TAC Brevity Flashcards
Alligator
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Angels
Height
Angels 2 = 2000ft
Beadwindow
Your last transmission disclosed Essential Elements of Friendly Information
Bent
Equipment inoperative
Big Dipper
Radar and sonar fitted helo
Bloodhound
ASW torpedo
Blotter
ESM system
Bogey
Unidentified aircraft
Bruiser
Air to surface missile (overwater)
Bulldog
Surface/sub-surface launched anti-ship missile
Bullpen
Submarine search generated area
Cadillac
Directional active sonobuoy
Cake
ASW weapon state report
Candy
Ammunition state report
Charter
Requirement for daily changing of callsigns
Chatter
Comms jamming
Cherubs
Height in hundreds of feet
Cherubs 5 = 500ft
Cobra
ASW torpedo with Gyro Angled Snake Search (GASS)
Cold
Lost sonar contact or contact is not held
Confetti
Chaff return on radar
Cypher
Covered circuits that is set using cryptographic devices
Diver
Variable depth sonar
Dog box
Area within which units may interfere with or be endangered by ASW torpedoes
Father
TACAN
Feather
Visual sighting of periscope wake
Feeler
Shipborne fire control radar
Freddie
Air controller
Prefixed with:
- P (PAC)
- S (ASTAC)
- F (Fighter controller)
Freewheel
Cancels SGSA
Gadget
Radar
Gertrude
Underwater telephone
Gingerbread
Spoofing (voice imitative deception)
Goblin
Submerged object detected
Grasshopper
Emergency transit of submarine areas by surface units
Gridlock
Process of matching relative positions of locally held tracks with the positions of the reported tracks of the grid reference units
Hammer
Active sonar
Handyman
Helicopter in ASuW support role (no weapons)
Hooker
Fishing or other small craft
Hot
Sonar contact is held
Hush
Initiate a specific EMCON plan
Jello
Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR)
Lazy
Equipment is in standby
Misfit
A requirement to continue using daily call signs
Mother
Parent ship
Nancy
Infrared equipment (FLIR/EO)
Pancake
Land/I wish to land
Panther
Hostile nuclear submarine
Parrot India
Military IFF Interogator
Pigeons
Bearing and distance to base or specified destination
Plain
Uncovered circuit
Playground
Joining the link network system
Pointer
Directional passive sonobuoy
Polar
Friendly nuclear sub
Pony
ASW weapon carrying helicopter
Puppies
Modify an existing EMCON plan
Racket
Electronic transmission intercepted
Rifle
Air to surface missile (overland)
Riser
Radar contact which has suddenly appeared
Sinker
Radar contact that later disappeared
Skunk
Surface contact detected by radar
Slameye
Visual bearing of the missile, missile vapour track, or exhaust.
“SLAMEYE, bearing 270 TAIP XX position …”
Sour
Equipment not operating efficiently/invalid response to IFF check
Spiked
RWR indication of a hostile radar lock-on
Spoofing
Voice deception detected
Spoofer
Contact employing tactical/electronic deception measures
Spotted
RWR indication of a hostile search radar
Strangle
Switch off equipment indicated
Sweet
Equipment operating efficiently/valid response to IFF check
Timber
Link 16
Wave off
Do not land
Winchester
Aircraft out of ammunition
Ziplip
Limit voice transmissions to critical information only
NILE
Link 22
“98”
9800yds
“5.2”
5.2nm
Laying brick work
Laying sonobuoys
Clear ball bat
Clear to attack