| Time and caller |
Message |
| 13:36.30 control Manila Hotel |
POPOV from MANILA HOTEL. Can you confirm you engaged that tube and those vehicles? |
| 13:36.36 pilot POPOV 35 |
Affirm Sir. Looks like I've got multiple vehicles in advance at about 800 meters to the north of your arty[1] rounds. Can you switch fire, and shift fire, and try to get some arty rounds on those? |
| 13:36.47 control Manila Hotel |
Roger, I understand that those are the impacts that you observed earlier on my timing? |
| 13:36.51 pilot POPOV 35 |
Affirmative. |
| 13:36.52 control Manila Hotel |
Roger, standby. Let me make sure they're not on another mission. |
| 13:36.57 pilot POPOV 36 |
Hey, I got a four ship. Looks like they've got orange panels on them though. Do we have any friendlies up in this area? |
| 13:37.03 control Manila Hotel |
I understand that was north 800 metres. |
| 13:37.12 control Manila Hotel |
POPOV, understand that was north 800 metres? |
| 13:37.16 pilot POPOV 35 |
Confirm, north 800 metres. Confirm there are no friendlies this far north on the ground. |
| 13:37.21 control Manila Hotel |
That is an affirm. You are well clear of friendlies. |
| 13:37.25 pilot POPOV 35 |
Copy. I see multiple riveted vehicles. Some look like flatbed trucks and others are green vehicles. Can't quite make out the type. Look like may be ZIL157s[2]. |
| 13:37.36 control Manila Hotel |
Roger. Matches our Intel up there. And understand you also have the other fixed wing up this push? For terminal control, if you can. |
| 13:37.44 pilot POPOV 35 |
I'd love to. I didn't talk to him yet. |
| 13:37.46 control Manila Hotel |
Roger, I believe CASPER is up this push too. Two Super Tomcats. |
| 13:37.54 pilot POPOV 36 |
Hey dude. |
| 13:37.56 pilot POPOV 36 |
I got a four ship of vehicles that are evenly spaced along a road going north. |
| 13:38.04 pilot POPOV36 |
Look down at your right, 2 o'clock, at 10 o'clock low, there is a, uh - left 10 o'clock, look down there, they're heading north along that canal, right there. Coming up just south of the village. |
| 13:38.21 pilot POPOV35 |
Evenly spaced? Where we strafed? |
| 13:38.23 pilot POPOV36 |
No. No. Further east - further west, right now. And there's four or five of them right now heading up there. |
| 13:38.29 pilot POPOV35 |
No, I don't have your visual. |
| 13:38.30 pilot POPOV36 |
I'm back at your 6 - no factor. |
| 13:38.31 pilot POPOV35 |
OK, now where's this canal? |
| 13:38.35 pilot POPOV35 |
Don't hit those F18s that are out there. |
| 13:38.38 pilot POPOV36 |
OK. Right underneath you. Right now, there's a canal that runs north/south. There's a small little village, and there are vehicles that are spaced evenly there. |
| 13:38.49 pilot POPOV36 |
They look like they have orange panels on though. |
| 13:38.51 pilot POPOV35 |
He told me, he told me there's nobody north of here. No friendlies. |
| 13:38.52 pilot POPOV36 |
I know. They're right on the river. |
| 13:38.53 pilot POPOV35 |
I see vehicles though, might be our original dudes. |
| 13:39.09 pilot POPOV36 |
They've got something orange on top of them. |
| 13:39.10 pilot POPOV35 |
POPOV for MANILA 3, is MANILA 34 in this area? |
| 13:39.14 control Manila Hotel |
Say again? |
| 13:39.15 pilot POPOV35 |
MANILA HOTEL, is MANILA 34 in this area? |
| 13:39.19 control Manila Hotel |
Negative. Understand they are well clear of that now. |
| 13:39.23 pilot POPOV35 |
OK, copy. Like I said, multiple riveted vehicles. They look like flatbed trucks. Are those your targets? |
| 13:39.30 control Manila Hotel |
That's affirm. |
| 13:39.31 pilot POPOV35 |
OK. |
| 13:39.34 pilot POPOV36 |
Let me ask you one question. |
| 13:39.35 pilot POPOV35 |
What's that? |
| 13:39.45 pilot POPOV36 |
