What does the "AN/ALQ" in AN/ALQ-99 tactical jamming system (aboard EA-6Bs)signify?

Question

its made by northrop grumman

Answer 1

There is actually a MIL Standard (196 I believe) that denotes nomenclature. Here's how AN/ALQ-99 breaks out:

AN - Joint Air Force/Navy
A - Airborne
L - Countermeasures (can be electronic, IR, EO etc)
Q - "Special" or "Combination"
99 is the series number

Answer 2

The AN signifies joint Army Navy, The ALQ is the type of jammer, dont remember all the letters, I worked on ECM jammers on B-52's We had AN/ALT 26 which was a high power narrow bandwith jammer. Also 14 other systems associated with Electronic Countermeasures.ECM.....Nuf Said

Answer 3

Alq-99

Answer 4

Ah, this is the fun part.

AL= airborne countermeasures
Q= transceiver or special

In fact, there's ALR and ALT. R = receiver, and T = transmitter.

Why AL? A for airborne. L... because they have to pick a letter and C's already used.

AN does indeed stand for Army-Navy. It's standard in effect since 1943.

In fact, check the URL below and you'll get the whole list.

http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/electronics.html#_JETDS_AN_Listings

Answer 5

From Wikipedia:

Joint Electronics Type Designation System
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The Joint Electronics Type Designation System (JETDS), which was previously known as the Joint Army-Navy Nomenclature System (AN System) and the Joint Communications-Electronics Nomenclature System, is a method developed by the U.S. War Department during World War II for assigning an unclassified designator to electronic equipment. JETDS is described in detail by MIL-STD-196.

Contents [hide]
1 Usage
1.1 First letter: installation
1.2 Second letter: type of equipment
1.3 Third letter: purpose
2 History
3 Notes
4 See also
5 External links



[edit] Usage
Electronic materiel, from a military point of view, generally includes those electronic devices employed in data processing, detection and tracking (underwater, sea, land-based, air and space), recognition and identification, communications, aids to navigation, weapons control and evaluation, flight control, and electronics countermeasures. Nomenclature is assigned to:

Electronic materiel of military design
Commercial electronic materiel that has been modified for military use and requires military identification and design control
Electronic materiel which is intended for use by other Federal agencies or other governments that participate in the nomenclature system.
In the JETDS system, complete equipment sets or systems are designated with a sequence of letters and digits beginning with AN/, then three letters, a hyphen, a number, and (occasionally) some optional letters. The three letters tell where the equipment is used, what it does and its purpose. For example, the AN/PRC-77 is a Portable Radio used for two way Communications. The numbers for any given type of equipment are assigned sequentially, thus higher numbers indicate more modern systems.

Computer software and commercial unmodified electronics for which the manufacturer maintains design control are not covered. Systems with variable complements have a parenthetical V, "(V)," added to the type designator. (T) indicates training systems. Subsystems ("groups") are designated by a two letter code, followed by a number, followed by slash and one, two or three letters from the three letter codes for systems. For example, BA-1234/PRC would be a battery for portable radio sets.

The three letter codes have the following meanings:


[edit] First letter: installation
A - Piloted Aircraft
B - Underwater Mobile (submarine)
C - Cryptographic Equipment (NSA use only) (was Air Transportable)
D - Pilotless Carrier (drone, UAV)
F - Fixed Ground
G - General Ground Use
K - Amphibious
M - Ground Mobile
P - Human Portable
S - Water (surface ship)
T - Transportable (ground)
U - General Utility (multi use)
V - Vehicle (ground)
W - Water Surface and Underwater combined
Z - Piloted/Pilotless Airborne vehicles combined

[edit] Second letter: type of equipment
A - Invisible Light, Heat Radiation (e.g. infrared)
B - Comsec (NSA use only) (was Pigeon)
C - Carrier (electronic wave or signal)
D - Radiac (Radioactivity Detection, Identification, and Computation)
E - Laser (was NUPAC, Nuclear Protection & Control)
F - Fiber Optics (was Photographic)
G - Telegraph or Teletype
I - Interphone and Public Address
J - Electromechanical or inertial wire covered
K - Telemetering
L - Countermeasures
M - Meteorological
N - Sound in Air
P - Radar
Q - Sonar and Underwater Sound
R - Radio
S - Special or Combination
T - Telephone (Wire)
V - Visual, Visible Light
W - Armament (not otherwise covered)
X - Fax or Television
Y - Data Processing
Z - Communications (NSA use only)

[edit] Third letter: purpose
A - Auxiliary Assembly
B - Bombing
C - Communications (two way)
D - Direction Finding, Reconnaissance and Surveillance
E - Ejection and/or Release
G - Fire Control or Searchlight Directing
H - Recording and/or Reproducing
K - Computing
L - no longer used. Was Searchlight Control, now covered by "G".
M - Maintenance or Test
N - Navigation Aid
P - no longer used. Was Reproducing, now covered by "H"
Q - Special or Combination
R - Receiving or Passive Detecting
S - Detecting, Range and Bearing, Search
T - Transmitting
W - Automatic Flight or Remote Control
X - Identification or Recognition
Y - Surveillance (target detecting and tracking) and Control (fire control and/or air control)
Z - Secure (NSA use only)

Answer 6

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Answer 7

They are nomenclature designators for types of systems. All the AN/ALQ systems are of one type. Don't recall if the letters signify anything or not. I think they may just be Systems letters rather than some acronym. Good luck, tho.

Answer 8

>>>>>What does the "AN/ALQ" in AN/ALQ-99 tactical jamming system (aboard EA-6Bs)signify? <<<<<

I believe that signify's ... Dont ask-Dont tell...IN EFFECT.