From: Air Force Liaison for the Army General Staff To: Commander 10th Tactical Air Army Your unit has been ordered attached to Transcaucusus Front. SInce your staff is not yet together, orders concerning the immediate task at hand will come from this office. You are ordered to immediately commence air patrols of the southern frontier with Iran between the Caspian Sea and Turkey. Patrols must be round the clock until further notice. AN Air Regiment of the 6th Air Division is currently on the ground at the airfield at Kafan awaiting supplies which are due to arrive within 10 hours. Until this unit is fully operational you must use Azerbaijani Air Force aircraft from which a full regiment of MiG-31F are currently flying regular patrols. The full air superiority elements of the 10th Tactical Air Army will fly out of Baku and Stavropol, and they should be available in 24 hours. Your orders are to maintain patrols and fire upon any aircraft demonstrating hostile intent regardless of their location with relation to air space. However, patrols must be maintained in CIS airspace.