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Air-to-air Tactical Communication

Quick-reference air-to-air brevity and aspect language for the visual and beyond-visual fight.

Communications and Brevity Air-to-ground Doctrine

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand key air-to-air brevity:
  2. TALLY
  3. VISUAL
  4. BLIND
  5. NO JOY
  6. PITCHBACK
  7. COMEBACK
  8. SLICEBACK
  9. HOUND DOG
  10. PRESS
  11. CONTINUE
  12. WILCO
  13. UNABLE
  14. ROGER
  15. Understand how much communication is enough and how much is excessive.

Friendly and Bandit Aspect Nomenclature

Blue and red defensive brevity aspect diagram
Aspect and defensive terminology reference.

On the bandit, the aspect term describes what the bandit is doing.

Example:

Contact bandit, 085 for 155, 16, dragging.

On the friendly, the term describes what you are doing or directs your flight what to do.

Examples:

Flight, notch left!
Two, notching right!