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| − | ! style="background-color:#fd6864;" | Brevity
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| − | ! style="background-color:#fd6864;" | Meaning
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| − | |-
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| − | | (Number) o´clock
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| − | | General direction relative to you, as on a clock face: 12 is ahead, 6 is rear, 3 & 9 are left & right
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | (Rate of) Closure
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Relative rate of approaching aircraft, with respect to your own aircraft
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| − | |-
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| − | | (V)ID
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| − | | Call to identify the target, (Visual) Identification
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | AAA
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Anti-Aircraft Artillery
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| − | |-
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| − | | AAR
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| − | | Air-to-Air Refueling
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Abort (abort abort)
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Cease action / attack / event / mission
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| − | |-
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| − | | ACM
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| − | | Air Combat Maneuvring
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Active
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Missile that has its own on-board radar transmitter and receiver for targetting
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| − | |-
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| − | | AGL
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| − | | Above Ground Level, obtained from radar altimeter. Moves with ground, such as going over a mountain
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | AGM
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Air-to-Ground Missile
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| − | |-
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| − | | AMRAAM
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| − | | Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Anchor(ed)
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Hold at current / indication position
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| − | |-
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| − | | Angels
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| − | | Altitude in thousands (1000) of feet: Angels 21 is 21,000 feet
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | AOA
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Angle Of Attack, the relation between the air hitting the plane and the direction of travel
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| − | |-
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| − | | ARM
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| − | | Anti-Radiation missile
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | ASL
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Above Sea Level, requires you to know altimeter pressure setting for the barometric altimeter readout
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| − | |-
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| − | | Asleep
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| − | | Enemy SAM is not active and is not expecting friendly units
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | AWACS
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Airborne Warning and Control System
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| − | |-
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| − | | Awake
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| − | | Enemy SAM isactive and is expecting friendly units
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Bandit
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Confired enemy
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| − | |-
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| − | | BDA
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| − | | Battle Damage Assesment, check to see what damage your weapons did
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Bearing
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Given direction on a compass, for example when spotting a target: ''contact bearing 123°''
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| − | |-
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| − | | Bent
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| − | | Broken item on the aircraft: 'The radar is bent'
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | BFM
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Basic Fighter Maneuvring
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| − | |-
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| − | | Bingo
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| − | | Minimum fuel state needed for recovery to (air)base
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Bingo on the ball (aka Trick or Treat)
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Aircraft is running out of fuel, so this will be last landing attempt, before diverting to a nearby airfield
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| − | |-
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| − | | Bittersweet / blue on blue
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| − | | Friendly units (accidentally) engaging other friendly units
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Blind
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | No (visual) contact on the target ( / friendly) unit
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| − | |-
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| − | | Bogey
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| − | | Unidentified aircraft (could be hostile or friendly)
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Bogey Dope
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Request for target information to nearest (or specified) group, in BRAA
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| − | |-
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| − | | Bolter
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| − | | Aircraft during carrier landing has failed to catch an arresting wire, thus needing to try and land again
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | BRA(A)
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Bearing, Range, Altitude, (Aspect: Hot, Flanking or Cold)
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| − | |-
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| − | | BRC
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| − | | Base Recovery Course
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Break (direction)
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Call to move in indicated direction, in a high G turn
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| − | |-
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| − | | Buddy
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| − | | Confirmed friendly
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Buddy (spike)
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Response to 'Raygun'; Friendly unit is actively locking on to me,
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| − | |-
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| − | | Bugout
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| − | | Moving out in specified direction with no intent to reengage / return
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | BVR
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Beyond Visual Range
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| − | |-
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| − | | CAP
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| − | | Combat Air Patrol, (supporting other units in the area by) engaging hostiles in air-to-air
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | CAS
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Close Air Support, (supporting other units in the area by) engaging ground targets
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| − | |-
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| − | | CBU
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| − | | Cluster Bomb Unit (Mk-20 Rockeye, CBU-87, CBU-97)
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | CCZ
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Carrier Controlled Zone
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| − | |-
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| − | | Cease (action)
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| − | | Discontinue, stop (cease fire means stop shooting)
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | CG
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Center of Gravity
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| − | |-
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| − | | Chaff
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| − | | Counter measure against radar missiles, kind of similar to glitter on steroids
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Check six
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Look behind you
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| − | |-
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| − | | Cherubs
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| − | | Altitude in hundreds (100) of feet: Cherubs 5 is 500 feet
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Clara
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Pilot has no visual on the 'meatball' or IFLOLS, used for glideslope when landing on a carrier
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| − | |-
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| − | | Cleared Hot
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| − | | Ordinance release / attack is authorized
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Cloak / lights off
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Turn off lights so that only NVG lights are shown on the aircraft
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| − | |-
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| − | | Combat Spread
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| − | | Aircraft flying line abreast, with a decent amount of seperation to avoid all getting hit at once (100 - 300 feet)
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Commit
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Intercept group of interest, begin the action
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| − | |-
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| − | | Contact
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| − | | Unit detected at <relative point (you, bullseye, other)>, <BRA>, <hot / cold / flanking>
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Contact
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Detected unit
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| − | |-
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| − | | Course
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| − | | Actual direction of travel in degrees on compass; North 0°, East 90°, South 180°, West 270°
