Alert fighters
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Alert Fighters are a group of Vipers "standing by" within a battlestar's launch tubes with their pilots in or very near their cockpits in preparation for a quick launch.
The purpose of Alert Fighters are to support a Combat Air Patrol with the intercept or elimination of any incoming enemy threat.