Esto es lo más "piloto de caza" que vais a escuchar en una buena temporada. Os pongo las transcripción para que lo podáis seguir y analizar, dada la cantidad de slang y siglas empleadas. Mención especial al tipo que se marco un "Penny Benjamin" en referencia directa a Top Gun XD Aunque no he conseguido dar con el tipo de maniobra que es (quizás una pasada o un bolter).
A tener en cuenta el pragmastismo del piloto y el humor que muestra. El hablar "abiertamente" del tema también desmonta algunas teorías locas del personal sobre la ocultación del incidente.
NOTA: El autor, antiguo RIO de F-14 utiliza aquí IA para anonimizar la voz del piloto.
TRANSCRIPCION:
We fly, front side tank the strikers down to a 4.7, Bingo to the ship and land.
Gas up again take off again. Give DCA players another 15K.
Land on the second flight. Gas up again. Things starting to cool down. Strikers land, large DCA still up. They start to recover some DCA to relaunch them.
A dude pulls a "Penny Benjamin/Dorothy" and lands with a failed decoy out, and we get stuck on deck for a bit.
Finally launch. Only two DCA remaining on station.
Some shit drones or whatever flying about.
We get on station.
I immediately commit myself in the 5 wet to try and get a kill with the 9x in the big girl.
We give gas, hang out.
Hawkeye goes negative primary, passed control to the ship who calls picture clean.
Papa directs RTB. Check out of DCA. Head towards home.
Avoid the shotgun Cruiser and Destroyer by 15 miles, which was what they told us to do.
We are up button 17, about 300 knots in the descent towards final bearing.
All of a sudden we see a missile launch visually from the Gettysburg at our 2:30-3:00.
We talked about it on ICS like "Yo that shit is crazy, I can't believe they're shooting a drone down!"
Missile hits its apex, and it looked exactly like The SFARP SACT lecture animations
so congrats to all the Top Gun people who made them, confirmed that's what it looks like.
SM2 rocket motor was lit for the entire time.
I saw the missile make a correction to lead pursuit (yes I know what that looks like), and then come back to pure
And I asked Blunder "Dude you want to get out?"
He said something I don't remember what it was, and then I was just watching this thing guide, thinking about the only option being to eject, and I just grabbed the handle and pulled.
It was the most violent 5 Seconds of anything I've ever experienced.
Canopy immediately gone. I remember seeing the canopy bow disappearing below my sight line, and it getting dark.
Arms and legs flail everywhere, I never said "eject" or anything on ICS just pulled. Felt the opening shock of the parachute, and as soon as I looked up at a good parachute, I heard what I assess as the missile fusing just a loud "POP."
Did IROK. Took off my mask, inflate LPU, deploy the raft, and then contemplated life for the rest of the ride down in the water
SEAWARS goes off, chute goes away. I never even saw it or felt any drag in the water.
Raft inflated I pulled myself over to it and climbed in like a fat idiot ginger would. It wasn't pretty.
That's when I figured out my left knee and left shoulder were not in a great place.
Broke out the strobe, broke out the radio, IMM no workie.
Never got a fix on that POS.
Went to LOS comms, never got a response on SAR (had the wrong frequency, user error), so I called out on UHF Guard, but also got no answer, but they heard me.
Blunder is like 100 yards from me lit up like a Christmas tree with Sidewinder flashlight and strobe and everything. I thought it was a boat. XD
We drift closer together in 6' to 10' seas, and eventually get within earshot.
"-You okay?"
"-Yup"
"-Yep bro what the fuck they shot at us!"
I was BIG MAD in the raft, so mad they shot at us, and thinking about being in the raft for the next however many hours.
Eventually, Blunder tells me the frequency I'm supposed to be on, like a good WSO, and I get in contact with the E-2 and the helo.
20 minutes later, Helo is over top us. They pick him up first because he is obviously more likable than I am, and then I get picked up.
10 minute flight to get our story straight in the helo.
One of the air crewmen had a Zin can in the helo, and and then I remembered I had a Zin can in my G suit pocket.
Pulled it out and put the remaining three saltwater soaked zins in my mouth, and high-fived the rescue swimmer.
GLOSARIO:
Bingo: Bingo fuel es, dependiendo exactamente del contexto, el combustible mínimo para volver y aterrizar
Station: En esa frase creo que hace referencia a la zona de la catapulta.
5 wet: Wet es cuando vas con afterburner, posiblemente un estado previo al lanzamiento.
9X: AIM 9X Sidewinder, un misil Aire-Aire.
Hawkeye: E-2 Hawkeye. Un avión embarcado de alerta temprana.
RTB: Return To Base
Shotgun: En ese contexto, acompañante. Como el que va en el asiento del copiloto en un coche.
ICS: Intercomunicador.
SFARP SACT: Strike Fighter Advanced Readiness Program
SM2: Un tipo de misil antiaéreo.
DCA: Defensive Air Counter, Operaciones para proteger el espacio aéreo, por ejemplo, bajo ataque.
IROK: Inflate, Release, Options, and Koch. Una regla memotécnica para las acciones al eyectarse.
SEAWARS: Un sistema que libera el paracaídas al entrar en el agua.
IMM: Radio/Baliza en la Frecuencia Marina Internacional en la banda VHF
POS: "Piece Of Shit" (99%)
LOS: Line of Sight. Comunicaciones directas sin obstáculos.
SAR: Servicio Aéreo de rescate, en inglés Search and Rescue
UHF Guard: Frecuencia en de emergencia en la banda UHF (Ultra High Frequency) que es la que se usa en comunicaciones militares.
Sidewinder: No confundir con el misil, una linterna táctica.
WSO: Weapons System Officer. El nombre actual de los RIO (Radar Interceptor Officer) de la US Navy.
