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Halo Universe: Covenant Weapons
In the wake of looking at some of the UNSC weapons, here's a look at the fiction behind some of the Covenant's weaponry.
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"Foxtrot" is actually a code word for the letter F in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet. The UNSC always seems to use it for certain things, and in this case it is a way of covering up swear words. Also, "Mike" is another code word. So, a Mike Foxtrot is a "M... F..." Catch my meaning? They also type things like "bee are" as a way of showing spoken letters. It's for the most part a speech recognition thing, and is done a lot in war novels, etc. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet[/url]
