Glossary of military abbreviations
- AGM-114 Hellfire
- AMOS
- AN-94
- AN/MPQ-49 Forward Area Alerting Radar
- AN/PVS-14
- ANZAC
- ANZUS
- ATGW
- Aardvark JSFU
- Aberdeen Proving Ground
- Accuracy International Chassis System
- Active electronically scanned array
- Active-matrix liquid-crystal display
- Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle
- Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight
- Advanced Combat Rifle
- Advanced Individual Combat Weapon
- Advanced Technology Engine
- Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
- Aegis ballistic missile defense system
- Aerial refueling
- Afghanistan Mission Network
- After-action review
- Aimpoint CompM2
- Air Defence Anti-Tank System
- Air Force Specialty Code
- Air and Missile Defense Radar
- Air burst
- Air defense artillery
- Air force
- Air interdiction
- Air observation post
- Air-to-surface missile
- Airborne early warning and control
- Airburst round
- Aircraft Carrier
- Aircraft commander
- Airman Battle Uniform
- All-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment
- All-terrain vehicle
- Alliant Techsystems
- Allotropes of phosphorus
- Alternating current
- Ampere hour
- Amphibious assault vehicle
- Analog-to-digital converter
- Anniston Army Depot
- Antenna coupler
- Anti-aircraft
- Anti-aircraft artillery
- Anti-aircraft gun
- Anti-aircraft warfare
- Anti-ballistic missile
- Anti-lock braking system
- Anti-materiel rifle
- Anti-personnel mine
- Anti-personnel weapon
- Anti-radiation missile
- Anti-tank
- Anti-tank guided missile
- Anti-tank gun
- Anti-tank mine
- Antiaircraft warfare
- Appliqué armor
- Area denial artillery munition
- Area of operations
- ArmaLite
- Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center
- Armed Robotic Vehicle
- Armor Piercing Ballistic Cap
- Armor-piercing bullet
- Armor-piercing, capped, ballistic capped shell
- Armored Combat Earthmover
- Armored Gun System
- Armored Reconnaissance/Airborne Assault Vehicle
- Armored cavalry regiment
- Armored engineer vehicle
- Armour-piercing discarding sabot
- Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot
- Armour-piercing high-explosive
- Armour-piercing incendiary
- Armour-piercing, capped
- Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicle
- Armoured Vehicle General Purpose
- Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers
- Armoured fighting vehicle
- Armoured personnel carrier
- Armoured recovery vehicle
- Armoured vehicle-launched bridge
- Army
- Army Base Repair Organisation
- Army Combat Uniform
- Army Ground Forces
- Assault amphibious vehicle
- Assault rifle
- Australian Defence Force
- Australian Defence Industries
- Australian Flying Corps
- Australian Imperial Force (disambiguation)
- Automatic Colt Pistol
- Automatic Command to Line of Sight
- Automatic fire suppression
- Automatic identification system
- Automatic target recognition
- Autonomous precision-guided munition
- Auxiliary power unit
- BGM-71 TOW
- BMP-1
- BMP-2
- BMP-3
- Baghdad Pact
- Barrier Combat air patrol
- Base bleed
- Battalion Landing Team
- Battery commander
- Battle dress uniform
- Battle management language
- Battle rifle
- Battlecruiser
- Battlefield management system
- Battleship
- Battlespace
- Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle
- Beam riding
- Belt (firearms)
- Benelli M4
- Biological warfare
- Bionix AFV
- Blank (cartridge)
- Blank-firing adaptor
- Border guard
- Bradley Fighting Vehicle
- Brake horsepower
- Brigade combat team
- Brigade support battalion
- British Aerospace
- Built up area
- Built-in test equipment
- Bullet trap
- C-4 (explosive)
- CBRN defense
- CENTO
- CILAS
- Canadian Armed Forces
- Candela
- Cannon-launched guided projectile
- Casualty evacuation
- Cathode ray tube
- Cavalry Fighting Vehicle
- Charge-coupled device
- Chemical warfare
- Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear
- Chief of Staff
- Circular error probable
- Civil Air Patrol
- Close Quarters Battle Receiver
- Close air support
- Close of Business
- Close-in weapon system
- Close-quarters combat
- Closed-circuit television
- Collaborative Research into Small Arms Technology
- Collimator sight
- Combat Action Badge
- Combat Identification Panel
- Combat Support Boat
- Combat Vehicle 90
- Combat air patrol
- Combat information centre
- Combat outpost
- Command Post
- Command and control
- Command to line-of-sight
- Commander, Air Group
- Commander-in-chief
- Commanding general
- Commanding officer
- Commercial off-the-shelf
- Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Communications Zone
- Communications electronics operating instruction
- Computer-aided design
- Confined space
- Constantly computed impact point
- Continuous-wave radar
- Counterinsurgency
- DARPA
- DEFCON
- Deep-submergence rescue vehicle
