| A
|
ampere
|
| A |
atto (10-18) |
| AA |
Air Army (Soviet)
|
| AA |
Automatic Anti-aircraft
(guns or machine guns) |
| AA |
Alarm Assignment
|
| A/A |
Air-to-Air
|
| AAA
|
Anti-Aircraft Artillery
|
| A&AEE
|
Aircraft and Armament Experimental Establishment
|
| AAM
|
Air-to-Air Missile
|
| AAM |
Anti-Aircraft Missile
|
| AAR
|
Air-to-Air Refuelling
|
| AAW
|
Anti Air Warfare
|
| AB
|
Air Base
|
| AB |
Afterburner |
| ABCCC
|
Airborne Battlefield Command and Control Centre (USAF)
|
| ABM
|
Anti-Ballistic Missile
|
| abn
|
airborne
|
| AC
|
Alternating Current
|
| A/C
|
Aircraft |
| AC&WS
|
Aircraft Control and Warning System
|
| ACC
|
Air Combat Command
|
| ACC |
Air Component Commander |
| ACC |
Area Control Centre
|
| ACE
|
Automatic Clutter Elimination
|
| ACET
|
Automatic Cancellation of Extended Targets
|
| ACI
|
Airborne Control Intercept
|
| ACMI
|
Air Combat Manoeuvring Instrumentation
|
| ACOC
|
Alternative Command Operations Centre
|
| acq
|
acquisition
|
| ACS
|
Aerial Common Sensor
|
| ACS |
Assistant Chief of Staff
|
| ACS/I
|
Assistant Chief of Staff / Intelligence
|
| ACTD
|
Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator
|
| ACW
|
Aircraft Control and Warning
|
| AD
|
Air Defence
|
| A/D
|
Analogue to Digital
|
| ADA
|
Airborne Data Automation
|
| ADA |
Air Defence Area
|
| ADA |
Air Defence Artillery
|
| ADA |
A high-level computer language
|
| ADC
|
Air Defence Controller
|
| ADC |
Air Defence Centre
|
| ADC |
Air Defence Command
|
| ADCC
|
Air Defence Command Centre
|
| ADCJ
|
Air Defence Communication Jammer
|
| ADF
|
Air Defence Forces
|
| ADF |
Australian Defence Forces |
| ADF |
Automatic Direction Finding
|
| ADIZ
|
Air Defence Identification Zone
|
| ADLO
|
Air Defence Liaison Officer
|
| ADLO |
Army Air Defence Liaison Officer
|
| ADM
|
Atomic Demolition Monitors
|
| Adm
|
Admiral
|
| ADN
|
Air Defence Notification
|
| ADNC
|
Air Defence Notification Centre
|
| ADP
|
Automatic Data Processing or Processor
|
| ADPS
|
Automatic Data Processing System
|
| ADS
|
Air Defence Suppression
|
| ADV
|
Air Defence Variant (Tornado F3)
|
| ADVCAP
|
Advanced Capability
|
| ADW
|
Auxiliary Data Word
|
| ADX
|
Automatic Data eXchange
|
| ADZ
|
Air Defence Zone
|
| AEAO
|
Airborne Emergency Actions Officer
|
| AEELS
|
Automated ELINT Emitter Location System
|
| AEGIS
|
Airborne Early warning / Ground environment Integration
Segment
|
| AESA |
Active, Electronically Scanned Array
|
| AETS
|
Area Electronic Threat Study
|
| AEW |
Airborne Early Warning
|
| AEW&C
|
Airborne Early Warning and Control
|
| AF
|
Audio Frequency
|
| AFB
|
Air Force Base
|
| AFC
|
Automatic Frequency Control
|
| AFRL
|
Air Force Research Laboratory
|
| AFS
|
Avionics Flight Software
|
| AFSC
|
Air Force Systems Command
|
| AFCEA
|
Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
|
| AFDRU
|
Armed Forces Disaster Relief Unit
|
| AFRC
|
Air Force Reserve Command
|
| AFRL
|
Air Force Research Laboratory
|
| AFSOC
|
Air Force Special Operations Command
|
| AFV
|
Armoured Fighting Vehicle
|
| AGARD
|
Advisory Group for Aerospace, Research, and Development
|
| A/G
|
Air-to-Ground
|
| AGC
|
Automatic Gain Control
|
| AGDL |
Air-Ground Data Link |
| AGE
|
Aerospace Ground Equipment
|
| AGI
|
Active Gatherer of Intelligence
|
| AGI
|
Auxilliary Gatherer of Information
|
| agl
|
above ground level
|
| AGM
|
Air-to-Ground Missile
|
| AGS
|
Airborne Ground Surveillance
|
| AGWO
|
Angle Gate Walk-Off
|
| AGZ
|
Actual Ground Zero
|
| AHOB
|
Actual Height Of Burst
|
| AI
|
Airborne Intercept
|
| AI
|
Air Intercept
|
| AI
|
Air Interdiction
|
| AIC
|
Attack Information Centre
|
| AICC
|
Airborne Interceptor Command Channel
|
| AIFV
|
Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicle
|
| AIM |
Air Intercept Missile
|
| AIP
|
Anti-Surface Warfare Improvement Program
|
| AIR
|
Air Intercept Rocket
|
| AIS
|
Automated Information System
|
| AIS
|
AWACS Interface System
|
| AIPD
|
Airborne Intercept Pulse Doppler
|
| AJ
|
