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AAA |
Anti Aircraft Artillery |
AAM |
Air to Air missile |
AEW |
Airborne early warning |
ADF |
Automatic Direction Finding |
ALCM |
Air launched Cruise missile |
AMRAAM |
Advanced Medium range Air to Air Missile |
AFB |
Air force base (US) |
ASST |
Anti Ship Surveillance and Targeting |
ASW |
Anti Submarine Warfare |
AOA |
Angle of Attack |
AWACS |
Airborne Warning And Control System |
AGM |
Air to Ground missile |
CAP |
Combat Air Patrol |
Comint |
Communications Intelligence |
ECM |
Electronic Counter measures |
ESM |
Electronic Support measures |
Elint |
Electronic Intelligence |
FAC |
Forward air control |
FLIR |
Forward Looking Infra Red |
HARM |
High speed Anti Radiation Missile |
HAS |
Hardened aircraft shelter |
HDU |
Hose Drum unit |
HUD |
Head up display |
ICBM |
Inter continental Ballistic Missile |
IDF/AF |
Israeli Defence Force/ Air Force |
IFF |
Identification Friend or Foe |
ILS |
Instrument landing system |
IR |
Infra Red |
IRCM |
Infra Red countermeasures |
JASDF |
Japanese Air Self Defence Force |
LRMTS |
Laser ranger and marked target seeker |
LZ |
Landing zone |
NORAD |
North American Air Defence Command |
MAD |
Magnetic abnormality detector |
PGM |
Precision guided munition (laser guided bomb) |
RAF |
Royal Air Force |
RAAF |
Royal Australian Air force |
USAF |
United states Air force |
RNAS |
Royal Navy Air Station |
RFC |
Royal Flying Corps |
RWR |
Radar warning Receiver |
SAC |
Strategic Air control (US) |
SACEUR |
Supreme Allied Commander Europe |
SAM |
Surface to Air missile |
SAR |
Search and Rescue |
SDI |
Strategic Defence Initiative (Star Wars) |
Sigint |
Signals intelligence |
SLAR |
Side looking airborne radar |
SRAM |
Short range attack missile |
STOL |
Short take off and landing |
TELINT |
Telemetry Intelligence |
VTOL |
Vertical take off and landing |
OKB |
Experimental Aircraft Bureau (Russian) |
UHF |
Ultra High Frequency |
VHF |
Very High Frequency |