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Time

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18:18

18:19

Transmission

So at 18.31 target sixty five violated the State border of the USSR. I order you to destroy the target

Roger

Are there nav lights or not? Are there nav lights or not?

Gerasimenko! Are there nav lights or not?

Gerasimenko

I am asking, well, ask the pilot, does the target have nav lights or not?

Gerasimenko

Yes

There are nav lights, Comrade General

There are nav lights?

Yes, sir

Flash lights at it, interrogate it, interrogate it, flash navigation lights as a warning signal. Does it answer or not?

Well, tell Osipovich to flash his nav lights, order him to flash his nav lights

I issued the order, I ordered him to flash his lights

Gerasimenko

Order him to approach the fighter, or rather the target, rock [wings] at it and force it to land at Sokol

Roger

And bring the second in

Hello, hello

Yes

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for some reason we cannot see them from Sokol

Range of target is 20 kilometers

Well, they have entered the blind spot

Ah, the blind spot