UAV, UCAV, UAS......
What was wrong with 'RPV'?
Yes, a single acronym list would avoid potential TLA-clasms. Such as the interest which I once briefly expressed in someone coming to give us a 'TCAS' lecture some years ago.....
It turned out to be 'Training Course Administration System' or similar...
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Some IT scheme (which never materialised in the following years - maybe it has now?) But nothing at all to do with the 'real TCAS!
Didn't the Tornado programme once have an acronym list all of its own - agreed between Germany, Italy and UK?
I wish I could find the excellent article once written about 'purple prose' - something to do with 'secure the building'. To pongoes, it meant kick the door in and lob a few stun grenades about to flush out the bad guys. To matelots it meant lock the door and poke off for the weekend - and for the RAF it meant win a contract to buy the building.
Same goes with 'contact' - very different meanings to different folk!
Back to QinetiQ and their unpopulated air chariots - surely
some military experience is needed to operate those things? No matter how remotely??