- Defence Evaluation and Research Agency
- Defence Procurement Agency
- Defence Research Agency
- Defense Information Systems Agency
- Defense Intelligence Agency
- Delayed-blowback
- Desertion
- Designated marksman rifle
- Destroyer
- Detroit Diesel
- Diopter sight
- Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition
- Electro-optical targeting system
- Electromagnetic catapult
- Electromagnetism
- Electronic countermeasure
- End of Active Service
- Engineer Services Regiment
- Engineering Installation
- Enhanced radiation weapon
- Estimated time of arrival
- Estimated time of departure
- Euromissile
- Euromissile HOT
- Executive officer
- Explosive ordnance disposal
- Explosively formed penetrator
- FGM-148 Javelin
- FGM-172 SRAW
- FN EGLM
- FNG syndrome
- FUBAR
- Fabrique Nationale
- Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles
- Fast Attack Vehicle
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Federated Mission Networking
- Fibre optic gyroscope
- Field ration eating device
- Fighting In Built-Up Areas
- Final protective fire
- Fire Direction Center
- Fire discipline
- Fire for effect
- Fire-control system
- Firefighting foam
- Fitted For Radio
- Fitted For Wireless
- Five paragraph order
- Fleet Ballistic Missile
- Fleet Marine Force
- Focal-plane array
- Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket
- Food Machinery Corporation
- Foreign Military Sales
- Foreign internal defense
- Forward Observer
- Forward air control
- Forward area refueling point
- Forward operating base
- Fragmentary order
- Franchi SPAS-12
- Franchi SPAS-15
- Frangible ammunition
- Front line
- Full metal jacket bullet
- Full operating capability
- Future Assault Shell Technology helmet
- Future Combat Systems
- Future Engineer Tank
- Future Force Warrior
- Future Integrated Soldier Technology
- Future Rapid Effect System
- GIGN
- GRU (Russian Federation)
- GSG 9
- Gajaba Regiment
- Gemunu Watch
- General Accounting Office
- General Dynamics
- General Dynamics Land Systems
- General Motors
- General support rocket system
- General-purpose (disambiguation)
- General-purpose machine gun
- Georgian Special Operations Forces
- Global Positioning System
- Glossary of firearms terminology
- Government-Furnished Property
- Grenade launcher
- Grenade machine gun
- Gross combined weight rating
- Gross trailer weight rating
- Gross vehicle weight
- Ground (electricity)
- Ground-based air defence
- Guided Missile Destroyer
- Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System
- Gun laying
- Gun-howitzer
- Head-up display
- Heavy Assault Bridge
- Heavy Cruiser
- Heavy Equipment Transport System
- Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck
- Heavy Machine Gun
- Heavy infantry fighting vehicle
- Height above ground level
- Helicopter Rope Suspension Technique
- Helmet-mounted display
- Hexachloroethane
- High Altitude Low Opening
- High Explosive, Armor-Piercing
- High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle
- High Velocity Armor Piercing
- High Velocity Armour Piercing
- High altitude/high opening
- High energy laser
- High explosive
- High-explosive anti-tank
- High-explosive incendiary/armor-piercing ammunition
- Hollow charge
- Hollow-point bullet
- Holographic Optical Element
- Holographic diffraction sight
- Horizontal Volute Spring Suspension
- Horsepower
- Howitzer
- Human Engineering Laboratory
- Hybrid vehicle drivetrain
- ITPIAL
- Identification friend or foe
- Image intensifier
- Improved conventional munition
- Improvised Explosive Device
- Incendiary ammunition
- Independent European Program Group
- Indian Air Force
- Indirect fire
- Indium antimonide
- Individual Defence Weapon
- Indonesian National Armed Forces
- Inertial measurement unit
- Inertial reference unit
- Infantry combat vehicle
- Infrared
- Initial operating capability
- Insensitive munition
- Integrated logistics support
- Intelligence preparation of the battlefield
- Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance
- Intercontinental ballistic missile
- Intermediate-range ballistic missile
- International Maritime Security Construct
- Invitation to tender
- Israel Aircraft Industries
- Israel Defense Forces
- Jacketed hollow point
- Japan Air Self-Defense Force
- Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
- Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
- Japan Self-Defense Force
- Joint Direct Attack Munition
- Joint Service Small Arms Program
- Joint Special Operations Command
- Joint Tactical Information Distribution System
- Killed in action
- Kinetic energy
- Knight's Armament Company
- Korean People's Army
- LAV-25
- LSAT light machine gun
- Landing Craft Air Cushion
- Landing Craft Utility
- Landing Ship, Tank
- Landing Vehicle Tracked
- Landing signal officer
- Laser
- Laser aiming module
