Under the Weapons Tight status, LAAD teams engage aircraft that are:

• A. Not Positively Identified as Friendly
• B. Unidentified
• C. Positively Identified as Hostile
• D. Neutral

Answer: (C)

Under Weapons Tight, you fire only when the target has been positively identified as hostile. This rule is about preventing fratricide and protecting friendly aircraft and forces in a dynamic battlefield. For LAAD teams, the decision to engage rests on solid identification—positive identification of a hostile threat using IFF, flight characteristics, or other reliable cues—before pulling the trigger. That means aircraft that are not confirmed as hostile are not engaged, and only those confirmed as hostile are targeted.

Other conditions would involve holding fire or not engaging, such as aircraft that are unidentified or neutral, which do not meet the requirement for positive hostile identification under this status.