History of the Nato Phonetic Alphabet

The Nato Phonetic alphabet's full name is "international radiotelephony spelling alphabet".The NATO Phonetic Alphabet was developed in the 1950s to avoid the misunderstanding caused by poor radio acoustics where an S and an F for example are easily confused. It replaced other phonetic alphabets,such as the RAF phonetic alphabet, Western Front slang or "signalese", Royal navy phonetic alphabet and the US military "able baker" alphabet. The experiences of which were used to produce the Nato standard. Certain non English speaking countries use special umlaut characters which have their own extensions. Site designed and optimised by MarketSoft