Defense Acronyms

**ahmed_allaithy** · 06-04-2006, 02:23 PM

Defense Acronyms

A
Acting

A
Active

A
Advanced

A
Alfa (phonetic alphabet)

A
ampere (electric current)

a
atto- (million million millionth)

A
Time zone 7.5 E - 22.5 E (GMT -1)

A
Assistant

A Cdre
Air Commodore

A&AEE
Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment (UK)

A-band
NATO frequency band (0 - 250 MHz)

A/A
Air-to-Air

A/B
Afterburner

A/C
Aircraft

A/C
Aircraft Commander

A/D
Air Defence

A/D
Analogue-to-Digital

A/E
Architecture / Engineering

a/f
Airfield

a/f
Airframe

A/G
Air-to-Ground

A/I
Anti-Icing

A/J
Anti-Jam

A/R
Accept / Refuse message

A/S
Aktie Selskab. Anti-Submarine (Norway)

A/S
Aktieselskab. Anti-Submarine (Denmark)

A/S
Anti-Submarine

A2
Civil aircraft marking (Botswana)

A2C2
Army Airspace Command & Control (US Army)

A2C2S
Army Airborne Command and Control System

A3
Advanced Avionics Architecture

A3
Affordable Acquisition Approach

A3
Civil aircraft marking (Tonga)

A3P
Advanced Avionic Architecture & Policy

A40
Civil aircraft marking (Oman)

A5
Civil aircraft marking (Bhutan)

A6
Civil aircraft marking (United Arab Emirates)

A7
Civil aircraft marking (Qatar)

A9C
Civil aircraft marking (Bahrain)

AA
Active Adjunct (sonar)

AA
Air Adviser (UK Royal Air Force)

AA
Air Attache

AA
Air-to-Air

AA
Aluminum Association (USA)

AA
Anti-Aircraft

AA
Armature Accelerator

AA
Australian Army

AAA
Amelioration de l'Autodefense Anti-missile. Ship self-defence programme (France)

AAA
Anti-Aircraft Artillery

AAA
Australian Army Aviation

AAAA
Army Aviation Association of America Inc.

AAAD
Airborne Anti-Armour Defence

AAAD
All Arms Air Defence (UK)

AAAI
American Association for Artificial Intelligence

AAAI
Association of Australian Aerospace Industries

AAAM
Advanced Air-to-Air Missile

AAAP
Automated Airframe Assembly Program (USA)

AAAU
Advanced Armoured Assault Vehicle

AAAV
Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle

AAAW
Advanced Airborne Anti-Armour Weapon

AABM
Air-to-Air Battle Management

AABNCP
Advanced Airborne National Command Post (USAF)

AAC
Air Approach Control

AAC
Alaskan Air Command (USA)

AAC
All-Aspect Capability

AAC
American Aerospace Controls Inc.

AAC
Army Air Corps (UK)

AAC
Automatic Amplitude Control

AAC
Automatic Approach Control

AAC
Anti-Aircraft Common (ammunition)

AACC
Administration Area Control Centre

AACC
Aircraft Accessories & Components Co (Saudi Arabia)

AACC
Anti-Aircraft Command Centre (France)

AACE
Aircraft Alerting Communications EMP

AACEPA
Army Air Corps Enlisted Pilots Association

AACI
Advanced Applications Consultants Inc. (USA)

AACOMS
Army Area Communications System. Now ATACS (US Army)

AACP
Advanced Airborne Command Post

AACS
Airborne Advanced Communications System

AACS
Airways & Air Communications Services

AACT
Air-to-Air Combat Test (USA)

AACT
All Arms Classroom Trainer

AAD
Advanced Ammunition Depot

AADA
Anti-Aircraft Defended Area

AADC
Anti-Aircraft Defence Commander

AADC
Area Air Defense Commander

AADC
Area Air Defense Command (USA)

AADEOS
Advanced Air Defense Electro-Optical Sensor / System

AADF
Air & Air Defence Force (Poland)

AADGE
Allied Command Europe Air Defence Ground Environment (NATO)

AARDM
Advanced Air-breathing Dual Range Missile

AADS
Amphibious Assault Direction System (USA)

AADV
Autonomous Aerial Delivery Vehicle

AAE
Aircraft Appliances & Equipment Ltd (Canada)

AAED
Advanced Airborne Expendable Decoy

AAEE
Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment (UK)

AAES
American Association of Engineering Societies

AAF
Auxiliary Air Force (UK)

AAFARS
Advanced Aviation Forward Area Refueling System (US Army)

AAFC
Anti-Aircraft Fire Control

AAFCE
Allied Air Forces Central Europe. Now part of AIRCENT (NATO)

AAFES
Army & Air Force Exchange Service

AAFNE
Allied Air Forces, Northern Europe (NATO)

AAFSE
Allied Air Forces, Southern Europe (NATO)

AAFSS
Advanced Aerial Fire-Support System

AAG
Aeromedical Airlift Group

AAG
Air Adjutant General

AAG
Air-to-Air Gunnery

AAG
Anti-Aircraft Gun

AAGW
Air-to-Air Guided Weapon

AAH
Advanced Attack Helicopter (US Army)

AAI
American Aerospace Industries Inc.

AAI
Angle of Approach Indicator

AAIA
Aden-Abyn Islamic Army. Splinter group of Islamic Jihad (Yemen)

AAICP
Air-to-Air Interrogator Control Panel

AAIP
Analogue Autoland Improvement Programme

AAIRA
Assistant Air Attache

AAK
Applique Armor Kit (USA)

AAL
Above Aerodrome Level

AALAAW
Advanced Air-Launched Anti-Armour Weapon

AALC
Amphibious Assault Landing Craft (USA)

AALMG
Anti-Aircraft Light Machine Gun

AALPS
Automated Airload Planning System

AALS
Acoustic Artillery Location System (USA)

AALS
Airborne Airfield Lighting System

AAM
Air-to-Air Missile

AAM
Airfield Attack Munition

AAMP
Army Aviation Modernization Plan (US Army)

AAMS
Advanced Anti-tank Missile System

AAMTU
Automatic Antenna Matching & Tuning Unit

AAMWD
Air-to-Air MEP / Weapons Demonstrator

AAN
Army After Next (US Army)

AANCP
Advanced Airborne National Command Post (USA)

AAO
Air-to-Air Operations

AAO
Airborne Area of Operation

AAO
Army Acquisition Objective (US Army)

AAOC
Anti-Aircraft Operations Centre

AAOR
Anti-aircraft Artillery Operations Room

AAOS
Acoustic Artillery Observer Subsystem

AAP
Affirmative Action Plan

AAP
Allied Administrative Publication

AAP
Anti-Aircraft Practice (ammunition)

AAP
Associated Array Processor

AAP
Advanced Acoustic Processor

AAPC
Advanced Armoured Personnel Carrier

AAPP
Auxiliary Airborne Power Plant

AAPS
Automated Astronomic Positioning System (USA)

AAPU
Auxiliary Airborne Power Unit

AAQMG
Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (UK)

AAR
After-Action Review

AAR
Air-to-Air Refuelling

AAR
Aircraft Accident Report

AARA
Air-to-Air Refuelling Area

AARADCOM
Army Armament Research & Development Command

AARB
Advanced Aerial Refuelling Boom

AARG
Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile

AARL
Advanced Applications Rotary Launcher

AARS
Automatic Altitude Reporting System

AAS
Advanced Automation System

AAS
Aeromedical Airlift Squadron

AAS
Agusta Aerospace Services SA (Belgium)

AAS
Army Air Service

AASD
Anti-Aircraft Self-Destroying

AASF
Advanced Air Strike Force

AASM
Advanced Air-to-Surface Missile

AASM
Armement Air-Sol Modulaire. Increases range and accuracy of AS-30L air-to-surface missile (France)

AASR
Advanced Airborne Surveillance Radar

AASR
Airport & Airways Surveillance Radar

AAT
All Arms Trencher

AAT
Arme Automatique Transformable. General purpose machine gun (France)

AATC
Automatic Air Traffic Control

AATCC
Aegis Air Traffic Control Centre (US Navy)

AATCP
Air-Air Tres Courte Portee. Air-to-air very short range missile system (France)

AATD
Aviation Applied Technology Directorate of AMCOM (US Army)

AATDC
Army Air Transport Training & Development Centre (UK)

AATH
Automatic Approach To Hover

AATO
Army Air Transport Organisation

AATS
Alternative Aircraft Take-off System

AATS
Anti-Aircraft Training System

AATSR
Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer

AATU
Automatic Antenna Tuning Unit (USA)

AAUS
Active Adjunct Undersea Surveillance

AAV
Advanced Aerospace Vehicle

AAV
Arab American Vehicles Co. (Egypt)

AAV
Assault Amphibian Vehicle

AAV
Autonomous Aerial Vehicle

AAVAS/IM
Autonomous Air Vehicle Avionics Suite / Intelligent Munition (US Army)

AAVP
Assault Amphibian Vehicle, Personnel

AAVR
Assault Amphibian Vehicle, Recovery

AAW
Advanced Analysts' Workstation

AAW
Anti-Air Warfare

AAWC
Anti-Air Warfare Commander / Co-ordinator

AAWO
Anti-Air Warfare Officer

AAWOBRS
Anti-Air Warfare On-Board Radar Simulator (UK)

AAWS
Advanced Anti-tank Weapon System

AAWS
Advanced Air-launched Anti-Armour Weapon (UK)

AAWW
Anti-Air Warfare Warship

AAWS-H
Anti-Armor Weapons System - Heavy (USA)

AAWS-M
Advanced Anti-tank Weapon System - Medium

AAWWS
Airborne Adverse Weather Weapon System

AB
Able Rate / Seaman (UK Royal Navy)

AB
Adapter Booster

AB
Admiralty Board (UK)

AB
Afterburner

AB
Air Base (USA)

AB
Airborne forces

AB
Aktie Bolag. Company constitution (Finland, Sweden)

AB
Assault Breaker

AB/C
Afterburner Control

AB/P
Afterburner Pump

ABA
Adaption Box Assembly

ABACUS
Advanced Battlefield Computer Simulation (UK)

ABACUS
Artillery Battery Computer Support system

ABAP
Association Belge pour l'Avion Patrouilleur (Belgium)

ABB
Asea Brown Boveri AB (Sweden)

ABC
Advanced Ballistic Concept

ABC
Advanced/ing Blade Concept

ABC
All-purpose Ballastable Crawler

ABC
All-purpose Battle Computer

ABC
America, Britain & Canada

ABC
Argentina, Brazil, Chile

ABC
Atomic, Biological / Bacteriological & Chemical

ABC
Automatic Boost Control

ABC
Automatic Brightness Control

ABCA
America, Britain, Canada & Australia

ABCC
Airborne Command Centre

ABCCC
Airborne Battlefield Command & Control Center (USA)

ABCC
Airborne Command, Control and Communications (UK Royal Navy)

ABCS
Advanced Beam Control System (US Navy)

ABCS
Advanced Braking Control System

ABCS
Army Battle Command System (US Army)

ABD
Agile Beam Director

ABD
Arab British Dynamics Co. (Egypt)

ABDR
Aircraft Battle-Damage Repair

ABE
Army Background Experiment (US Army)

ABEB
Advanced Bridge Erection Boat

ABECO
Arab British Engine Co. (Egypt)

ABES
Air Breathing Engine System

ABF
Advanced Bomb Family. Forerunner of JDAM (US Navy)

ABF
Annular Blast Fragmentation warhead

ABFM
American Board of Foreign Missions

ABG
Air Base Group

ABGD
Air Base Ground Defence

ABH
Arab British Helicopters Co. (Egypt)

ABI
Avionics Bus Interface

ABICS
ADA Based Integrated Control System

ABiH
Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina

ABIR
All-Band Intercept Receiver (USA)

ABIRD
Aircraft-Based Infra-Red Detector (USA)

ABIS
All-Bus Instrumentation System

ABIT
Advanced Built-In Test

ABIT
Airborne Imagery Transmission

ABIT
Airborne Information Transfer

ABL
Airborne Laser

ABL
Anti-Blinde Leger. Light anti-armour (France)

ABL
Armoured Box Launcher

ABLE
Activity Balance Line Evaluation

ABLE
Automotive Bridge Launching Equipment

ABM
Anti-Ballistic Missile

ABM
Air-Breathing Missile

ABMA
Army Ballistic Missile Agency

ABMD
Advanced Ballistic Missile Defence (USA)

ABMEWS
Anti-Ballistic Missile Early Warning System

ABMOC
Air Battle Management Operation Center (USA)

ABMT
Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty

ABNL
Admiral Benelux & Netherlands naval organisation

ABO
Agents of Biological Origin

ABO
Air Base Operability

ABR
Agile Beam Radar

ABRC
Advisory Board for the Research Councils

ABRES
Advanced Ballistic Re-entry System

ABRI
Angkatan Bersenjata Republik Indonesia. Indonesian Armed Forces

ABRS
Assault Ballistic Rocket System (USA)

ABRV
Advanced Ballistic Re-entry Vehicle (USAF)

ABS
Aerospace Bearing Support Inc. (USA)

ABS
Anti-lock Braking System

ABS (W)
Amphibious Bridging System (Wheeled)

ABS(T)
Amphibious Bridging System (Tracked)

ABSA
Advanced Base Support Aircraft

ABSP
Arab Ba'th Socialist Party

ABT
Air Breathing Threat

ABTJ
Afterburning Turbojet

ABU
Amphibious Beach Unit

ABU
Type abbrevation: bouy tender

ABU
Aviation Bird Unit

AC
Absolute Ceiling

Ac
Actinium

AC
Active Component

AC
Advisory Circular

AC
Aerodynamic Centre

AC
Aircraft Commander

AC
Aircraftman

AC
Airworthiness Committee

AC
Alternating Current

AC
Altocumulus

AC
Analyst Console

AC
Area Coverage antenna

AC
Armament Control

AC
Atlantic Council

AC
Hydrogen Cyanide. Chemical warfare blood agent (also HCN)

AC&W
Air / Aircraft Control & Warning

AC/DQ
Accelerated Cooled / Direct Quenched programme (US Navy)

AC/RC
Active Component / Reserve Component

AC/S
Assistant Chief-Of-Staff (also ACOS)

ACA
Advanced Cargo Aircraft (US Army)

ACA
Agile Combat Aircraft

ACA
Allied Control Authority

ACA
Ammunition Container Assembly

ACA
Armament Control Agency

ACA
Arms Control Association

ACA
Associate Contractor Agreement

ACAB
Air Cavalry Attack Brigade (USA)

ACADA
Automatic Chemical Agent Detector Alarm (USA)

ACAP
Advanced Composite Aircraft / Airframe Program (US Army)

ACAPS
Artillery Communication Aural Protection System

ACARD
Advisory Council for Applied Research & Development

ACARS
Automatic Communications And Reporting System

ACAS
Advisory, Conciliation & Arbitration Service

ACAS
Airborne Collision-Avoidance System

ACAS
Airfield Chemical Alarm System

ACAS
Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (UK)

ACAST
Advisory Committee on the Application of Science & Technology for Development

ACAVP
Advanced Composite Armoured Vehicle Platform (UK)

ACC
Air Co-ordinating Committee

ACC
Air Combat Command (USAF)

ACC
Air Control Centre

ACC
Alternative Command Centre (NATO)

ACC
Area Control Centre

ACC
Armament Control Computer

ACC
Army Catering Corps (UK)

ACC
Artificer Candidate Course (UK)

ACC
Artillery Control Console

ACC
Ateliers de Constructions du Centre (France)

ACC
Avionics Computer Control

ACC
Axis Controlled Carrier

ACCE
AFCEA Computing Conference & Exhibition

ACCGS
Air Cadets Central Gliding School (UK)

ACCHAN
Allied Command, Channel (NATO)

ACCIS
Aircraft Central Computer Interface Subsystem

ACCIS
Automated Command & Control Information System (NATO)

ACCORD
Advisory Council on Community Relations in Defence (Singapore)

ACCP
Army Correspondence Course Program (US Army)

ACCS
Advanced Communications Control System (USA)

ACCS
Air Command & Control System (NATO)

ACCS
Airborne Computing & Communications System

ACCS
Army Command & Control System (USA)

ACCSA
Allied Communications & Computer Security Agency (NATO)

ACCSCO
ACCS Company (NATO)

ACCU
Alternate Current Charging Unit (UK)

ACCV
Armored Cavalry Cannon Vehicle (USA)

ACD
Automated Chart Display

ACD
Automatic Call Distribution

ACD
Air Cavalry Division

ACDA
Arms Control & Disarmament Agency (USA)

ACDP
Armament Control & Display Panel

ACDS
Adaptive Control Drilling System

ACDS
Advanced Combat Direction System (USA)

ACDS
Advanced Countermeasures Dispenser System (USA)

ACDS
Air Combat Direction System

ACDS
Assistant Chief of Defence Staff

ACDS
Automatic Computer-controlled Dispensing System

ACDS
Automatic Countermeasures Dispensing System

ACE
Actuator Control Electronics

ACE
Agile Control Experiment

ACE
Air Combat Element (USAF)

ACE
Air Combat-manoeuvres Evaluation

ACE
All Composite Evaluator

ACE
Allied Command Europe (NATO)

ACE
Altimeter Control Equipment

ACE
Analogue Code Encryption unit

ACE
Analysis & Control Element

ACE
Armored Combat Earthmover (USA)

ACE
Arrow Continuation Experiment (Israel)

ACE
Automatic Compilation Equipment

ACE
Automatic Computing Engine

ACE
Avion de Combat Europeen

ACE COMSEC
ACE Communications Security (NATO)

ACE High
ACE troopscatter communications system (NATO)

ACEARTS
Airborne Countermeasures Environment And Radar Target Simulator (USA)

ACEATM
Aimed Controlled-Effect Anti-Tank Mine

ACEC
Atelier de Construction Electriques de Charleroi (Belgium)

ACED
Anti-Char a Effet Dirige. Guided anti-tank shell (France)

ACED
Anti-Compromise Emergency Destruct (USA)

ACELIP
ACE Long-term Infrastructure Plan (NATO)

ACEM
Armed Controlled Effect Mine

ACEP
Automatic Contact Evaluation Plotter

ACES
Advanced Carry-on ELINT / ESM Suite

ACES
Advanced Concept Ejection Seat

ACES
Advanced-Concept Escape System

ACES
Airborne Collection Electronic Signals

ACES
Arrow Continuation Experiments

ACES
Aerial Combat Enhanced Simulation

ACET
Air-Cushion Equipment Transporter

ACET
Aviation Consortium for Education & Training

ACETEF
Air Combat Environment Test & Evaluation Facility (USA)

ACEVAL
Air Combat Evaluation

ACEWS
Automated Computer-assisted EW System

ACEWS
Automatic Communications EW System

ACF
Air Combat Fighter

ACF
Army Cadet Force (UK)

ACG
Amphibious Combat Group (Netherlands)

ACGF
Aluminium-Coated Glass-Fibre (chaff)

ACGS
Assistant Chief of the General Staff (UK)

ACHDF
Air Commander Home Defence Forces (UK)

ACI
American Concrete Institute

ACI
Armament Control Indicator

ACI
Army Council Instruction

ACID
Advanced Change In Design

ACINT
Acoustic Intelligence

ACIR
Aviation Crash Injury Research

ACIS
Advanced Control Indicator Sets

ACIT
Artificer Candidate Induction Training (UK)

ACIU
Advanced Central Interface Unit

ACK
Acknowledgement

ACL
Advanced Computing Laboratory

ACL
Avionics Cooling Loop

ACLANT
Allied Command, Atlantic (NATO)

ACLICS
Airborne Communications Location Identification & Collection System (USA)

ACLO
Air Cadet Liaison Officer (UK)

ACLOS
Automatic-to-Command Line-Of-Sight

ACLS
Air Cushion Landing System

ACLS
Automated Control & Landing System

ACLS
Automatic Carrier Landing System

ACLT
Aircraft Carrier Landing Trainer

ACM
Access Control Module

ACM
Advanced Conventional Munitions

ACM
Advanced Cruise Missile

ACM
Air Chief Marshal

ACM
Air Combat Manoeuvre

ACM
Anti-Armour Cluster Munitions

ACM
Arithmetic Computation Module

ACM
Australian Chamber of Manufacturers

ACM
Type abbreviation: MCMV tender

ACMA
Advanced Civil / Military Aircraft

ACMC
Advanced Composite Materials Corporation (USA)

ACME
Advanced-Core Military Engine

ACME
Aircrew Combat Mission Enhancement

ACMEST
Air Combat Manoeuvring Expert Systems Trainer

ACMI
Air Combat Manoeuvring Instrumentation (range)

ACMR
Air Combat Manoeuvring Range

ACMS
Air Combat Manoeuvring Simulator

ACMS
Aircraft Condition Monitoring System

ACMS
Armament Control & Monitoring System

ACMS
Automatic Communication Management System

ACMT
Advanced Cruise Missile Technology

ACN
Airborne Communications Node

CAN
Aircraft Classification Number

ACNIP
Auxiliary Communications, Navigation & Identification Panel

ACNO
Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (USA)

ACNS
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (UK)

ACO
Administrative Contracting Officer

ACO
Air Contact Officer

ACO
Airspace Control Order

ACO(W)
Atomic Co-ordinating Office (Washington DC)

ACOC
Alternate Command Operations Centre

ACOE
Army Common Operating Envirnment (US Army)

ACOG
Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight

ACTORD
Activation Order (NATO)

ACOS
Assistant Chief Of Staff

ACOST
Advisory Committee on Science & Technology

ACOT
Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Organization & Training

ACOVS
Artillery Combat Observer Vehicle Simulator

ACP
African / Caribbean / Pacific (NATO)

ACP
Airborne Command Post

ACP
Airfield Clearance Plough (UK)

ACP
Allied Communications Procedures / Publication (NATO)

ACP
Alternate Command Post

ACP
Altimeter Check Point

ACP
Ammunition Control Point

ACP
Armament Control Panel

ACP
Automated Communications Processor

ACP
Automatic Colt Pistol

ACPA
Adaptive-Controlled Phased Array

ACPM
Anti-Char a Pose Mecanique (France)

ACPO
Advanced Composites Programs Office (USA)

ACPO
Assistant Command Post Operator

ACPR
Anti-Char a Pose Rapide. Anti-tank mine (France)

ACPV
Assault Command Post Vehicle

ACR
Advanced Combat Rifle

ACR
Aerial Combat Reconnaissance

ACR
Active Cockpit Rig

ACR
Air Control Radar

ACR
Approach Control Radar

ACR
Armored Cavalry Regiment (USA)

ACR
Army of the Czech Republic

ACRA
Airlift Concepts & Requirements Agency

ACRA
Anti-Char Rapide Autopropulse (France)

ACRI
African Crisis Response Initiative (US)

ACRIM
Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor

ACRR
Airborne Communications Restoral Relay

ACRV
Armoured Command & Reconnaissance Vehicle

ACRV
Assured Crew Return Vehicle

ACS
Acquisition & Command Support

ACS
Adaptive Computer Systems

ACS
Advanced Communications Systems Inc. (USA)

ACS
Aerial Common Sensor

ACS
Aerodrome Control Service

ACs
Agreed Characteristics

ACS
Air Combat Simulator

ACS
Air Commando Squadron (USAF)

ACS
Airborne Control System

ACS
Application Control Structure

ACS
Armament Control System

ACS
Attitude Control System

ACS
Automated Cartography System (USA)

ACS
Automatic Channel Selection

ACS
Avionics Cooling System

ACS
Type abbreviation: Auxiliary Crane Ship

ACS-C
Aerial Common Sensor - Corps (USA)

ACS/I
Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence (USA)

ACSA
Allied Communications Security Agency

ACSC
Air Command & Staff College (USA)

ACSC
Army Command & Staff Course (British Army)

ACSCL
Automatic Combat System Checklist

ACSE
Association Control Service Element (NATO)

ACSM
Advanced Conventional Stand-off Missile

ACSM
Assemblies, Components, Spare parts & Materials (NATO)

ACSSB
Amplitude Companded Single Sideband

ACSSNET
Air Command Support System Newtwork

ACSTAT
Aircraft State

ACSTIS
Advanced Circular Scan Thermal Imaging System

ACT
Acoustic Charge Transport

Act
Acting

ACT
Active Control Technology

ACT
Air Control Team

ACT
Airborne Crew Trainer

ACT
Airportable Cargo Trailer

ACT
Anti-Communications Threat

ACT
Area Capability Training

ACT
ATLAS Composing Terminal

ACTAS
Activated Towed Array Sonar

ACTD
Advanced Concepts Technbology Demonstrator/demonstration (USA)

ACTEDS
Army Civilian Training, Education & Development System (US Army)

ACTEW
Acoustic Charged Transport Electronic Warfare, low-cost decoy system

ACTF
Altitude Control Test Facility

ACTF
Army Countermine Task Force (US Army)

ACTFEL
AC Thin Film Electro-Luminescence

ACTIS
Advanced Compact Thermal Imaging System

ACTIV
Army Concept Team in Vietnam

ACTIVE
Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles (USAF)

ACTS
Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (NASA)

ACTS
AEGIS Combat Training System

ACTS
Air Combat Training System (Australian Defence Force)

ACTS
Artillery Concepts Test System

ACU
Acceleration Control Unit

ACU
Adaptive Control Unit

ACU
Air Conditioning Unit

ACU
Airborne Computer Unit

ACU
Analysis Control Unit

ACU
Artillery Computer Unit

ACU
Assault Craft Unit

ACU
Avionics Control Unit

ACUS
Area Common User System

ACV
Air Cushion Vehicle

ACV
Armored Cannon Vehicle (USA)

ACV
Armoured Combat Vehicle

ACV
Armoured Command Vehicle

ACVT
Armored Combat Vehicle Technology programme (USA)

ACVT
Armoured Combat Vehicle, Tracked

ACW
Aircraftwoman

ACWAR
Agile Continuous Wave Acquisition Radar

ACWAS
Aircraft Cabin Water Spray System

ACWS
Advanced Color Work Station (USA)

ACX
Advanced Combat Experimental

AD
Accidental Damage

AD
Active Duty

AD
Administrative Department

AD
Advanced Development

AD
Air Defence

AD
Air Despatch

AD
Air Division (USAF)

AD
Airworthiness Directive

AD
Analog / Digital

AD
Area-Denial munition

AD
Armament Division (AFSC) (USA)

AD
Armored Division (USA)

AD
Army Department (UK)

AD
Assistant Director (UK)

AD
Destroyer Tender (USA)

AD/LASW
Assistant Director, Lightweight Anti-Submarine Weapons (UK)

AD/XJAM
Artillery Delivered Expendable Jammer

ADA
Action Data Automation

ADA
Air Defence Artillery (USA)

ADA
Air Defended Area

ADA
Ammunition Danger Area

AdA
Armee de l'Air. French Air Force (France)

ADAAM
Air Directed Air to Air Missile (USA)

ADAC
Air Defence Artillery Commander (British Army)

ADAC
Appareil de Detection d'Alerte Chimique. Chemical warning device (France)

ADAC
Auto Directeur Anti-Clutter. Active radar seeker (France)

ADAC
Automated Direct Analog Computer

ADACS
Airborne Digital Automatic Collection System

ADACS
Alarm & Distributed Access Control System

ADAD
Air Defence Alert Device

ADAF
Abu Dhabi Air Force

ADAIRS
Advanced Distributed Aperture Infra-Red System

ADAIRS
Air Data And Inertial Reference System

ADAM
Advanced Dynamic Anthropomorphic Manikin

ADAM
Area Denial Anti-personnel / Artillery Munition

ADAMS
Air Defence Anti-Missile System

ADAMS
Air Defense Advanced Mobile System

ADAP
Auxiliaries Design Assistance Programme (UK)

ADAPI
Air Defense Air Picture ICC

ADAPS
Automatic Data Acquisition & Processing

ADAPT
Adaptive Diagnostic Approach to Performance Testing

ADAR
Advanced Design Array Radar

ADAR
Air Defence Advanced Radar (Australia)

ADARIO
Analog / Digital Adaptable Recorder Input / Output

ADARS
Adaptive Antenna Receiver System

ADARS
Advanced Defensive Avionics Response Strategy (USAF)

ADAS
Airborne Data Acquisition System

ADAS
Airfield Damage Assessment System (USAF)

ADAS
Auxiliary Data Annotation Set

ADAS
Air Deliverable Acoustic Sensor

ADat-P3
Automatic Data Processing (Standard) 3 (NATO)

ADatP
Allied Data Publications (NATO)

ADATS
Air Defence Anti-Tank System (Switzerland)

ADATS
Airborne Digital Avionics Test System

ADAU
Auxiliary Data Acquisition Unit

ADAWS
Action Data Automation Weapons System (UK)

ADAWS
Advanced Drives and Weapon Stabilisation

ADAZ
Air Defence Zone

ADBMT
Air Defence Battle Management Technology

ADC
Acoustic Device Countermeasure

ADC
Advanced Data Controller

ADC
Agreement on Defence Co-operation

ADC
Aide-de-Camp (UK)

ADC
Air Data Computer

ADC
Air Defence Centre

ADC
Air Defence Commander

ADC
Air Defense Command (former USAF Command)

ADC
Air Defense Command (Japan)

ADC
Analogue to Digital Converter

ADC
Armament Directors Conference

ADC
Asynchronous Digital Combiner

ADC(X)
Auxiliary dry cargo carrier (USA)

ADCA
Advanced Design Composite Aircraft (USAF)

ADCAP
Advanced Capabilities

ADCAPARM
Advanced Capabilities Anti-Radar Missile

ADCATT
Army Defense Combined Arms Tactical Trainer (US Army)

ADCC
Air Defence Command & Control

ADCC
Air Defence Control Centre

ADCC
Air Direction Control Centre

ADCCP
Advanced Data Communication Protocol

ADCIS
Air Defence Command Information System (UK)

ADCOM
Aerospace Defence Command

ADCON
Advise all Concerned

ADCOR
American Development Corp.

ADCS
Air Data Computer System

ADCU
Air Defence Control Unit

ADD
Agency for Defence Development (Korea, South)

ADDC
Air Defence Data Centre (UK)

ADDER
Advanced Deployment Demonstration & Engineering Risk reduction (USA)

ADDISS
Advanced Deployable Digital Imagery Support System

ADDS
Advanced Decoy Dispenser System

ADDS
Advanced Digital Dispensing System

ADDS
Army Data Distribution System (USA)

ADE
Aeronautical Development Establishment (Bangalore, India)

ADE
Armoured Division Equivalent

ADEA
Army Development & Employment Agency (USA)

ADECS
Advanced Digital Engine Control System

ADEHML
Auto Diesels Edghill HML Ltd (UK)

ADELA
Atlantic Development Group for Latin America

ADELE
Alerte Detection Et Localisation des Emmetteurs. Airborne ESM system (France)

ADELT
Automatically Deployable Emergency Locator Transponder

ADEME
Assistant Director Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (UK)

ADEWS
Air Defense Electronic Warfare System (USA)

ADEX
Air Defence Exercise

ADF
Aerial Direction Finding

ADF
Air Defence Fighter

ADF
Australian Defence Force

ADF
Automatic Direction Finder

ADFA
Australian Defence Force Academy

ADFCC
Air Force Defence Control Centre (Japan)

ADFDIS
ADF Distributed Intelligence System

ADFL
Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Angola-Zaire

ADG
Accessory-Drive Generator

ADG
Type abbreviation: Deguassing ship

ADG
Aircraft Delivery Group (USA)

ADGE
Air Defence Ground Environment

ADGS
Air Defence Gun Sight

ADHM
Aerospace Design Hugo Marom Ltd (Israel)

ADHPM
Artillery-Delivered High Performance Munitions

ADI
Air Decoy Missile (USA)

ADI
Air Defense Initiative (USA)

ADI
Attitude Director Indicator

ADI
Australian Defence Industries Ltd

ADI
Automatic Direction Indicator

ADIB
Air Deployable Ice Beacon

ADII
Advanced Display & Intelligent Interface

ADIMP
Ada Improvement Programme (UK)

ADIMP
ADAWS Improvement Programme (UK Royal Navy)

ADINTS
Automatic Depot Inertial Navigation Test System

ADIRS
Air Data & Inertial Reference System

ADIRS
Airfield Damage Information & Reporting System

ADIT
Automatic Detection & Tracking unit (USA)

ADITT
Aerially Deployed Ice Thickness Transponder

ADIVS
Air Defence Interoperability Validation System

ADIZ
Air Defence Identification Zone

Adj
Adjutant

Adjt
Adjutant

Adjt-Gen
Adjutant-General

ADKEM
Advanced Kinetic Energy Missile

ADL
Authorised Data List

ADLA
Autonomous Drifting Line Array

ADLER
Artillerie-Daten-Lage und Einsatz-Rechnerverbund (Germany)

ADLFP
Air Deployed Low Frequency Projector

ADLIPS
Automatic Data Link Plotting System (USA)

ADM
Acquisition Decision Memorandum

Adm
Admiral

ADM
Advanced Demonstration / Development Model

ADM
African Democratic Movement (Ciskei)

ADM
Air Decoy Missile

ADM
Air Defence Missile

ADM
Asynchronous Data Modem

ADM
Atomic Demolition Munition

ADM
Automatic Demolition Munition

ADM
Automatic Drive-train Management

Adm of Fleet
Admiral of the Fleet

Admin
Administration

ADMP
Air Defence Master Plan

ADMS
Analog & Digital Monitoring Subsystem (USA)

ADMU
Air Distance Measuring Unit

ADNC
Air Defence Notification Centre

ADNOTS
Automatic Day / Night Optronic Tracker System

ADNS
Automated Digital Network Systems

ADO
Air Defense Officer (USA)

ADO
Australian Defence Organisation

ADOC
Air Defence Operations Centre

ADOCS
Advanced Digital Optical Control System

ADOCS
Automated Deep Operations Co-ordination System

ADONIS
Acoustic Daylight Ocean Noise Imaging System

ADOP
Advanced Distributed Onboard Processor

ADOS
Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (UK)

ADP
Advanced Development Project

ADP
Advanced Ducted Propulsor (USA)

ADP
Arab Democratic Party

ADP
Automatic / Advanced Data Processing

ADP
Acclerated Demining Programme

ADPA
American Defense Preparedness Association

ADPCM
Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation

ADPE
Automated Data Processing Equipment (USA)

ADPG
Air Defence Planning Group

ADPS
ASARS Deployable Processing Station

ADPSO
Automatic Data Processing Selection Office (USA)

ADR
Accident Data Recorder

ADR
Advisory Route

ADR
Air Data Relay

ADR
Air Defence Region (UK)

ADR
Air Defense Reticle (USA)

ADR
Airfield Damage Repair

ADR
Armoured Delivery Regiment (UK)

ADR+
Advanced Digital Radio Plus

ADRC
Advanced Defence Radar Controller

ADRG
Arc Digital Raster Graphics

ADRIES
Advanced Digital Radar Imagery Exploitation System

ADROWPU
Advanced Double Pass Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit

ADRS
Airfield Damage Repair Squadron (UK Royal Air Force)

ADRTIES
Advanced Digital Radar Imagery Exploitation System

ADRU
Advanced Defence Radar Unit

ADS
Accessory Drive System

ADS
Acoustic Detection System

ADS
Active Dipping Sonar

ADS
Advanced Deployable Systems program (US Navy)

ADS
Advanced Digital Switch

ADS
Advanced Distributed Simulation

ADS
Advanced Dressing Station

ADS
Air Data System

ADS
Air Defence Ship (India)

ADS
Air Defence System

ADS
Aircraft Development Service

ADS
Ammunition Delivery System

ADS
Architectural Design Study (NATO)

ADS
Armoured Delivery Squadron (UK)

ADS
Audio Distribution System

ADS
Automatic Defence System

ADS
Automatic Door Seal

ADS
Automated Dependent Surveillance

ADSAF
Automatic Data System for the Army in the Field (US Army)

ADSAM
Air Directed Surface to Air Missile (USA)

AdSAMS
Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System

ADSB
Abu Dhabi Ship Building

ADSC
Active-Duty Service Commitment

ADSCOM
Advanced Ship Communications (US Navy)

ADSI
Aerospace & Defense Sales Inc. (Philippines)

ADSIA
Allied Data Systems Interoperability Agency

ADSID
Air-Delivered Seismic Intrusion Detector

ADSM
Air Defence Suppression Missile

ADSM
Artillery Delivered Scatterable Mine

ADSP
Advanced Digital Signal Processor

ADST
Advanced Distributed Simulation Technology (USA)

ADSU
Air Data Sensor Unit

ADT
Advanced Display Terminal

ADT
Air Data Terminal

ADT
Air Defence Technology programme

ADT
Airborne Data Terminal

ADT
Alphanumeric Display Terminal

ADT
Automatic Data Transmission

ADT
Automatic Detection & Tracking

ADT3
Air Defence Tactical Training Theatre

ADTAC
Air Defence Tactical Air Command

ADTC
Armament Development & Test Center (USAF)

ADTECH
Advanced Decoy Technology

ADTOC
Air Defense Tactical Operations Centre

ADTS
Automatic Data Test System (USA)

ADTTT
Air Defence Tactical Training Theatre

ADTU
Auxiliary Data Transfer Unit

ADU
Aimpoint Display Unit

ADU
Air Data Unit

ADU
Air Defence Unit

ADU
Annotation Display Unit

ADU
Auxiliary Display Unit

ADU
Avionics Display Unit

Adv
Advanced

ADV
Air Defence Variant

ADV
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughafen

ADVCAP
Advanced Capability

ADVICE
Acoustic Data Vessel Identification, Classification & Explanation

ADVON
Advanced Echelon

ADW
Area Defence Weapon (British Army)

ADW
Area Denial Weapon

ADWAR
Advanced Directional Warhead

ADWD
Agent Defeat Warhead Demonstrator (US DoD)
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د/ أحمد الليثي

الرجوع الى المقدمة

ahmed_allaithy

شاركت: 14 فبراير 2006
نشرات: 274
المكان: UK
ارسل: الاربعاء مارس 08, 2006 11:31 pm موضوع الرسالة: AE-AH

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AE
Aircraft Establishment

AE
Ammunition ship (USA)

AE
Assault Echelon

AE
Armada Espanola (Spanish Navy)

AEA
Atomic Energy Authority (UK)

AEB
Active Electronic Buoy

AEC
American Engineering Council

AEC
Army Environmental Center (USA)

AEC
ASARS Exploitation Cell

AEC
Associated Equipment Company

AEC
Atomic Energy Commission (USA)

AECB
Arms Export Control Board

AECM
Active Electronic Countermeasures

AECMA
Association Europeenne des Constructeurs de Materiel Aerospatial (France)

AECO
American Electronic Co.

