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List Of NATO Reporting Names For Bombers
This is a list of NATO reporting name/ASCC names for bombers, with Soviet Union and People's Republic of China, Chinese designations. Bombers had names starting with the letter "B"; single-syllable words denoted propeller driven aircraft (piston and turboprop engines), while two syllable words were used for jets. {, class="wikitable sortable" , - !Aircraft !NATO reporting name , - , Douglas A-20 Havoc, , Box , - , Ilyushin Il-2, , Bark , - , Ilyushin Il-4, , Bob , - , Ilyushin Il-10, , Beast , - , Ilyushin Il-28, , Beagle , - , Ilyushin Il-40, , Brawny , - , Ilyushin Il-54, , Blowlamp , - , Myasishchev M-4, , Bison , - , Myasishchev M-50, , Bounder , - , North American B-25 Mitchell, , Bank , - , Petlyakov Pe-2, , Buck , - , Tupolev Tu-2, , Bat , - , Tupolev Tu-4, , Bull , - , Tupolev Tu-14, , Bosun , - , Tupolev Tu-16, Xian H-6, , Badger , - , Tupolev Tu-22, , Blinder , - , Tupolev Tu-22M, , Backfire , - , Tupolev Tu-82, , Butcher , - , Tupolev Tu-85, , Barge , - , Tupolev Tu- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NATO Reporting Name
NATO reporting names are code names for military equipment from Russia, China, and historically, the Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union and other nations of the Warsaw Pact). They provide unambiguous and easily understood English words in a uniform manner in place of the original designations, which either may have been unknown to the Western world at the time or easily confused codes. For example, the Russian bomber jet Tupolev Tu-160 is simply called "Blackjack". NATO maintains lists of the names. The assignment of the names for the Russian and Chinese aircraft was once managed by the five-nation Air Standardization Coordinating Committee (ASCC), but that is no longer the case. American variations The United States Department of Defense (DOD) expands on the NATO reporting names in some cases. NATO refers to surface-to-air missile systems mounted on ships or submarines with the same names as the corresponding land-based systems, but the US DoD assigns a different series of numbers with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |