Types of multifunctional brigades

• A. Sustainment brigade, medical brigade, engineer brigade
• B. Aviation brigade, air defense brigade, signal brigade
• C. Sustainment brigade, aviation brigade, fires brigade
• D. Logistics brigade, security brigade, cyber brigade

Answer: (C)

Multifunctional brigades are designed to bring together different kinds of capability so a single unit can operate across movement, sustainment, and combat power. The best-fitting set includes a sustainment (logistics) element, an aviation element, and a fires element. The sustainment brigade provides the logistics backbone—maintaining supply lines, maintenance, transport, and field services to keep forces supplied and pressuring the enemy. The aviation brigade adds mobility and reach—moving troops and equipment quickly, conducting air reconnaissance, and enabling rapid evacuation or resupply as needed. The fires brigade delivers the tactical fires capability—artillery or rocket fires to shape the battlefield, suppress, and destroy targets to support maneuver and protection.

Together, these elements give a brigade the breadth to move, sustain, and strike, which is the essence of a multifunctional formation. The other groupings tend to cluster similar support functions or omit key capabilities like fires or mobility, so they don’t demonstrate the same level of integrated, cross-functional capability.