AECP
Airman Education & Commissioning Program (USA)

AECS
Advanced Environmental Control System

AECU
Advanced Electronic Control Unit

AED
Active Expendable Decoy (USA)

AEDATS
Automatic Engine Data Acquisition Test System

AEDC
Arnold Engineering Development Center (USA)

AEDF
Asian Economic Development Fund

AEDO
Aircraft Engineering District Office

AEDS
Active Expendable Decoy System

AEDS
Atomic Energy Detection System

AEEMA
Australian Electrical & Electronic Manufacturers Association Ltd

AEF
Air Experience Flight

AEF
Air Expeditionary Force (USAF)

AEFS
Fleet replenishment ship

AEFSS
Automatic Explosion / Fire Sensing & Suppression system

AEGIS
Advanced Engine / Gearbox Integrated System

AEGIS
Airborne Early Warning Ground Integration Segment

AEHM
Airport Engineering Hugo Marom Ltd (Israel)

AEI
Assembly Engineering Instruction

AEI
Armaments Enhancement Initiative (US Army)

AEIA
Australian Electronics Industry Association

AE (L)
Type abbreviation: Ammunition ship (small)

AELP
Allied Electrical Publication

AEM
Applied Electro Mechanics Inc. (USA)

AEM
Aviation Engineering & Maintenance (UK)

AEM
Type abbreviation: Missile support ship

AEMA
Artefatos Electricos e Mecanicos de Aeronautica Ltda (Brazil)

AEMC
Advanced Energetic Materials Corp. (USA)

AEMCE
Army EMC Agency (British Army)

AEM/S
Advanced Enclosed Master/Sensor

AEO
Air Electronics Officer (UK Royal Air Force)

AEOI
Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran

AEOS
Aircraft Equipment Overhauls & Sales (NSW) Pty Ltd (Australia)

AEP
Allied Engineering Publication

AEP
Ambulance Exchange Point

AEPDS
Advanced Electronic Processing & Dissemination System

AEQC
Advanced Engine Quality Control

AERCO
Aviation Electrical & Radio Co. Ltd (UK)

AERE
Atomic Energy Research Establishment

AERO
Aeronautical weather report

AERP
Aircrew Eye / Respiratory Protection

AERS
Access / Egress Roadway System

AES
A. Eickhorn GmbH & Co. fur Schneidwaren & Waffen (Germany)

AES
Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron

AES
American Electrochemical Society

AES
Auger Electron Spectroscopy

AES
Advanced Exterior Sensor

AESA
Active Electronically Scanned Array

AESN
Alenia Elsag Sistemi Navali (Italy)

AESOP
Airborne Electro-optical Special Operations Payload (USA)

AESOP
Airborne Electronic Sensor Operator

AESW
Aircraft Engineering Support Wing (UK Royal Air Force)

AETC
Air Education & Training Command (US Air Force)

AETMS
Airborne Electronic Terrain Mapping System

AEtP
Allied Electronics Publication

AEU
Aeromedical Evacuation Unit

AEU
Airborne Electronics Unit

AEV
Armoured Engineer Vehicle

AEW
Airborne Early Warning

AEW
Aircraft Engineering Wing (UK Royal Air Force)

AEW
Air Expeditionary Wing (USAF)

AEW&C
Airborne Early Warning & Control

AEWEDS
Advanced EW Evaluation Display System

AEWIS
Army EW Information System (US Army)

AEWSPS
Aircraft EW Self-Protection System (USA)

AEWTF
Aircrew Electronic Warfare Tactics Facility (NATO)

AEWWG
Air EW Working Group (NATO)

AF
Air Force

AF
Airfield (NATO)

AF
Amphibious Force (NATO)

AF
Audio Frequency

AF
Store Ship (USA)

AF RE
Chief of Air Force Reserve's Office (USAF)

AF T&S C
Air Force Training & Support Command (Belgium)

AF&F
Arming, Fuzing & Firing

AF/IG
Inspector General's Office (USAF)

AF/IN
Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence (USAF)

AF/SC
Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Command, Control, Communications & Computers (USA)

AFA
Air Force Association (USA)

AFA
Army Flight Activity

AFA
Audio Frequency Amplifier

AFAA
Air Force Audit Agency (USA)

AFAAC
Air Force & Anti-Aircraft Command (Switzerland)

AFAALC
Air Force & Anti-Aircraft Logistics Command (Switzerland)

AFAATC
Air Force & Anti-Aircraft Training Command (Switzerland)

AFAF
Air Force Assistance Fund (USA)

AFAIIC
Air Force Audit, Inspection & Investigations Council (USA)

AFAL
Air Force Astronautics Laboratory (USAF)

AFALD
Air Force Acquisition Logistics Division (USAF)

AFAMRL
Air Force Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory (USAF)

AFAP
Artillery-Fired Atomic Projectile

AFAPD
Air Force Aero Propulsion Directorate (USAF)

AFARMADE
Asociacion Espanola de Fabricantes de Armamento y Material de Defensa (Spain)

AFARV
Armoured Forward Area Re-arm Vehicle

AFAS
Advanced Field Artillery System

AFASD
Air Force Aeronautics Systems Division (USA)

AFASPO
Air Force Automated Systems Project Office (USAF)

AFATDS
Advanced / Army Field Artillery Tactical Data System

AFATL
Air Force Armaments Laboratory

AFB
Air Force Base (USA)

AFB
Air Force Board

AFB
Air Force Bulletin

AFB
Anti-Friction Bearing

AFB
Axial Folding Bridge

AFBA
Armed Forces Broadcasters Association

AFBDA
Air Force Base Disposal Agency

AFBITS
Air Force Base Information Transfer System (USA)

AFBMA
Anti-Friction Bearing Manufacturers Association (USA)

AFBMD
Air Force Ballistic Missile Division (USA)

AFBMO
Air Force Ballistic Missile Office (USA)

AFBS
Air Force Broadcasting Service (USA)

AFC
Adaptive Fuel Control

AFC
Airframe Change

AFC
Automatic Frequency Control

AFCAA
Air Force Cost Analysis Agency (USAF)

AFCAC
Air Force Computer Acquisition Center (USAF)

AFCAO
Air Force Computer Acquisition Office (USAF)

AFCAP
Air Force Capability Assessment Program (USAF)

AFCAS
Automatic Flight Control Augmentation System

AFCC
Air Force Communications Command (USA)

AFCD
Air Force Cryptologic Depot (USAF)

AFCEA
Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association (USA)

AFCEC
Air Force Civil Engineering Center (USAF)

AFCEE
Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (USAF)

AFCENT
Allied Forces, Central Europe (NATO)

AFCESA
Air Force Civil Engineering Support Agency (USAF)

AFCMC
Air Force Contract Maintenance Center (USAF)

AFCMD
Air Force Contract Management Division (USA)

AFCMO
Air Force Contract Management Office (USAF)

AFCOLR
Air Force's Co-ordinating Office for Logistics Research (USAF)

AFCOMPMET
Air Force Comptroller Management Engineering Team (USAF)

AFCOMS
Air Force Commissary Service (USAF)

AFCOMSECCEN
Air Force Communications Security Center (USAF)

AFCOS
Air Force Combat Operations Staff (USAF)

AFCPMC
Air Force Civilian Personnel Management Center (USAF)

AFCRL
Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (USAF)

AFCS
Air Force Communications Service

AFCS
Artillery Fire Control System

AFCS
Automatic Flight Control System

AFCSA/CC
Office of the Commander, Air Force Center for Studies & Analyses (USAF)

AFCSC
Air Force Cryptologic Support Center (USAF)

AFCSIO
Air Force Communications / Computer Systems Integration Office (USAF)

AFCSTC
Air Force Cost Center (USAF)

AFCTS
Artillery Fire Control Training Simulator

AFD
Automatic Feeding Device (for ammunition)

AFDAP
Air Force Designated Acquisition Program (USAF)

AFDB
Large auxiliary floating dry dock (USA)

AFDC
Air Force Doctrine Center (USAF)

AFDC
Air Force Doctrine Command (USAF)

AFDE
Arctic Fuels Dispensing Equipment

AFDL
Small auxiliary floating dry dock (USA)

AFDM
Medium auxiliary floating dry dock (USA)

AFDR
Air Force Discrepancy Report (USA)

AFDS
Advanced Flight-Deck Simulator

AFDS
Air Fighting Development Squadron (UK)

AFDS
Automatic Flight Director System

AFDS
Autonomous Free-flight Dispenser System

AFDSC
Air Force Data Service Center (USAF)

AFDTC
Air Force Development Test Center (AFMC)

AFDTL
Air Force Drug Testing Laboratory (USAF)

AFDW
Air Force District of Washington (USAF)

AFE
Alternative Fighter Engine

AFEDDS
Automatic Fire & Explosion Detection & Suppression System (Israel)

AFEES
Air Force Escape & Evasion Society (USAF)

AFES
Automatic Fire Extinguishing System

AFESD
Air Force Electronic Systems Division (USA)

AFESMET
Air Force Engineering & Services Management Engineering Team (USAF)

AFETAC
Air Force Environmental Technical Applications Center (USAF)

AFETR
Air Force Eastern Test Range (USA)

AFEWC
Air Force Electronic Warfare Center (USA)

AFEWES
Air Force Electronic Warfare Evaluation Simulator (USA)

AFEX
Anglo-French Exchange meeting

AFF
Ammunition Factory Footscray (Australia)

AFF
Army Field Forces

AFFDL
Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory (USAF)

AFFE
Army Forces, Far East

AFFF
Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (fire fighting)

AFFMA
Air Force Frequency Management Agency (USAF)

AFFS
Advanced Firefinder System. Previously known as ATACS

AFFSA
Air Force Flight Standards Agency (USAF)

AFFTC
Air Force Flight Test Center (USA)

AFG
Anti-Frogman Grenade

AFG
Arbitrary Function Generator

AFGL
Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (USA)

AFGS
Automatic Flight Guidance System

AFGWC
Air Force Global Weather Central (USAF)

AFHRA
Air Force Historical Research Agency (USAF)

AFHRL
Air Force Human Resources Laboratory (USAF)

AFHS
Air Force Historical Society (USAF)

AFI
Air Force Intelligence

AFI
Air Forces, Iceland

AFIA
Air Force Inspection Agency (USAF)

AFIC
Air Force Intelligence Command (USA)

AFIFIO
Air Force Information For Industry Offices (USAF)

AFIGAC
Air Force Inspector General Activities Center (USAF)

AFINTELMET
Air Force Intelligence Management Engineering Team (USAF)

AFIP
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (USA)

AFIR
Air Force Intelligence Reserve programme (USAF)

AFIS
Air Force Intelligence Service (USA)

AFIS
Automatic Fingerprints Identification System

AFISA
Air Force Information Systems Architecture (USAF)

AFISA
Air Force Intelligence Support Agency (USAF)

AFIT
Air Force Institute of Technology (USAF)

AFITAE
Association Francaise des Ingenieurs et Techniciens de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace (France)

AFJINTACCS
Air Force programme for the Joint Interoperability of TACCS (USAF)

AFJROTC
Air Force Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (USAF)

AF (L)
Type abbreviation: Stores ship (small)

AFLANT
Air Force, Atlantic (USAF)

AFLC
Aiming & Firing Limitations Computer

AFLC
Air Force Logistics Command. Now defunct (USA)

AFLC/M
Air Force Logistics Command Manual (USAF)

AFLIR
Advanced Forward Looking Infra-Red

AFLMC
Air Force Logistics Management Center (USAF)

AFLO
Airborne Forces Liaison Officer

AFLOGMET
Air Force Logistics Management Engineering Team (USAF)

AFLSA
Air Force Legal Services Agency (USAF)

AFM
Air Force Manual (USA)

AFM
Anti-Friction Metal

AFMAG
Air Force Management Analysis Group (USAF)

AFMC
Air Force Materiel Command (USA)

AFMC
Air Force Medical Center (USAF)

AFMDC
Air Force Missile Development Center (AFMC)

AFMEA
Air Force Management Engineering Agency (USAF)

AFMED
Allied Forces Mediterranean. Now NAVSOUTH (NATO)

AFMEDMET
Air Force Medical Management Engineering Team (USAF)

AFMENS
Air Force Mission Element Need Statement (USAF)

AFMIG
Air Force Management Improvement Group (USAF)

AFML
Air Force Materiels Laboratory (USAF)

AFMOA
Air Force Medical Operations Agency (USAF)

AFMPC
Air Force Military Personnel Center (USAF)

AFMPMET
Air Force Manpower & Personnel Management Engineering Team (USAF)

AFMS
Automatic Flight Management System

AFMSA
Air Force Medical Support Agency (USAF)

AFMSS
Air Force Mission Support System (USAF)

AFMTC
Air Force Missile Test Center (USAF)

AFMWRA
Air Force Morale, Welfare & Recreation Agency (USAF)

AFN
American / Armed Forces Network (USA)

AFNE
Astilleros y Fabricas Navales del Estado (Argentina)

AFNEWS
Air Force News Agency (USAF)

AFNO
Amphibious Forces Notes & Orders

AFNON
Allied Forces, North Norway (NATO)

AFNOR
Association Francaise de Normalisation (France)

AFNORTH
Allied Forces, Northern Europe. Now AFNORTHWEST (NATO)

AFNORTHWEST
Allied Forces, Northwest Europe. (NATO)

AFNS
Air Force News Service. Now AFNEWS (USAF)

AFO
Area Flag Officer

AFO
Ausschuss fur Funkortung

AFOE
Assault Follow-On Echelon

AFOG
Air Force Orientation Group (USAF)

AFOLTS
Automatic Fire Overheat Logic Test System

AFOMS
Air Force Office of Medical Support (USAF)

AFOOF
Accounting & Finance Office Of the Future (USAF)

AFOS
Acoustically Focused Oceanographic Sampling

AFOSI
Air Force Office of Special Investigation (USAF)

AFOSP
Air Force Office of Security Police. Now defunct (USAF)

AFOSR
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (USA)

AFOTEC
Air Force Operational Test & Evaluation Center (USAF)

AFOUA
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award (USAF)

AFP
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Flughafen Planung (Germany)

AFP
Armed Forces of the Philippines

AFP
Assault Fire Platoon

AFP+
Assault Fire Platoon Plus

AFPAM
Automatic Flight Planning And Monitoring

AFPC
Air Force Personnel Council (USAF)

AFPCP
Air Force Potential Contractor Program (USAF)

AFPE
Air Force Preliminary Evaluation (USAF)

AFPEO
Air Force Program Executive Office (USAF)

AFPG
Air Force Planning Guide (USAF)

AFPLA
Air Force of the People's Liberation Army, usually PLAAF (China)

AFPRO
Air Force Plant Representative Office

AFQA
Air Force Quality Assurance (USA)

AFQT
Air Force Qualification Test (USAF)

AFQT
Armed Forces Qualification Test (USA)

AFR
Air / Fuel Ratio

AFR
Air Force Regulation

AFRAP
Air Force Recruiter Assistance Program (USAF)

AFRBA
Air Force Review Boards Agency (USAF)

AFRBO
Air Force Review Boards Office (USAF)

AFRC
Air Force Reserve Command

AFRCC
Air Force Rescue Co-ordination Center (USAF)

AFRES
Air Force Reserve (USA)

AFRL
Air Force Research Laboratory (USAF)

AFROTC
Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps (USAF)

AFRP
Aramid Fibre Reinforced Plastic

AFRPL
Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (USAF)

AFRRI
Armed Forces Radiobiological Research Institute (USA)

AFRTC
Air Force Reserve Training Center (USAF)

AFRTS
American Forces Radio & Television Service

AFS
Aeronautical Fixed Service

AFS
Air Force Station (USA)

AFS
Air Force Supply

AFS
Army Fire Service (British Army)

AFS
Automatic Flight System

AFS
Automatic Frequency Selection

AFS
Aviation Fluids Service Inc. (USA)

AFS
Combat Stores Ship (USA)

AFSA
Air Force Safety Agency (USAF)

AFSA
Air Force Sergeants Association (USAF)

AFSAA
Air Forces Studies & Analyses Agency (USAF)

AFSAC
Air Force Special Activities Center (USAF)

AFSARC
Air Force Systems Acquisition Review Council

AFSAT
Air Force Satellite

AFSATCOM
Air Force Satellite Communications system (USA)

AFSC
Air Force Speciality Code (USAF)

AFSC
Air Force Systems Command. Now defunct (USA)

AFSC
Armed Forces Staff College

AFSC/M
Air Force Systems Command Manual

AFSCF
Air Force Satellite Control Facility (USA)

AFSCN
Air Force Satellite Control Network (USAF)

AFSCO
Air Force Security Clearance Office (USAF)

AFSCS
Air Force Satellite Communications System (USAF)

AFSD
Air Force Space Division (USA)

AFSE
Allied Forces, Southern Europe (NATO)

AFSED
Arab Fund for Economic & Social Development

AFSFC
Air Force Space Forecast Center (USAF)

AFS (H)
Type abbreviation: Combat stores ship (helicopter)

AFSK
Audio Frequency Shift Keying

AFSLV
Air Force Small Launch Vehicle (USAF)

AFSN
Air Force Service Number

AFSNCOA
Air Force Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Academy (USAF)

AFSO
Air Force Services Office (USAF)

AFSOC
Air Force Special Operations Command (USAF)

AFSONOR
Allied Forces, South Norway (NATO)

AFSOUTH
Allied Forces, Southern Europe (NATO)

AFSPA
Air Force Security Police Agency (USAF)

AFSPACECOM
Air Force Space Command (USAF)

AFSPMET
Air Force Security Police Management Engineering Team (USAF)

AFSSMET
Air Force Special Staff Management Engineering Team (USAF)

AFSTC
Air Force Space Technology Center (USA)

AFSV
Armoured Fire Support Vehicle

AFSWC
Air Force Special Weapons Center (AFMC)

AFSWP
Air Force Special Weapons Project (USAF)

AFT
Air Force Department (NATO)

AFTA
Advanced First Term Avionics

AFTAC
Air Force Technical Applications Center (USAF)

AFTC
Air Force Combat Theater Communications (USAF)

AFTI
Advanced Fighter Technology Integration

AFTN
Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network

AFTOR
Office of the Air Force Reserve (USAF)

AFTS
Advanced Flying Training School

AFTS
Airborne Flight Test System

AFTS
Airtech Firearms Training System

AFTS
Automated Flight Training System

AFTSSDO
Air Force Tactical Shelter Systems Development Office (USAF)

AFU
Air Filtration Unit

AFU
Assault Fire Unit

AFV
Armored Family of Vehicles (USA)

AFV
Armoured Fighting Vehicle

AFVG
Anglo-French Variable Geometry programme

AFWAL
Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratory (USA)

AFWC
Air Force Wargaming Center (USAF)

AFWL
Air Force Weapons Laboratory (USA)

AFWMPRT
Air Force Wartime Manpower & Personnel Readiness Team (USAF)

AFWTF
Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico

AFWTR
Air Force Western Test Range (USAF)

AFZ
Allgemeines Flugfunksprechzeugnis

AG
Adjutant-General (UK)

AG
Air Gunner

AG
Airlift Group

AG
Aktiengesellschaft (Austria, Germany, Switzerland)

AG
Algeria (NATO country code)

AG
Antenna Group

AG
Anti-Gas

AG
Army Garrison (US Army)

AG
Miscellaneous ship (USA)

Ag
Silver

AGDUS
Ausbildungsgerat Duellsimulator. Laser engagement system (German Army)

