What is "codenamed"

Usage examples of "codenamed".

One, codenamed Purple Dragon, determined that the North Vietnamese were learning the locations of planned strikes by several means, among them the monitoring of unencrypted radio traffic from the fleet of KG-135 tankers.

German codebreakers, some of which were conducted at a secret location codenamed Dustbin.

At the time, the United States was desperate to obtain intelligence on the number and location of the new Soviet jet-turbine-powered long-range bombers, codenamed Bison.

It was the electronic call of a Soviet radar codenamed Whiff, a troubling sound that meant Russian anti-aircraft weapons had now been set up.

Strategic Air Command surveillance mission codenamed Brass Knob sent a preflight message.

Under the NSA program codenamed Shamrock, the companies agreed to illegally hand over to NSA couriers, on a daily basis, copies of all the cables sent to, from or through the U.

The CIA had used the experience to develop a system codenamed Melody, which they placed on the banks of the Caspian Sea.

Melody was not as successful in locating early-warning radars, especially a new surface-to-air missile system codenamed Tall King.

The agency was then completing work on a super-fast, super-high-flying successor to the U-2, codenamed Oxcart.

There, as part of a worldwide Advanced Tactical Ocean Surveillance System, codenamed Classic Wizard, they served as the Indian Ocean downlink for the highly secret White Cloud satellite program.

Naval Security Group began conducting these Sigint patrols, codenamed DeSoto, in April 1962 with missions off China and North Korea.

From Kadena, Okinawa, the planes would fly daily twelve-hour missions, codenamed Burning Candy and Combat Apple, to the Gulf of Tonkin.

A second GRAB was launched on June 29, 1961, and remained operational through August 1962, when it was replaced with a more advanced system, codenamed Poppy.

British government in 1983 gave secret approval for a massive undertaking, the development of their own Sigint satellite, codenamed Zircon.

It did this by building a massive computer network, codenamed Platform, which tied together fifty-two separate computer systems belonging to all the members around the world.