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AAM -- Air-to-air missile
AAmr -- Antiarmor
AARB -- Advanced aerial refueling boom
AB -- Air base
ABCCC -- Airborne battlefield command & control center
ADIZ -- Air defense identification zone
Adv -- Advanced
ADVCAP -- Advanced capability
AEW -- Airborne early warning
AFB -- Air force base
AFCS -- Automatic (or adaptive) flight control system
AGE -- Aerospace ground equipment
AGM -- Air-to-ground missile
AHRS -- Attitude and heading reference system
Air sup -- Air superiority
ALARM -- Air-launched antiradiation missile
ALCM -- Air-launched cruise missile
ALFS -- Airborne low-frequency sonar
ALLTV -- All-light-level television
AMP -- Avionics modernization program
AMRAAM -- Advanced medium-range air-to-air missile
AP -- Airport
APR -- Automatic power reserve
APU -- Auxiliary power unit
AR -- Air refueling
ARDS -- Aerial rocket delivery system
Armt -- Armament
ASM -- Air-to-surface missile
ASUW -- Antisurface unit warfare
ASV -- Antisurface vessel (radar)
ASW -- Antisubmarine warfare
AT -- Antitank
ATGW -- Antitank guided weapons
ATHS -- Automated target handoff system
ATM -- Antitank missile
ATO -- Airborne tactical officer
Avn -- Aviation
AWACS --Airborne warning and control system (aircraft), or
airborne
warning and control squadron (USAF unit)
BAI -- Battlefield air interdiction
BAM -- Base aérea militar
BAN -- Base aéronavale
BERP -- British experimental rotor programme
BITE -- Built-in test equipment
Bmr -- Bomber
BVR -- Beyond visual range
CAINS -- Carrier aircraft inertial navigation system
CAS -- Close air support
CBR -- Chemical, biological, and radiological (warfare)
Cbt -- Combat
CBU -- Cluster bomb unit
CFE -- Conventional forces in Europe
CFT -- Conformal fuel tank
cg -- Center of gravity
CGAS --Coast Guard air station
CILOP -- Conversion in lieu of procurement (or production)
CMRS -- Countermeasures receiver set
COD -- Carrier onboard delivery
COIN -- Counterinsurgency
COMINT -- Communications intelligence
CONUS -- Continental United States
CRT --.Cathode ray tube
C3 -- Command, control & communications
C2 -- Command & control
CW -- Continuous wave
DACT -- Defensive air combat training
DARIN -- Display attack and ranging inertial navigation
Def -- Defense
DELTIC -- Delay line time compression
DIFAR -- Direction frequency analyzer and ranging
Div --Division
DLIR -- Downward-looking infrared
DMAS -- Digital modular avionics system
DRS --Detection and ranging set
EATS -- Extended area test system
ECCM -- Electronic counter-countermeasures
ECM -- Electronic countermeasures
ECMO -- Electronic countermeasures officer
EFIS -- Electronic flight instrumentation system
ELF -- Extremely low frequency
ELS -- Emission locator system
ELINT -- Electronic intelligence
EM -- Electro-magnetic
EMP -- Electro-magnetic pulse
Eng -- Engine
EO -- Electro-optical
ESM -- Electronic support measures
ESSS -- External stores support system
EW -- Electronic warfare
EWO -- Electronic warfare officer
EWWS -- Electronic warfare warning system
EXCAP -- Expanded capability
FAA --Federal Aviation Administration
FAC --Forward air control
FAE -- Fuel air explosive
FAR -- Federal aviation regulations
FARP -- Forward arming & refueling point
FBW -- Fly by wire
FEBA -- Forward edge of battle area
FFAR -- Folding-fin aircraft rocket
FLIR -- Forward-looking infrared
FMS -- Foreign military sales
FOL -- Forward operating location
FSAT -- Full-scale aerial target
FSD -- Full-scale development
Ftr -- Fighter
FY --Fiscal year
GCA --Ground-controlled approach
GCI -- Ground-controlled intercept
GINA --Global positioning system/inertial navigation assembly
GP -- General purpose
GPS -- Global positioning system
HARM -- High-speed antiradiation missile
HDD -- Head-down display
Hel -- Helicopter
HF -- High frequency
hi-lo-hi -- Mission profile with ingress at high altitude, attack
at low altitude, and egress at high altitude
HIRSS -- Hover infrared suppressor system
HOLAS -- Hands on lever and stick
HOTAS -- Hands on throttle and stick
HUD -- Head-up display
HUDWAC -- Head-up display/weapon-aiming computer
HVAR --High-velocity aircraft rocket
IACS -- Integrated acoustic communication system
IAP -- International airport
ICAP -- Improved capability
ICS -- Internal countermeasure set
IDAP -- Integrated defensive avionics program
IFF -- Identification friend or foe
IGE -- In-ground effect
ILS -- Instrument landing system
INAS -- Integrated nav/attack system
INEWS -- Integrated electronic warfare system
INS -- Inertial navigation system
Int -- Internal
IOC -- Initial operational capability
IR -- Infrared
IRADS -- Infrared acquisition and detection system
IRCM -- Infrared countermeasures
IRDS -- Infrared (or integrated) detection system
IRS -- Inertial reference system
IRST -- Infrared search and track