AG/FF
Frigate / FAC support ship

AGADS
Advanced Graphics Avionics Display System

AGAI
Army General & Administrative Instructions (British Army)

AGARD
Advisory Group for Aerospace Research & Development (NATO)

AGATHA
Air / Ground Anti-jam Transmission from Helicopter or Aircraft (France)

AGAVE
Automatic Gimballed Antenna Vectoring Equipment

AGB
Accessory Gearbox

AGB
Autonomous Guided Bomb

AGB
Type abbreviation: Icebreaker ship

AGC
Adjutant-General's Corps (UK)

AGC
Automatic Gain Control

AGC
Type abbreviation: Amphibious Command Ship (Taiwan)

AGCA
Automatic Ground-Controlled Approach

AGCC
Air Ground Combat Center (US Marine Corps)

AGCS
Advanced Guidance & Control System

AGCW
Autonomously Guided Conventional Weapon

AGDS
American Gage Design Standard

AGDS
Deep submergence support ship (USA)

AGE
Advanced Graphics Engine

AGE
Aerospace Ground Equipment

AGE
Type abbreviation: Rsearch ship

AGEH
Hydrofoil research ship (USA)

AGEP
Advanced Guidance Evaluation Program (USA)

AGERD
Aerospace Ground Equipment Recommendation Data

AGES
Air-to-Ground Engagement Simulation

AGES
Army General Education Development Center (US Army)

AGES/AD
Air-to-Ground Engagement / Air Defence

AGETS
Automated Ground Engine Test System

AGEX
Anglo-German Exchange meeting

AGF
Army Ground Forces

AGF
Miscellaneous command ship (USA)

AGFF
Frigate research ship (USA)

AGI
Aeronautical & General Instruments Ltd (UK)

AGI
Intelligence Gathering Auxiliary vessel

AGIL
Airborne General Illumination Light set

AGIS
Assieme per Gestione e Impiegodel Sistema. FSAF command system (Italy)

AGIS
Automatisiertes Gefechts - und Informationssystem fur Schnellboote (Germany)

AGL
Above Ground Level

AGL
Airborne Gun Laying (radar)

AGL
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Luftfahrt-Ausrustung

AGL
Automatic Grenade Launcher

AGLS
Automatic Gun Laying System

AGLT
Airborne Gun Laying Turret

AGM
Air-to-Ground Missile

AGM
Missile range instrumentation ship (USA)

AGMA
American Gear Manufacturers Association

AGMC
Aerospace Guidance & Metrology Center (AFMC)

AGMCMX
Arabian Gulf MCM Exercise

AGMS
Armoured Ground Mobility System (US Army)

AGMMA
Assistant General Manager for Military Applications (USA)

AGOB
Type abbreviation: Polar research ship

AGOR
Oceanographic Research ship

AGOS
Air / Ground Operations School / Section

AGOS
Ocean Surveillance ship (USA)

AGP
Army Gateway Program (US Army)

AGP
Patrol craft tender (USA)

AGPL
Positions occupied by Indian and Pakistan Army units within disputed Kashmir, separate from the LoC.

AGPO
Angle Gate Pull-Off

AGPPE
Advanced General Purpose Processor Element

AGR
Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor

AGR
Radar picket ship

AGRA
Army Group, Royal Artillery (UK)

AGRA
Automatic Gain Ranging Amplifier

AGRE
Army Group, Royal Engineers (UK)

AGREE
Advisory Group on Reliability in Electronic Equipment

AGS
Aeronautical Ground Station

AGS
Airborne Ground Surveillance

AGS
Aircraft General Standards

AGS
Aircraft Generation Squadron

AGS
Alliance Ground Surveillance programme (NATO)

AGS
Advanced Gun System

AGS
Armored Gun System (USA)

AGS
Assault Gun System vehicle (USA)

AGS
Automatic Gain Stabilization

AGS
Avtomaticeski Granatomojot Stankovy. Automatic grenade launcher (Russia)

AGS
Surveying Ship (USA)

AGS (C)
Type abbreviation: Surveying ship (coastal)

AGSE
Advanced Ground Systems Engineering Corp. (USA)

AGSE
Aviation Ground Support Equipment

AGSM
Anti-G Straining Manoeuvre

AGSS
Aerial Gunner-Scanner Simulator

AGSS
Auxiliary research submarine, nuclear-powered (USA)

AGT
Advanced Gun Technology

AGTELIS
Automatic Ground Transportable Emitter Location & Identification System (USA)

AGTFT
Anti-jam GPS Technology Flight Test

AGTS
Air Gunnery Target System

AGV
Assault Gun Vehicle

AGV
Automated Guided Vehicle

AGV
Avion a Geometrie Variable. Variable geometry aircraft (France)

AGVT
Advanced Ground Vehicle Technology

AGW
Autonomous Guided Weapon

AGWS
Advanced Gun Weapon System

AGWST
Advanced Gun Weapon System Technology

AGZ
Actual Ground Zero

Ah
ampere hour (electric current)

AH
Artificial Horizon

AH
Attack Helicopter

AH
Hospital ship (USA)

AHCP
Ad Hoc Collective Protection

AHD
Anti-Handling Device

AHE
Ammunition Handling Equipment

AHEAD
Advanced Hit Efficiency And Destruction

AHEM
Association of Hydraulic Equipment Manufacturers

AHFEWS
Army High Frequency Electronic Warfare System (US Army)

AHG
Ateliers de la Haute Garonne Ets Auriol & Cie (France)

AHIP
Army Helicopter Improvement Program (USA)

AHIT
Advanced Hover Intercept Technology

AHM
Anti-Helicopter Mine

AHMD
Advanced Handheld Mine Detector (British Army)

AHP
Advanced Helicopter Pilotage

AHQ
Air Headquarters

AHQ
Allied Headquarters

AHRS
Attitude & Heading Reference System

AHRU
Attitude & Heading Reference Unit

AHS
American Helicopter Society

AHTD
Advanced Hard Target Fuze

AHWCS
Advanced Harpoon Weapon Control System

**ahmed_allaithy** · 06-04-2006, 02:29 PM

Defense Acronyms

AI
Air Interdiction

AI
Air-Independent

AI
Airborne Intercept

AI
Alpha Industries Inc. (USA)

AI
Anti-Icing

AI
Artificial Intelligence

AI
Assistant Instructor

AI
Automatic Identification

AI/ES
Artificial Intelligence / Expert Systems

AI2
Avionic Instruments Inc. (USA)

AI2S
Advanced Infra-red Imaging Seeker

AIA
Aerospace Industries Association of America

AIA
Aircraft Industries Association

AIA
Associazione Industrie Aerospaziali (Italy)

AIAA
American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics

AIAAM
Advanced Intercept Air-to-Air Missile

AIAC
Aerospace Industries Association of Canada

AIAG
Automotive Industries Action Group

AIAIT
Army Intelligence & Threat Analysis Center (US Army)

AIAOS
Academic Instructor & Allied Officer School (USA)

AIAS
Airborne Integrated Antenna System

AIB
Agency Investigation Board

AIBU
Advanced Interference Blanker Unit

AIC
Advanced Instrument Course

AIC
Aeronautical Information Circular

AIC
Ammunition Identification Code

AIC
Automated Intelligence Correlation

AIC
Air Intercept Communications

AICBM
Anti-Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

AICMA
Association Internationale des Constructeurs de Materiel Aerospatial

AICORN
Adaptive Intelligent Control of Radio Networks

AICRO
Association of Independent Contract Research Organisations

AICUZ
Air Installation Compatible Use Zone

AID
Accident, Incident, Deficiency

AID
Agency for International Development (USA)

AID
Air Information Dataset

AIDA
Automatic Intruder Detector Alarm

AIDAS
Advanced Instrumentation & Data Analysis System

AIDB
Anti-Intrusion Defence Barriers

AIDC
Aero Industry Development Center (Taiwan)

AIDES
Automated Interactive Design & Evaluation System

AIDS
Acoustic Intelligence Data System

AIDS
Advanced Integrated Display System (USA)

AIDS
Airborne Integrated Data System

AIDSCOM
Army Information & Data Systems Command (US Army)

AIDU
Aeronautical Information Documents Unit

AIE
Aircrew Integrated Equipment

AIECO
Ahmed International Equipment Co. (Pvt) Ltd (Pakistan)

AIEE
American Institute of Electrical Engineers

AIEWS
Advanced Integrated Electronic Warfare System

AIF
Air International Formation SA (France)

AIF
Automated Installations intelligence File (USA)

AIF
Arme Individuelle Future. Future personal weapon (France)

AIFF
Advanced Identification Friend or Foe

AIFOS
Academic Instructor & Foreign Officer School (USA)

AIFS
Advanced Indirect Fire System

AIFTA
Anglo-Irish Free Trade Agreement

AIFV
Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle (USA)

AIG
Address Indicator Group

AIG
Assistant Instructor of Gunnery (UK Royal Air Force)

AIHS
Aircrew Integrated Helmet System

AIIC
Army Imagery Intelligence Corps

AIIM
Association for Information & Image Management (USA)

AIIS
Aerial Image Interpretation System

AIL
Advanced Information Leaflets

AIL
Airborne Instruments Laboratory

AIL
Avionics Integration Laboratory

AILA
Airborne Instrument Landing Approach system

AILAS
Automatic Instruments Landing Systems

AILC
AMRAAM International Licensing Company

AILS
Advanced Integrated Landing System

AIM
Aerospace Industries Malaysia

AIM
Air Intercept Missile

AIM
Air traffic control beacon IFF Mk XII system

AIM
Aircraft Interphone & Mixer (Yugoslavia)

AIM
Airman's Information Manual

AIM
Alarm Indication Monitor

AIM
Anti-Invasion Mine

AIM
Automatic Inflation Modulation

AIMD
Avionics Intermediate Maintenance Depot

AIMES
Avionics Integrated Maintenance Expert System

AIMIS
Advanced Integrated Modular Instrumentation System (US Navy)

AIMP
Army IEW / Intelligence Master Plan (US Army)

AIMP
Avionics Integrity Master Plan

AIMS
Advanced Integrated MAD System

AIMS
Aircraft Identification Monitoring System (USA)

AIMS
Advanced Imaging Multi-Spectral System

AIMS
Arctic Ice Monitoring System

AIMS
Attitude Indicator Measurement System

AIMTB
Artificial Intelligence Module Test Bed

AIMU
Advanced Inertial Measurement Unit

Aimval
Air Intercept Missile Evaluation (USA)

AINS
Acceptance Into Naval Service

AINS
Airborne / Alternative Inertial Navigation System

AINTELG
Air Intelligence Group

AIO
Action Information Organisation

AIP
Accuracy Improvement Program (USA)

AIP
Adaptive Interferometer Processor

AIP
Aeronautical Information Publication

AIP
Air Independent Propulsion

AIP
Allied Intelligence Publication

AIP
ASuW Improvement Program (US Navy)

AIP
Avionics Improvement Program (USA)

AIPAC
American - Israel Public Affairs Committee

AIPC
Army Information Processing Center (US Army)

AIPS
Advanced Integrated Propulsion System (USA)

AIPT
Advanced Image Processing Terminal

AIR
Acoustic Intercept Receiver (USA)

AIR
Air Inflatable Retarder

AIR
Air Intercept Radar

AIR
American Institute of Research

AIR
Annual Infrastructure Report

AIR
Artilleriyskaya Instrumental'naya Razvedka. Artillery instrument reconnaissance (Russia)

Air Cdre
Air Commodore

Air Comdt
Air Commandant

Air Mech
Air Mechanic

AIRA
Air Attache

AIRBALTAP
Allied Air Forces, Baltic Approaches (NATO)

AIRCENT
Air Forces, Central Europe (NATO)

AIRCOD
Airborne Contingency Operations Director

AIRCMM
Advanced Infra-Red Countermeasures Munition

AIRCOM
Air Command (Canada)

AIRLO
Air Liaison Officer

AIRNON
Allied Air Forces, Northern Norway (NATO)

AIRNORECHAN
Maritime Air Command, Nore Sub-Area (UK)

AIRNORLANT
Maritime Air Northern Sub-Area Command (UK)

AIRNORTH
Allied Air Forces, Northern Europe (NATO)

AirOpsCen
Air Operations Centre (NATO)

AIRPASS
Airborne Interception Radar & Pilot's Attack Sight System

AIRS
Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere (USA)

AIRS
Advanced Infra-Red imaging Seeker

AIRS
Airborne Integrated Reconnaissance System

AIRS
Auroral Imaging Remote Sensor

AIRSONOR
Allied Air Forces, Southern Norway (NATO)

AIRSOUTH
Allied Air Forces, Southern Europe (NATO)

AIRST
Advanced IRST

AIRT
Air-to-air Interceptor Radar Training

AIRTC
Air Training Corps (Australia)

AIRTERM
Airborne Terminal

AIRTO
Association of Independent Research & Technology Organizations

Airtpr
Airtrooper (British Army)

AIS
Academic Instructor School (USA)

AIS
Action / Automated Information System

AIS
Active Interference Suppression

AIS
Advanced / Airborne Instrumentation Subsystem/System

AIS
Advanced Instructional System

AIS
Aeronautical Information Service

AIS
Aircraft Information Subsystem

AIS
Attitude Indicating System

AIS
Avionics Integrated Support

AIS
Avionics Intermediate Shop

AISA
Aeronautica Industrial SA (Spain)

AISD
Autonetics ICBM Systems Division (USAF)

AISEC
Army Information Engineering Command (US Army)

AISF
Avionics Integrated Support Facility

AISS
Aircraft Integrated Supply System

AISSF
All-India Sikh Students Federation

AIT
Advanced Individual Training

AIT
Assembly Inspection / Integration Test

AIT
Atmospheric Interceptor Technology

AITAT
Armoured Infantry Training & Advisory Team

AITIS
Automatic Infra-red Test & Inspection System

AIU
Airborne Installation Unit

AIU
Aircraft Interface Unit

AIU
Analog Interface Unit

AIU
Armament Interface Unit

AIU
Audio Interface Unit

AIWS
Advanced Interdiction Weapon System. Now JSOW

AJ
Anti-Jamming

AJM
Anti-Jam Modem

AJT
Advanced Jet Trainer

AK
Alaska (US state)

AK
Automat Karabina. Automatic rifle (Sweden)

AK
Automatische Karabiner. Automatic rifle (Switzerland)

AK
Avtomat Kalashnikov. Rifle (Russia)

AK
Cargo ship (USA)

AK
CW mixture of hydrogen cyanide and KSK

AK B
Type abbreviation: Lash type cargo ship, barge.

AK F
Type abbreviation: Armament stores ship

AKG
Akustische und Kino-gerate GmbH (Austria)

AK (L)
Type abbreviation: Cargo Ship (Light)

AKM
Avtomat Kalashnikova Modernizirovanny. Modified AK rifle (Russia)

AKMS
Avtomat Kalashnikova Modernizirovanny Skladyvayuschimsya. Variant of the AKM rifle (Russia)

AK (R)
Type abbreviation: Vehicle cargo ship (ro-ro)

AKR
Type abbreviation: Fast sealift ship

AKS
Avtomat Kalashnikova Skladyvayuschimsya. Variant of the AK47 assault rifle (Russia)

AKS (L)
Type abbreviation: Stores ship (Light)

AKSU
Avtomat Kalashnikova Samochodnaya Ustanoka. Variant of the AK47 assault rifle (Russia)

AL
Alabama (US state)

AL
Albania (NATO country code)

Al
Aluminium

ALA
Allgemeines Luftwaffenamt (Germany)

ALAA
Aviation Legere de l'Armee de l'Air (France)

ALAAVS
Advanced Light Armored Amphibious Vehicle System (USA)

ALAD
Automatic Liquid Agent Detector (USA)

ALADA
Arma Lanzada a Distancia y autonoma. Stand-off weapons system

ALADDIN
Advanced LAMP Design Demonstration Integration (USA)

ALADI
Asociacion Latinoamericana de Integracion

ALAF
Asociacion Latinoamericana de Ferrocarriles

ALAFS
Advanced Lightweight Aircraft Fuselage Structure

ALAIRS
Advanced Low Altitude Reconnaissance Sensor (USA)

ALALC
Asociacion Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio

ALAMAR
Asociacion Latinoamericana de Aramadores

ALAMO
Affut Leger Anti-aerien Mobile. Launcher system (France)

ALARM
Air-Launched Advanced Ramjet Missile

ALARM
Air-Launched Anti-Radiation Missile

ALARM
Alerting Long Range Airborne Radar for Moving Targets (USA)

ALARMS
Airborne Laser Radar Mine Sensor

ALARP
As Low As Reasonably Possible

ALARR
Air-Launched, Air-Recoverable Rocket

ALARS
Alternate Launch And Recovery Surface

ALAT
Aviation Leger de l'Armee de Terre. Army air component (France)

ALB
Air-Land Battle

ALB
Automatic Load-dependent Brake

ALBEDOS
Airborne Laser Based Enhanced Detection and Observation System (Canada)

ALBI
Affut Leger Bimunition. Lightweight twin-round Mistral missile launcher system (France)

ALBM
Air-Land Battle Management

ALBM
Air-Launched Ballistic Missile

ALC
Advanced Land Combat

ALC
Air Logistics Command (USA)

ALC
Army Legal Corps (British Army)

ALC
Automatic Level Control

ALCA
Advanced Light Combat Aircraft (Czech Republic)

ALCAM
Air-Launched Conventional Attack Missile (USA)

ALCC
Airborne Launch Control Centre

ALCE
Airlift Control Element

ALCES
Adapatble Light Chassis for Enrolling Systems (Swedish Army)

ALCM
Air-Launched Cruise Missile

ALCOA
Aluminum Co. of America

ALCOM
Alaskan Command (USA)

ALCOP
Alternate Command Post

ALCOR
ARPA Lincoln Coherent Observable Radar (USA)

ALCS
Airborne Launch Control System

ALCV
Armoured Landmine Clearing Vehicle (Germany)

ALD
Acquisition Logistics Division (USAF)

ALD
Advanced Launch Development

ALD
Air Launched Decoy

ALD
Airlift Division (USAF)

ALDP
Advanced Launch Development Program (USA)

ALDP
Airborne Laser Designator Pod

ALE
Army Air Corps (Italy)

ALE
Atomic Layer Epitaxy

ALE
Automatic Link Establishment

ALERFA
Alert Phase

ALERTDECL
Alert Stage / State Declaration

ALERT
Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theater

ALERTS
Airborne Laser Electronic warfare Receiver Training System (USA)

ALERTS
Airborne Laser Equipment Real Time Surveillance (USA)

ALEX
Automatic Launching of Expendables

ALEXIS
Array of Low-Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors (USA)

ALF
Atomic Line Filter

ALFA
Air-Land Forces Application Agency (USA)

ALFCE
Allied Land Forces, Central Europe (NATO)

ALFCS
Advanced Land Fire Control System

ALFE
Advanced Liquid Feed Experiment (USA)

ALFENS
Automated Low flying Flight planning Enquiry / Entry & Notification System

ALFS
Airborne Low Frequency Sonar

ALGB
Advanced Laser-Guided Bomb (Israel)

ALGMS
Advanced Laser-Guided Missile System

ALGOL
Algorithmic Oriented Language

ALH
Active Laser Homing

ALH
Advanced Light Helicopter (India)

ALI
Automatic Line Integration

ALI
Alerteur Leger d'Infanterie (French Army UGS)

ALIC
Aircraft Launch Interface Computer

ALICE
All-purpose Lightweight Carrying Equipment. Being replaced by MOLLE (US Army/US Marine Corps)

ALIMS
Automatic Laser Inspection Measurement System

AlInAs
Aluminium indium arsenide

ALIRATS
Airborne Laser Illuminator, Ranger And Tracking System (USA)

ALIRT
Adaptive Long Range Infra-Red Tracker

ALIRT
Advanced Large-Area Infra-Red Transducer (USA)

ALISS
Advanced Lightweight Influence Sweep System (US Navy)

ALL
Airborne Laser Laboratory (USAF)

ALLA
Allied Long Lines Agency

ALLD
Airborne Laser Locator Designator

ALLTV
All Light Level Television

ALM
Air Loadmaster (UK Royal Air Force)

ALMDS
Airborne Laser Mine Detection System

ALMIS
Acquisition Logistics Management Information System

ALMS
Aircraft Landing Measurement System

ALMS
Airlift Management System

ALMV
Air-Launched Miniature Vehicle

ALN
Air Liaison Net

ALO
Admissions Liaison Officer

ALO
Air Liaison Officer

ALOAS
Airborne Laser Obstacle Avoidance System (Canada)

ALOC
Air Line of Communications

ALOFT
Airborne Light Optical Fibre Technology (USA)

ALOS
Airborne Light Observation System (South Africa)

ALOTS
Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking System

ALP
Active Laser Profilometer

ALP
Allied Logistics Publication

ALP
Aviation Leadership Program (USA)

ALP
Aviation Logistic Platform (UK)

ALPO
Air-Land Programs Office (USA)

ALPO
Alaskan Long-Period Array (USA)

ALPS
Accidental Launch Protection System

ALPS
Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol

ALPS
Advanced Land Platform Simulator

ALPS
Alignment & Positioning System

ALQA
Automatic Link Quality Analysis

ALR
Arbeitsgruppe fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (Switzerland)

ALRAAM
Advanced Long-Range Air-to-Air Missile

ALRAD
Airborne Laser Rangefinder And Designator

ALRI
Airborne Long-range Radar Input

ALS
Advanced Launch System (SDI project) (USA)

ALS
Advanced Logistics System

ALS
Airlift Squadron

ALS
All-weather Landing System

ALS
American Laser Systems Inc.

