Viper Pilot_ A Memoi..

FOX ONE/TWO/THREE: Air-to-air missile shots. “Fox One” is an older radar-guided
AIM-7 Sparrow. “Fox Two” is a close-range, infrared Sidewinder, and “Fox Three”
is the advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM).
FRAG: Fragments from an explosion. Also a “fragmentary order”—a squadron’s
piece of the larger air-tasking order detailing missions, targets, and weapons.
FWIC: Fighter Weapons Instructor Course.
GRUNT: Slang for an infantryman. Friendly ground forces.
HARM: High Speed Anti Radiation Missile.
HOG: Slang for A-10 Thunderbolt II.
HORNET: Slang for the F/A-18 multi-role fighter.
HOTAS: Hands On Throttle And Stick. Technology that permits the activation of
weapons, aircraft systems, and cockpit displays from multifunction switches on the
control stick and throttle.
HTS: HARM Targeting System Pod.
HUD: Heads Up Display. A transparent plastic rectangle mounted on the glare shield
with superimposed flying symbology and weapon attack cues.
IFF: Identification Friend or Foe. An electronic code that can be read by other
friendly aircraft.
ILS: Instrument Landing System.
KILLBOX: A thirty-mile square piece of airspace. Given an alphanumeric identifier,
killboxes are used for deconfliction between flights of fighters.
KLICK: A “kilometer.” About one-sixth of a mile.
LANTIRN: Low Altitude Navigation Targeting InfraRed Night. An older, specialized
system used on Block 40 F-16s for low-level night-strike missions.
LOOSE DEUCE: A wider, more flexible form of Fighting Wing. A two-mile string.
MAGNUM: Warning call made to indicate a HARM firing.
MFD: Multi Function Display.
MiG: An abbreviation for Mikoyan Gurevich, a prominent Soviet/Russian aircraft
manufacturer. Sometimes is generically applied to any enemy fighter.
MIKE: Microphone. Also denotes “millimeter,” as in twenty mike mike (20-mm
cannon). Can also mean “minutes.”
MIL POWER: Full non-afterburning power.