1980 Military Designation Protocol (Notreceau)
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The 1980 Military Designation Protocol (Notreceauen: Protocole de désignation militaire de 1980) is a system of designation implemented to codify and standardized the naming conventions for the various weapons and equipment equipping the branches of the Notreceauen National Armed Forces. The designation system incorporated elements of previous naming and designating conventions while also implementing a proprietary system for some munitions and weapons. The 1980 MDP was first presented in the 1979 Defense White Paper at which point it was approved by the Marshal of Notreceau for full implementation the following year. Ground vehicles and aircraft were excluded from the protocol, with the system primarily focused on personal weapons and munitions.
Weapon Designations
Firearms
In keeping with traditional Notreceauen naming conventions firearms are issued with their factory designation. In this case the type of firearm is denoted with a letter or series of letters first, followed by the weapon firm of manufacture and finally the year of introduction. For example the FMAC 47 is broken down as the Fusil (F) de la Manufacture d'Armes de Châtouge (MAC) introduced in 1947 (47) or Rifle of the Châtouge Weapon Factory model 47. The one exception to this rule is the FAMAC assault rifle that was not assigned a year designator due to it being the first assault rifle to enter Notreceauen service.
Missiles and Bombs
In order to better categorize the purpose and type of the ever expanding Notreceauen missile and bomb armament, a common designation system was devised by Colonel Claude Lachance of the Department of Defense Research and Development in 1977 and implemented as a part of the protocol. Throughout its period of use it has been updated several times to account for the changing technologies present in the guidance system of weapons and as well as the shifting roles of weapon systems both new and old. The most recent update occurred in the late 90s and early 2000s with the introduction of laser guided munitions.
The system utilizes a two letter, four numeric designation scheme. The first two letters indicate if the weapon is a missile (MD), bomb (BD), or rocket (RD); D always stands for "Designation." The first number designates the launch platform; the second number designates the guidance type, the third number designates the purpose, and the final number designates the model series number of the weapon. For weapons that have multiple launch platforms, guidance types or purposes multiple designations exist depending on how the weapon is being employed for a given mission.
System Chart
Letter | Type | Detailed description |
---|---|---|
M | Missile | An unmanned, self-propelled vehicle with remote or internal trajectory guidance. |
B | Bomb | A guided or unguided freefall weapon system. |
R | Rocket | An unmanned, unguided, self-propelled vehicle. |
T | Torpedo | Underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target. |
Number | Type | Detailed description |
---|---|---|
1 | Ground | Launched from a ground vehicle, movable platform or infantryman. |
2 | Air | Air-launched from manned or unmanned aircraft, such as a fighter-bomber, helicopter, or drone. |
3 | Sea | Launched from a ship or submarine. |
Number | Type | Detailed description |
---|---|---|
1 | Infrared Homing | A passive weapon guidance system which uses the infrared (IR) light emission from a target to track and follow it. |
2 | Active Radar Guidance | A missile guidance method in which a missile contains a radar transceiver and the electronics necessary for it to find and track its target autonomously. |
3 | Passive Radiation Homing | A missile designed to detect and home in on an enemy radio emission source. |
4 | Inertial Guidance | A guidance device that uses a computer, motion sensors and rotation sensors to continuously calculate by dead reckoning the position, the orientation, and the velocity of a moving object without the need for external references. |
5 | GPS | A satellite-based radionavigation system. |
6 | Unguided | Containing no post-launch guidance system. |
7 | Laser Guided | Uses semi-active laser guidance to strike a designated target. |
8 | Wire Guided | Guided by thin wire connected to guidance system which sends control signals. |
9 | Acoustic Guided | Uses the acoustic signature of an object to guide a projectile. |
Number | Purpose | Detailed description |
---|---|---|
1 | Anti Air | Used to destroy airborne based enemy combatants. |
2 | Anti Ground | Used to destroy ground based enemy combatants. |
3 | Anti Shipping | Used to destroy enemy maritime targets. |
4 | Anti Logistic | Used to destroy hostile infrastructure or logistic positions. |
5 | Nuclear | Used to deliver a nuclear payload. |
Examples
Air-to-Air Missile example: MD.2113 Mystique
- M The weapon is a missile.
- 2 The weapon is air launched.
- 1 The weapon is infrared-homing.
- 1 The weapon is intended as an anti-aircraft weapon.
- 3 The weapon is the third in a series of air launched, infrared-homing, anti-air missiles.
Air-to-Ground Bomb example: BD.2521
- B The weapon is a bomb.
- 2 The weapon is air launched.
- 5 The weapon is GPS guided.
- 2 The weapon is designed to engage ground targets.
- 1 The weapon is the first air launched, GPS guided, anti-ground bomb produced by Notreceau.
Artillery Munitions
Artillery munitions use a modified missile and bomb system that was devised by Capitaine Kevin Lachapelle of the National Military Academy of Notreceau. The system utilizes a three letter, three number designator. The first letter is always "A" to indicate that the munition is an artillery round. The second letter is either a G for gun artillery or R for Rocket Artillery and the third letter is always D. The first number denotes the type of munition, the second number denotes the caliber of munition, and the final number denotes the series of ammunition.
System Chart
Letter | Type | Detailed description |
---|---|---|
G | Gun | A ranged weapon designed to use a shooting tube (gun barrel) to launch typically solid projectiles. |
R | Rocket | An unmanned, unguided, self-propelled vehicle. |
Number | Purpose | Detailed description |
---|---|---|
1 | High Explosive | Munition that carries explosive materials that detonate and fragmentate. |
2 | Smoke | Munition that generates a smoke-screen. |
3 | Guided | Munition that uses a post launch guidance system, either laser or GPS. |
4 | Illumination | Munition that carries a flare package or other illuminating agent or compound. |
5 | Carrier | Munition that does not carry an explosive payload of any kind, often used to distribute propaganda leaflets. |
6 | Chemical | Munition that carries a chemical agent. |
7 | Rocket-Assisted | Munition that has a secondary propulsion rocket engine to increase range. |
8 | Base Bleed | Munition that utilizes a gas generator at the rear of the munition to reduce drag on the shell. |
9 | Cluster | Munition that deploys a series of sub-munitions. |
Letter | Type | Detailed description |
---|---|---|
1 | 155mm | Munition is 155mm. |
2 | 120mm | Munition is 120mm. |
3 | 105mm | Munition is 105mm. |
4 | 81mm | Munition is 81mm. |
5 | 290mm | Munition is 290mm. |
6 | 51mm | Munition is 51mm. |
7 | 160mm | Munition is 160mm. |
Examples
Gun Artillery Example: AGD.112
- A The munition is artillery based.
- G The munition is for gun artillery.
- 1 The munition is high explosive.
- 1 The munition is for a 155mm caliber gun.
- 2 The munition is the second high explosive shell developed for a 155mm cannon.
Rocket Artillery Example: ARD.951
- A The munition is artillery based.
- R The munition is for rocket artillery.
- 9 The munition is cluster.
- 5 The munition is for a 290mm rocket launcher.
- 1 The munition is the first cluster rocket developed for the 290mm launcher.