ALS
Anflug- und Landesystem

ALS
Approach Light System

ALS
Automatic Landing System

ALS
Auxiliary Lighter (USA)

ALSA
Air, Land, Sea Application centre (USA)

ALSC
Advanced Logistics Systems Center (AFMC)

ALSE
Aviation Life Support Equipment

ALSL
Alternative Landing Ship Logistic (UK Royal Navy)

ALSP
Aggregate Defensive Simulation Protocol (USA)

ALSS
Advanced Location Strike System (USAF)

ALSS
Air-Launched Saturation System missile (USA)

ALSV
Armoured Logistics Support Vehicle

ALT
Airborne Laser Tracker

ALT
Altimeter

ALT
Approach & Landing Test

ALT
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Luftfahrttechnik. Aviation technical working group (Germany)

ALT
Armoured Launching Turret

ALT
Attack Light Torpedo

ALTA
Advanced Lightweight Tactical Antenna

ALTAIR
ARPA Long-range Tracking And Instrumentation Radar (USA)

ATASK
Air-to-Air Starstreak [missile]

ALTDS
Army Laser Target Designator System (US Army)

ALTR
Approach / Landing Thrust Reverser programme (USA)

ALTS
Automatic Laser Test Set

ALU
Arithmetic & Logic Unit

ALUC
Arrow/Link 16 Upgrade Capability (Israel)

ALUSNA
American Legation US Naval Attache

ALV
Autonomous Land Vehicle

ALW
Air / Land Warfare

ALW
Air-launched Weapon

ALWT
Advanced Lightweight Torpedo

**ahmed_allaithy** · 06-04-2006, 02:30 PM

Defense Acronyms

AM
Air Marshal

Am
Americium

AM
Amplitude Modulation

AM
Anti-Material

AM
Avtomaticheskiy Minomet 'Vasilek'. Vehicle-mounted automatic mortar (Russia)

AMA
Adaptive Multi-function Antenna

AMA
Air Materiel Area (AFMC)

AMA
Airhead Maintenance Area

AMA
Antennenmastanlage. Telescopic antenna mast system (Germany)

AMACS
Advanced Modular Artillery Command System

AMAD
Airframe Mounted Accessory Drive

AMAPPS
Autonomous MultistaticActive/Passive Processing System

AMARC
Aerospace Maintenance And Regeneration Center (USAF)

AMARTOF
Anti-Missile Ammunition Reducaed Time of Flight

AMARV
Advanced Manoeuvring Re-entry Vehicle

AMAS
Advanced Midcourse Active System

AMAS
Area Maritima del Atlantico Sur (Argentina)

AMAS
Automated Manoeuvring Attack System

AMASCOS
Airborne Maritime Situation Control System (France)

AMASE
Aircraft Maintenance And Support Equipment Exhibition & Conference

AMASS
ADI Minesweeping And Surveillance System (Australia)

AMASS
Australian Minesweeping And Surveillance System

AMBL
Air Maneuver Battle Laboratory (Fort Rucker, US Army Aviation)

AMC
Acceptable Means of Compliance

AMC
Advanced Micro-Electronics Converter

AMC
Air Material Command

AMC
Air Mobility Command (USAF)

AMC
Air Mounting Centre

AMC
Aircraft Management Computer

AMC
Aircraft Manufacturers Council

AMC
Aircraft Modification Center (USA)

AMC
Army Materiel Command (USA)

AMC
Army Missile Command

AMC
Automated Manufacturing Cell

AMC
The Armstrong Monitoring Corp. (Canada)

AMC
Armoured Mortar Carrier (Turkish Army)

AMCA
Air Movement & Control Association (USA)

AMCA
Airborne Mission Control Aircraft

AMCCOM
Armament Munitions & Chemical Command (US Army)

AMCM
Advanced / Airborne Mine Countermeasures

AMCM
Airborne Mine Countermeasures

AMCOM
Aviation & Missile Command (US Army)

AMCP
Allied Military Communications Panel

AMCS
Airborne Missile Control System

AMCS
Aircrew Microclimate Conditioning System

AMCS
Alert Monitoring System Computer

AMCSA
Army Materiel Command Support Activity Office (US Army)

AMCV
Armoured Mine Clearing Vehicle

AMD
Aerospace Medical Division (USAF)

AMD
Anti-Missile Defence

AMD
Automatic Message Display

AMDA
Advanced Modular Distributed Amplifier

AMDASS
Airborne Mine Detection And Surveillance System (USA)

AMDC
Air & Missile Defence Cell

AMDR
Automatic Missile Detection Radar

AMDS
Advanced Mine Detection System (USA)

AMDS
Anti-Missile Discarding Sabot

AMDS
Automatic Manoeuvring Device System

AME
Amplitude Modulation Equivalent

AME
Angle Measuring Equipment

AME
Ateliers Maintenance Electronique (France)

AME
Auxiliary Mission Equipment

AMEC
Army Management Engineering College (US Army)

AMECON
Australian Marine Engineering Consolidated Ltd

AMED
Army Medical Department (US Army)

AMEDS
Army Medical Service

AMEL
Active-Matrix Electroluminescent

AMELEX
American Electronics Inc.

AMEP
Advanced Modular ESM Processor (Canada)

AMES
Advanced Multiple Environment Simulator

AMES
Automatic Message Entry System

AMES
Airborne Mission Equipment Subsystem

AMETHYSTE
Amelioration Tactique Hydrodynamique Silence Transmission Ecoute (France)

AMETS
Artillery Meteorological System. Data transmission system (UK)

AMEV
Armored Medical Evacuation Vehicle (US Army)

AMEWS
Automated Mobile EW System

AMF
Abteilung fur Militarflugplatze

AMF
ACE Mobile Force (NATO)

AMF
Aircraft Manufacturing Factory

AMF
Amfibisk. Amphibious (Sweden)

AMF
Amphibische Mehrzweek-Fahzeuge. Multi-purpose amphibious vehicle (Germany)

AMF-A
ACE Mobile Force - Air (NATO)

AMF-L
ACE Mobile Force - Land (NATO)

AMFCTS
Artillery & Mortar Fire Control Training Simulator

AMG
Aircraft Maintenance Group

AMG
Antenna Mast Groups

AMG
Ateliers Mecaniques de Saint Gaudens (France)

AMGOT
Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories

AMHA
Automatic Message Handling Assistance (UK Royal Navy)

AMHMS
Advanced Magnetic Helmet-Mounted Sight

AMHS
Automated Message Handling System

AMI
Acquisition Management Institute (USA)

AMI
Acoustic Mine Imaging

AMI
Aeronautica Militare Italiana

AMIDARS
Airborne Minefield Detection And Reconnaissance System

AMIDS
Airborne Minefield Detection System

AMIO
Arab Military Industrial Organization

AMIR
Anti-Missile Infra-Red

AMIS
Acquisition Management Information System (USAF)

AMIS
Anti-Materiel Incendiary Submunition

AMJAMS
Automated Military Justice Analysis & Management System (USA)

AMK
Anti-Misting Kerosene

AML
Automitrailleuse Leger. Light armoured car (France)

AMLCD
Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display

AMM
Aircraft Maintenance Manual

AMM
Anti-Missile Missile

AMM
Army Modernization Manual (US Army)

AMMAD
Anti-Magnetic Mine Actuating Device

AMME
Automated Multi-Media Exchange (USA)

AMMICON
American Munitions Maintenance & Inspection Consortium

AMMIT
Aerial Multi-Mission Integrated Test-bed

Ammo
Ammunition

AMNS
Airborne Mine Neutralization System

AMNSYS
Airborne Mine Neutralization System (USA)

AMob I
Aeromobilite I programme (Belgium)

AMOP
Amplitude Modulation On Pulse

AMOS
ARPA Maui Optical Station (USA)

AMP
Advanced Modular Processor

AMP
Air Member for Personnel

AMP
Aircraft Mishap Prevention programme (USA)

AMP
Airlift Master Plan

AMP
Army Modernization Plan (US Army)

AMP
Assisted Maintenance Period

AMP
Automated Mission Planning

AMP
Aviation Modernization Plan (US Army)

AMPA
Advanced Mission Planning Aid (UK)

AMPE
Automated Message Processing Exchange

AMPM
Aircraft Missile Parts Mfg. Co. (USA)

AMPR
Aeronautical Manufacturers Planning Report

AMPR
Aircraft Manufacturers Progress Report

AMPS
Automated Message Processing System (UK)

AMPS
Aviation Mission Planning System

AMPSS
Advanced Manned Precision Strike System

AMQP
Aircraft Maintenance Qualification Program (USA)

AMR
Automitrailleuse de Reconnaissance. Light armoured reconnaissance vehicle (France)

AMR
Anti-Materiel Rifle

AMRAAM
Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile

AMRAD
Armament / Munitions Requirements & Development Committee (USA)

AMRAD
Automatic Message Routeing And Distribution

AMRFS
Advanced Multifunction Radio Frequency Systems (US Navy)

AMRJ
Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

AMRL
Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory

AMRS
Advanced Maintenance Recorder System

AMS
Academy of Military Science (USA)

AMS
Advanced Machining System

AMS
Advanced Missile System (US Navy)

AMS
Aerospace Materials Specification (USA)

AMS
Air Mail Service

AMS
Air Maintenance Squadron (USA)

AMS
Aircraft Management System

AMS
Airspace Management Systems SA/NV (Belgium)

AMS
American Material Standard

AMS
Apogee & Manoeuvring Stage

AMS
Appareillages et Materiels de Servitudes SA (France)

AMS
Armoured Mortar System (UK)

AMS
Army Map Service (US Army)

AMS
Army Medical Services (UK)

AMS
Artillery Meteorological System (Italy)

AMS
Audio Monitoring System

AMS
Automated Materiel System (USA)

AMS
Automated Message Switch

AMS
Automatic Marking System

AMS
Automatic Meteorological System

AMS
Autonomes Marine System

AMS
Auxiliary Minesweeper

AMS
Avionics Maintenance Squadron (USAF)

AMS
Avionics Management System

AMS-H
Advanced Missile System - Heavy

AMSA
Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft

AMSAR
Airborne Multi-role Solid-state Active-array Radar

AMSC
Advanced Materiel Segmented Combustor (USA)

AMSC
Advanced Military Spacelift Capability

AMSCOS
Airborne Maritime Situation Control System (France)

AMSG
Allied Military Security General (NATO)

AMSI
Applied Measurement Systems Inc. (USA)

AMSL
Above Mean Sea Level

AMSO
Air Member for Supply & Organisation

AMSP
Advanced Military Studies Program (USA)

AMSP
Allied Military Security Publication

AMSS
Advanced Minehunting Sonar System

AMSS
Advanced Multi-Sensor System

AMSS
Aircrew Modular Survival System

AMST
Advanced Medium STOL Transport

AMST
Advanced Military Spaceflight Technology

AMSUS
Association of Military Surgeons of the United States

AMT
Accelerated Mission Testing

AMT
Active Memory Technology Inc. (USA)

AMT
ACTS Mobile Terminal

AMT
Army Modernization Training (US Army)

AMTAF
All-Mobile Tactical Air Force

AMTD
Adaptive Moving Target Detection

AMTE
Adjusted Megaton Equivalent

AMTE
Admiralty Marine Technology Establishment (UK Royal Navy)

AMTI
Advanced Missile Technology Integration

AMTI
Airborne Moving Target Indicator

AMTRAC
Amphibian Tractor

AMTS
Avionics / Armament Maintenance Training System

AMTV
Armored Medical Treatment Vehicle

AMU
Aircraft Maintenance Unit

AMU
Antenna Matching Unit

AMU
Auxiliary Memory Unit

AMUST
Airborne Manned/Unmanned System Technology (US Army)

AMV
Anti-Materiel et Vehicule. Anti-vehicle & equipment (France)

AMV
Armored Maintenance Vehicle

AMVET
Federal Division of Military Veterinary Service (Switzerland)

AMW
Advanced Microwave

AMX
Atelier de Construction d'Issy-les-Moulineaux (France)

AN
Air Force / Navy (USA)

AN
Air Navigation

AN
Army-Navy

AN
Armada Nacional. Paraguay Navy

ANA
Air Force - Navy Aeronautical

ANA
Armenian National Army

ANA
Army - Navy Aeronautical

ANA
Army, Navy, Air Force

ANACONDA
Adaptive Network Analysis Connected with Defence Applications (UK)

ANAO
Australian National Audit Office

ANBCIS
Automated NBC Information System (USA)

ANC
Adaptive Noise Cancellation

ANC
African National Congress (South Africa)

ANC
Air Force - Navy - Civil

ANC
Air Navigation Conference

ANC
Army Nursing Corps

ANCA
Allied Naval Communications Agency

AND
Air Force - Navy Design

AND
Alphanumeric Display

AND
Army - Navy Design

ANDAS
Advanced Nuclear Gamma-ray Analysis System (USA)

ANDVT
Advanced Narrow-band Digital Voice Terminal (USA)

ANF
Antinavire Futur. Future long-range supersonic anti-ship missile (France)

ANFCE
Allied Naval Forces, Central Europe (NATO)

ANFO
Ammonium Nitrate / Fuel Oil

ANG
Air National Guard (USA)

ANGAS
Advanced Nuclear Gamma-ray Spectrometer (USA)

ANGB
Air National Guard Base (USA)

ANGLC
Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company (US Marine Corps)

ANGOSTA
Air National Guard Operational Support Transport Aircraft (USA)

ANGSA
Air National Guard Support Aircraft (USA)

ANGSC
Air National Guard Support Center (USA)

ANI
Automatic Number Identification

ANIE
Associazione Nazionale Industrie Elettrotecniche ed Elettroniche (Italy)

ANIP
Army - Navy Instrumentation Program (USA)

ANL
Type abbreviation: Boom defence/cable/netlayer ship

ANMCC
Alternate National Military Command Center (USA)

ANMI
Air Navigation Multiple Indicator

ANMS
Air Navigation & Management System

ANN
Automatic Neural Networks

ANN
Artificial Neural Networks

ANNG
Anti-navire nouvelle generation. New generation anti-ship missile (France)

ANO
Abu Nidal Organization

ANO
Air Navigation Order

ANODE
Ambient sea Noise Directionality Estimator

ANP
Allied Navigation Publication

ANP
Appareil Normal de Protection (France)

ANP
Armee National Populaire (Algeria)

ANPK
Aviatsionnyi Nauchno-Promyshlennyi Komplex. Mikoyan design bureau (Russia)

ANR
Active Noise Reduction

ANRI
Automatic Net Radio Interfacing

ANS
Air Navigation School

ANS
Airborne Navigation System

ANS
American Nuclear Society

ANS
Anti-Navire Supersonique. Supersonic anti-ship missile (France)

ANS
Armee Nationale Sikanoukiste (Cambodia)

ANS
Artificial Neural System

ANS
Automatic Navigation System

ANSER
Analytic Services

ANSI
American National Standards Institute

ANSP
Agency for National Security Planning (Korea, South)

ANT
Air Navigation Trainer

ant
Antenna

ANTAC
Air Navigation Tactical Control system

ANV
Advanced Naval Vehicle

ANVCE
Advanced Naval Vehicle Concepts Evaluation programme (US Navy)

ANVIS
Aviator's Night Vision Imaging System

ANZAAS
Australian & New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

ANZAC
Australia & New Zealand Corps. Also Frigate programme

ANZUK
Australia, New Zealand & United Kingdom military alliance

ANZUS
Australia, New Zealand & USA security treaty (1951)

AO
Acoustic / Optical

AO
Agent Orange

AO
Area of Operation

AO
Army Order

AO
Artillery Observation

AO
Attack Operations

AO
Askolochnayo aviabomba. Fragmentation bomb (Russia)

AO
Oiler (USA)

AO-N
Administrative Office, Navy (USA)

AOA
Abort-Once-Around

AOA
Air Officer in charge of Administration

AOA
Airborne Optical Adjunct

AOA
American Ordnance Association

AOA
Amphibious Operating Area (NATO)

AOA
Analysis of Alternatives (USA)

AOA
Angle Of Arrival

AOA
Angle Of Attack

AOB
Air Order of Battle

AOB
Aircraft Observer, Bombardment

AOB
Angle Of Bank

AOB
Arctic Ocean Buoy

AOB
Automatic Optical test-Bench

AOC
Adaptive Optical Camouflage

AOC
Air Officer Commanding

AOC
Air Operations Center (USA)

AOC
Association of Old Crows (USA)

AOC
Assumption Of Control (message)

AOC
Australian Ordance Council

AOCC
Air Operations Control Centre

AOCI
Airborne Ocean Colour Imager

AOCI
Australian Ownership & Control of Information

AOCINC
Air Officer Commander-in-Chief

AOCM
Advanced Optical Countermeasures

AOCP
Airborne Operational Computer Program (USA)

AOCS
Attitude & Orbit Control System

AOCSTC
Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Strike Command (UK)

AOD
Advanced Ordnance Depot

AOD
Area Of Display

AOD
Air Operations Directive

AODS
All Optical Deployable System

AOE
Fast Combat Support Ship (USA)

AOEng
Air Officer in charge of Engineering

AOF (L)
Large fleet tanker

AOF (S)
Small fleet tanker

AOFR
Australian Optical Fibre Research Pty Ltd

AOG
Aircraft On Ground

AOG
Gasoline tanker (USA)

