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Old 22nd May 2015, 23:23
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Not_a_boffin
 
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Who the hell writes stuff for the Government websites?
A bunch of increasingly poorly-educated people who are apparently not allowed to be re-educated by shouting loudly in their ears or through repeated threat or application of physical violence. Who could forget the following :

Principle Anti-Air Missiles System (PAAMS) - now Sea Viper. Obviously only shoots at you if you've violated some ethical code.

Carrier Vertical Strike (CVS) - What we all used to call an Anti-Submarine (or Support) Carrier. Although in one Dstl (predecessor) report, I did see CVS described as a Conventional Submarine.

Carrier Vessel Future (CVF) - Again, feel free to add random words till you get an acronym that covers every letter.

Although none set me off quite as much as hangar (vice hangar) or the non-sensical fiction that is CATOBAR.....
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