"Skunks and Vampires" Topic
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CAG 19 | 09 Feb 2014 10:07 a.m. PST |
In combat terminology (US) what are the official terms for contacts and when do they apply. For example is a missile a bogey until it goes active and then becomes a vampire? What is a Skunk and how does it differ from a SIerra? Do surface, air and submarine forces in the same task Force use the same terminology. Any help appreciated as always |
Lion in the Stars | 09 Feb 2014 10:22 a.m. PST |
Submarines, at least, use the different letters to designate what type of sensor the contact is held on, and when we can correlate multiple sensor contacts together, it becomes a Master-[number] target. "Bridge, control room, re-designating Sierra-5, Echo-14, and Victor-7 as Master-1," for example. Echo for ESM, Sierra for Sonar, Victor for Visual, Romeo for radar. Note that Visual targets refer to those held by the periscope, not a lookout. The lookouts were responsible for correlating their contacts to those held in the fire-control system for the Officer of the Deck up at the top of the sail, and that's a bit tricky. The lookout needs to keep the ship's true heading pictured in his mind and translate the relative bearings he's been calling to the OOD back to true bearing called by the guys down in the boat. |
Mako11 | 09 Feb 2014 1:34 p.m. PST |
For bogeys, in air-to-air, they're unidentified targets. They turn to bandits when they are identified/cleared as being hostile. Not sure always how that is done, but suspect lack of transponder info, covert radio intercepts of their messages, RPM signatures of engines (yes, apparently there is a detector for that), jets turning on their radars and being identified as hostile from the frequencies, etc. |
John D Salt | 09 Feb 2014 5:18 p.m. PST |
FAS have a guide to brevity words; PDF link More there than a reasonable man could possibly want. All the best, John. |
Lion in the Stars | 09 Feb 2014 8:19 p.m. PST |
Oh, yeah. Almost forgot. If you shot it, it's an "own-ship's unit." If it's still onboard, it's a "weapon," "mark forty-eight," "Adcap," or "Mod7." If it's not onboard and not one you shot, then and only then is it a "torpedo." |
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