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Americans call their ICBM “peacekeeper”, while renaming Russian ICBM to “Satan”
by drno123 3y ago
Americans call their ICBM “peacekeeper”, while renaming Russian ICBM to “Satan”
- lupusreal 3y agoNATO reporting names use common starting letters for different categories of weapons. For surface-to-surface missiles all begin with the letter S. Most of the names chosen wouldn't raise eyebrows: Sapwood, Sasin, Sibling, Stone... Some of them seem to have an appreciative "cool factor": Skyfall, Saber, Stiletto... But generally there isn't a derogatory theme to these code names. For instance, codenames for fighter jets include Foxhound, Firebird, Fencer, and Felon. Some of these are really cool names that could have been given to western jets by marketting while others seem derogatory. There's not much of a pattern here.
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- jamiek88 3y agoI've always thought the worst thing about ICBM's is the hypocrisy of the name too! But seriously these names are pretty much random, sometimes 'cool' sometimes not, just sequential NATO designations like Falcon, Felon, etc.