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imagine you're a fighter pilot flying a
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mission over enemy territory when you
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hear a voice on the radio announce a
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missile launch there's no target
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identified and the shooter doesn't even
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announce who they are or where the
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missile is going all you know is there's
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a missile in the air and it's going
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after someone possibly even you that's a
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pretty frightening scenario
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unfortunately I've seen this happen a
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lot in Sims like
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DCS but the good news is that there's a
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way to prevent this problem using good
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communication
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so how do you make your bvr
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Communications more useful keep watching
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to get that
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answer to better understand what's going
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on we need to look at the root of the
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problem when we hear fox 3 on the radio
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we know that a missile with Active Radar
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homing was fired from somewhere we
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covered this brevity code briefly in an
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earlier video but just letting everyone
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on the radio know this one detail only
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reveals the Homing type not who fired it
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or who it's being fired at so it could
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be here or here or even here no one
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knows if they may be The Accidental
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Target of this shot or if an enemy group
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is being handled for them both of these
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things are important to know because it
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affects their odds of surviving the
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mission effective communication enhances
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everyone's situational and
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awareness so we want to say things on
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the radio that improve everyone's
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understanding of what's going on we
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never want to say something that leads
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to more questions than answers like an
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ambiguous Fox call in bvr the process of
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good communication starts before a
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missile is launched it begins with the
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brevity code of
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targeted the targeted brevity code is a
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simple way of letting everyone know that
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a fighter has acquired a signed group
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and has assumed responsibility for it
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and in its simplest form it sounds like
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this eal to targeted West group
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this works if everyone has a shared
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battles space picture like what you get
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with the data link and if you don't have
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a data link then you could add on a
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bullseye reference like this Eagle 2
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targeted West group Bullseye
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27015 we covered Bullseye references in
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this video so if you haven't seen it
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already go check it out if we do things
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this way then everyone knows immediately
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who is being
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targeted it's important to communicate
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this detail because it's likely that a
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VR missile shot is coming soon and this
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gives everyone involved a chance to
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react so let's say that this group needs
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to be targeted and there are two DCA
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caps
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nearby you wouldn't want both flights
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leaving their cap stations and burning
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limited fuel to do the same intercept so
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communicating Target responsibility
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ensures that only one flight leaves
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their station let's take a look at
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another scenario here we see a friendly
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strike package is returning to this area
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and it gets mistakenly identified as an
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enemy
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identification and why a mistaken ID can
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happen are covered in this video in our
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scenario a targeted call on the radio
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lets them know immediately that
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interceptors are coming for them now
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they have a chance to identify
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themselves to the interceptors before a
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shot is taken with a targeted call we
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assign responsibility for a group but
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what about individual contacts within a
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group that's called sorting let's go
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over how that works
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some Jets have the ability to
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automatically sort targets and displayed
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on a screen with lock lines like this
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but even if this feature isn't available
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it can and should be done manually as
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part of a mission
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Plan before a fighter flight even takes
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off they'll brief a plan for sorting
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contacts within a group this will be an
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agreement among flight members on who
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should take each of the contacts in a
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potential Target
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group it can be as simple as a pneumonic
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like lead takes lead left low
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this would mean that in the event of a
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hostile group being in lead Trail
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formation like this then the friendly
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group's lead would focus on the Hostile
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group's
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lead then friendly flight members would
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just take additional contacts in order
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so number two would take the second and
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so
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forth now let's say the targeted group
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is in a formation like this with two
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contacts at the
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front since our neonic is lead left low
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we would take the second criteria which
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is
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left so the friendly lead would take the
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contact on the left and two would take
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this one on the right then three would
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take this one and so forth sorting can
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be done any way the flight lead sees fit
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and as long as it's worked out in the
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briefing it's easy to take care of in
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flight once a flight is targeted a group
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then each wingman can make a quick radio
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call to indicate they've sorted and then
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they're
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done but this isn't the only way to do
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it if a flight encounters a situation
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they didn't plan for the light lead can
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call out sorting assignments like this
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Eagle 2 sort right Eagle 3 and four sort
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Trail now the flight is sorted and ready
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to take their shots now let's go over
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how to do shot calls the right
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way here's the definition of the fox
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brevity code as we mentioned earlier
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it's not particularly useful without
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additional information like the identity
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of the shooter and who the weapon is
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direct Ed at so something like this
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Eagle 2 Fox 3 West
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group but you don't need to end there if
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you really want ensure there's no
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ambiguity you can add amplifying
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information like
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this Raptor 1 Fox 3 lead group Bullseye
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12527 29,000 track North
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hostile not only do we have a group
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label but we have a bullseye reference
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altitude track Direction and a p
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ID there should be no mistaking who is
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being shot at here shot communication
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can also be combined with targeting and
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sorting so it could look like this Rambo
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2 targeted fox 3 sorted Eastern West
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group Bullseye
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27015 20,000 strength
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3 I know that's a lot of words but it
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makes it absolutely clear what's
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happening there should be no question
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about who is shooting and what the
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target is now I want mention a version
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of the fox code I don't see mention very
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often it's what gets used when multiple
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missiles are launched and it's described
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like
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this what we see here are two ways to
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communicate multiple
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launches when you use the second prefix
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it means an additional launch against
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the same
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Target so it would go like this Eagle 2
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second fox 3 West
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group this is what would follow if an
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initial weapon missed or if the pilot
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simply wanted to increase the
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probability of a kill with an additional
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shot the other way to indicate
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additional launches is with this
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suffix so if sword one2 was targeting a
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pair of hostile aircraft the call would
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go like
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this sword2 fox 3 two
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ship this would assume one missile per
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Target and it keeps the pilot from
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making repeated Fox
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calls now I know that was a lot of info
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so let's do a quick
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recap we use targeted to take
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responsibility for for a group of radar
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contacts within that group contacts are
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assigned using the brevity terms sort
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and
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sorted once ordinance is employed then
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we have the fox term to let everyone
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know who the shooter and Target are in
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all cases it's important to add
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amplifying information this means adding
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important details that can build a good
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picture of what's
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Happening even though Modern Combat
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aircraft have great situational
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awareness with tools like link 16 data
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links we have to remember their
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limitations this display does not show
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missiles in Flight that information has
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to be conveyed over the
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radio for my DCs players I know this can
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cause a problem because you're often
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flying solo or with just one
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friend in those cases proper brevity
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isn't so
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important and solo players don't need
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any brevity at all when you're flying
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with only one friend you can skip the
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call sign because you know who's talking
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but this can build bad habits that will
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carry over when you play with larger
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groups so it's a good idea to practice
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proper brevity even with just one
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wingman now there's another problem that
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can happen in bvr and it's a radar
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screen that looks like this there are
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both friendly and enemy aircraft on this
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screen so how do you figure out who's a
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valid Target I have an entire video
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dedicated to answering that question and
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you can check it out here and as always
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I hope you learned something from this
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video and thanks for watching