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Covey Launch
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Simultaneous launch of multiple aircraft from the carrier
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| − | |-
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| − | | Cranking
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| − | | Flanking the enemy whilst keeping them locked up in the gimbal edges of the radar
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Danger close
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Friendly units are in close proximity of the target and are likely to be in the splash zone of the weapon
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| − | |-
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| − | | Declare
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| − | | Identify specified group or track(ed target)
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Defensive / defending
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Maneuvring to avoid threat (typically a missile)
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| − | |-
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| − | | Departing (the envelope)
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| − | | Leaving / flying outside aircraft limits, aircraft has become uncontrollable
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Drag
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Any impedance to the aicraft's forward movement through the air
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| − | |-
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| − | | Ease Guns to Land
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| − | | Pulling the throttles back on carrier landing (never do this)
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | ECM
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Electronic Counter-Measures, to distort the (radar) signals / systems of the enemy
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| − | |-
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| − | | Engage
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| − | | Commence attack, fire control order
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | EW
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Electronic Warfare
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| − | |-
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| − | | Eyeball
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| − | | Visual (EO) or infrared acquisition of a target
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Faded
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Radar contact is lost on previously acquired target
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| − | |-
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| − | | Feet dry
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| − | | Over land
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Feet wet
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Over water
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| − | |-
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| − | | Fence
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| − | | Set cockpit switches as appropriate before entering / exiting the combat area
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Fence In
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Entering enemy controlled airspace (during mission), set weapons hot
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| − | |-
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| − | | Fence Out
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| − | | Leaving enemy airspace (during mission), weapons can be set to cold
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Fireweall
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Push the throttles all the way forward, for maximum engine power output
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| − | |-
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| − | | Flanking
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| − | | Target is heading in a ± 45 degree angle, in a effort to crank / notch you
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Flight
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Group of airplanes in a tasking / mission
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| − | |-
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| − | | Flight Envelope
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| − | | Performance limits of an aircraft
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Flight Level (FL)
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Identical to ''Angels''; flight altitude in thousands (1000) of feet; FL 50 is 50 000 feet
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| − | |-
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| − | | Fox # (short, medium, long)
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| − | | Shooting a missile
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Fox 1
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Semi active missile, homes onto reflected radar waves emitted from launch aircraft
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| − | |-
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| − | | Fox 2
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| − | | Heat seeking missile, homes in on engine heat from the targetted unit
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Fox 3
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Active missile, first homes on reflected radar like semi-active, then activates its own small radar
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| − | |-
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| − | | Fox 4 / Guns, guns, guns
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| − | | Firing guns
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Furball / clusterfuck
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Indicating known friendly and non-friendly aircraft in close proximity, such as a dogfight
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| − | |-
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| − | | GBU
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| − | | General purpose Bomb Unit (Mk-82, Mk-82, GBU-12
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | GCI
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Ground Controller Intercept
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| − | |-
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| − | | Gimbal (limit)
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| − | | Limits on a sensor operating range, such as the radar or targetting pod
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Group
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Number of targets close together, typically heading in the same direction
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| − | |-
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| − | | Heading
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| − | | Where my aircraft is pointing on a compass
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Hold fire
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Do not shoot, destroy already launched missiles / weapons
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| − | |-
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| − | | Hook
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| − | | Cue sensor (targetting pod, radar) towards the directed target of interest
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Hostile
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Contact identified as enemy, with clearance to fire
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| − | |-
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| − | | Hot / cold
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| − | | Hot means the contact has the nose pointed towards you, cold means he is going away from you
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | HOTAS
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Hands On Throttle And Stick
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| − | |-
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| − | | HUD
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| − | | Heads-Up Display
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | IFF
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Identification Friend or Foe; determining if the target is hostile or friendly
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| − | |-
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| − | | IFR
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| − | | Instrument Flight Rules: flying with your aircraft instruments in bad weather conditions
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | ILS
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Instrument Landing System
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| − | |-
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| − | | IMC
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| − | | InterMediate Conditions; bad weather
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | In the goo
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | In the clouds, limited visibility
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| − | |-
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| − | | JDAM
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| − | | Joint Direct Attack Munition, typically GPS guided (GBU-31, GBU-38)
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Jink(ing)
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Unpredictable maneuvers to negate a tracking solution or lock
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| − | |-
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| − | | JSOW
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| − | | Joint StandOff Weapon, glidebomb etc. (AGM-154)
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Level flight
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Not climbing or descending
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| − | |-
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| − | | Level wings
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| − | | Not banking or rolling
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Maddog
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Active missile is launched where its radar is immediately turned on, engaging the first target it sees
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| − | |-
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| − | | Magnum
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| − | | Anti-radiation missile launch
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Mark your father / mom
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Give position relative to the carrier: aircraft number, bearing and range
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| − | |-
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| − | | Marking
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| − | | Contrailing (smoking) / In contrailing altitude: typically > 25,000 and < 40,000 feet
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Markpoint
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Designated point of interest, typically within the datalink / sensor system
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| − | |-
