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01-12-18, 12:52 AM | #1 |
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How does one pronounce "ASW"?
Back in my flight sim days I'd read "RWR" (radar warning receiver) as R-W-R, until I flew with a pilot and he told me it's said as "raw" by the pros.
So questions to those in the club... Does ASW have a shortened pronunciation or you just say it as A-S-W? And how about ASuW? |
01-12-18, 03:16 AM | #2 |
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Not that I know of. Though I would have guessed "rawr" for the Radar Warning Receiver.
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01-12-18, 07:22 AM | #3 | |
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01-12-18, 08:12 AM | #4 |
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I've always known them as A-S-W and A-S-u-W, though I've never been in the Navy. Saying anti-surface warfare is only one syllable longer than A-S-u-W, so I usually just say the full name haha.
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01-12-18, 10:22 AM | #5 |
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And then there's the place we went to school to study ASW, complete with one of the longer acronyms the Navy could devise to place on our vehicle bumper stickers:
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01-12-18, 01:28 PM | #6 |
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LOL. Thank y'all.
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01-12-18, 03:58 PM | #7 |
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My father was USN and he always said it as A S W, or Anti-Submarine Warfare. (This thread is the first time I've ever heard of Anti-Surface Warfare :P)
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01-12-18, 07:49 PM | #8 |
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01-12-18, 08:23 PM | #9 |
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We always said the letters on my ship. "A-S-W"
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01-13-18, 02:21 PM | #10 |
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Same here. We always said "A S W." For ASuW we always said the whole phrase, "anti-surface warfare."
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01-13-18, 03:02 PM | #11 |
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Looks like the letters it is, I think they are a mouthful but perhaps not
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01-19-18, 12:54 AM | #13 |
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"Just to dogpile on here" we always said A-S-W.
Funny related story: one of my aviator friends freaked out when I answered a question about RWR, "how do you know what that is!" "Dude, I played a lot of Falcon 4, come on!" haha noob o_O |
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01-20-18, 07:20 PM | #15 |
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ASW - am I the only one who see that as Auxiliary Seawater! I guess that shows what side of the waves I was on!
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