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From: bash@ihlpb.att.com (Thomas W Basham)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Callsigns for inbound missiles
Summary: What are they?
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.054404.18380@amd.com>
Date: 23 Apr 91 05:43:43 GMT
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From: bash@ihlpb.att.com (Thomas W Basham)


I'm curious about the callsigns regarding missiles, especially
incoming.  For example, calling "Fox <various identifiers>" when
launching.  Tom Clancy used "Vampire" for inbound anti-ship missiles
in Red Storm Rising (I think that was it, it's been a few years since
I read the book).  This weeks Av.Wk. quotes a pilot who flew combat
in the Gulf as using "Magnum" to warn of SAMs.  Are these always
constant?  Are they specific to a squadron? A theater?

Also, on a different subject there's some more "official" figures
on how many sorties and how effective the F-117A was in this
week's AvWk:  see page 51 for details.

Thanks,
-- 
Tom Basham      AT&T Bell Laboratories   
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