[to MANILA HOTEL] Hey, tell me what type of rocket launchers you got up here? |
| 13:39.50 pilot POPOV36 |
I think they're rocket launchers. |
| 13:39.52 control Manila Hotel |
... [garbled] You were stepped on, say again. |
| 13:39.54 pilot POPOV35 |
MANILA HOTEL, fire your arty up that 800 metres north, and see how we do. |
| 13:40.01 control Manila Hotel |
Roger, standby for shot. They are getting adjustments to the guns now. |
| 13:40.34 pilot POPOV35 |
Copy. |
| 13:40.09 pilot POPOV36 |
Roll up your right wing and look right underneath you. |
| 13:40.12 pilot POPOV35 |
[angry] I know what you're talking about. |
| 13:40.13 pilot POPOV36 |
OK, well they got orange rockets on them. |
| 13:40.17 pilot POPOV35 |
Orange rockets? |
| 13:40.17 pilot POPOV36 |
Yeah, I think so. |
| 13:40.18 pilot POPOV35 |
Let me look. |
| 13:40.26 pilot POPOV35 |
We need to think about getting home. |
| 13:40.29 pilot POPOV36 |
3.6 is what it says[3]. |
| 13:40.31 pilot POPOV35 |
Yeah, I know. I'm talking time wise. |
| 13:40.35 pilot POPOV36 |
I think killing these damn rocket launchers, it would be great. |
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[The tape then becomes garbled] |
| 13:40.52 control Manila Hotel |
Yeah, POPOV36, MANILA HOTEL. I've got other aircraft up this push. Not sure they're coming to me. Someone else might be working this freq. |
| 13:41.00 pilot POPOV35 |
Yeah, MANILA34 is working them, break, break. |
| 13:40.12 pilot POPOV36 |
Yeah, I see that, you see I'm going to roll down. |
| 13:40.15 control Manila 34 |
Break, be advised MANILA3,4 is not working the F18s unless they are trying to check in with me, over. |
| 13:41.21 pilot POPOV35 |
Copy. |
| 13:41.24 pilot POPOV36 |
OK, do you see the orange things on top of them? |
| 13:41.32 control Manila Hotel |
POPOV 36 from MANILA HOTEL. Are you able to switch to Crimson? |
| 13:41.37 pilot POPOV36 |
POPOV 36 is rolling in. |
| 13:41.40 control Manila Hotel |
Tell you what. |
| 13:41.41 pilot POPOV35 |
I'm coming off west. You roll in. It looks like they are exactly what we're talking about. |
| 13:41.49 pilot POPOV36 |
We got visual. |
| 13:41.50 pilot POPOV36 |
OK. I want to get that first one before he gets into town then. |
| 13:41.53 pilot POPOV35 |
Get him - get him. |
| 13:41.55 pilot POPOV36 |
All right, we got rocket launchers, it looks like. Number 2 is rolling in from the south to the north, and 2's in. |
| 13:42.04 pilot POPOV35 |
Get it. |
|
POPOV36 "rolls in" for an attack and turns his A-10 into a vertical dive to strafe the British column, destroying two Scimitar armored vehicles and killing L/Cpl of Horse Matty Hull. |
| 13:42.09 |
- GUNFIRE - |
| 13:42.18 pilot POPOV35 |
I'm off your west. |
| 13:42.22 pilot POPOV35 |
Good hits. |
| 13:42.29 pilot POPOV36 |
Got a visual. |
| 13:42.30 pilot POPOV35 |
I got a visual. You're at your high 10. |
| 13:42.31 pilot POPOV36 |
Gotcha. |
| 13:42.30 pilot POPOV36 |
That's what you think they are, right? |
| 13:42.39 pilot POPOV35 |
It looks like it to me, and I got my goggles on them now. |
| 13:42.59 pilot POPOV35 |
OK, I'm looking at getting down low at this. |
| 13:43.13 control Manila Hotel |
POPOV 36 from MANILA HOTEL, guns . . . |
| 13:43.17 control Manila Hotel |
To engage those targets in the revetts[4]. |
| 13:43.24 pilot POPOV36 |
It looks like he is hauling ass. Ha ha. Is that what you think they are? |
| 13:43.34 pilot POPOV36 |
1-2 |
| 13:43.35 pilot POPOV35 |
It doesn't look friendly. |
| 13:43.38 pilot POPOV36 |
OK, I'm in again from the south. |
| 13:43.40 pilot POPOV35 |
Ok. |
| 13:43.47 |
- GUNFIRE - |
| 13:43.54 control Lightning34 |
POPOV 34, LIGHTNING 34. |
| 13:44.09 pilot POPOV35 |
POPOV 35, LIGHTNING 34 GO. |
| 13:44.12 control Lightning34 |
