October 22, 2010 at 6:51 am
Not to denigrate the ASCC too harshly, but sometimes I do wonder whether they created the reporting names for Soviet aircraft and missiles without thinking about the context in which they would be used.
The worst example must be Shipwreck; certainly descriptive, but in a naval environment rather confusing. “A KIROV was sighted with two SHIPWRECKS”.
Some others that appeared to me to be less than wise:
It’s not as if they had to generate thousands of reporting names, so i wonder why they alighted upon such examples.