HELP!! Brevity word
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In short, wingman does NOT talk during a flight because he is ALWAYS assumed to be:
- Visual
- Naked
- Clean
- No joy
- Has no emergency
- He has not been asked for something from his leader
He ONLY speaks to his leader when:
- He is blind
- He is spiked
- He has a radar contact not reported by his leader, or from external sources to the formation
- He has tally
- He has problem with his aircraft systems
- He has been asked something from his leader
Apart those, he sh@ts the f@ck up and safely navigate the bird following his leader.
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Exactly. I use the term “steers” for the reference. Very useful when you got a strike package behind you at your last waypoint and you have to clear out the area first before the strike package can continue. For example:
You are a SEAD/Escort combo package. You are flying ahead of a strike group. Suddenly, you get SAM spikes everywhere, or a good 4 ship of Migs heading your way. To protect the strike group, you tell them to orbit a specific waypoint. Sort of “hold” at this point until clear. Brevity would be something like this…
“Cowboy 11 orbit steers 4”
…then after the waypoint is cleared out…
“Cowboy 11 cleared on steers 5”
No official way of doing it, but it has its uses. Each squad is different so brevity is not set in stone anywhere. Different brevity for certain things are a given. Some brevity is a standard. It depends on how you set up your squad.
Actually, the brevity for this would be to “SPIN”. Usually spin options are prebriefed.
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Actually, after reporting the spikes back to the COMAO Leader (which is always the Strike Leader), he will tell you what to do, and most probably (except if defined in the briefing) he will not give you back any info on what the strike is doing about that.
Not completely true. The strike is not always the package leader. And, after hearing a report from the SEAD/Escort flight ahead of them, they had best orbit there current steerpoint. Any deviation could cross flight with other aircraft in the area (unless so briefed). Boldly going forward would put the strike aircraft at great risk. JSTARS would have the final say with the entire package anyway. So being gunho with your strike aircraft when there is a bunch of SAM’s and Mig’s in the area is IMHO stupid. It would put your strike aircraft at great risk. Better to have’em orbit the last steers until cleared on (either by the SEAD/Escort or JSTARS).
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Actually, the brevity for this would be to “SPIN”. Usually spin options are prebriefed.
Spin or Orbit, either way. I did say that it is different for every squad. The principle remains however.
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ABM/WDs will provide ID information on the following calls(Strobe/music/spike responses):
● STROBE (w/bearing)—Radar indications of noise jamming.STROBE calls with: (1) Range, (2) bullseye location,altitude, and ID, and (3) GROUP label (if applicable) to the closest group along that azimuth and any follow-on groups along that azimuth.
● MUSIC—Radar electronic deceptive jamming.MUSIC calls will be answered with (1) bullseye location with altitude and ID, (2) number of contacts in that group, if able, (3) any detected maneuvers and track direction.
● SPIKE (w/direction)—RWR indication of an AI threat in track or launch. If a fighter calls “SPIKED” with a magnetic bearing or with a sub-cardinal direction, the ABM/WD will attempt to correlate the SPIKE to a detected group and call the range, altitude, ID, group label (if applicable), and fill-ins.In addition,when your adversary give you the clutter echo on your board sensors(radar),how to make an informative call for your buddies?
Thanks
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“Strobes” is a jamming contact so “strobes, 240 about 50 miles”
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“Strobes” is a jamming contact so “strobes, 240 about 50 miles”
Thanks for your prompt reply.
When you obtain the target return, but you cannot get range information,since the reflected pulse is overpowered and indistinguishable in the noise. How do you know that range?
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When you obtain the target return, but you cannot get range information,since the reflected pulse is overpowered and indistinguishable in the noise. How do you know that range?
I just call out the distance at which I see the chevrons at that moment. Because you use the brevity “strobe” in your transmission, everyone should know the range is not to be considered precise.