AOI
Arab Organization for Industrialization (Egypt)

AOI
Area Of Interest

AOIO
Airborne Overhead Interoperability Office (USAF)

AOMC
Aerojet Ordnance & Manufacturing Company (USA)

AOO
Amphibious Operations Officer

AOP
Airborne Observation Post

AOP
Allied Ordnance Publication

AOP
Area Of Projection

AOPF
Active Optical Proximity Fuze

AOPR
Area Of Prime Responsibility

AOPT
Advanced Optical Position Transducer

AOR
Area Of Responsibility

AOR
Assault Operations Room

AOR
Replenishment Oiler (USA)

AOR (H)
Type abbreviation: Replenishment Oiler (Helicopter)

AOR (L)
Type abbreviation: Replenishment Oiler (Small)

AOS
Add-On Stabilisation

AOS
Advanced Operating System

AOS
Airborne Optical Sensor

AOS
Airlift Operations School

AOS
Support Tanker

AOS
Type abbreviation: Special Liquid Ship (radiological)

AOSA
Airborne Optical Sensor Adjunct

AOSF
Advanced Operational Studies Fellowship (USA)

AOSNI
Air Officer Commanding, Scotland & Northern Ireland

AOSP
Advanced On-board Signal Processor

AOT
Transport oiler (USA)

AOTA
All-Optic Towed Array

AOTC
Associated Offices Technical Committee

AOTS
Advanced On-the-job Training System

AOU
Area Of Uncertainty

AOV
Artillery Observation Vehicle

AP
Air Publication

AP
Allied Publication

AP
Ammonium Perchlorate

AP
Ammunition Point

AP
Analysis Processor

AP
Anti-Personnel

AP
Armada Peruana. Peruvian Navy

AP
Armour-Piercing

AP
Civil aircraft marking (Pakistan)

AP
Type abbreviation: Transport Ship, personnel

AP-HC
Armour-Piercing, Hard Core

AP/FD
Autopilot / Flight Director

AP2C
Appareil Portable pour la controle de la Contamination Chimique. Portable chemical contamination monitor (France)

APA
Adaptive Power Applique

APA
Advanced Pilot's Aid

APA
Aircraft Procurement - Army (US Army)

APA
All Points Addressable

APA
Amphibious transport

APAA
Active Phased-Array Antenna

APACHE
Advanced Phased Array Chemical High Energy laser equipment

APACHE
Analysis of Pacific Area Communications for Hardening to EMP (USA)

APACHE
Arme Propulsee A Charges Ejectables. Submunitions dispenser system (France)

APAG
Atlantic Policy Advisory Group

APAM
Anti-Personnel, Anti-Materiel (bomblets)

APAR
Advanced/Active Phased-array Active Radar

APATS
ARIA Phased Array Telemetry System (USAF)

APATS
Automatic Programmer And Test System

APB
Analysing Printer Base

APB
Self-propelled barracks ship (USA)

APC
Aircraft Parts Corp. (USA)

APC
Approach Power Control

APC
Armament Practice Group (UK Royal Air Force)

APC
Armour-Piercing, Capped

APC
Armoured Personnel Carrier

APC
Automatic Phase Control

APC MR
Armoured Personnel Carrier Mine Roller

APC-T
Armour-Piercing, Capped, Tracer

APCT-BF
Armour-Piercing, Capped, Tracer, Base Fuze

APCBC
Armour-Piercing, Capped, Ballistic Capped

APCNR
Armour Piercing, Composite, Non-Rigid

APCR
Armour Piercing, Composite, Rigid

APCS
Air Photographic Charting Service

APCT-BF
Armour-Piercing, Capped, Tracer, Base Fuze

APCU
Alarm & Power Remote-Control Unit

APCV
All Protected Carrier Vehicle (Germany)

APD
Aero Products

APD
Avalanche Photo-Diodes

APDM
Amended Program Decision Memoranda (USA)

APDS
Advanced Personnel Data System

APDS
Armour-Piercing, Discarding Sabot

APDS-T
Armour-Piercing, Discarding Sabot, Tracer

APE
Amphibisches Pionier-Erkundungsfahrzeug. Amphibious front line reconnaissance vehicle (Germany)

APE
Armour Piercing, Explosive

APE
Automated Production Equipment Corp. (USA)

APECS
Advanced Programable Electronic Warfare System

APEI
Armour Piercing, High Explosive & Incendiary

APEP
Armour-Piercing, Enhanced Penetration/Performance

APERS
Anti-Personnel

APERS-T
Anti-Personnel, Tracer

APES
Azimuth Position & Elevation System

APEX
Advanced Photovoltaic & Electronics Experiment (USA)

APF
Afloat Prepositioned Force (USA)

APFC
Air-Portable Fuel Container

APFD
Autopilot Flight Director

APFIDS
Armour-Piercing, Fragmentation Incendiary, Discarding Sabot

APFSDS
Armour-Piercing, Fin-Stabilised, Discarding Sabot

APFSDS(P)
Armour-Piercing, Fin-Stabilised, Discarding Sabot, (Practice)

APFSDS-T
Armour-Piercing, Fin-Stabilised, Discarding Sabot, Tracer

APG
Aberdeen Proving Grounds (USA)

APGC
Air Proving Ground Center (USA)

APGM
Autonomous Precision-Guided Munition (USA)

APHC
Armour-Piercing, High Capacity

APHCI
Armour-Piercing, Hard Core, Incendiary

APHE
Armour-Piercing, High Explosive

APHE-SD
Armour-Piercing, High Explosive, Self-Destroying

APHEI
Armour-Piercing, High Explosive, Incendiary

APHIDS
Advanced Panoramic Helmet Interface Demonstrator System

API
Aero Products International SAS (Italy)

API
Aim Point Initiative

API
Air Photo Interpreter (UK)

API
Air Position Indicator

API
American Petroleum Institute

API
Application Programming Interface

API
Armour-Piercing, Incendiary

API
Ascent Phase Intercept

APIHC
Armour-Piercing, Incendiary, Hard Core

APILAS
Armour Piercing Infantry Light Arm System

APIN
Army Presence in the North (Australia)

APIS
Army Photographic Interpretation Section

APIT
Armour-Piercing, Incendiary, Tracer

APIU
Army Photographic Interpretation Unit (British Army)

APL
Aero Propulsion Laboratory (USAF)

APL
Applied Physics Laboratory, John Hopkins University (USA)

APL
Barracks craft (USA)

APL
Anti-Personnel Landmines

APLA
Azanian Peoples Liberation Army (South Africa)

APLS
Advanced Procurement & Logistics Systems conference

APM
Air Power Management

APM
Anti-Personnel Mine

APM
Ascent Particle Monitor (USA)

APMINS
Anti-Personnel Mine Neutralisation System

APMS
Advanced Power Management System

APNA
Association des Professionnels Navigants de l'Aviation

APNV
Advanced Products NV (Belgium)

APO
Aerospace Physiology Officer

APO
Air Force Post Office

APO
Army Post Office (British Army)

APOBS
Anti-Personnel Obstacle Breaching System

APOD
Aerial Port Of Debarkation

APP
Allied Procedural Publication

APP
Application Portability Profile

App
Apprentice (UK Royal Air Force)

APP
Armor Protection Program (USA)

APP
Auxiliary Power Plant

APPS
Analytical Photogrammetric Positioning System (USA)

APQ
Armaments Planning Questionnaire

APR
Air Photo Reader (UK)

APR
Airman Performance Report

APR
Auto/Auxiliary Power Reserve

APRA
Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (Peru)

APRE
Army Personnel Research Establishment

APREP
AMRAAM Producibility Enhancement Program (USA)

APS
Adaptive Processor System (sonar)

APS
Advanced Fighter Crew Protection System

APS
Advanced Planning System

APS
Advanced Propulsion System

APS
Aerial Post Squadron (USAF)

APS
Afloat Planning System (USA)

APS
Aiming & Pointing System

APS
Aircraft Position Sensor

APS
Aircraft Prepared for Service

APS
Automatic Pointing System

APS
Artillery Pointing System

APS
Active Protection System

ApS
Anpartsselskab (Denmark)

APSE
Ada Programming Support Environment

APSE
Armour-Piercing, Secondary Effect

APSE-T
Armour-Piercing, Secondary Effect-Tracer

APSI
Aircraft Propulsion Subsystem / System Integration (USA)

APSOH
Advanced Panoramic Sonar - Hull-mounted

APSP
Advanced Pilotage System Program (USA)

APSS
Atlas Port Surveillance System

APSV
Armour Piercing, Super Velocity

APT
Advanced Platform Technologies

APT
Airman Proficiency Test

APT
Armour-Piercing, Tracer

APT
Automatic Picture Transmission

APT
Automatically Programmed Tools

APTC
Army Physical Training Corps (British Army)

APTE
Abrams Power Train Evolution (USA)

APTT
Aircrew Part Task Trainer

APU
Armoured Patrol Unit

APU
Auxiliary Power / Propulsion Unit

APV
Armoured Patrol Vehicle

APV
Autopiloted Vehicle

APVO
Aviatsiya Proivo Vozdushnoi Oborny. Former Soviet Air Defence Aviation (Russia)

APWT
Annual Personal Weapon Test

**ahmed_allaithy** · 06-04-2006, 02:32 PM

Defense Acronyms

AQAP
Allied Quality Assurance Publication (NATO)

AQD
Aeronautical Quality Assurance Directorate

AQE
Airman Qualifying Examination

AQF
Advanced Quickfix sensor

AQL
Acceptable Quality Level

AQL
Advanced Quick-Look sensor

AR
Acid Resisting

AR
Acquisition Radar

AR
Advance Release

AR
Aerial / Air Refuelling

AR
Argentina (NATO country code)

Ar
Argon

AR
Arkansas (US state)

AR
Army Regulation

AR
As Required

AR
Assault Rifle

AR
Repair Ship (USA)

AR-L
Airborne Reconnaissance - Low

AR/AAV
Armored Reconnaissance / Airborne Assault Vehicle (USA)

ARA
Aerial Refuelling Area

ARA
Aerospace Research Associates Inc. (USA)

ARA
Airborne Radar Approach

ARA
Aircraft Research Association

ARA
Armada Republica Argentina. Argentinian Navy, also prefix to warship names

ARA
Attitude Reference Assembly (USA)

ARABEL
Antenne Radar a Balayage Electronique. Phased array radar antenna (France)

Aracor
Advanced Research & Applications (USA)

ARADCOM
Army Air Defense Command (USA)

ARAF
Afghan Republican Air Force

ARASP
Advanced Radar Airborne Signal Processor

ARB
Air Registration Board

ARB
Air Research Bureau

ARB
Armada Bolviana. Bolivian Navy, also prefix to warship names

ARBAT
Application of Radar to Ballistic Acceptance Testing of ammunition

ARBITS
Army Base Information Transfer System (US Army)

ARBS
Angle Rate Bombing Set

ARC
Acoustic Research Center (USA)

ARC
Advanced Re-entry Concept

ARC
Aeronautical Research Council

ARC
Air Reserve Component (USA)

ARC
Aircraft Radio Corporation

ARC
Airworthiness Requirements Committee

ARC
Allied Research Corp. (USA)

ARC
Ames Research Center (USA)

ARC
Annual Reporting Centre

ARC
Area Reprogramming Capability

ARC
Armada Republica de Colombia. Colombian Navy

ARC
Atlantic Research Corp. (USA)

ARC
Automatic Remote Control

ARC
Submarine Cable Repair ship (USA)

ARC-SATIN
Air Reserve Component - Survivability Augmentation for Transport Installation Now (USA)

ARCADS
Armament Control & Delivery System

ARCAS
Automatic Radar Chain Acquisition System

ARCE
Amphibious River Crossing Equipment

ARCENT
Army Forces, Central Command (US Army)

ARCH
Articulated Computer Hierarchy

ARCI
Allied Research Corp. International (UK)

ARCI
Acosutic Rapid COTS Insertion

ARCIP
Acoustic Rapid COTS Insertion Program (US Navy)

ARCM
Anti-Radiation Countermeasures

ARCMAT
Augmented RCMAT

ARCO
Airborne Remote Control Officer

ARCS
Acquisition Radar & Control System

ARCS
Aerial Rocket Control System

ARCSSS
Arctic Subsurface Surveillance System (Canada)

ARD
Active Radar Demonstrator

ARD
All Round Defence (UK)

ARD
Anti-Radar Drone

ARD
Auxiliary Repair Dry dock (USA)

ARD
Anti-Reflective Device

ARDA
Advanced Research & Development Agency (USA)

ARDC
Air Research & Development Command. Later known as AFSC (USAF)

ARDCO
Advance Ratio Design Co. Inc. (USA)

ARDEC
Armament Research, Development & Engineering Center (US Army)

ARDF
Airborne Radio Direction Finding

ARDM
Medium Auxiliary Repair Dry dock (USA)

ARDNOT
Automatic Day / Night Optical Tracker

ARDROV
Advanced Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle

ARDS
Airborne Radar Demonstrator System

ARDU
Aircraft Research & Development Unit (RAAF)

ARE
Airborne Radar Extension

ARE
Applicazioni Radio Elettroniche SpA (Italy)

ARE
Atelier de Construction Roanne (France)

AREFG
Air Refuelling Group

AREFS
Air Refuelling Squadron

AREFW
Air Refuelling Wing

AREN
Army Radio Engineered Network (India)

ARES
Active Relief Sensor

ARES
Advanced Research Electromagnetic Simulator (USA)

ARES
Agile Response Effective Support

ARES
Artillerie - Raketeneinsatzsystem. Rocket artillery employment system (Germany)

ARES
Adaptable Radar Environment Simulator

ARETS
Armour Remote Target System

ARF
Air Reserve Facility

ARF
Air Reserve Forces (USA)

ARF
Airborne Relay Facility

ARF
Anti-Radar Futur (France)

ARF
ASEAN Regional Forum

ARF-PDS
Air Reserve Forces Personnel Data System (ARPC) (USA)

ARFA
Allied Radio Frequency Agency

ARFA
Apparatus Respiratoire Filtrant des Armees. Military respirator (France)

ARFF
Air Reserve Forces Facility

ARFF
Airfield Rescue & Fire Fighting

ARFPS
ACE Reaction Forces Planning Staff (NATO)

ARG
Air Rescue Group

ARG
Amphibious Ready Group (US Navy)

ARGOS
Advanced Research & Global Observation Satellite (USAF)

ARGS
Advanced Resolution Gunnery Simulator

Argus
Autonomes Radar Gefechtsfeld Uberwachungs System. Battlefield reconnaissance system (Germany)

ARH
Active Radar Homing

ARH
Anti-Radar / Radiation Homing

ARH
Armed Reconnaissance Helocopter

ARI
Airborne Radio Instrument

ARI
Airpower Research Institute (USAF)

ARI
Army Research Institute (US Army)

ARIA
Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft

ARIAL
Analyse Radar pour Identification et Alerte. Automatic radar identification. Analysis & alarm system for small ships (France)

ARIC
Airborne Radio & Intercom Control system

ARID
Automatic Round Identification

ARINC
Aeronautical Radio Incorporated (USA)

ARIS
Advanced Range Instrumentation Ship

ARIS
Anti-Resonance Isolation System

ARISE
ARE Reconfigurable IR Scanner Equipment (UK)

ARJS
Airborne Radar Jamming System

ARL
Aeronautical Research Laboratory (Australia)

ARL
Aerospace Research Laboratories (USA)

ARL
Airborne Reconnaissance Low programme (US Army)

ARL
Applied Research Laboratory, University of Texas (USA)

ARL
Army Research Laboratory (USA)

ARL
Repair ship, small (USA)

ARLP
Anti-Radar Longue Portee. Long range anti-radar missile (France)

ARM
Anti-Radar /-Radiation Missile

ARM
Artillery Re-arm Module

ARM
Automated Radar Monitor

ARM
Availability, Reliability, Maintainability

ARM-D
Anti-Radiation Missile Decoy

ARMAD
Armoured & Mechanised Unit, Air Defence (USA)

ARMADILLO
Anti-Radiation Missile Defense, Lightweight Objective (US Army)

ARMAT
Anti-Radar missile Matra (France)

ARMCOM
Armament Command (US Army)

Armd
Armoured

ARME
Automatic Reseau Measuring Equipment

ARMOR
Attack Response Mission-Oriented Reasoner

ARMS
Advanced Radar Missile Scoring System

ARMS
Advanced Radar Modelling System

ARMS
Advanced Remote Minehunting System

ARMS
Armament Retooling & Manufacturing Support Initiative (US Army)

ARMS
Armoured Resupply Maintenance System

ARMS
Army River Mine System (USA)

ARMSCOR
Armament Manufacturing Corporation (South Africa)

ARMSCOR
Arms Corporation of the Philippines

ARMTS
Advanced Radar Maintenance Training Set

ARMVAL
Anti-Armor Vehicle Evaluation (USA)

ARN
Air Reporting Net

ARNG
Army National Guard (USA)

ARNM
Armenian Pan-National Movement

ARO
Aerial Refuelling Operator

ARO
Army Research Office (USA)

ARO
Auxiliary Readout

AROD
Airborne Range & Orbit Determination

AROD
Airborne Remotely Operated Device (USA)

ARODS
Airborne Radar Orbit Determination System

ARP
Advanced Re-entry Program (USA)

ARP
Aerial Rotation Period

ARP
Air Raid Precautions / Protection

ARP
Alternative Release Procedure

ARP
Anti-Radiation Projectile

ARP
Attack Reference Point

ARP
Armoured Repair Plates

ARPA
Advanced Research Projects Agency.Renamed as DARPA (USA)

ARPA
Automatic Radar Plotting Aid

ARPAM
Active aRmor Protection against Anti-tank guided Missiles

ARPANET
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (USA)

ARPC
Air Reserve Personnel Center (USA)

ARPS
Acoustic Range Prediction System

ARPS
Advanced Radar Processing Subsystem

ARPS
Amherst Receiver Processor System

ARPTT
Air-Refuelling Part-Task Trainer (USAF)

ARQ
Automatic Repeat Request

ARRADCOM
Armament Research & Development Command (US Army)

ARRC
Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps (NATO)

ARRCS
Air Raid Reporting & Control Station

ARRMD
Affordable Rapid Response Missile Demonstrator (DARPA)

ARRN
Air Raid Reporting Net

ARRO
Air Raid Reporting Officer

ARROW
Aircraft Routing Right Of Way

ARRS
Aerospace Rescue & Recovery Service

ARRV
Armoured Repair & Recovery Vehicle

ARS
Advanced Rocket System

ARS
Aerial Radiac System

ARS
Air Refuelling Squadron

ARS
Air Reinforcement Squadron

ARS
Air Rescue Service (USAF)

ARS
Air Rescue Squadron

ARS
Attack Radar Set (USA)

ARS
Automatic Recovery System

ARS
Automatic Reporting System

ARS
Salvage Ship (USA)

ARS (D)
Salvage Ship (Heavy Lift)

ARSAG
Aerial Refuelling Systems Advisory Group (USAF)

ARSIP
Accuracy, Reliability, Supportability Improvement Program (USA)

ARSK
Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina

ARSOM
Artilleriyskaya Radiolokatsionnaya Stantsiya Obnaruzheniya Minometov. Mortar location radar (Russia)

ARSPACE
Army Space Command (US Army)

ARSR
Air Route Surveillance Radar

ARST
Autonomous Rotorcraft Testbed (US Army)

ARSV
Armoured Reconnaissance Scout Vehicle (USA)

ART
Advanced Rotorcraft Transmission

ART
Air Reserve Technician

ART
Air-Refuelling Transport

ART
Airborne Radar Technician

Art
Artificer (British Army)

ARTADS
Army Tactical Data System (USA)

ARTB
Advanced Radar Test Bed

ARTBASS
Army Training Battle Simulation System

ARTC
Air Route Traffic Control

ARTC
Aircraft Research & Testing Committee

ARTCC
Air Route Traffic Control Centre

ARTEP
Army Training & Evaluation Program (US Army)

ARTHUR
Artillery Hunting Radar (Sweden)

ARTI
Advanced Rotocraft Technology Integration

ARTI
Aeronautical Research & Test Institute (Czechoslovakia)

ARTIST
Advanced Radar Techniques for Improved Surveillance & Tracking

ARTOC
Army Tactical Operations Centre

ARTS
ADA Real-Time System

ARTS
Advanced Real-Time System

ARTS
Airborne Recording & Training System

ARTS
All-Round Thermal Surveillance

ARTS
Automated Radar Terminal System

ARTS
Automated Radar Tracking System

ARTW
Aerospace Reconnaissance Technical Wing

Arty
Artillery

ARV
Armoured Recovery / Repair Vehicle

ARVN
Army of the Republic of Vietnam

ARW
Air Refuelling Wing

ARWAR
Advanced Radar Warning Receiver

ARWR
Advanced Radar Warning Receiver

ARWS
Advanced Radar Warning System

AS
Aeronautical Standard

AS
Air Superiority

AS
Air-to-Surface

AS
Aircraft Standard

AS
Airlift Squadron

AS
Altostratus

AS
Ammunition Storage

AS
Anti-Spoofing

AS
Anti-Submarine

As
Arsenic

AS
Australia (NATO country code)

AS
Automatic Sprinkler

AS
Submarine Tender (USA)

AS&E
American Science & Engineering Inc.

