Brevity "Mudspiked"

[Devastator]

I am not sure if this is the correct forum location for this question but I hope that it is.

Is there a brevity call "Mudspike"? I cannot find that neither in NATO "JOINT BREVITY WORDS PUBLICATION" nor in "MULTI-SERVICE TACTICS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES FOR MULTI-SERVICE BREVITY CODES" documents.

There is Mud and there is spiked but not a combination of them. So is DCS AI using its own creation or there is really such brevity code but not well documented?

Thanks in advance

[Raptor9]

3 hours ago, Devastator said:

Is there a brevity call "Mudspike"?

Short answer? No, there is not.

Long answer, it is an inaccurate amalgamation of two separate brevity terms "Mud" and "Spike" into one.  They both mean that a threat warning system (like an RWR) is receiving indications that a hostile radar is locked onto the aircraft, but "Mud" indicates the aircraft is being locked by a surface-to-air system and "Spike" means that the aircraft is being locked by an air-to-air system from another aircraft.

Likewise, the terms "Dirt" and "Nails" mean similar states of RWR indication, except "Dirt" is for surface-to-air threat radars and "Nails" is for air-to-air threat radars.

[MARLAN_]

DIRT = RWR indication of a S/A threat in SEARCH

MUD = RWR indication of a S/A threat in TRACK

SINGER = RWR indication of a S/A threat LAUNCH

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NAILS = RWR indication of a A/A threat in SEARCH

SPIKE = RWR indication of a A/A threat in TRACK or LAUNCH

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They should not be conjoined together and is purely a DCSism, would never be done real world (and if the error was made it would be debriefed as it is incorrect)

 

Edited April 30, 2022 by MARLAN_

[Devastator]

Then ED should fix the internal AI comms as they report "mudspike" and it is considered by many as the correct brevity due to that