CV call sign

[oldpop]

What is the call sign for the CV 74?

[Airhunter]

Mother

[Tholozor]

As far as recoveries go, yes, they refer to their parent ship as "Mother." However each ship has its own individual callsign. When referring to Approach or Marshal, they use the ship's unique callsign.

 

e.g. The John C. Stennis' actual callsign is "Gold Eagle." So over the radio it would be "Gold Eagle Approach", or "Gold Eagle Marshal."

 

EDIT: "Gold Eagle" is actually the USS Carl Vinson, my mistake.

Edited March 16, 2019 by Tholozor

[Tholozor]

To fill in the other ones:

 

(CV-59) USS Forrestal - Handbook

(CV-60) USS Saratoga - Fair Field

(CVN-65) USS Enterprise - Climax

(CVN-69) USS Dwight D. Eisenhower - Ike

(CVN-75) USS Harry S. Truman - Lone Warrior

(CVN-76) USS Ronald Reagan - Freedom

(CVN-77) USS George H.W. Bush - Avenger

(CVN-78) USS Gerald R. Ford - Wolverine

Edited March 12, 2019 by Tholozor

[mikemadmax20]

Are these call signs implemented in DCS's F/A-18 module? I've been flying Instant Action's Case 1 landings and can't seem to get the Stennis to respond. Any advice.

[javelina1]

That's cool to know! thank you guys!

[Tholozor]

Are these call signs implemented in DCS's F/A-18 module? I've been flying Instant Action's Case 1 landings and can't seem to get the Stennis to respond. Any advice.

 

The callsigns don't mean anything to DCS, those are just the real-world callsigns, maybe once we get the new LSO system in place we might see something like that. As far as talking to the carrier, check what frequency the ship is set to in the mission editor.

[oldpop]

Thanks Tho! Gold Eagle!

[Nealius]

I'd like to pick the brains of the people who create callsigns / operation names. Some of them make sense (Like Roosevelt being "Rough Rider"), but others make me wonder how much they were smoking when they came up with the callsign.

[mikemadmax20]

Tholozar: Thanks for the heads up on the mission editor. Since the F-18 release, I've been doing more trouble shooting trying to set up my second monitor with viewports and HELIOS panels than flying. As soon as I get everything sorted out, I'll be in my modest pit and flying missions as I use to do in the A-10 and BMS's F-16. A lot of work still ahead but, thanks again for your input.

[Lobo LXII]

 

And for fictional names, I don’t recall the name of the carrier in the book Flight of the Intruder, but I’m pretty sure the radio callsign for it was “Battlestar”. I read that one in 8th grade when it first came out in paperback, so my memory is fuzzy.

 

 

I want to say the Shiloh, but it could have been the Shenandoah.:dunno:

[Tholozor]

What was your source?

 

A lot of Googling. I unfortunately never bookmarked the pages I found them on and just wrote them all down in a txt. I did however manage to find all their 3-digit TACAN/IRCS codes in ACP 113 (unclassified callsign book for ships).

[Sedlo]

Battlestar I think was the callsign of the fictional USS United States in Final Flight (re-reading in advance of the coming release)

 

I want to say the Shiloh, but it could have been the Shenandoah.:dunno:

[Sierra99]

I'd like to pick the brains of the people who create callsigns / operation names. Some of them make sense (Like Roosevelt being "Rough Rider"), but others make me wonder how much they were smoking when they came up with the callsign.

 

Sometimes it makes sense...others it’s purely random. Castle AFB in Merced California was Fog Patch...and anyone who’s flown there understands why. It gets foggy there in mornings.

 

At Beale the SR-71 callsign was “Aspen”...so the U2s took Pinion. (A tree that grows higher in the mountains than an Aspen tree.)

Edited March 15, 2019 by Sierra99

[bunkerjunker]

As far as recoveries go, yes, they refer to their parent ship as "Mother." However each ship has its own individual callsign. When referring to Approach or Marshal, they use the ship's unique callsign.

 

e.g. The John C. Stennis' actual callsign is "Gold Eagle." So over the radio it would be "Gold Eagle Approach", or "Gold Eagle Marshal."

 

 

I believe The CVN-70 Carl Vinson is “Golden Eagle”

 

CVN-74 John Stennis’ callsign is “Johnny Reb”

 

 

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[schurem]

They sound like they are given much like pilot callsigns are given: plays on the names or histories of the ships.

 

Forrestal had a terrible fire happening due to procedural errors. Hence handbook.

 

George Bush Sr. flew TBM bombers in the war, hence avenger.

[Tholozor]

I believe The CVN-70 Carl Vinson is “Golden Eagle”

 

CVN-74 John Stennis’ callsign is “Johnny Reb”

 

I swear, I looked high and low for the Stennis and could have sworn it was Gold Eagle, but yea, looks like that's the Vinson. :lol:

 

Where'd you find the Stennis? I've looked for ages.

[Ryback]

...maybe once we get the new LSO system in place we might see something like that...

 

Enfield :clown_2:

[Tholozor]

Okay, so looking into it, "Johnny Reb" is the Stennis' nickname, not it's radio callsign as far as I can tell. (Like "Big E" for Enterprise)

[drillin]

have a look at this link, it shows a ton of ship nicknames

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_warships_by_nickname

[muehlema]

USS Enterprise - Climax

 

 

:megalol:

[oldpop]

Drillen, still not the call sign! Don't see any ref to " johnny Reb" anywhere, Somebody gotta know!

[flybull]

here is a 2018 Military Callsign list (111 pages) Stennis NOT in here though....

MCL.pdf

[oldpop]

Someone who has been on the boat should kneo what it is! It is not classified!

[Ice_Pick]

USS Enterprise - Climax

USS Carl Vinson - Gold Eagle

USS Nimitz - Old Salt

USS Theodore Roosevelt - Rough Rider

USS Wasp - Charm

USS America - Courage

USS John F. Kennedy - Eagle Cliff

USS Bataan - Glory Gator

USS Ranger - Gray Eagle

USS Independence - Gun Train

USS Kitty Hawk - Panther

USS Tarawa - Proud Eagle

USS Abraham Lincoln - Union

USS Constellation - War Chief

USS George Washington - Warfighter

USS Hornet - Wimpy

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