How does one pronounce "ASW"?
 

Back in my flight sim days I'd read "RWR" (radar warning receiver) as R-W-R, until I flew with a pilot and he told me it's said as "raw" by the pros.

So questions to those in the club... Does ASW have a shortened pronunciation or you just say it as A-S-W?

And how about ASuW?

Not that I know of. Though I would have guessed "rawr" for the Radar Warning Receiver. :O:

We always said R-W-R back when I was crewing Black Hawks. As for ASW, well, I once met a Sea Hawk pilot off a destroyer who referred to his role as "being the ship's asswipe". Take that as you will.

I've always known them as A-S-W and A-S-u-W, though I've never been in the Navy. Saying anti-surface warfare is only one syllable longer than A-S-u-W, so I usually just say the full name haha.

And then there's the place we went to school to study ASW, complete with one of the longer acronyms the Navy could devise to place on our vehicle bumper stickers:

FLEASWTRACENPAC

LOL. Thank y'all.

My father was USN and he always said it as A S W, or Anti-Submarine Warfare. (This thread is the first time I've ever heard of Anti-Surface Warfare :P)

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We always said the letters on my ship. "A-S-W"

Same here. We always said "A S W." For ASuW we always said the whole phrase, "anti-surface warfare."

Looks like the letters it is, I think they are a mouthful but perhaps not:D

From a former ASW sonar operator on P-3c update III's its just called that, ASW(Anti-Submarine Warfare) no fancy name or acronym... and NOT as someone else that replied as Anti-Surface Warfare

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"Just to dogpile on here" we always said A-S-W.

Funny related story: one of my aviator friends freaked out when I answered a question about RWR, "how do you know what that is!"

"Dude, I played a lot of Falcon 4, come on!" haha noob ;) o_O

The "raw" pronunciation likely goes back to at least the Vietnam War era. At the time an alternate term "Radar Homing and Warning", which gives the acronym "RHAW", was commonly used to refer to early radar warning receivers.

ASW - am I the only one who see that as Auxiliary Seawater! I guess that shows what side of the waves I was on! :haha: