Allgemein weltweit verwendete Militärische Codes:
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Anfangsbuchstabe A:
AA = [USA] Air-to-Air
AA = [France] Armee de l'Air
AAA = [USA] Anti-Aircraft Artillery
AAAD = [UK] All Arms Air Defence
AAAM = [USA] Advanced AIr-to-Air Missile. A replacement for AIM-54 Phoenix
AAC = [UK] Army Air Corps
AAC = [USA] Alaskan Air Command
AACC = [USA] Army Airborne Command and Control
AADGE = [NATO] Allied Command Europe Air Defence Ground Environment
AAED = Advanced Airborne Expendable Decoy
A&AEE = [UK] Aerospace & Armament Experimental Establishment
AAF = Auxiliary Air Force
AAF = [USA] Army Airfield
AAFA = [USA] Army Aviation Flight Activity
AAFCE = [USA] Allied Air Forces Central Europe
AAFTC = [USA] Air Force Flight Test Center (Edwards AFB)
AAH = [USA] Advanced Attack Helicopter, the AH-64
AAI = Angle of Approach Indicator
AAIB = [UK] Air Accidents Investigation Branch
AALAAW = Advanced Air-Launched Anit-Armour Weapon
AAM = Air-to-Air Missile
AAM-N-2 = Sparrow
AAM-N-6 = Sparrow III
AAM-N-7 = Sidewinder
AAM-AE = [USSR] Air-to-Air Missile, Active, Export. Export version of the R-77 'AMRAAMski' (NATO AA-12) missile.
AANCP = [USA] Advanced Airborne National Command Post
AAO = Airborne Area of Operation
AAOFA = [USA] Army Aviation Operating Facility
AAR = Air-to-Air Refuelling
AARB = Advanced Aerial Refuelling Boom
AAS = [USA] Aeromedical Airlift Squadron
AASF = [USA] Army Aviation Support Facility
AATH = Automatic Approach To Hover
AAW = Anti-Aircraft Warfare
AAWS = [USA] Airborne Adverse Weather weapons System. The 'Longbow' mast mounted radar for the AH-64D.
AB = [USA] Air Base
ABC = [UK] AirBorne Cigar, codename for equipment used during WW II to jam German communications.
ABCCC = [USA] Airborne Battlefield Command and Control Center.
Abdul = [USA] Codename for the Japanese Nakajima Ki.27 fighter (Unofficial).
ABG = [USA] Air Base Group
ABM
Anti-Ballistic Missile
ABNCP = [USA] AirBorne Command Post
ABS = USA] Air Base Squadron
ABU = [USA] Avionics Block Upgrade.
ABW = [USA] Air Base Wing
AC = [USA] Aircraft Commander
AC = Aerodynamic Centre
AC = Alternating Current
ACA = Airspace Coordination Area
ACA = Agile Combat Aircraft
ACAB = Air Cavalry Attack Brigade
ACAP = Advanced Composite Aircraft Programme, a helicopter design study.
ACAS = Airborne Collision-Avoidance System
ACAS = [UK] Assistant Chief of Air Staff
ACB = [USA] Amphibious Construction Battalion
ACBT = Air Combat training
ACC = [Allied] Armored Column Cover, continuous presence of tactical
aircraft to support advancing armored forces.
ACC = [USA] Air Combat Command
ACC = Air Component Commander
ACC = Anti-Char Courte Portee short-range anti-tank missile.
ACCS = [USA] Airborne Command & Control Squadron
ACCS = [NATO] Air Command and Control System
ACE = [NATO] Allied Command Europe
ACE = Airborne Command Element
ACETEF = [USA] Air Combat Environment Test and Evaluation Facility. Testing laboratory for combat aircraft.
ACF = Air Combat Fighter
Achse = [Germany] Order to disarm all Italian units. Given on 9 September 1943.
ACINT = Acoustic Intelligence
ACLANT = [NATO] Allied Command, Atlantic
ACLIS = [USA] Airborne Communications Location Identification and Collection System
ACLS = Automatic Carrier Landing System
ACLS = Air Cushion Landing System. Tested on a De Havilland Canada XC-8A Buffalo.
ACM = Advanced Cruise Missile, the AGM-129.
ACM = UK] Air Chief Marshal
ACM = Air Combat Manoeuvring
ACME = Advanced Core Military Engine (Rolls-Royce). The name might be ironic!
ACMI = [USA] Air Combat Manoeuvring Instrumentation
ACMR = [USA] Air Combat Manoeuvring Range
ACMS = Aircraft Condition Monitoring System
ACN = Aircraft Classification Number
ACO
Airspace Control Order
ACO = [USA] Airborne Communications Officer
ACOM = [USA] Airborne Communicator
Aconit = [France] Operations of French aircraft to protect the Kurds in Northern Iraq.
ACP = Airborne Command Post
ACR = [USA] Armoured Cavalry Regiment
ACR = Air Control Radar
ACR = [USA] Anti-Circular Running device, fitted to torpedoes. It destroys the torpedo when the course deviation exceeds 180 degrees.
Acrid = [NATO] Soviet AA-6 air-to-air missile (Bisnovat R-40)
ACS = USA] Air Commando Squadron
ACS = [USA] USN: Auxiliary Crane Ship
ACS = Airborne Control System
ACSM = Advanced Conventional Stand-off Missile
ACT = [USA] Armoured Cavalry Troop
ACT = [USA] Air Combat Tactics
ACT = Active Control Technology
ACTD = Advanced Concept & Technology Demonstration
ACTIVE = [USA] Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles; application of fully thrust-vectoring nozzles to the F-15 SMTD.
ACU = Avionics Control Unit
ACV = [USA] Auxiliary AIcraft Carriers, later renamed CVE.
ACW = [USA] Air Control Wing
AD = Air Defence
AD = [USA] USAF: Air Division
AD = [USA] USN: Destroyer Tender
AD = Airworthiness Directive
ADA = Air Defense Artillery
ADAC = [USA] Acoustic Data Analysis Center
Adam = [USA] Codename for the Japanese Nakajima SKT-97 fighter. (Did not exist)
ADATS = [USA/Switzerland] Air-Defence Anti-Tank System
ADAS = Airborne Data Acquisition System
ADC = [USA] Aerospace Defence Command
ADC = Air Data Computer
ADCOM = Administrative Command
ADCS = [USA] Air Deployment & Control Squadron
ADD = [USSR] Long-Range Air Arm. Replaced the DBA-GK in 1942.
ADD = Airstream Direction Detector, to measure the AoA.
ADF = Automatic Direction Finder
ADG = [Canada] AIr Defence Group
ADGB = [UK] Air Defence of Great Britain.
ADGE = Air Defence Ground Environment
ADI = [USA] Air Defense Initiative
ADI = Attitude / Direction Indicator
ADIRS = Aid Data and Inertial Reference System
ADIZ = Air Defense Identification Zone
Adler Tag = [Germany] Eagle's Day, 13 August 1940. Formal start of the German bomber offensive against Britain.
ADM = [USA] Air-launched decoy missile ADM-20
ADM = Advanced Development Model
ADP = Advanced Ducted Propeller (P&W)
ADP = Automated Data Processing
ADR = Accident Data Recorder
ADR = [UK] Air Defence Region
ADS = Advanced Deployable System
ADS = [USA] Air Defense Sector
ADS = Air Data System
AdSAMS = Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System
ADSM = [USA] Air-Defence Suppression Missile, an air-launched, anti-radiation development of Stinger.
ADSU = Air Data Sensor Unit
ADSW = Anti Diesel Submarine Warfare
ADT^3 = Air Defence Tactical Training Theatre
ADTAC = [USA] Air Defense Tactical Air Command. When ADC ceased to exist, its role and aircraft became part of TAC. Later ADTAC was renamed "1st Air Force".
ADU = Air Data Unit
ADV = [UK] Air Defence Variant, the interceptor version of the Panavia Tornado.
ADVCAP = Advanced Capability
ADW = Area Denial Weapon
AE = [USA] USN: Ammunition ship.
AEAF = [Allied] Allied Expeditionary Air Force, the air support force for 'Overlord'.
AEB = [USA] Area Exploration Battalion
AEC = Automatic Engine Control
AEF = [UK] Air Experience Flight
AEFS = [USA] USN: Fleet replenishment ship
AEGIS = [USA] Ground Environment Integration System. Advanced anti-missile and anti-aircraft system fitted to a number of USN ships.
AEO = [UK] Air Electronics Officer
Aerial = [UK] Evacuation of troops from the Bay of Biscay, June 1940.
Aeronautica Militare Italiana = [Italy] Italian Air Force
Aeronavale = [France] Naval air force
AETC = [USA] Air Education & Training Command
AETC = [UK] Air Education & Training Command
AEU = Airborne Electronics Unit
AEW = Airborne Early Warning
AEW&C = Airborne Early Warning & Control
AF = Air Force
AF = [USA] USN: Stores Ship
AFAC = Airborne FAC
AFB = [USA] Air Force Base
AFBMD = [USA] Air Force Ballistic Missile Division.
AFCAS = Automatic Flight Control Augmentation System
AFCC = [USA] Air Force Communications Command
AFCENT = [NATO] Allied Force, Central Europe
AFCS = Automatic Flight Control System
AFDS = Automatic Flight Director System
AFEE = [UK] Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment, at Beaulieu, Hampshire, UK. Closed in 1950.
AFFTC = [USA] Air Force Flight Test Center
AFGS = Automatic Flight Guidance System
AFLC = [USA] Air Force Logistics Command
AFMC = [USA] Air Force Materiel Command
AFMS = Automatic Flight Management System
AFP = [Germany] Armeeflugpark. Unit, usually of twelve aircraft, assigned to a WWI army.
AFPLA = [China] Air Force of the People's Liberation Army
AFRES = [USA] Air Force Reserve
AFS = [USA] USN: Fleet Stores Ship
AFS = Automatic Flight System
AFSC = [USA] Air Force Systems Command
AFSOC = [USA] Air Force Special Operations Command
AFSPACECOM = [USA] Air Force Space Command
AFSS = [USA] Air Force Security Service
AFT = [UK] Advanced Flying Training
AFTI = [USA] Advanced Fighter Technology Integration
AFWL = [USA] Air Force Weapons Laboratory
AG = Air Gunner
AG = [USA] Airlift Group
A/G = Air/Ground
AGARD = [NATO] Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development
AGDS = [USA] USN: Launch Area Support Ship
AGE = Aircraft Ground Equipment
AGF = [USA] USN: Command Ship
Agile Eagle = [USA] Testing of leading edge maneuvering slats for the F-4 Phantom
AGL = Above Ground Level
AGM = [USA] USN: Missile Range Instrumentation Ship
AGM = [USA] Air-to-Ground Missile
AGOR = [USA] USN: Oceanographic Research Ship
AGOS = [USA] USN: Ocean Surveillance Ship
AGS = [USA] USN: Surveying Ship
AGSS = [USA] USN: Auxiliary Research / Experimental Submarine (conventional)
AGT = [USA] Advanced Gun Technology.
AGTR = [USA] USN: Auxiliary Technical Reconnaissance Ship
AGV = [France] Avion a Grande Vitesse. A design for a Mach 5 airliner, that could enter service in 2015
AH = [USA] USN: Hospital Ship
AHAMS = [USA] Advanced Heavy Anti-tank Missile System
AHB = [UK] Air Historical Branch of the MoD.
AHC = Aircraft Handling Characteristics
AHIP = [USA] Armed Helicopter Improvement Program. Modification programme for the OH-58 Kiowa helicopters of the US Army.
AHRS = Altitude and Heading Reference System
AI = Air Interdiction
AI = Air Interception
AIAA = American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AIAAM = [USA] Advanced Intercept Air-to-Air Missile, a proposed replacement for AIM-54 Phoenix.
AID = [UK] Aeronautical Inspection Directorate
AIDC = [Taiwan] Aero Industry Development Centre
AIDS = [USA] Advanced Integrated Display System
AIM = [USA] Air-to-air missile.
AIMD = USA] Avionic Integrated Maintenance Department
AIMS = [UK] Advanced Integrated Magnetic Anomaly (detection system).
AIP = [USA] ASUW Improvement Program, for the P-3 Orion.
AIR = [USA] Air-to-air rocket
AIR = Air Inflatable Retarder (bomb decelerator)
AIR = Air Intercept Radar
AIROPS
Air Operations
AIRP = [USA] Airborne Instrumentation Research Programme.
