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This is a list of established military terms which have been in use for at least 50 years. Since technology and doctrine have changed over time, not all of them are in current use, or they may have been superseded by more modern terms. However, they are still in current use in articles about previous military periods.
Tactical control format providing target bearing, range, altitude, and aspect, relative to a friendly aircraft or bullseye. Bracket Indicates geometry where friendly aircraft will maneuver to a position on opposing sides, either laterally or vertically from the target. Break (direction)
(NATO). The "D" may stand for "Day". [3] E-Day The unnamed day on which a NATO exercise commences. (NATO) F-Hour The effective time of announcement by the U.S. Secretary of Defense to the Military Departments of a decision to mobilize Reserve units. (US) G-Day The unnamed day on which an order, normally national, is given to deploy a unit ...
Variable Message Format, abbreviated as "VMF" and documented in MIL-STD-6017, is a message format used in communicating tactical military information. A message formatted using VMF can be sent via many communication methods. As it does not define such a method, a communications medium, or a protocol, it is not a Tactical Data Link (TDL). [1]
This standard codified information from, among other sources, a United States military standard MIL-STD-16 which dates back to at least the 1950s in American industry. To replace IEEE 200-1975, ASME, a standards body for mechanical engineers, initiated the new standard ASME Y14.44-2008. This standard, along with IEEE 315-1975, provide the ...
The format used in the 1940s, 1950's and 1960's was in the format of LLL-NNNN. In this example, "L" stands for Letter and "N" stands for Number. The first two or three letters (LL or LLL) were for the Manufacturer's Code. Each manufacturer had a unique code designation. The digits were the Lot's serial number. This was originally 4 digits long ...
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16-line message format, or Basic Message Format, is the standard military radiogram format (in NATO allied nations) for the manner in which a paper message form is transcribed through voice, Morse code, or TTY transmission formats. The overall structure of the message has three parts: HEADING (which can use as many as 10 of the format's 16 ...