Military Abbreviations
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Generic Military / Political Abbreviations
- 10-4
- Acknowledgement "10-4, over."
- 20
- Location "What's your 20?"
- AAA
- Anti-Air Artillery
- AAM
- air-to-air missile
- AAW
- anti-air warfare
- ABM
- Anti-Ballistic Missile
- AD
- air defence
- ADS
- air defence suppression
- AEW
- airborne early warning
- AIP
- air independent propulsion
- APAR
- active phased array radar
- ASCM
- anti-ship cruise missile
- AShM
- anti-ship missile
- ASM
- air-to-surface missile; anti-ship missile
- ASuW
- anti-surface warfare
- ASW
- anti-submarine warfare
- AWACS
- Airborne Warning And Control System
- BOHICA
- slang - Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
- CIWS
- close-in weapon system
- CO
- Commanding Officer
- CODOG
- combined operation, diesel and gas [turbine]
- COGAG
- combined operation, gas [turbine] and gas [turbine]
- CONAG
- combined operation, nuclear and gas
- CPP
- complete package pricing
- CQB
- Close Quarters Battle
- DP
- dual purpose
- DPR
- domestic production rights
- EARS
- electromagnetic aircraft recovery system
- ECCM
- electronic counter-countermeasures
- ECM
- electronic countermeasures
- ELINT
- Electronic Intelligence
- EMALS
- electromagnetic aircraft launching system
- ETC
- electro-thermal chemical
- EW
- electronic warfare
- F/A
- fore and aft; fighter/attack (aircraft)
- FC
- fuel cell
- FUBAR
- F----- Up Beyond All Recognition
- GP
- general purpose
- GWLS
- guided weapon launcher system
- GWS
- guided weapon system
- HUMINT
- Human Intelligence
- HWT
- heavyweight torpedo, generally 533mm in diameter
- ICE
- Intrustion Countermeasures Electronics
- IFEP
- integrated full electric propulsion
- ISOMS
- integrated ship operations management system; Linux-based open architecture combat and support systems complex
- LWR
- laser warning receiver
- LWT
- lightweight torpedo, generally 324mm in diameter
- MED
- marine engine (reciprocating), diesel
- MICA
- missile d'interception, de combat et d'autodéfense AAM, with either imaging infra-red (IIR) or active radar seekers (RF)
- MIRV
- Multiple Independantly Targetted Re-entry Vehicles
- MTHELS
- Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser System
- MTG
- marine turbine, gas
- NAIADS
- naval autonomous integrated air defence systems
- P/S
- port and starboard; as for F/A
- PAAMS
- principal anti-air missile system
- PDMS
- point defence missile system
- PEM
- polymer electrolyte membrane
- QM
- Quarter Master
- RAD
- Radar Absorbant Devices
- RAM
- rolling airframe missile system|Radar Absorbant Materials
- REMF
- Slang - Rear Echelon Mother F-----
- RST
- retractable submerged turret
- SAM
- surface-to-air missile
- SCR
- super-cavitating round(s)
- SELKIE
- submarine emissions location and kinetics integration electronics, the local version of SLAT
- SATREC
- Satellite Reconassaince
- SIGINT
- Signals Intelligence
- SITREP
- Situation Report
- SLAT
- système de lutte anti-sous-marin or anti-submarine warfare system
- SNAFU
- Slang - Situation Normal, All F----- Up
- SOPMOD
- Special Operations Peculiar Modification
- STOVL
- short take-off and vertical landing
- TT
- torpedo tube(s)
- VL-MICA
- vertically launched point-defence missile system based on the MICA air-to-air missile
- VLS
- vertical launch system
- VTOL
- Vertical Take-Off and Landing (Also: Vertol)
- XO
- Executive Officer
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