The Antecedents of Alpha, Bravo, Charlie

[RJBowman]

An article about early military and telegraph alphabets:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/504886/4-phonetic-alphabets-didnt-survive

[E.J.MonCrieff]

What isn't mentioned in the article is that the NATO phonetic alphabet appears to have been designed to allow communication even in very poor conditions.  No two letters have the same combination ov vowel sounds.

[RJBowman]

What isn't mentioned in the article is that the NATO phonetic alphabet appears to have been designed to allow communication even in very poor conditions.  No two letters have the same combination ov vowel sounds.

It was well designed.