JTAC - “5 Line” Procedures

Some ArmaFriday Combined Arms missions will include players in the sky in either fixed wing aircraft or attack helicopters. In order to facilitate efficient attacks, ArmaFriday uses a “5-line” system adopted from the real 9-line JTAC system to guide attacks at the appropriate targets.

As a Close Air Support (CAS) Pilot

Close Air Support - Will report in Area of Operations with the following:

  • Callsign
  • Type of Aircraft
  • Relative Position to units on the field
Example: “Hog 1-1, A10C Available for Tasking, 1 minute East from Novorsk”

Requesting Air Support as JTAC

Here’s the “5-line” system to use on communicating with air assets as a JTAC:

  1. Callsign
  2. Target’s General Position
  3. Target Description
  4. Ordanance Requested
  5. Ingress / Egress Direction

(Optional): Remarks such as the location and distance of friendlies relative to target

Example 1: “Hog 1-1, This is Whiplash, Target East side of Novorsk, 2 Heavy armor, requesting GBU GBU. Ingress from the West.” Example 2 with Optional remarks:”Hog 1-1, this is Whiplash. Target east side of Novorsk, 2 Heavy armor, requesting GBU. Ingress from the West. Note: Tower 300m West of Target.

Engaging

As the air asset, you will report back to JTAC as follows:

CAP - Read-back Previous instructions followed by:

CAP - “Inbound”

JTAC - “Hot” or “Cold” as well as “Laser on” (Referencing CAP position as per request)

CAP - “Rifle” or “Engaging”

JTAC - Damage Assessment, possible “Re-attack”