- Laser designator
- Laser rangefinder
- Laser sight (firearms)
- Law enforcement
- Liaison officer
- Light Automatic Rifle
- Light Cruiser
- Light anti-tank weapon (disambiguation)
- Light support weapon
- Light-emitting diode
- Line of Departure
- Line of communication
- Line of sight
- Line-replaceable unit
- Linear induction accelerator
- Liquid propellant
- Liquid-crystal display
- List of United States Army aircraft battalions
- List of United States Marine Corps air support squadrons
- List of United States Marine Corps aircraft groups
- List of United States Marine Corps aircraft wings
- List of United States Marine Corps wing support groups
- List of aviation, avionics, aerospace and aeronautical abbreviations
- List of established military terms
- List of military tactics
- Listening station
- Lock-on after launch
- Long-range reconnaissance patrol
- Long-wave infrared
- Low rate initial production
- Low-altitude parachute-extraction system
- Low-intensity conflict
- Lyttleton Engineering Works
- M1117 armored security vehicle
- M141 Bunker Defeat Munition
- M142 HIMARS
- M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle
- M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System
- M981 FISTV
- MGM-140 ATACMS
- MICH TC-2000 Combat Helmet
- MILAN
- MIM-23 Hawk
- MOLLE
- MRAP
- Machine pistol
- Main supply route
- Man-portable Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar
- Man-portable air-defense system
- Manual command to line of sight
- Marine Air-Ground Task Force
- Marine Amphibious Unit
- Marine Corps Intelligence
- Marine Wing Support Squadron 271
- Marine expeditionary brigade
- Marine expeditionary force
- Marine expeditionary unit
- Marine expeditionary unit (special operations capable)
- Maritime Prepositioning Ships
- Mark 50 torpedo
- Meal, Ready-to-Eat
- Mean time between failures
- Mechanized Infantry Regiment
- Mechanized infantry combat vehicle
- Medical evacuation
- Medium Girder Bridge
- Medium Machine Gun
- Memorandum of Agreement
- Memorandum of understanding
- Mercury cadmium telluride
- Mess
- Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm
- Metre per second
- Military Airlift Command
- Military Decision Making Process
- Military Load Classification
- Military Operations in Urban Terrain
- Military Standard
- Military Strategic and Tactical Relay
- Military Vehicles and Engineering Establishment
- Military deception
- Military engineering vehicle
- Military intelligence
- Military operations other than war
- Military police
- Ministry of defence
- Minute of angle
- Missile
- Missing in action
- Mission Oriented Protective Posture
- Mk 12 Special Purpose Rifle
- Mk 153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon
- MoD Procurement Executive
- Mobile Artillery Monitoring Battlefield Radar
- Mobile Gun System
- Modular weapon system
- Multi Purpose Vehicle
- Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle
- Multiple integrated laser engagement system
- Multiple round simultaneous impact
- Multiple-barrel firearm
- NATO Response Force
- NLAW
- NOTAM
- Nap-of-the-earth
- National Training Center
- Naval Air Station
- Naval Criminal Investigative Service
- Naval Sea Systems Command
- New Zealand Defence Force
- New Zealand Expeditionary Force
- New Zealand Special Air Service
- Nickel–cadmium battery
- Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate
- Night vision goggle
- Night vision goggles
- Night-vision device
- Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge
- Non-commissioned officer
- Non-developmental item
- Non-line-of-sight cannon
- Non-line-of-sight mortar
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- OPFOR
- OPORD
- Objective Crew Served Weapon
- Objective Individual Combat Weapon
- Observation post
- Occluded eye gunsight
- Officer commanding
- One size fits all
- Operations security
- P-38 can opener
- PIAT
- Palletized Load System
- Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)
- Paramilitary
- Peace enforcement
- Penetration aid
- People's Liberation Army
- People's Liberation Army Air Force
- People's Liberation Army Ground Force
- People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force
- People's Liberation Army Navy
- People's Liberation Army Navy Marine Corps
- People's Liberation Army Rocket Force
- People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
- Person other than Grunt
- Personal computer
- Personal defense weapon
- Personnel Reliability Program
- Phase line (cartography)
- Plunging fire
- Point-defence
- Precise Positioning Service
- Precision Guided Mortar Munition
- Precision-guided munition
- Predicted line of sight
- Preventive maintenance checks and services
- Printed electronic circuit
- Prisoner of war
- Product manager
- Programmable logic controller
- Project management office
