John Carrier wrote:

Current training often reflects the preferred methods of
engagement: AMRAAM at F-pole, break to notch the bogey's system, and then
leave without a merge.

The best thing about this group is reading the posts from the guys who
have been there, and done that. But sometimes the jargon frustrates this
armchair naval aviatior wannabe. If the assembled august personages don't
mind, some translations please. (Using only unclassified information, of
course.)

I've read about the "F-pole" before in the group. From context, I
understand the F-pole is the ideal place in time and space to launch a BVR
missile shot. How is it calculated and why does it have such a strange
name?

What does it mean to "break to notch the bogey's system?" Again, from
context I assume this is a manuever designed to make it more difficult for
the bad guy to track you using sensors like radar (and others?). Is this
the same as "beaming?" What kind of maneuvers are used and how do they
defeat the bogey's ability to track at beyond visual range? Does this
manuever also defeat an enemy's ground-based sensors? Or does it assume
that they have been degraded by other means?