ISA -- International standard atmosphere
ISAR -- Inverse synthetic aperture radar
JAR -- Joint airworthiness requirements
JPATS -- Joint primary aircraft training system
JTIDS -- Joint tactical information distribution system
kN --Kilonewton
kW -- Kilowatt
LANTIRN -- Low-altitude navigation targeting infrared for night
LAPADS -- Lightweight acoustic processing and display system
LERX -- Leading edge root extension
LIDS -- Lift improvement devices
LIFEX -- Life extension
LIFT -- Lead-in fighter training
LLTV -- Low-light television
LLLTV -- Low-light-level television
lo-lo-lo --Mission profile with ingress, attack, and egress at
low altitude
LORAN --Long-range navigation
LOROP -- Long-range oblique photography
LRMTS -- Laser-ranger and marked-target seeker
LRU -- Line-replaceable unit
LST/SCAM -- Laser spot tracker/strike camera
LTD/R -- Laser target designator/ranger
MAD -- Magnetic anomaly detector
MADAR --Maintenance analysis, detection, and recording
MAP -- Mutual assistance program
MFD -- Multifunction display
MGTOW -- Maximum gross take-off weight
MIL-STD -- Military standard (also abbreviated Mil-Std and
MILSTD)
MirSIP -- Mirage safety improvement program
MLU -- Mid-life update
MMS -- Mast-mounted sight
MPAS -- Multipurpose armament system
MoU -- Memorandum of understanding
MSIP -- Multinational staged improvement program, or multistage
improvement program
NACES -- Navy aircrew common ejection seat
NADEP -- Naval air depot
Nav -- Navigation
NAV/COMM --Navigation/communications
NAS -- Naval air station
NAVWASS -- Navigation and weapon aiming subsystem
NAWS -- Naval air weapons station
NFO -- Naval flight officer
NOE -- Nap-of-the-earth
NOLO -- No live operator
NUD -- Nonupdated
NVG -- Night-vision goggles
OBOGS -- Onboard oxygen generation system
OCIP -- Offensive capability improvement program
OCU -- Operational capability upgrade, or operational conversion
unit
OGE -- Out of ground effect
OKB --Opytno-Konstruktorskoye Byuro (experimental design bureau)
Opnl -- Operational
Ops -- Operations
OTHT -- Over-the-horizon targeting
OWE -- Operating weight empty
PDS -- Passive detection system
PNS -- Precision navigation system
PNVS -- Pilot night-vision system
Poss w/drawn --Possibly withdrawn
Pri -- Primary
Prob w/drawn -- Probably withdrawn
RAM -- Radar absorbent material
RAST -- Recovery assist, secure, and traverse
RDT&E -- Research, development, test & evaluation
Recon -- Reconnaissance
RFP -- Request for proposals
Rgt -- Regiment
RIO -- Radar intercept officer
rpg -- Rounds per gun
rpm -- Revolutions per minute
RSO -- Reconnaissance system officer
RTU -- Replacement training unit
RWR -- Radar warning receiver
SAM -- Surface-to-air missile
SAR -- Search and rescue
SARH -- Semiactive radar homing
SCNS -- Self-contained navigation system
SEAD -- Suppression of enemy air defenses
Sec -- Security
SENSO -- Sensor operator
sfc -- Specific fuel consumption
SIGINT -- Signals intelligence
SINCGARS -- Single-channel ground and airborne radio subsystem
SIP -- System improvement program
SIR -- System integrated receiver
SLAR -- Side-looking airborne radar
SLIR -- Sideways looking infrared
SLT -- Sonobuoy launch tube
SMILS -- Sonobuoy missile impact locating system
Spec -- Special
SPS -- Self-protection subsystem
SRAM -- Short-range attack missile
SSBN -- Nuclear-powered fleet ballistic missile submarine
SSIP -- Sensor system improvement program
st -- Static thrust
STOL -- Short takeoff and landing
Strat -- Strategic
Sup -- Superiority
Supp -- Support
SUS -- Signal underwater sound
S/VTOL -- Short/vertical takeoff and landing
SWIP -- Systems weapon integration program
Tac -- Tactical
TACAMO --Take action and move out (Marine Corps acronym used to
identify aircraft used for C3 with SSBN)
TACNAVMOD -- Tactical navigation modification
TACO or TACCO -- Tactical coordinator
TADS -- Target acquisition and designation sight
TANS -- Tactical air navigation system
TARPS -- Tactical air reconnaissance pod system
TBO -- Time between overhauls
TCAS -- Traffic alert and collision avoidance system
TCCS -- Tactical command and control countermeasure set
TEWS -- Tactical electronic warfare system
TIALD -- Thermal-imaging airborne-laser designator
TISEO -- Target identification system electro-optical
TJS -- Tactical jamming system
Tng -- Training
Tnr -- Trainer
TO -- Takeoff
TOW -- Takeoff weight
TRAM -- Target recognition attack multisensor
Trans -- Transport
TSSAM -- Tri-service standoff attack missiles
TTWS -- Terminal threat warning system
UHF -- Ultra-high frequency
VIP -- Very important person
VLF -- Very-low frequency
V/STOL -- Vertical/short takeoff and landing
WSCS -- Weapons system computational subsystem
WSO -- Weapons system officer
zero-zero -- zero altitude-zero speed (ejection seat parameters)