- Quick reaction force
- RBS 56 BILL
- RBS 56B BILL 2
- RPG-2
- Radar Warning Receiver
- Radar cross-section
- Rail Integration System
- Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force
- Rapid deployment force
- Rate of fire
- Reactive armour
- Rear echelon mother fucker
- Recoilless rifle
- Recruit training
- Regimental Aid Post
- Regimental Landing Team
- Regimental combat team
- Regimental police
- Reliability, availability, and maintainability
- Remote Anti-Armor Mine System
- Remote controlled weapon station
- Remote weapon system
- Remotely piloted vehicle
- Republic of Korea
- Republic of Korea Marine Corps
- Request for quotation
- Rifle Grenade General Service
- Rifleman's Assault Weapon
- Rimfire ammunition
- Ring laser gyroscope
- Rocket pod
- Rocket-assisted projectile
- Rocket-propelled grenade
- 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 Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
- Royal Field Artillery
- Royal Fleet Auxiliary
- Royal Flying Corps
- Royal Horse Artillery
- Royal Indian Navy
- Royal Logistic Corps
- Royal Navy
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
- Royal New Zealand Navy
- Royal Ordnance
- Royal Ordnance Factory
- Royal Small Arms Factory
- Royal Ulster Constabulary
- Rules of engagement
- SABCA
- SADARM
- SADF
- SEAL Team Six
- SIMON breach grenade
- SINCGARS
- SNAFU
- ST Kinetics
- STANAG
- STOVL
- SUSAT
- SWARM
- SWAT
- Saudi Arabian National Guard
- Search and rescue
- Second
- Second-in-command
- Selectable Assault Battle Rifle
- Self propelled mortar
- Self-loading rifle
- Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon
- Self-propelled artillery
- Semi armour-piercing
- Semi-armor piercing high explosive incendiary
- Semi-automatic command to line of sight
- Semiwadcutter
- Sensitive compartmented information
- Sensitive site exploitation
- Shaped charge
- Shop-replaceable unit
- Shore patrol
- Short range air defense
- Situation Awareness
- Situation report
- Small Arms Protective Insert
- Society of Automotive Engineers
- Soft-point bullet
- South African National Defence Force
- Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
- Space Research Corporation
- Special Air Service
- Special Air Service Regiment
- Special Application Sniper Rifle
- Special Atomic Demolition Munition
- Special Forces
- Special Mission Unit
- Special Operations Forces
- Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction
- Special Reconnaissance
- Special Reconnaissance Regiment
- Special Support and Reconnaissance Company
- Special Task Force (disambiguation)
- Spitzer (bullet)
- 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
- Staff Non-Commissioned Officer
- Standard operating procedure
- Steyr AUG
- Submarine
- Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses
- Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
- TADS/PNVS
- Table of organization and equipment
- Tactical Air Control Party
- Tactical beacon
- Taiwan
- Tank Commander
- Tank Destroyer
- Target Identification System Electro-Optical
- Target drone
- Target practice
- Targeting pod
- Telescoped ammunition
- Telescopic Sighting System
- Television
- Temporary duty assignment
- Thermal Imaging System
- Thermal weapon sight
- Titanium tetrachloride
- Tracer ammunition
- Trinitrotoluene
- U.S. Army Aviation School
- U.S. Army Field Manuals
- U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command
- UTC
- Ulster Defence Regiment
- Ultraviolet
- United States Air Force
- United States Army
- United States Army Air Forces
- United States Army Armor School
- United States Army Aviation and Missile Command
- United States Army CCDC Armaments Center
- United States Army Communications-Electronics Command
- United States Army Materiel Command
- United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
- United States Central Command
- United States Coast Guard
- United States Department of Defense
- United States Marine Corps
- United States Military Entrance Processing Command
- United States Military Standard
- United States Navy
- United States Navy SEALs
- United States Special Operations Command
- United States military occupation code
- Universal Transverse Mercator
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- Unmanned Ground Vehicle
- Urban warfare
- VADS (disambiguation)
- VBIED
- VTOL
- Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd
- Visit, board, search, and seizure
- Volcano mine system
- Volt
- Véhicule Blindé de Combat d'Infanterie
- Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé
- Wadcutter
- Weapon of mass destruction
- Weapons of mass destruction
- White phosphorus incendiary
- White phosphorus munitions
- Wide-area motion imagery
- Winchester Short Magnum
- Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (disambiguation)
- Zulu time