Maxim 11: Everything is air-droppable, at least once.
And I still say that the greatest British warship name is the (fictional) Thunderchild, which took out two Martian tripods.
Iirc the original destination of the F-22 was going to be F-22 Rapier but at some point decided it sounded too close to Rape that they decided it was a bad idea.
In terms of weird names, the TBF Avenger torpedo bomber of WW2 fame was named sometime in early 1941, which meant at the time it had nothing to avenge.
I’m looking forward to the first weapons system named with emojis.
The AGM-146 Poop Eagle will rage upon the enemy. 
I have designed a 1920s style Poop Eagle which is much kinder. It merely makes the “brown noise”.
Yeah, I remember playing the 1990s IDF computer fighter game, the F-22 was called “Rapier” back then.
Note that the provinces were from the pre-Meiji era or even earlier, and not the modern ones.
For example, Musashi was named after the pre-Meiji era province with included most of what is not metropolitan Tokyo, and parts of Chiba and Saitama.
The WWI era Fuso was named after an ancient name for Japan.
The Kongo class WWI era battlecruisers were names after mountains, including Kirishima.
Good point, their naming system follows CA’s in that regard!
Iain M. Banks came up with the coolest name for a fictional warship, IMHO : Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath.
I’ve never heard of that one. The going nickname for the F-35 seems to be “Fat Amy”.
I’d actually been meaning to find a better/more literal translation of Fubuki; Google translate just gives “blizzard” which really does lose something in translation. If I’d thought of it, I should have asked @TokyoBayer.
Not to sidetrack things too much, but Fubuki is also a given name, and notably the name of one of Japan’s most popular VTubers and meme-queens. For something truly surreal, Jared Leto being interviewed by an anime fox girl for his (then) upcoming film Morbius: Jared Leto compliments Fubuki and gets Nihongo jouzu’d - YouTube. To quote the top comment “That is the face of a man who thought his agent was joking.”
From what I understand Fat Amy refers exclusively to the F-35A (Amy coming from the A variant), I don’t know if the Navy or Marines have their own name for their own versions.
From what I can tell the Air Force guys have started to behave and use the official name, but Fat Amy is still popular amongst the Navy/Marine Pilots. Ironically, the A variant is the lightest. The B and C variant are 2,000-4,000lb heavier due to the VTOL equipment on the B and beefier structure on the C for carrier ops.
As clunky-looking as the F-35 is, garnering the name Fat Amy doesn’t surprise me. Although I have no personal knowledge of what anyone calls the darn thing.
We can all be glad this … abomination
did not win the competition instead. Its nickname would have been something like “Cow”. Not a pretty vehicle, not even remotely. Here’s a batch of pix. Try to find the flattering one; I dare you. 
Boeing X-32 - Google Image Search
Too verbose. But you could call it Eminem for short…
That picture looks exactly like a pigeon.
Which, I suppose, is at least a bird, so it could be worse.
Another category of “cool” names:
Scary nicknames the enemy supposedly used about your own equipment (but probably didn’t).
Beaufighter - “Whispering death” (because of the sound of their sleeve valved Hercules engines)
F4U Corsair - “Whistling death” (sound from air intake in wings)
P-38 Lightning - “Forktailed devil”
Honestly, I was a big fan of the guppy-mouthed X-32. The indignity of it was perfect.
Not so far fetched. I bring you the:
ALQ-167 Electronic Countermeasures (ECM ) Pod Angry Kitten EW pod for the MQ-9 drone.
Made up acronyms - Angry - Airborne Node Generating Radio-frequencY
Kitten - Kontinuous Interruptions of Transmitted Threat Energy Nodes
When Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty prior to WWI he wanted to name a battleship Pitt after former Prime Minister William Pitt.
He was overruled by King George V, who knew that sailors were prone to coming up with scatological nicknames for ships, and that the rhyming possibilities for Pitt would be irresistible.