-8905)

• VFMED (variable format message entry device

Reference Files

• TC 6-1 Jul.15, 1977 Coming soon!

• TACFIRE OPERATIONS 1986

FM 6-1 1986First part only! (Collection De Wit).

• Field Artillery Journal May-June 1987