Understanding Comms

[Bob Morton]

Hello - so I finally braved the first mission in the campaign. Success, but not due to my skill probably mostly luck.

 

One thing that was tough was the AWACS and friendlies screaming a bunch of jibberish at he over the radio half of which I did not understand. Is there a manual or guide to understanding comms language? Thank you!

[razo+r]

Google is your friend: https://www.google.com/search?q=bra+calls&rlz=1C1MSIM_enCH859CH859&oq=bra+calls&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.1809j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[QuiGon]

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

[SacredRaziel]

For understanding the brevity vocabulary is more than enough. On public servers it's mostly limited to braa, fox 1-3, rifle, magnum, Winchester, visual, tally and Judy...

For sp I would suggest pausing and checking the wiki page as well so you know what's what. If you want to be proficient you might want to find someone who can teach you the application of the basics in the posts above or a squadron that is doing proper brevity...

For me it was somewhat learning by doing though I am far from being good at it.

 

Edit: in the post above by quigon. The other one is somewhat useless

[IronMike]

You can start out with this list, it is more than sufficient for DCS, anything outside of these brevity calls you most likely will never need or use.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/file/gis87wq922gnqax/104th_Brevity_Codes.pdf/file