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During WWII, the Allied forces developed the transponder to identify whether an aircraft was friendly or hostile. The British code name for the transponder was the “Parrot”, while Americans used “Identification Friend or Foe”, or IFF.
Because the original Parrot transponder was so powerful and masked radar screens, radio operators would have Allied aircraft turn their Parrot transponder on at certain times to identify themselves. When they wanted pilots to turn their transponder on, they would say “squawk your Parrot”. When they wanted pilots to turn their transponders off, they would say, “strangle your Parrot.”
Today, squawk codes are used to identify aircraft and assist air traffic controllers in separating traffic.
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