Glossary of military abbreviations

• AIFV
• AMOS
• AN-94
• AN/PVS-14
• ANZAC
• ANZUS
• ATGW
• Abrams/Crusader Common Engine
• Active Electronically Scanned Array
• Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle
• Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight
• Advanced Combat Rifle
• Advanced Composite Armoured Vehicle Platform
• Advanced Land Combat
• Advanced Vehicle Technologies
• Advanced Warfighting Experiment
• Advanced security agency
• Advanced tank cannon system
• Advanced technology demonstration
• Advanced technology demonstrator
• Advanced technology light artillery system
• Advanced towed cannon system
• Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
• Afghanistan Mission Network
• After Action Review
• Air Defence Anti-Tank System
• Air Transportable Towed System
• Air burst
• Airburst round
• All Terrain Tracked Carrier
• All-terrain vehicle
• Alliant Techsystems
• Allotropes of phosphorus
• Ammunition supply vehicle
• Amphibious assault vehicle
• Anti-Aircraft Warfare
• Anti-Ballistic Missile
• Anti-aircraft gun
• Anti-armor vehicle evaluation
• Anti-materiel rifle
• Anti-radiation projectile
• Anti-reflective device
• Anti-tank
• Anti-tank grenade launcher
• Anti-tank guided missile
• Anti-tank gun
• Anti-tank mine
• Antiaircraft warfare
• Ape tape
• Appliqué armor
• ArmaLite rifle
• Armament Manufacturing Corporation
• Armament Research and Development Command
• Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center
• Armed Robotic Vehicle
• Armor-piercing bullet
• Armored Cavalry Cannon Vehicle
• Armored Combat Earthmover
• Armored Reconnaissance Scout Vehicle
• Armour Remote Target System
• Armoured Battlegroup Support Vehicle
• Armoured Personnel Carrier
• Armoured Recon Transport
• Armoured TOW vehicle
• Armoured Trials and Development Unit
• Armoured Vehicle General Purpose
• Armoured Vehicle Heavy
• Armoured Vehicle Light
• Armoured Vehicle Medium
• Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers
• Armoured and Mechanised Unit Air Defence
• Armoured fighting vehicle
• Armoured personnel carrier
• Armoured repair and recovery vehicle
• Armoured repair plates
• Armoured vehicle reconnaissance
• Armoured vehicle-launched bridge
• Army Base Repair Organisation
• Army Systems Acquisition Review Council
• Artillery Saturation Rocket System
• Artillery target location vehicle
• Assault Amphibious Vehicle
• Atelier de Construction Roanne
• Atelier de Construction de Tarbes
• Australian Defence Force
• Australian Flying Corps
• Australian Imperial Force (disambiguation)
• Austrian Spanish Co-operative Development
• Automated Targeting and Fire Control System
• Automatic Colt Pistol
• Automatic Command to Line of Sight
• Automatic day/night optical tracker
• Automatic target acquisition system
• Automatic target detection
• Automatic target detection and tracking
• Automotive test rig
• Aww-Busting System
• BILL under armour
• Ballistic Missile Defense
• Base bleed
• Battery command post
• Battery commander
• Battle dress uniform
• Battlefield Artillery Target Engagement System
• Battlespace
• Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle
• Biological warfare
• Biometrics Automated Toolset
• Bionix AFV
• Blank-firing adaptor
• Brigade combat team
• British Aerospace
• British Aerospace Systems and Equipment
• Bunker demolition munition
• CENTO
• Cathode ray tube
• Charge-coupled device
• Chemical warfare
• Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear
• Close of Business
• Collimator sight
• Combat Support Boat
• Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station
• DARPA
• Defence Evaluation and Research Agency
• Defence Procurement Agency
• Defence Research Agency
• Defense Information Systems Agency
• Defense Intelligence Agency
• Desertion
• Electric drive system
• Engineer Services Regiment
• Engineering Installation
• Enhanced radiation weapon
• Euromissile
• Euromissile HOT
• FUBAR
• Fabrique Nationale
• Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles
• Federated Mission Networking
• Fibre optic gyroscope
• Field Artillery Computer Equipment
• Fighting In Built-Up Areas
• Fitted For Radio
• Fitted For Wireless
• Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket
• Food Machinery Corporation
• Front line
• Full metal jacket bullet
• Future Engineer Tank
• Future Force Warrior
• Future Integrated Soldier Technology
• Future Rapid Effect System
• GRU
• Gajaba Regiment
• Gemunu Watch
• General Purpose Machine Gun
• Georgian Special Operations Forces
• Global Positioning System
• Glossary of firearms terminology
• Government-Furnished Property
• Grenade Launcher
• Gun laying
• Heavy Equipment Transport System
• Heavy Machine Gun
• Heckler & Koch
• High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle
• High-explosive antitank
• Holographic Optical Element
• Holographic diffraction sight
• Horsepower
• Howitzer
• Improvised Explosive Device
• Incendiary ammunition
• Indian Air Force
• Indirect fire
• Individual Defence Weapon
• Indonesian National Armed Forces
• Infrared
• Integrated logistics support
• Intermediate-range ballistic missile
• International Maritime Security Construct
• Israel Aircraft Industries
• Jacketed hollow point
