Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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Nuclear Option incorporates many real live elements into its near future simulation, including the general behavior of missiles and aircraft in combat. This has naturally drawn down many of the terms and concepts used in the military to describe these behaviors and other events that can occur in game.

This video will review some common terms, vocabulary, and brevity codes that can get used in Nuclear Option, and in other combat flight simulators. These terms are sourced from a variety of sources, so they may differ somewhat from real world application. Feel free to add anything I missed, or got incorrect in the comments below.

This video is bookmarked, so feel free to skip around as needed if you already know something or only need specific information.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Disclaimer
0:46 Terms Begin
0:56 Effective Fire
1:15 Target Lock
1:48 Firing Solution
2:25 Guidance Methods
2:50 Thermal Guidance
3:31 Radar Guidance
4:06 Radar Jamming
5:06 Notching
6:56 Laser Guidance
7:49 Datalink Guidance
8:41 GPS-Inertial
9:43 Brevity Codes
10:25 FOX Codes
11:28 Wild Dog
11:56 Guns, Guns, Guns
12:20 Pickle
12:41 Rifle
12:58 Long Rifle
13:13 Magnum
13:32 Laser On
14:28 Lasing
14:47 Nose Cold
15:10 Nose Hot
15:30 Bogey
15:52 Bandit
16:21 Hostile
16:59 Defending
17:19 Splash
17:41 AWACS
18:19 Conclusion
18:35 Closing