RANGE SAFETY LATEST 2026 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Impact Area - ✔✔The purpose of an impact area is to contain all hazards associated
with the ordnance being fired
✔✔High-hazard impact - ✔✔areas that are permanently designed to contain sensitive
ammunition and explosives
✔✔Why are high-hazard impact areas dangerous - ✔✔they contain high explosives and
sensitive unexploded ordinance
✔✔True/False: Never enter a high-hazard impact area without permission from range
control - ✔✔True
✔✔Ordnance fired into high-hazard impact areas - ✔✔Cluster bombs, artillery rounds,
mortar rounds, high-explosive grenades, missiles
✔✔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.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Impact Area - ✔✔The purpose of an impact area is to contain all hazards associated
with the ordnance being fired
✔✔High-hazard impact - ✔✔areas that are permanently designed to contain sensitive
ammunition and explosives
✔✔Why are high-hazard impact areas dangerous - ✔✔they contain high explosives and
sensitive unexploded ordinance
✔✔True/False: Never enter a high-hazard impact area without permission from range
control - ✔✔True
✔✔Ordnance fired into high-hazard impact areas - ✔✔Cluster bombs, artillery rounds,
mortar rounds, high-explosive grenades, missiles
✔✔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.