AS/GC
Air Surveillance & Gun Control console

ASA
Advanced Security Agency (USA)

ASA
Advanced System Architecture

ASA
Aggiornamento del Sistema d'Arma. Weapon systems upgrade (Italy)

ASA
Air Security Agency

ASA
American Standards Association

ASA
Appropriate Superior Authority

ASA
Army Security Agency

ASA
Assistant Secretary of the Army (US Army)

ASA
Atomic Security Agency

ASAAC
Allied Standard Avionics Architecture Council

ASAC
Airborne Surveillance, Airborne Control

ASADS
Advanced Signaal Air Defense System

ASALA
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia

ASALM
Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile

ASAM
Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile

ASAP
Advanced / Airborne Shared Aperture Program (USA)

ASAP
Aircrew Systems Advisory Panel

ASAP
As Soon As Possible

ASAR
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar

ASARC
Army Systems Acquisition Review Council

ASARG
Autonomous Synthetic Aperture Radar Guidance

ASARS
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System

ASARS
Airborne Search & Rescue System

ASAS
Advanced Solid Axial Stage programme

ASAS
All Source Analysis System (USA)

ASASCO
Allied-Signal Aerospace Service Corp. (France)

ASAT
Advanced Subsonic Aerial Target

ASAT
Anti-Satellite (weapon or system)

ASAT
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Satellitentragersystem

ASAT
Avionics Situation Awareness Trainer

ASAU
Air Search Attack Unit

ASAW
Advanced Stand-off Area Weapon

ASB
Air Safety Board

ASBM
Air-to-Surface Ballistic Missile

ASBREM
Armed Services Biomedical Research, Evaluation & Management committee (USA)

ASC
Accredited Standards Committee

ASC
Advanced Simulation Center

ASC
Aeronautical / Aeronautics Systems Center (USAF)

ASC
Air Support Command (USAF)

ASC
Australian Submarine Corporation

ASC
Automatic Sensitivity Control

ASC2A
Air & Space Command & Control Agency (US Air Force, Langley, Virginia)

ASC/PAM
Advanced System Control / Processor And Memory

ASCA
Army Scaling & Codification Authority

ASCAS
Automated Security Clearance Approval System

ASCB
Aircraft Standard Communication Bus

ASCC
Air Standardization Co-ordination Committee

ASCIET
All Service Combat Identification Evaluation Team (US DoD)

ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASCL
Advanced Sonobuoy Communications Link (USA)

ASCM
Advanced Spaceborne Computer Module

ASCM
Anti-Ship Cruise Missile

ASCOD
Austrian-Spanish Co-Operative Development

ASCON
Automatic Switched Communications Network (USA)

ASCOT
Airspace Control & Operations Training simulator (USA)

ASCP
Airman Scholarship & Commissioning Program (USAF)

ASCU
Armament Station Control Unit

ASD
Advanced Surveillance Drone

ASD
Advanced System Development

ASD
Aeronautical Systems Division. Now known as Aeronautical Systems Center (USAF)

ASD
Alternative Service Delivery (Canadian Air Command)

ASD
Average Sortie Duration

ASD (HA)
Assistant Secretary of Defense, Health Affairs (USA)

ASD(C)
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) (USA)

ASD(PA)
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) (USA)

ASD/SEE
Aerospace Defense Software Engineering Environment

ASDC
Alternative Space Defence Centre

ASDC
Armament Signal Data Converter

ASDC
Army Strategic Defense Command. Previously known as Ballistic Missile Defense Systems Command (USA)

ASDCS
Airspace Surveillance Display & Control System (USA)

ASDD
Advanced Spatial Disorientation Demonstrator

ASDE
Airport Surface Detection Equipment

ASDI
Advanced Systems Development Inc. (USA)

ASDI
Analogue Simple Data Interface set

ASDIC
Allied / Anti-Submarine Detection & Investigation Committee

ASDIC
Armed Services Documents Intelligence Center (USA)

ASDL
Airborne Self-Defence Laser

ASDP
Advanced Seeker Development Program (USA)

ASDS
Advanced SEAL Delivery System (USA)

ASDV
Advanced SEAL Delivery Vehicle (USA)

ASDV
Auxiliary Swimmer Delivery Vehicle

ASE
Advanced Systems Engineering

ASE
AEGIS Site Emulator

ASE
Aero Systems Engineering Inc. (USA)

ASE
Aircraft Survivability Equipment

ASE/EW
Aircraft Survivability Equipment/Electronic Warfare

ASE
Automatic Stabilisation Equipment

ASE
Type abbreviation: Research ship (Japan)

ASEAN
Association of Southeast Asian Nations

ASEB
Aeronautics & Space Engineering Board

ASEM
Anti-Ship Euromissile consortium

ASEMA
Advanced Special Electronics Mission Aircraft (US Army)

ASEP
ACCS Surveillance Exploratory Prototype (NATO)

ASES
Active Sonar for Entrance Surveillance

ASET
Aircraft Survivability Equipment Trainer (US Army)

ASET
Aircrew Standardization & Evaluation Team (USA)

ASET
Automatic Scoring Electronic Target

ASETS
Airborne Seeker Evaluation Test Set

ASF
Acoustic Support Function (Netherlands)

ASF
Aeromedical Staging Facilities / Flight

ASF
Air Superiority Fighter

ASF
Army Standard Family (shelters)

ASFIR
Active Swept Frequency Interferometer Radar

ASG
Aeronautical Standards Group

ASG
Airborne System, Gun (USA)

ASG
Ambulance Support Group

ASG
Assistant Secretary General (NATO)

ASG
Ausbildungsgerate Schuss / Getroffen (Germany)

ASGC
Airborne Surveillance, Ground Control

ASGW
Air-to-Surface Guided Weapon

ASH
Advanced Seeker Homing

ASH
Advanced Support Helicopter (USA)

ASH
Aerial Scout Helicopter

ASH
Assault Support Helicopter

ASH
ASWE Serial Highway (UK)

ASI
Advanced Scientific Instrument

ASI
Aerospace Studies Institute (USA)

ASI
Airspeed Indicator

ASI
Australian Shipbuilding Industries (WA) Pty Ltd

ASI
Aviation Services International (Benelux) BV (Netherlands)

ASI
Avionics Specialist Inc. (USA)

ASI
Italian Space Agency

ASIC
Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ASIL
American Society of International Law

ASIP
Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (USA)

ASIP
Advanced SINCGARS Improvement Progam (US Army)

ASIR
Airspeed Indicator Reading

ASIS
Ammunition Surveillance Information System

ASIS
Australian Secret Intelligence Service

ASIST
Aircraft-Ship Integrated Secure & Traverse

ASIT
Adaptable Surface Interface Terminal

ASJ
Army Support Jamming programme (US Army)

ASJ
Automatic Search Jammer

ASL
Above Sea Level

ASL
Acting Sub-Lieutenant

ASL
Applied Science Laboratories (USA)

ASL
Authorised Stockage List

ASL
Aviation Spares Ltd (UK)

ASLAR
Aircraft Surge Launch And Recovery

ASLAV
Australian Light Armoured Vehicle programme

ASLCM
Advanced Sea-Launched Cruise Missile

ASLO
Accident Site Liaison Officer

ASLP
Air-Sol Longue Portee (France)

ASLR
Air / Surface Laser Ranger

ASM
Advanced Sea Mine

ASM
Air-to-Surface Missile

ASM
Anti-Shipping Missile

ASM
Armored Systems Modernization program (US Army)

ASM
Artificer Sergeant Major

ASMA
Air Staff Management Aid. Now an RAF owned CCIS

ASMAR
Astilleros y Maestranzas de la Armada (Chile)

ASMD
Anti-Ship / Surface Missile Defence

ASME
American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASMI
Airfield / Airport Surface Movement Indicator (radar)

ASMP
Air-Sol Moyenne Portee. Air-to-surface medium-range stand-off nuclear missile (France)

ASMP
Army Strategic Mobility Plan (US Army)

ASMR
Advanced Short / Medium-Range transport

ASMRO
Armed Services Medical Regulating Office (USA)

ASMS
Advanced Strategic Missile Systems. Previously known as ABRES

ASMS
Advanced Surface Machinery System (US Navy)

ASMS
Advanced Surface Missile System

ASMT
Army School of Mechanical Transport (British Army)

ASMT
Air Superiority Misile Technology

ASN(RD&A)
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development & Acquisition) (US Navy)

ASN-1
Abstract Syntax Notation One

ASNE
American Society of Naval Engineers

ASNI
Ambient Sea Noise Indication

ASO
Air Support Officer

ASO
Air Support Operations

ASO
Aircraft Supply Officer

ASO
Assault Supply Officer

ASO
Aviation Supply Office

ASOC
Air Sovereignty Operations Centers

ASOC
Air Support Operations Centre

ASOCNet
Army Special Operations Command Network (US Army)

ASOFAF
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force

ASOG
Air Support Operations Group

ASOM
Autonomous Stand-Off Missile (Sweden)

ASOP
Army Standing Operating Procedure (British Army)

ASOS
Army Secure Operating System (US Army)

ASP
Advanced Signal Processor

ASP
Advanced Soundranging Programme (UK)

ASP
Airbase Survivability Program (USA)

ASP
Air Surveillance Platform (India)

ASP
Ammunition Supply Point

ASP
Annual Service Practice (USA)

ASP
Automatic, Self-Powered (USA)

ASPC
Analysis of Spare Parts Change

ASPIS
Advanced Self-Protection Integrated Suite

ASPJ
Airborne/Advanced Self-Protection Jammer

ASPO
Armed Services Procurement Office

ASPR
Armed Services Procurement Regulation. Now replaced by DAR (USA)

ASPRO
Advanced Signal Processor

ASPS
Acoustic Ship Positioning System

ASPT
Army School of Physical Training (British Army)

ASQC
American Society of Quality Control

ASR
Acoustic Self-Ranging system

ASR
Adaptive Spectral Reconnaissance

ASR
Advanced Special Receiver

ASR
Air Staff Requirement

ASR
Airport Surveillance Radar

ASR
Approach Surveillance Radar

ASR
Automatic Send / Receive

ASR
Automatic Surveillance Receiver (USA)

ASR
Aviation Safety Regulation

ASR
Submarine Rescue ship (USA)

ASRAAM
Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile

ASRAD
Atlas Short Range Air Defence (Germany)

ASRADI
Adaptive Surface Signal Recognition & Direction Indicator (USA)

ASRAO
Advanced Systems Research & Analysis Office (USA)

ASRAP
Acoustic Sensor Range And Prediction

ASRM
Advanced Solid Rocket Motor (NASA)

ASRM
Antenna System Readiness Monitor

ASROC
Anti-Submarine Rocket

ASRP
Artillery Systems Research Programme

ASRS
Automated Storage & Retrieval System

ARSS
Adaptive Special Reconnaissance Sensor System

ASRT
Air Support Radar Team

ASRV
Armoured Scout and Reconnaissance Vehicle (US Army/British Army)

ASS
Ammunition Storage Sites

ASS
Anti-Shelter Submunition

ASS
Aviation Support Ship

ASSA
Army Signal Corps' Signal Supply Agency

ASSAD
Association of Aviation Engine Manufacturers (Russia)

ASSATS
Advanced Ship-to-Shore Automatic Telegraph System (UK)

ASSD
Autonetics Strategic Systems Division (USAF)

ASSESSREP
Assessment Report

ASSET
Asset Source for Software Engineering Technology programme (USA)

ASSG
Acoustic Sensor Signal Generator

ASSM
Anti-Ship Supersonic Missile

ASST
Advanced Supersonic Transport

ASST
Anti-Ship Surveillance & Targeting

ASSTASS
Advanced Surface Ship Towed Array Surveillance System

ASSU
Air Support Signal Unit

ASSW
Anti-Surface Ship Warfare

AST
Advanced Simulation Technology

AST
Advanced Supersonic Technology

AST
Air Service Training Ltd (UK)

AST
Air Staff Target (UK)

AST
Atlantic Standard Time

AST
Atmospheric Surveillance Technology

AST
Avionics Systems Trainers

ASTA
AeroSpace Technologies of Australia Pty Ltd

ASTA
Aircrew Synthetic Training Aids

ASTAAM
Advanced Seeker Technology for Air-to-Air Missiles

ASTABS
Automated Status Board

ASTAMIDS
Airborne Stand-off Minefield Detection System

ASTAR
Advanced Series of Tactical Air Defence Radars

ASTAR
Airborne Search Target Attack Radar

ASTARTE
Avion-Station-Relais de Transmissions Exceptionelles. Airborne communications relay system (France)

ASTAT
Assessment of Stationery Target Acquisition Techniques programme (USA)

ASTB
American Standards Testing Bureau Inc.

ASTE
Aerospace Systems Test Environment (USAF)

ASTECS
Advanced Submarine Tactical ESM Combat System (USA)

ASTER
ASROC / Standard / Terrier

ASTER
Active Sonar Terrain Environmental Reconnaissance

ASTF
Aeropropulsion Systems Test Facility (USAF)

ASTI
Aviation Support Technology Int'l Inc. (USA)

ASTM
American Society for Testing & Materials

ASTMP
Army Science & Technology Master Plan (US Army)

ASTOR
Airborne Stand-Off Radar (UK)

ASTOVL
Advanced STOVL

ASTP
Advanced Space Technology Program (USA)

ASTP
Army Specialized Training Program (US Army)

ASTRA
Air Staff Training (USAF)

ASTRA
Advanced Sonar Transmitting & Receiving Architecture

ASTRAL
Air Surveillance & Targeting Radar, L-band

ASTRE
Airport Surface Traffic Radar Equipment

ASTROS
Artillery Saturation Rocket System (Brazil)

ASTS
Assembly Status Tracking System

ASTT
Action Speed Tactical Trainer

ASTT
Advanced Surveillance & Tracking Technology

ASTT
Attack Submarine Team Trainer

ASU
Acoustic Simulation Unit

ASU
Active Sonar (Germany)

ASU
Altitude Sensing Unit

ASU
Approval for Service Use

ASU
Automatic Switching Unit

ASU
Type abbreviation: Training support and rescue ship

ASUW
Anti-Surface Unit Warfare

ASuW
Anti-Surface vessel Warfare

ASUWC
Anti-Surface Warfare Commander

ASV
Ammunition Supply Vehicle

ASV
Anti-Ship Variant radar

ASV
Anti-Surface Vessel

ASV
Armored Security Vehicle (USA)

ASVAB
Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery

ASVEH
Air-Surveillance Vehicle

ASVU
Army Security Vetting Unit (UK)

ASVW
Anti-Surface Vessel Warfare

ASW
Anti-Submarine Warfare

ASW/SOW
Anti-Submarine Warfare / Stand-Off Weapon

ASWAC
Anti-Submarine Warfare Analysis Centre

ASWACS
Airborne Surveillance And Warning Control System (India)

ASWACS
ASW Air Control Ship (UK)

ASWAS
Anti-Submarine Warfare Area System

ASWCS
ASW Combat System

ASWDS
Anti-Submarine Warfare Data System

ASWDU
Air / Sea Warfare Development Unit

ASWE
Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment (UK)

ASWG
American Steel Wire Gage (USA)

ASWHQ
Alternative Subordinate War Headquarters

ASWT
Anti-Submarine Warfare Trainer

ASWT
Air & Surafce Weapons Technology program (US ONR)

ASXV
Air-launched Expendable Sound Velocimeter

ASY
Type abbreviation: auxiliary yacht (Japan)

ASZ
Air Surface Zone

AT
Advanced Trainer (USA)

AT
Air Temperature

AT
Air Transport

AT
Ammunition Technician

AT
Anti-Tank

AT
Anti-Torpedo

AT
Army Training

At
Astatine

AT
Atomic Time

AT&SS
Assembly, Test & Subsystem Support

AT-ST
Artillery survey vehicle (Russia)

AT3
Advanced Technology Tactical Transport (USA)

ATA
Actual Time of Arrival

ATA
Advanced Tactical Aircraft

ATA
Advanced Test Accelerator

ATA
Aerospace Technologies of Australia

ATA
Atlantic Treaty Association

ATA
Automatic Terrain Avoidance

ATA
Auxiliary Ocean Tug (USA)

ATA
Automatic Target Acquisition

ATAAC
Anti-Torpedo Air-launched Acoustic Countermeasures

ATAC
Advanced Tank Cannon system (US Army)

ATAC
Air-Transportable Acoustic Communications buoy

ATAC
All-Terrain All Climate

ATAC
All-Terrain Amphibious Carrier

ATAC
Applied Technology Advanced Computer

ATACC
Advanced Tactical Command Central

ATACC
Advanced Technology Axial-Centrifugal Compression

ATACDIG
Army Tactical Digital Image Generator

ATACK
Advanced Target Attack programme (USA)

ATACMS
Advanced / Army Tactical Missile System (USA)

ATACMS
Army Tactical Communications Management System

ATACMS EN
ATACMS Enhanced

ATACMS ER
ATACMS Extended Range

ATACO
Air Tactical Control Operator

ATACS
Advanced Tank Cannon System (USA)

ATACS
Advanced Target Acquisition Counterfire System. Now known as AFFS (US Army)

ATACS
Army Tactical Communications System (USA)

ATACS
Advanced Towed Cannon System

ATAD
Advanced Technologies ASW Display

ATAF
Allied Tactical Air Force (NATO)

ATAFCS
Airborne Target Acquisition & Fire Control System

ATAFS
Artillery Tactical Automated Fire System (Italy)

ATAGS
Advanced Technology Anti-G Suit (USA)

