What does the pilot mean when he says "FOX 2", "FOX1" and "FOX 3"?

Question

I play alot of ace combat and flight sims, so what do they mean when they say " locked on, Fox 2!" or 'Fox 1 complete" or even from the movie "Indenpendence Day", "Eagle One, Fox 3!", Its just sounds so cool to me.

Answer 1

Their just calling their wingmen and passing messages.

Answer 2

An acronym for firing a missile. There are lots of these in aviation.

Fire

On

X - Target

1 - Missile #

Answer 3

it describes the range of the missile. the higher the number the shorter the range.

fox 1 is something like a phoenix

fox 2 something like a sparrow or amraam

fox 3 something like a sidewinder or asraam

fox 4 = guns

fox 5.... well, it's an air to air.

Answer 4

It indicates that a missile has been fired. I believe 'Fox-1' is a Sidewinder, 'Fox-2' is a Sparrow and 'Fox-3' is a Phoenix missile.

Answer 5

fox stands for missile and it just used to let his wingman know that he fired missiles at the enemy

Answer 6

FOX is a term used to describe an air to air missile.  So they are saying that they just launched a missile.

Answer 7

it substitutes the description of guidance system of the missile being fired.

Answer 8

It is a verbal confirmation of a missile launch, and what type of missle. Fox 2 is synonymous with a sidewinder launch, while Fox 3 I believe is an AMMRAAM

Answer 9

It is from the United States standardized brevity code.

FOX-1 Implies that a semi-active radar guided missile is launched (mostly the Sparrow)

FOX-2 Is an IR Missile launch (Sidewinder)

FOX-3 is an active radar guided missile launch. (probably an AMRAAM)

The codes are not exactly missile specific.

The link below lists all such "cool" words.