@BrokenEagle98: I'm all for consistency, and I think it should...

BrokenEagle98
2016-01-06T11:37:16-05:00

I'm all for consistency, and I think it should be standardized across vehicles (i.e. ships, planes, tanks) and weapons (handguns, machineguns).

There are a couple of varieties that we could standardize on:

1. (Manufacturer|Designation|Name)
e.g. General Dynamics F-16 Flying Falcon

2. (Designation|Name)
e.g. F-16 Flying Falcon

3. (Designation)
e.g. F-16

There are other options, but I believe the above are the most common. I'm more for option 2, as I think it would be better to nix the manufacturer designation since I believe most people would type starting from the model designation. I also believe that the name is important, as many American military designations are overloaded, for example there are close to 20 different weapons and vehicles with the designation M3.

Since each ship is considered individual and unique and as ships are more commonly known by their names first, we could use the reverse format, e.g. USS Enterprise CV-6.