Anti-Jamming |
| ALARM
|
Air Launched Anti-Radiation Missile
|
| ALBM
|
Air-Launched Ballistic Missile
|
| ALC
|
Air Logistics Centre
|
| ALC |
AirLift Control
|
| ALCM
|
Air-Launched Cruise Missile
|
| ALCS
|
Airborne Launch Control System
|
| ALISS
|
Advanced Lightweight Influence Sweep System
|
| ALM
|
Alarm
|
| ALO
|
Air Liaison Officer
|
| AM
|
Amplitude
Modulation |
| AME
|
Amplitude Modulated Equipment
|
| AMLDS
|
Airborne Laser Mine Detection System
|
| Amp
|
Ampere
|
| Amph
|
Amphibious
|
| AMRAAM
|
Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile
|
| AMS
|
Alenia Marconi Systems
|
| AMTI
|
Airborne Moving Target Indicator
|
| AN
|
Army / Navy
|
| ANG
|
Air National Guard
|
| ANL
|
Automatic Noise Levelling
|
| AOA
|
Angle Of Arrival
|
| AOB
|
Air Order of Battle
|
| AOC
|
Association of Old Crows
|
| APAR
|
Active Phased Array Radar
|
| APC
|
Armoured Personnel Carrier
|
| APT
|
Automatically Programmed Tools
|
| AR
|
Army
|
| AR |
Advanced Readiness
|
| ARA
|
Airborne Radar Approach
|
| ARC
|
Area Reprogramming Capability
|
| ARCP
|
Air Refuelling Contact Point
|
| ARCT
|
Air Refuelling Contact Time
|
| ARDF
|
Airborne Radio Direction Finding
|
| ARJS
|
Airborne Radar Jamming System
|
| ARM
|
Anti-Radiation Missile
|
| ARM |
Anti-Radar Missile
|
| Armd
|
Armoured
|
| ARO
|
Airborne Range Only
|
| ARRC
|
ACE Rapid Reaction Corps
|
| Arty
|
Artillery
|
| ASARS
|
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System
|
| ASAT
|
Anti-Satellite system
|
| ASCAT
|
Anti-SAM Combat Assistance Team
|
| ASCII
|
American Standard Code Information Interchange
|
| ASCM
|
Anti-Ship Cruise Missile
|
| ASFC
|
Air Situation Filter Centre
|
| ASG
|
Assign
|
| ASGN
|
Assign
|
| ASGW
|
Air-to-Surface Guided Weapon
|
| ASIC
|
Application Specific Integrated Circuit
|
| ASK
|
Amplitude Shift Keying
|
| ASM
|
Air-to-Surface Missiles
|
| ASM |
Air Situation Message
|
| ASMD
|
Anti-Ship Missile Defence
|
| ASO
|
Air Situation Officer |
| ASOC
|
Air
Support Operations Centre
|
| ASPIS
|
Advanced Self-Protection Integrated Suite
|
| ASPJ
|
Airborne Self-Protection Jammer
|
| ASR
|
Air Surveillance Radar
|
| ASR |
Assigned Signal Recognition
|
| ASR |
Automatic Send or Receive
|
| ASR |
Altimeter Setting Region
|
| ASRAAM
|
Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile
|
| ASTAMIDS
|
Army’s Airborne Stand-off Minefield Detection System
|
| ASTOR
|
Airborne Stand-Off Radar
|
| ASUW
|
Anti-Surface vessel Warfare
|
| ASW
|
Anti-Submarine Warfare
|
| ATA
|
Advanced Tactical Aircraft
|
| ATA |
Actual
Time of Arrival
|
| ATACCS
|
Airborne Targeting And Cross-Cueing System
|
| AtacCS
|
Army Tactical Computer System
|
| ATADS
|
Advanced Tactical Air Defence System
|
| ATAM
|
Air Threat Advisory Message
|
| ATARS
|
Advanced Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance System
|
| ATC
|
Air Training Command
|
| ATC |
Air Traffic Control |
| ATC |
Air Traffic Controller |
| ATCRBS
|
Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System
|
| ATCC
|
Air Traffic Control Centre
|
| ATD
|
Actual Time of Departure
|
| ATD |
Advanced Technology Demonstrator
|
| ATE
|
Automatic Test Equipment
|
| ATGM
|
Anti-Tank Guided Missile
|
| ATI
|
Automatic Track Initiation
|
| ATIRCM
|
Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures
|
| ATIRCM/CMWS |
ATIRCM / Common Missile Warning System |
| ATO
|
Air Tasking Order
|
| ATOT
|
Actual Time Over Target
|
| ATP
|
Advanced Targeting Pod
|
| ATR
|
Automatic Target Recognition
|
| ATT
|
Attenuation
|
| ATTEN
|
Attenuation
|
| ATV
|
Automatic Threshold Variation
|
| AUTODIN
|
Automatic Digital Network
|
| AUTOSEVOCOM
|
AUTOmatic Secure VOice COMmunications
|
| A/V
|
Audio / Visual
|
| AVC
|
Automatic Volume Control
|
| AVNL
|
Automatic Video Noise Levelling
|
| AVNL |
Automatic Video Noise Limiting
|
| AWACS
|
Airborne Warning and Control System
|
| AWE
|
Light Advanced Warfighting Experiment
|
| Az |
Azimuth |
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