ATAL
Appareillage de Television sur Aeronef Leger (France)

ATALARS
Automated Tactical Aircraft Launch And Recovery System

ATAM
Air-To-Air Mistral missile (France)

ATAPS
Advanced Tactical Aircraft Protection System

ATAR
Air-To-Air Recognition device

ATAR
Air-To-Air Recovery

ATAR
Airborne Tracking, Acquisition & Recognition system

ATARES
Advanced Tactical Airborne Radar Emitter System

ATARS
Advanced Tactical Air Reconnaissance System

ATARS
Anti Terrain Avoidance Radar System (USA)

ATAS
Active Towed Array Sonar / System

ATAS
Advanced Target Acquisition Sensor

ATAS
Air-To-Air Stinger missile

ATAS
Advanced Tank Armament System (US Army)

ATATS
Automatic Target Acquisition & Tracking System

ATAWS
Advanced Tactical Air Warfare System

ATB
Advanced Technology Bomber

ATBM
Advanced Tactical Ballistic Missile

ATBM
Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missile

ATBMP
Army Technology-Base Master Plan (US Army)

ATC
Acoustic Torpedo Countermeasures

ATC
Air Traffic Control

ATC
Air Training Command (USAF)

ATC
Air Training Corps (UK)

ATC
Aircraft Technical Committee

ATC
Amended / Approved Type Certificate

ATC
Army Training Center (US Army)

ATC
Automatic Threat Countering

ATC
Automatic Tuning Control

ATC
Armored Troop Carrier Ship (USA)

ATCA
Advanced Tanker Cargo Aircraft (USA)

ATCA
Allied Tactical Communications Agency (NATO)

ATCAP
Army Telecommunications Automation Program (USA)

ATCAS
Advanced Towed Cannon Artillery System (UK, now designated LW155)

ATCAS
Air Traffic Control Automation System

ATCC
Air Traffic Control Centre

ATCCS
Army Tactical Command & Control System (USA)

ATCO
Air Traffic Control Officer

ATCOM
Aviation & Troop Command (USA)

ATCRBS
Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System

ATCS
Active Thermal Control Subsystem

ATCS
Advanced Tank Cannon System

ATCS
Air Traffic Control Service

ATCS
Air Traffic Control Subsystem

ATCS
Automatic Test Control System

ATCS
Advanced Tactical Communications System

ATCSP
Advanced Tactical Communications System, Portable

ATD
Actual Time of Departure

ATD
Advanced Technology Demonstration/Demonstrator

ATD
Automated/Automatic Target Detection

ATDA
Augmented Target Docking Adapter

ATDL
Adaptive Target Data Link

ATDL
Army Tactical Data Link

ATDP
Army Training Diagnostic Program (US Army)

ATDS
Airborne Tactical Data System (USA)

ATDSIA
Allied Tactical Data Systems Interoperability Agency

ATDT
Automatic Target Detection & Tracking

ATDU
Armour Trials & Development Unit (British Army)

ATE
Advanced Technology Engine

ATE
Automatic Test Equipment

ATEA
Army Technology & Engineering Agency (Royal Australian Army)

ATEC
Automated Technical Control (USA)

ATEC
Automatic Test Equipment Complex

ATECMA
Agrupacion Tecnica Espanola de Constructores de Material Aeronautico (Spain)

ATEGG
Advanced Technology Engine Gas Generator (USA)

ATEGG
Advanced Turbine Engine Gas Generator

ATEMS
Advanced Threat Emitter Simulator

ATER
Advanced Triple Ejector Rack

ATES
Advanced Turbine Engine Studies

ATES
Air Transportable Earth Station

ATES
Advanced Technology Exposure Suit

ATESS
Advanced Tactics & Engagement Simulation System

ATET
Azienda Torinese Elettronica Telecomunicazioni (Italy)

ATEWS
Advanced Tactical EW System (USA)

ATF
Actual Time of Fall

ATF
Advanced Tactical Fighter

ATF
Air Transport Force

ATF
Fleet ocean tug and supply ship

ATF
Adaptive Terrain-Following

ATFCS
Advanced Tank Fire Control System

ATFLIR
Advanced Targeting FLIR (US Navy)

ATFP
Airlift Total Force Plan

ATG
Afloat Training Group (US Navy)

ATG
Air Transport Group

ATG
Air-To-Ground

ATG
Antenna Receiver Group

ATG
Anti-Tank Gun

ATG
Automatic Test Guide

ATGL
Anti-Tank Grenade Launcher

ATGM
Anti-Tank Guided Missile

ATGW
Anti-Tank Guided Weapon

ATGWS
ATGW System

ATH
Automatic Target Handover

ATH
Autonomous Terminal Homing

ATHS
Airborne Target Handover (US - handoff) System

ATI
Air Target Indicator

ATI
Alliance Technique Industrielle (France)

ATI
Annual Technical Inspection (Canada)

ATI
Army Training Instruction

ATIGS
Advanced Tactical Inertial Guidance System (US Navy)

ATILA
Automatisation du Tir de l'Artillerie. Artillery automation (France)

ATILO
Air Technical Intelligence Liaison Office

ATIM
Advanced Technology Insertion Module

ATIRCM
Advanced Threat Infra-Red Countermeasures System (USA)

ATIS
Anti-Tank Influence Sensor

ATIS
Automatic Terminal Information Service

ATJS
Airborne Tactical Jamming System

ATK
Aviation Turbine Kerosene

ATL
Advanced Technology Launcher

ATL
Aero Tec Laboratories Inc. (USA)

ATL
Air Transport Liaison

ATL
Armt Tactical Laser

ATLANTIC
Airborne Targeting Low Altitude Navigation Thermal Imaging & Cueing

ATLAS
Abbreviated Test Language for All Systems

ATLAS
Advanced Technology LADAR System (USA)

ATLAS
Affut de Tir Leger et Au Sol. Missile system (France)

ATLAS
All-Terrain Lifter Articulated System

ATLAS
Azimuth Target Intelligence & Acquisition System (Israel)

ATLB
Air Transport Licensing Board

ATLIS
Automatic Tracking Laser Illumination System

ATLO
Air Transport Liaison Officer

ATLV
Artillery Target Location Vehicle

ATM
Abri Technique Mobile. ISO Shelter (France)

ATM
Advanced Tactical Mini-drone (USA)

ATM
Advanced Trauma Management

ATM
Airborne Thematic Mapper

ATM
Anti-Tactical Missile

ATM
Anti-Tank Mine

ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATM
Air Tasking Message

atm
standard atmosphere (pressure)

ATMAC
Advanced Technology Microelectronic Array Computer

ATMCC
Air Transport Movement Control Centre

ATMDPO
Army Theater Missile Defense Project Office (US Army)

ATMDS
Anti-Tank Mine-Dispensing System

ATMO
Air / Area Transport & Movements Officer

Atmos
Ammunition, Toxic Material Open Space

ATMP
All-Terrain Mobile Platform

ATMS
ASW Track Management System

ATNAVICS
Air Traffic Navigation, Integration & Co-ordination System (USA)

ATO
Abort-To-Orbit

ATO
Actual Time Over

ATO
Air Tasking Order

ATO
Air Training Officer

ATO
Aircraft Transfer Order

ATO
Ammunition Technical Officer (UK)

ATO
Assisted Take-Off

ATOC
Air Transport Operations Centre

ATOC
Allied Tactical Operations Centre (NATO)

ATOPS
Advanced Transport Operations System

ATOS
Automated Technical Orders System

ATP
Accepted Test Procedures

ATP
Acquisition, Tracking & Pointing

ATP
Air Turbine Pump

ATP
Allied Tactical Publication (NATO)

ATP
Ammunition Transfer Point

ATP
Anti-Tactical Patriot

ATP
Army Training Plan

ATP
Attack Plot

ATP
Australian Technical Publications

ATP
Authority-to-Proceed

ATPFC
Acquisition, Tracking & Pointing & Fire Control

ATPS
Automatic Take-off Power Control System

ATR
Achievement of Test Readiness (USA)

ATR
Advanced Tactical Radar programme

ATR
Aided Target Recognizer

ATR
Air Traffic Regulations

ATR
Air Transportable Racking. ARINC standard box sizes

ATR
Aircraft Trouble Report

ATR
Anti-Transmit-Receive

ATR
Automatic Target Recognition

ATR
Automotive Test Rig

ATR
Franco-Italian Avions de Transport Regional

ATR
Type abbreviation: Fleet ocean tug (fire-fighting)

ATR/C
Automatic Target Recognition and classification (USA)

ATRAN
Automatic Terrain Radar And Navigator

ATR EDS
Automotive Test Rig - Electric Drive System

ATREOS
Austere Tank Retrofittable Optronic System

ATRJ
Advanced Threat Radar Jammer

ATS
Accelerator Test Stand

ATS
Acoustic Tracking System

ATS
Advanced Tactical Support

ATS
Advanced Tactical Surveillance

ATS
Advanced Technology Satellite

ATS
Advanced Tracking System

ATS
Agile Target System

ATS
Air Traffic Services

ATS
Air Traffic System

ATS
Air Transport Service / Support

ATS
Aircrew Training System (USA)

ATS
Amphibious Transport Ship

ATS
Antenna Test Station

ATS
Applications Technology Satellite

ATS
Army Transport Service

ATS
Astronomical Time Switch

ATS
Atelier de Construction de Tarbes (France)

ATS
Automated Telemetry System

ATS
Aviation Training Ship (UK Royal Navy)

ATS
Salvage & rescue ship (USA)

ATSA
Advanced Tactical Support Aircraft

ATSC
Army Training Support Center (US Army)

ATSD (AE)
Assistant To the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy) (USA)

ATSD (IO)
Assistant To the Secretary of Defense (Intelligence Oversight) (USA)

ATSF
Abri Technique Semi Fixe. TEMPEST-hardened shelter (France)

ATSG
Aegis Training Support Group (US Navy)

ATSO
Air Traffic Services Organization (USA)

ATSS
Advanced Tactical Support System

ATSS
Advanced Tactical Surveillance System

ATSU
Accelerator Test Stand Upgrade

ATT
Advanced Technology Transport

ATT
Advanced Theater Transport (USAF)

ATT
Anti-Torpedo Torpedo

ATT
Artillery Tactical Terminals

Att
Attachment (UK)

ATT
Automatic Target Tracking

ATTA
Advanced Trainer / Tactical Aircraft

ATTAC
Automated TMA for Tactical Commanders

ATTD
Advanced Technology Test Demonstrator

ATTES
Advanced Threat Training Emitter System

ATTLA
Air Transportability Test Loading Agency

ATTS
Air-Transportable Towed System

ATTU
Atlantic-to-the-Urals (NATO)

ATTURM
Amphibious Trials & Testing Unit, Royal Marines (UK)

ATTV
All Terrain Tow Vehicle

ATTV
Armored Transport & Treatment Vehicle

ATU
Aegis Training Unit (US Navy)

ATU
Air Trial Unit (RAAF)

ATU
Aircraft Target Unit

ATU
Antenna Tuning Unit

ATV
Advanced Technology Vessel (Indian Navy nuclear attack submarine)

ATV
All-Terrain Vehicle

ATV
Armoured TOW vehicle (Turkish Army)

ATV(P)
All Terrain Vehicle (Protected) (UK Royal Marines)

ATVS
Advanced TV Seeker

ATW
Air Transport Wing (Japan)

ATWCS
Advanced Tomahawk Weapon Control System

ATWM
Army Transition to War Measure (British Army)

ATWS
Anti-armor Threat Warning System (USA)

**ahmed_allaithy** · 06-04-2006, 02:34 PM

Defense Acronyms

AU
Air University (USA)

AU
Astronomical Unit

AU
Austria (NATO country code)

Au
Gold

AUF
Airborne Uninhabited Fighter

AUG
Armee Universal Gewehr. Army Universal Gun (Austria)

AUIB
Aircrew Uniform Integrated Battlefield

AUM
Air-to-Underwater Missile (USA)

AUP
Avionics Update / Upgrade Programme

AUP
Advanced Unitary Penetrator (warhead) (US Air Force)

AUR
All-Up-Round

AURA
Autonomous Unmanned Reconnaissance Aircraft

AURA
Advanced UHF Radar

AURORA
Automatic Recovery Of Remotely piloted Aircraft

AUS
Assistant Under Secretary of State

AUSA
Association of the US Army

AUSMIS
Army Unit Standard Manpower Information System (Australia)

AUSTACCS
Australian Automatic Command & Control System

AUT
Advanced User Terminal

AUTEC
Atlantic Undersea Test & Evaluation Center (US Navy)

AUTO CARP
Automatic Computed Air Release Point

AUTODIN
Automated Defense Information Network (USA)

AUTODIN
Automatic Digital Network

AUTOKO
Automatische Korpsstamunetz. Automated Corps communication network (Germany)

AUTOSEVCOM
Automatic Secure Voice Communications system (USA)

AUTOVON
Automatic Voice Network (USA)

AUV
Armoured Utility Vehicle

AUV
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

AUVS
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems (USA)

AUW
All-Up Weight

AUWE
Admiralty Underwater Warfare Establishment (UK)

Aux
Auxiliary

AUXCP
Auxiliary Airborne Command Post (USA)

AV
Acid Value

AV
Aerial Vehicle

AV
Angular Velocity

AV
Anti-Vehicle

AV
Average

AVA
Adaptive Vehicular Antenna

AVA
Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt Gottingen

AVAD
Automatic Voice Alerting System

AVADS
Autotrack Vulcan Air Defense System (USA)

AVASI
Abbreviated Visual Approach Slope Indicator

AVB
Type abbreviation: Aviation support ship

AVC
Attitude, Velocity & Control

AVC
Automatic Volume Control

AVCAT
Aviation Carrier Air Turbine fuel

AVCAT
Aviation Combined Arms Tactical Trainer (USA)

AVCATT
Aviation Combined Arms Team Trainer

AVCOM
Aviation & Missile Command (US Army) (Formerly MICOM)

AVCRAD
Aviation Classification Repair Activity Depots

AVCS
Advanced Vidicon Camera System

AVCS
Assistant Vice Chief of Staff

AVD
Atmospheric Vehicle Detection

AVDS
Armoured Vehicle Driving Simulators

AVE
Airborne Vehicle Equipment

AVEN
Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle (USA)

AVF
All-Volunteer Force

AVF
Allgemeine Vorlaufige Fluggenehmigung

AVG
American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers)

Avgas
Aviation Gasoline

AVGP
Armoured Vehicle, General Purpose (Canada)

AVH
Armoured Vehicle, Heavy

AVIC
Aviation Industries Coporation of China

AVIM
Aviation Intermediate Maintenance

AVIP
Avionics Integrity Program (USAF)

AVL
Armoured Vehicle, Light

AVL
Automated Vehicle Location

AVLB
Armoured Vehicle-Launched Bridge

AVLF
Airborne Very Low Frequency

AVM
Air Vice-Marshal

AVM
Airborne Vapour Monitor

AVM
Airborne Vibration Monitoring

AVM
Aircraft Vehicle Manufacturer

AVM
Armoured Vehicle, Medium

AVM
Guided missile ship (USA)

AVMRL
Armoured Vehicle Multiple Rocket Launcher

AVMT
Advanced Vehicle Management Technology program

AVOAC
Aviation Officer Advanced Course

AVP
Advanced Video Processor

AVPOL
Aviation Petroleum, Oil & Lubricants

AVR
Active Vibration Reducer

AVR
Armoured Vehicle, Reconnaissance

AVR
Army Volunteer Reserves

AVR
Automatische Verstarkungsregelung

AVRDEC
Aviation Research, Development & Engineering Center (US Army)

AVRE
Armoured Vehicle, Royal Engineers (UK)

AVRE
Assault Vehicle, Royal Engineers (British Army)

AVRS
Airborne Video Recording System

AVS
Advanced Vertical Strike

AVS
Avimo Singapore Ltd

AVSCOM
Aviation Systems Command (US Army)

AVT
Analogue Voice Terminal

AVT
Automatic Video Tracker

AVT
Auxiliary Aircraft Landing Training Ship (USA)

AVT
Advanced Vehicle Technologies (USA)

AVTB
Aviation Test Bed

AVTB
Armoured Vehicle Test Bed

Avtur
Aviation Turbine Kerosene

AVUM
Aviation Unit Maintenance

AW
Airlift Wing

AW
All-Weather

AW
Amphibious Warfare ship

AW
Automatic Weapon

AWACS
Airborne Warning & Control System (USA)

AWACSS
Airborne Warning And Control Support Squadron

AWACW
Airborne Warning And Control Wing

AWADS
Adverse Weather Aerial Delivery System

AWARDS
Advanced Wide-Angle Reflective Display System

AWARE
Advanced Warning of Active Radar Emissions

AWARS
All-Weather Airborne Reconnaissance System

AWARS
Airborne Weapons Analysis Recording System (US Navy)

AWC
Air Weapons Controller

AWCCV
Advanced Weapons Carriage Configured Vehicle

AWCIT
Advanced Weapon Carriage Integration Technology

AWCLS
All-Weather Carrier Landing System

AWCS
Air / Automatic Weapons Control System

AWDATS
Automatic Weapon Data Transmission System (UK)

AWDREY
Atomic Weapon Detection, Recognition & Estimation of Yield

AWDS
Automated Weather Distribution System

AWE
Advanced Warfighting Experience (US Marine Corps)

AWE
Aircraft Weapons Electronics

AWE
Atomic Weapons Establishment (UK)

AWES
Area Weapons Effect Simulator

AWESS
Automatic Weapons Effects Signature Simulator

AWFCS
All Weather Flight Controls System

AWG
Air Weapons Group

AWG
American Wire Gage

AWGN
Additive White Gaussian Noise

AWHQ
Alternative War Headquarters (NATO)

AWIS
Army WWMCCS Information System (US Army)

AWITEL
Albis Wire Telephone (Switzerland)

AWLS
All-Weather Landing System

AWNIS
Allied Wartime Navigational Information System (NATO)

AWOL
Absent Without Official Leave (USA)

AWP
Allied Weather Publication

AWPD
Air War Plans Division (USAF)

AWPDS
Attack Warning Processing & Display System

AWPGM
Adverse Weather Precision Guided Munition

AWRE
Atomic Weapons Research Establishment

AWRS
Airborne Weather & Reconnaissance System (USA)

AWS
Advanced Warning System

AWS
AEGIS Weapon System

AWS
Air Warning System

AWS
Air Weapon System

AWS
Air Weather Service (USA)

AWS
American Welding Society

AWSACS
All-Weather Stand-off Aircraft / Attack Control System (US Navy)

AWSAS
All-Weather Stand-off Attack System

AWSIMS
Air Warfare Simulation System

AWT
Type abbreviation: Water tanker

AWTSS
All-Weather Tactical Strike System

AWW
Above Water Warfare

AWW
Advanced Wild Weasel (USA)

AWWP
Amphibious Warfare Working Party (NATO)

AWX
All-Weather Interceptor

AWX(F)
All Weather Fighter

AWX(I)
All Weather Intruder

AWY
Airway

AX
Attack Experimental

AXAF
Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (USAF)

AXBT
Air-launched Expendable Bathythermograph

AXCON
Axis Controller

AX (L)
Type abbreviation: Training ship (small)

AXP
Allied Exercise Publication

AXS
Type abbreviation: Sail Training Ship

AXT
Type abbreviation: Training tender

AYEC
Automatic Technical Control

AZ
Arizona (US state)

AZS
Automatic Zero Set

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