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| − | | Merge(d)
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| − | | Friendlies and targets are in the same visual arena / geographical location
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Mil Power
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | The maximum amount of thrust from a jet engine without engaging the afterburner
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| − | |-
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| − | | Mother, Boat, Bingo Field
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| − | | Aircraft Carrier
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Mud / Spike
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Radar is locking you up, mud denotes ground radar
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| − | |-
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| − | | Music
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| − | | Use of jamming to deny being locked up, either by you, friend, or foe
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Nails
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | RWR contact in search mode
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| − | |-
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| − | | Naked
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| − | | No RWR or (radar) information on enemy
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | No joy
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | No (visual) contact on the target ( / enemy) unit; opposite of 'Tally'
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| − | |-
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| − | | Notching
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| − | | Flying perpendicular to the aircraft attacking you with radar (missiles) to try and spoof the radar (missile)
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | On station
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Unit has reached assigned location
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| − | |-
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| − | | Oops
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| − | | What you say after you let an SU-27 get on your wingman's six o'clock
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Orbit(ing
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Hold current / indicated position, typically in a circular orbit above the indicated location
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| − | |-
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| − | | Overshoot
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| − | | Being forced out in front of an opposing aircraft, most likely due to having too much airspeed
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Package
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Group of different aircraft combined to perform a single mission
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| − | |-
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| − | | Padlocked
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| − | | Crew cannot takes eyes off the target without losing it
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Passive
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Receiving signals without needing to emit your own signals to obtain data
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| − | |-
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| − | | Payload
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| − | | Usefull loadout of an aircraft, including ordinance, fuel, etc.
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Pickle
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | (Cluster / General-purpose) Bomb Unit release
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| − | |-
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| − | | Picture
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| − | | Request for AWACS to provide air information / air overview relevant to mission
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Pitbull
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Missile has gone active (turned on its own radar)
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| − | |-
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| − | | Pk
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| − | | Probability of kill
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Pop-up
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Units have suddenly appeared
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| − | |-
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| − | | Press
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| − | | Pushing on to the enemy you are engaging (shortly)
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | PRF
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Pulse Repetition Frequencies
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| − | |-
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| − | | Pucker Factor
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| − | | Method of rating (dangerous) missions, from 0 to 10 (0 being the lowest, 10 being the highest)
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Punch out
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | To eject from the airplane
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| − | |-
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| − | | Radar (Radio Detection And Ranging)
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| − | | A pulsed beam of energy used to scan for, detect, and return information about a target
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Raygun
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Locking up an unknown target, querying the IFF response from friendly units
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| − | |-
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| − | | Rejoin
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| − | | Return to close formation flight
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Rifle
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Air to ground missile launch
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| − | |-
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| − | | ROE
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| − | | Rules Of Engagement, dicates how you are to engage targets (ie return fire only)
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | RWR
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Radar Warning Receiver, reads and presents current radar signals spiking your aircraft
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| − | |-
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| − | | SAM
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| − | | Surface-to-Air Missile
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | SAM (direction)
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Visual acquisition of SAM in flight or SAM launch, including position reference
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| − | |-
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| − | | Section
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| − | | Flights are divided into sections of 2 - 3 aircraft (similar to fireteams in a squad)
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Semi-active
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | (Missile) Has its own radar receiver, but targets reflected radar waves / illumination from the host aircraft
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| − | |-
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| − | | Shack
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| − | | Weapons impact on ground (unit)
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Situational Awareness (SA)
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Knowing what is going around you at all times: where are enemies, where are friendlies, is my six clear?
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| − | |-
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| − | | Sparkle
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| − | | Laser Pointer (from a Targetting Pod)
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Spike
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Threat on the RWR receiver: 'Badger 1-1 has an SA-10 spike at twelve o'clock'
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| − | |-
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| − | | Splash
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| − | | Enemy target hit
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Stack
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Two or more contacts are in close together (in a group)
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| − | |-
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| − | | Stall
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| − | | Due to high / low AOA, the maximum lift capability is exceeded, resulting in an abrupt loss of lift
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Status
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Report situation
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| − | |-
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| − | | STOVL
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| − | | Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Tally (Ho)
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Recognition of an enemy unit; opposite of 'No Joy'
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| − | |-
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| − | | TFR
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| − | | Terrain Following Radar
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | TLAR
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | That Looks About Right; winging it
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| − | |-
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| − | | Trashed
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| − | | Missile has been defeated
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | VFR
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Visual Flight Rules; fly by your eyesight when it is clear enough to see
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| − | |-
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| − | | Visual
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| − | | Recognition of an friendly unit or (landmark) object
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | VTOL
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Vertical Take-Off and Landing
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| − | |-
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| − | | Wilco
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| − | | Will Comply with received instructions
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Winchester
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | No ordinance (missiles, bombs) remaining
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| − | |-
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| − | | WVR
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| − | | Within Visual Range
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| − | |-
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | Zulu (time)
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| − | | style="background-color:#accc4f;" | GMT+0, Greenwich Time
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