• Killed in action
• Kinetic energy
• Korean People's Army
• LAV-25
• LSAT light machine gun
• List of United States Army aircraft battalions
• List of established military terms
• List of military tactics
• Low intensity conflict
• M1117 Armored Security Vehicle
• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle
• M981 FISTV
• MEDEVAC
• MICH TC-2000 Combat Helmet
• MOPP (protective gear)
• Mechanized Infantry Regiment
• Medium Girder Bridge
• Medium Machine Gun
• Military Airlift Command
• Military Vehicles and Engineering Establishment
• Military police
• Ministry of Defence
• MoD Procurement Executive
• Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle
• NATO Response Force
• NZDF
• NZEF
• NZSAS
• National Training Center
• Naval Sea Systems Command
• Night Vision Goggle
• Night vision goggles
• North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
• Nuclear, Biological, Chemical
• OPORD
• Observation post
• P-38 can opener
• PIAT
• Precision Guided Mortar Munition
• RNZAF
• RNZN
• RPG-2
• Rate of fire
• Recoilless rifle
• Recruit training
• Reduced Range Practice Rocket
• Reduced Range Training Round
• Regimental police
• Remote weapon system
• Remotely piloted vehicle
• Republic of Korea
• Republic of Korea Indigenous Tank
• Republic of Korea Marine Corps
• Rifle Grenade General Service
• Rifle Team Equipment
• Rifleman's Assault Weapon
• Rocket-propelled grenade
• Role Specialist Nation
• Rosette Scanning Seeker
• Roues Transporteur de Troupes
• Royal Air Force
• Royal Aircraft Establishment
• Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment
• Royal Armoured Corps
• Royal Artillery
• Royal Australian Air Force
• Royal Australian Artillery
• Royal Australian Engineers
• Royal Australian Navy
• Royal Canadian Air Force
• Royal Canadian Navy
• Royal Corps of Transport
• Royal Field Artillery and Royal Fleet Auxiliary
• Royal Flying Corps
• Royal Horse Artillery
• Royal Indian Navy
• Royal Navy
• Royal Ordnance
• Royal Ordnance Factory
• Royal Small Arms Factory
• Royal Ulster Constabulary
• SABCA
• SADARM
• SADF
• SEALOCK
• SEATO
• SINCGARS
• STANAG
• STOVL
• SUBstitute
• Sabot (firearms)
• Saudi Arabian National Guard
• Selectable Assault Battle Rifle
• Shaped charge
• Society of Automotive Engineers
• South African National Defence Force
• Special Air Service
• Special Air Service Regiment
• Special Forces
• Special Mission Unit
• Special Operations Forces
• Special Purpose Rifle
• Special Reconnaissance
• Special Reconnaissance Regiment
• Special Support and Reconnaissance Company
• Special Task Force
• Squad Automatic Weapon
• Sri Lanka Air Force
• Sri Lanka Armoured Corps
• Sri Lanka Army
• Sri Lanka Army Commando Regiment
• Sri Lanka Army General Service Corps
• Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps
• Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps
• Sri Lanka Army Pioneer Corps
• Sri Lanka Army Service Corps
• Sri Lanka Army Women's Corps
• Sri Lanka Coast Guard
• Sri Lanka Corps of Military Police
• Sri Lanka Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
• Sri Lanka Engineers
• Sri Lanka Light Infantry
• Sri Lanka National Guard
• Sri Lanka Navy
• Sri Lanka Rifle Corps
• Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment
• Stabilizing Automatic Bomb Sight
• Steyr AUG
• Tacbe
• Tactical Air Control Party
• Tank Destroyer
• Television
• Temporary duty assignment
• Titanium tetrachloride
• Tracer ammunition
• Trinitrotoluene
• U.S. Army Field Manuals
• U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command
• Ulster Defence Regiment
• Ultraviolet
• United States Air Force
• United States Army
• United States Army Air Forces
• United States Army Aviation and Missile Command
• United States Army Materiel Command
• United States Coast Guard
• United States Marine Corps
• United States Navy
• United States military occupation code
• Universal Transverse Mercator
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
• Unmanned Ground Vehicle
• Urban warfare
• VTOL
• Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd
• Volt
• Vulcan Air Defense System
• Véhicule Blindé de Combat d'Infanterie
• Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé
• Weapon of mass destruction
• Weapons of mass destruction
• White phosphorus incendiary
• Wide-Area Motion Imagery (WAMI)
• Winchester Short Magnum
• abbreviation
• acronym
• air bursting ammunition system
• aircraft commander
• alternating current
• ammunition container assembly
• anti-aircraft warfare
• anti-lock braking system
• anti-tank
• artillery
• assault gun
• battery control centre
• bomb damage assessment
• electro-slag refined steel
• electronic warfare
• explosive reactive armour
• field gun
• field of view
• fire support vehicle
• fiscal year
• forward line of own troops
• forward-looking infra-red
• fragmentation (weaponry)
• gram
• hour
• howitzer
• kilogramme
• laser rangefinder
• light machine gun
• long rifle
• machine gun
• main battle tank
• metre
• millimetre
• mortar (weapon)
• moving target indication
• ramjet
• rocket
• rolled homogeneous armour
• seal team six
• self-destruct
• sub-machine gun
• surface-to-air missile
• thermal imaging
• trigger (firearms)
• urban warfare
• white phosphorus