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TAC Brevity Flashcards

1
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Alligator

A

Link 11

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2
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Angels

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Height

Angels 2 = 2000ft

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3
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Beadwindow

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Your last transmission disclosed Essential Elements of Friendly Information

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Bent

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Equipment inoperative

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5
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Big Dipper

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Radar and sonar fitted helo

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Bloodhound

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ASW torpedo

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Blotter

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ESM system

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8
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Bogey

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Unidentified aircraft

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9
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Bruiser

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Air to surface missile (overwater)

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Bulldog

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Surface/sub-surface launched anti-ship missile

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11
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Bullpen

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Submarine search generated area

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12
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Cadillac

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Directional active sonobuoy

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Cake

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ASW weapon state report

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14
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Candy

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Ammunition state report

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15
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Charter

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Requirement for daily changing of callsigns

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16
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Chatter

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Comms jamming

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17
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Cherubs

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Height in hundreds of feet

Cherubs 5 = 500ft

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18
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Cobra

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ASW torpedo with Gyro Angled Snake Search (GASS)

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19
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Cold

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Lost sonar contact or contact is not held

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20
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Confetti

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Chaff return on radar

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21
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Cypher

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Covered circuits that is set using cryptographic devices

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22
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Diver

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Variable depth sonar

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Dog box

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Area within which units may interfere with or be endangered by ASW torpedoes

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24
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Father

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TACAN

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25
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Feather

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Visual sighting of periscope wake

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Feeler

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Shipborne fire control radar

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27
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Freddie

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Air controller
Prefixed with:
- P (PAC)
- S (ASTAC)
- F (Fighter controller)

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28
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Freewheel

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Cancels SGSA

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29
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Gadget

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Radar

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30
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Gertrude

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Underwater telephone

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31
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Gingerbread

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Spoofing (voice imitative deception)

32
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Goblin

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Submerged object detected

33
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Grasshopper

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Emergency transit of submarine areas by surface units

34
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Gridlock

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Process of matching relative positions of locally held tracks with the positions of the reported tracks of the grid reference units

35
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Hammer

A

Active sonar

36
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Handyman

A

Helicopter in ASuW support role (no weapons)

37
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Hooker

A

Fishing or other small craft

38
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Hot

A

Sonar contact is held

39
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Hush

A

Initiate a specific EMCON plan

40
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Jello

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Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR)

41
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Lazy

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Equipment is in standby

42
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Misfit

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A requirement to continue using daily call signs

43
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Mother

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Parent ship

44
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Nancy

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Infrared equipment (FLIR/EO)

45
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Pancake

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Land/I wish to land

46
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Panther

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Hostile nuclear submarine

47
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Parrot India

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Military IFF Interogator

48
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Pigeons

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Bearing and distance to base or specified destination

49
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Plain

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Uncovered circuit

50
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Playground

A

Joining the link network system

51
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Pointer

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Directional passive sonobuoy

52
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Polar

A

Friendly nuclear sub

53
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Pony

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ASW weapon carrying helicopter

54
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Puppies

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Modify an existing EMCON plan

55
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Racket

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Electronic transmission intercepted

56
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Rifle

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Air to surface missile (overland)

57
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Riser

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Radar contact which has suddenly appeared

58
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Sinker

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Radar contact that later disappeared

59
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Skunk

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Surface contact detected by radar

60
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Slameye

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Visual bearing of the missile, missile vapour track, or exhaust.

“SLAMEYE, bearing 270 TAIP XX position …”

61
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Sour

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Equipment not operating efficiently/invalid response to IFF check

62
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Spiked

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RWR indication of a hostile radar lock-on

63
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Spoofing

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Voice deception detected

64
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Spoofer

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Contact employing tactical/electronic deception measures

65
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Spotted

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RWR indication of a hostile search radar

66
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Strangle

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Switch off equipment indicated

67
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Sweet

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Equipment operating efficiently/valid response to IFF check

68
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Timber

A

Link 16

69
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Wave off

A

Do not land

70
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Winchester

A

Aircraft out of ammunition

71
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Ziplip

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Limit voice transmissions to critical information only

72
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NILE

A

Link 22

73
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“98”

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9800yds

74
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“5.2”

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5.2nm

75
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Laying brick work

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Laying sonobuoys

76
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Clear ball bat

A

Clear to attack

A (16 decks)

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