Display consoles in the Combat Information Center (CIC).

belonging to a Nation Q attack aircraft capable of carrying anti-ship cruise missiles. The contact continues inbound, headed toward the Battle Group. Within minutes, it is within range of your ship’s three-dimensional search and track radar. The contact’s bearing, range, and altitude are plotted to give an accurate course and speed. The range resolution of the pulse-compressed radar allows you to determine that the target is probably just one aircraft. You continue to track the contact as you ponder your next move. As the aircraft approaches the outer edge of its air-launched cruise missile’s (ALCM) range, the ESM operator reports that aircraft’s radar sweep has changed from a search pattern to a single target track mode. This indicates imminent launch of a missile. According to the Rules of Engagement (ROE) in effect, you have determined hostile intent on the part of the target and should defend the ship against imminent attack. You inform your CIC team of your intentions, and select a weapon, in this case a surface to air missile (fig. 2-21), to engage the target. You also inform the Anti-Air Warfare Commander of the indications of hostile intent, and he places you and the other ships in Air Warning Red, “attack in progress”. As the target closes to the maximum range of your weapon system, the fire control or tactical computer program, using target course and speed computes a predicted intercept point (PIP) inside the missile engagement envelope. This information and the report that the weapon system has locked-on the target is reported to you. You authorize “batteries release” and 2-16 Figure 2-20. —Display consoles in the Combat Information Center (CIC). Figure 2-21. —Surface-to-Air missile.