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hicles to be unfriendly enemies (see figure 2) (UK Army 2005). Elsewhere I
have considered in detail the significance for the pilots’ understanding and
action of an exchange of talk in which a ground-based battlefield controller
told one pilot that their patrol was “well clear of friendlies” (Nevile 2009b).
Over the next few minutes, the two pilots discussed the vehicles’ location
and their visible orange features. The pilot who first noticed the vehicles,
Popov36, repeatedly offered to his partner Popov35 his candidate formu-
lations of what he saw (Nevile 2009a, in press). Popov36 sought ...