Roger, POPOV. Be advised that in the 3122 and 3222 group box you have friendly armor in the area. Yellow, small armored tanks. Just be advised. |
| 13:44.16 pilot POPOV35 |
Ahh shit. |
| 13:44.19 pilot POPOV35 |
Got a - got a smoke. |
| 13:44.21 control Lightning34 |
Hey, POPOV34, abort your mission. You got a, looks we might have a blue on blue situation. |
| 13:44.25 pilot POPOV35 |
Fuck. God bless it. |
| 13:44.36 control Manila 34 |
POPOV 34. |
| 13:44.35 pilot POPOV35 |
Fuck, fuck, fuck. |
| 13:44.36 control Manila 34 |
POPOV34, this is MANILA 34. Did you copy my last, over? |
| 13:44.39 pilot POPOV35 |
I did. |
| 13:44.36 control Manila 34 |
Confirm those are friendlies on that side of the canal. |
| 13:44.51 pilot POPOV35 |
Shit. |
| 13:44.58 control Manila 34 |
Standby POPOV. |
| 13:45.04 pilot POPOV36 |
God dammit. |
| 13:44.14 control Manila Hotel |
Hey POPOV 36, from MANILA HOTEL. |
| 13:44.25 control Manila 34 |
OK POPOV. Just west of the 3-4 easting. On the berm up there, the 3422 area is where we have our friendlies, over. |
| 13:44.39 pilot POPOV35 |
All right, POPOV 35 has smoke. Let me know how those friendlies are right now, please. |
| 13:44.45 control Manila 34 |
Roger, standby. |
| 13:44.49 pilot POPOV35 |
Gotta go home dude. |
| 13:44.50 pilot POPOV36 |
Yeah, I know. We're fucked. |
| 13:45.54 pilot POPOV35 |
Shit. |
| 13:46.01 pilot POPOV36 |
As you cross the circle, you are 3 o'clock low. |
| 13:46.03 pilot POPOV35 |
Roger. |
| 13:46.12 pilot POPOV35 |
POPOV 35 is Bingo. Let us know what's happening. |
| 13:46.15 control Manila Hotel |
Roger. We are getting that information for you right now. Standby. |
| 13:46.20 pilot POPOV36 |
Fuck. |
| 13:46.47 control Manila 34 |
POPOV, this is MANILA 34 over. |
| 13:46.51 pilot POPOV35 |
Go. |
| 13:46.55 control Manila 34 |
POPOV 4, MANILA 34 over. |
| 13:47.01 pilot POPOV35 |
Roger 3 4, go for POPOV. |
| 13:47.02 control Manila 34 |
We are getting an initial brief that there was one killed and one wounded, over. |
| 13:47.09 pilot POPOV35 |
Copy. RTB[5]. |
| 13:47.18 pilot POPOV35 |
I'm going to be sick. |
| 13:47.24 pilot POPOV36 |
Ah fuck. |
| 13:47.48 pilot POPOV35 |
Did you hear? |
| 13:47.51 pilot POPOV36 |
Yeah, this sucks. |
| 13:47.52 pilot POPOV35 |
We're in jail dude. |
| 13:47.59 pilot POPOV36 |
Aaaahhhh! |
| 13:48.12 AWAC Sky Chief |
MANILA this is SKY CHIEF over. |
| 13:48.18 control Manila 34 |
This is MANILA 34, send SKY CHIEF. |
| 13:48.22 British pilot Costa58 |
SKY CHIEF, SKY CHIEF. COSTA 58. |
| 13:48.25 control Manila Hotel |
SKY CHIEF, this is MANILA HOTEL. |
| 13:48.30 British pilot Costa58 |
SKY CHIEF, SKY CHIEF. COSTA 58. |
| 13:48.41 AWAC Sky Chief |
Relaying for TWINACT, the A-10s are running on friendlies. |
| 13:48.47 British pilot Costa58 |
POPOV 35, this is COSTA58. Relaying message for TWINACT. Abort, abort. |
| 13:48.54 AWAC Sky Chief |
MANILA how copy A-10s are running on friendlies. Abort. Over. |
| 13:49.07 British pilot Costa58 |
From TWINACT, abort, abort. |
| 13:49.11 pilot POPOV35 |
POPOV 35 aborting. |
| 13:49.14 British pilot Costa58 |
We will relay that back to TWINACT. |
| 13:49.18 pilot POPOV36 |
Fuck. God fucking—shit. |
| 13:50.21 pilot POPOV36 |
Dammit. Fucking damn it. |
| 13:51.17 pilot POPOV36 |
God dammit. Fuck me dead [weeping]. |
| 13:51.25 pilot POPOV35 |
You with me? |
| 13:51.27 pilot POPOV36 |
Yeah. |
| 13:51.30 pilot POPOV35 |
They did say there were no friendlies. |
| 13:51.33 pilot POPOV36 |
Yeah, I know that thing with the orange panels is going to screw us. They look like orange rockets on top. |
| 13:51.48 pilot POPOV35 |
Your tape still on? |
| 13:51.49 pilot POPOV36 |
Yeah. |
| 13:51.54 pilot POPOV35 |
Mine is end of tape. |
