OIC/RSO RANGE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
RATED A+
✔✔Access Restricted - ✔✔fences, barricades, signs, guards or a combination of these
types of positive controls are used to protect unauthorized personnel
✔✔Temporary Impact Area - ✔✔normally for small arms or non-dud producing
ammunition. This type of impact exists only for the length of an exercise.
✔✔After Use of temporary impact area - ✔✔After an exercise, the temporary impact
area should be capable of being cleared and returned to the original state.
✔✔Range Control __________________ and ______________________ airspace
during live fire exercises - ✔✔Manages and deconflicts
✔✔What should you do if an aircraft/boat/ship enters your airspace during a live fire
exercise - ✔✔Immediate cease fire and control range control
✔✔What does range control do for a range - ✔✔-Captures vertical hazard limit for each
weapon fired
-Coordinates w/ FAA to invoke airspace restrictions for all non-participating aircraft
-Captures operating airspace both lateral and vertical for all exercise aircraft operations
✔✔Local SOP's & airspace requirements - ✔✔may require the RSO to identify
personnel as air sentinels
✔✔Installation Commander will coordinate w US Army Corps of Engineers and US
Coast Guard to ensure proper notification of: - ✔✔-waterways involved
-operations to be conducted
-Sector of waterway that must be restricted
✔✔Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) - ✔✔Issued by the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA), informs pilots and air traffic controllers about range activities that require civilian
aircraft to avoid range and airspace.
✔✔Notice to Mariners (NTM) - ✔✔Issued by the National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency (NGA) and contains navigation warnings that advise mariners of waterway/sea
space restrictions during range exercises.
✔✔purpose of a danger zone - ✔✔to designate areas that protect personnel and
property from dangers during training and, to the extent practicable, during combat
, ✔✔design of the DZ is intended to - ✔✔prevent injury to personnel or damage to
property by identifying hazardous boundaries of ricochets and fragmentation associated
with live fire training.
✔✔surface danger zone (SDZ) - ✔✔is the danger zone area for munitions fired from the
ground.
✔✔weapon danger zone (WDZ) - ✔✔is the danger zone for air-delivered munitions
✔✔laser surface danger zone (LSDZ) - ✔✔is a specific type of danger zone when
lasers are in use.
✔✔Standard SDZ for small arms - ✔✔cone and bat wing
✔✔How are SDZs created - ✔✔created from the "ballistic footprint" of a weapon
system. Each weapon system's ballistic footprint is the firing pattern created when a
weapon is tested, firing a certain ammunition at certain target media. The characteristics
of the firing pattern are measured to create an SDZ.
✔✔Cone SDZ - ✔✔is typically used when conducting training that does not involve fire
and movement or fire and maneuver.
✔✔Cone SDZ will contain - ✔✔rounds, ricochets, fragments, and debris.
✔✔The cone surface danger zone consists of - ✔✔a dispersion area, a ricochet area,
and an area "A".
✔✔Distance X - ✔✔is the maximum distance a projectile (including guided missiles and
rockets) will travel when fired or launched at a given elevation with a given charge or
propulsion system.
✔✔The Dispersion Area - ✔✔is the area that contains projectiles after making initial
contact with the target medium. This is the area within the surface danger zone located
between the gun target line (GTL) and the ricochet area. This area accounts for human
error, gun or cannon tube wear, propellant temperature, etc.
✔✔Ricochet Area - ✔✔The area that contains projectiles after making initial contact with
the target medium. The Ricochet Area for the cone SDZ is defined as an additional 5
degrees off the dispersion area line on the left and right sides.
✔✔Area A - ✔✔is the secondary danger area, or buffer zone, that laterally parallels the
impact area or ricochet area depending on the weapon system. Area A contains
fragments, debris, and components from frangible or explosive projectiles and
warheads functioning on the right or left edge of the impact area or ricochet area. For
RATED A+
✔✔Access Restricted - ✔✔fences, barricades, signs, guards or a combination of these
types of positive controls are used to protect unauthorized personnel
✔✔Temporary Impact Area - ✔✔normally for small arms or non-dud producing
ammunition. This type of impact exists only for the length of an exercise.
✔✔After Use of temporary impact area - ✔✔After an exercise, the temporary impact
area should be capable of being cleared and returned to the original state.
✔✔Range Control __________________ and ______________________ airspace
during live fire exercises - ✔✔Manages and deconflicts
✔✔What should you do if an aircraft/boat/ship enters your airspace during a live fire
exercise - ✔✔Immediate cease fire and control range control
✔✔What does range control do for a range - ✔✔-Captures vertical hazard limit for each
weapon fired
-Coordinates w/ FAA to invoke airspace restrictions for all non-participating aircraft
-Captures operating airspace both lateral and vertical for all exercise aircraft operations
✔✔Local SOP's & airspace requirements - ✔✔may require the RSO to identify
personnel as air sentinels
✔✔Installation Commander will coordinate w US Army Corps of Engineers and US
Coast Guard to ensure proper notification of: - ✔✔-waterways involved
-operations to be conducted
-Sector of waterway that must be restricted
✔✔Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) - ✔✔Issued by the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA), informs pilots and air traffic controllers about range activities that require civilian
aircraft to avoid range and airspace.
✔✔Notice to Mariners (NTM) - ✔✔Issued by the National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency (NGA) and contains navigation warnings that advise mariners of waterway/sea
space restrictions during range exercises.
✔✔purpose of a danger zone - ✔✔to designate areas that protect personnel and
property from dangers during training and, to the extent practicable, during combat
, ✔✔design of the DZ is intended to - ✔✔prevent injury to personnel or damage to
property by identifying hazardous boundaries of ricochets and fragmentation associated
with live fire training.
✔✔surface danger zone (SDZ) - ✔✔is the danger zone area for munitions fired from the
ground.
✔✔weapon danger zone (WDZ) - ✔✔is the danger zone for air-delivered munitions
✔✔laser surface danger zone (LSDZ) - ✔✔is a specific type of danger zone when
lasers are in use.
✔✔Standard SDZ for small arms - ✔✔cone and bat wing
✔✔How are SDZs created - ✔✔created from the "ballistic footprint" of a weapon
system. Each weapon system's ballistic footprint is the firing pattern created when a
weapon is tested, firing a certain ammunition at certain target media. The characteristics
of the firing pattern are measured to create an SDZ.
✔✔Cone SDZ - ✔✔is typically used when conducting training that does not involve fire
and movement or fire and maneuver.
✔✔Cone SDZ will contain - ✔✔rounds, ricochets, fragments, and debris.
✔✔The cone surface danger zone consists of - ✔✔a dispersion area, a ricochet area,
and an area "A".
✔✔Distance X - ✔✔is the maximum distance a projectile (including guided missiles and
rockets) will travel when fired or launched at a given elevation with a given charge or
propulsion system.
✔✔The Dispersion Area - ✔✔is the area that contains projectiles after making initial
contact with the target medium. This is the area within the surface danger zone located
between the gun target line (GTL) and the ricochet area. This area accounts for human
error, gun or cannon tube wear, propellant temperature, etc.
✔✔Ricochet Area - ✔✔The area that contains projectiles after making initial contact with
the target medium. The Ricochet Area for the cone SDZ is defined as an additional 5
degrees off the dispersion area line on the left and right sides.
✔✔Area A - ✔✔is the secondary danger area, or buffer zone, that laterally parallels the
impact area or ricochet area depending on the weapon system. Area A contains
fragments, debris, and components from frangible or explosive projectiles and
warheads functioning on the right or left edge of the impact area or ricochet area. For
