Thanks Chris! I knew a couple, but not most of them. I was also
going to call them initialisms for the pedants out there, but
discovered that acronym can also mean an initialism. Of course that
was from www.m-w.com, the merits of which I believe have been
discussed here before ;-)
Mark
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:42:53 +0000, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A small glossary for you Mark M-L:
>
> CH: Chain Home, the name for the network of radars used in WWII on the
> English coast.
>
> IFF: identification friend or foe, now called SSR or secondary
> surveillance radar in which the aircraft uses a transponder to reply to
> certain sorts of radar signal and provide information. In war time it
> is coded and identifies a friend; in peacetime it merely identifies
> different traffic in the air and gives its flight level or altitude.
>
> RDF: radio direction-finding, as opposed to ranging.
>
> AI: air-intercept radar.
>
> TX: transmitter station.
>
> GEE and OBOE were homing signals to assist with navigation for bombers.
>
> H2S: a model of radar that was first used in Lancasters and other
> bombers (and night fighters I think), but a derivation of which was
> still used in Cold War bomber, the Vulcan.
>
> That's all I (think I) know ;-) They're all abbreviations, rather than
> acronyms like RADAR.
>
> Chris
>
> On 6 Jan 2005, at 19:54, Mark Marr-Lyon wrote:
>
> > That is interesting. I wish I knew what all the acronyms stood for :)
> >
> > Mark
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