Rita is the nickname given to the Russian airborne voice warning system that alerts pilots to critical failures and dangerous flight conditions in Russian military aircraft. Its short spoken warnings became familiar outside aviation through flight simulation games, where players hear the same calm alerts during combat damage. Clips of individual warnings later spread to soundboards and meme edits, separated from the cockpit context. This electronic warfare failure line is now reused as a standalone alert, valued because non Russian speakers still instantly read its tone as an official system warning.