AIWS = [USA] Advanced Interdiction Weapon System
AK = [USA] USN: General Cargo Ship
AKA = [USA] USN: Attack Cargo Ship
AKG = [Germany] Aufklarungsgeschwader
AKN = [Germany] AbwehrKommando Nord A WWI fighter unit, mostly equipped with Fokker E's.
AKR = [USA] USN: Vehicle Cargo Ship
AKV = [USA] Aircraft Ferry. Often old carriers.
Alamo = [NATO] Soviet AA-10 air-to-air missile (R-27)
Alarik = [Germany] Plan for a military occupation of Italy by German forces.
ALARM = [UK] Air-Launched Anti-Radiation Missile
ALAT = [France] Aviation Legere de l'Armee de Terre; 'light air force of the land army'.
ALBM = Air-Launched Ballistic Missile
ALCAM = Air-Launched Conventional Attack Missile
ALCC = [USA] Air Launch Control Center
ALCM = [USA] Air-Launched Cruise Missile, the AGM-86 cruise missile carried by the B-52 and B-1.
ALCS = [USA] Augmented Longitudinal Control System
ALF = [USA] Airlift Flight
Alf = [USA] Codename for the Japanese Kawanishi E7K floatplane.
ALFSEA = [Allied] Allied Land Forces South-East Asia, central command for these forces, created in November 1944.
ALG = [UK] Advanced Landing Ground. Rud imentary airfields in South England. 23 were constructed
ALH = Active Laser Homing
ALH = Advanced Light Helicopter
ALIC = Aircraft Launcher Interface Computer
Alkali = [NATO] Soviet AA-1 air-to-air missile (Tomashevitch K-5)
ALL = [USA] Airborne Laser Laboratory
ALLNAV = [USA] All Navy, message to all navy personnel.
Alloy Express = [UK] Exercise, off the Norwegian coast. 1982.
ALO = Air Liaison Officer
ALOC = [USA] Airborne visual Laser Optical Communication
ALOT = [UK] Air Liaison Officer's Team
ALOTS = [USA] Advanced Light Optical Tracking System
ALPA = [USA] Air Line Pilots Association
Alpha Check = Request for heading and distance to a specified point.
Alpha Scramble = Operational Alert mission.
Al Quwwat al Jawwiya al Malakiya Alurduniya = Royal Jordanian Air Force
Al Quwwat al Jawwiya al Malakiya Marakishaya = [Maroc] Royal Maroccan Air Force
Al Quwwat al Jawwiya as Saudiya = [Saudi-Arabia] Royal Saudi Air Force.
Al Quwwat al Jawwiya bij Libiyya = [Libya] Libyan Air Force.
Al Quwwat al Jawwiya il Misriya = [Egypt] Egyptian Air Force
ALRAD = Airborne Laser Rangefinder And Designator
ALS = [USA] Airlift Squadron
ALUSNA = [USA] U.S. Naval Attache
Al Yamamah = [Saudi-Arabia] Defence co-operation agreement between Saudi-Arabia and the UK.
ALYCAT = [UK] Aeromechanical Lynx Control Agilty Testbed. Lynx helicopter testbed.
AMC = [USA] Air Materiel Command (not active)
AMC = [USA] Air Mobility Command
AMCM = [USA] Airborne Mine CounterMeasure.
AMDP = Aircraft Maintenance Delayed for Parts
AMDS = [UK] Automatic Manoeuvre Device System, for the Tornado ADV.
AME = [UK] Aviation Medical Examiner
AMF = [USA] Automatic Maneuvring Flaps, fitted to the A-7D.
AMF = [NATO] ACE Mobile Force
AMG = UK] Air Maintenance Group, RNAS Yeovilton.
AMG = [UK] Air Movements Group (Royal Navy)
AMGOT = [Allied] Allied Military Government Occupied Territories
AMI = [Italy] Aeronautica Militare Italiana - Italian Air Force
Amos = [NATO] Soviet AA-9 air-to-air missile (Vympel K-33, R-33)
AMPSA = [USA] Advanced Manned Precision Strategic Aircraft. Requirement, 1965.
AMRAAM = [USA] Advanced Medium Range AAM, also known as AIM-120, the replacement for AIM-7 Sparrow, similar in layout but smaller and active seeker.
AMRARM = [USA] Advanced Medium-Range Anti-Radiation Missile.
AMS = [USA] Air Maintenance Squadron
AMSA = [USA] Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft. Requirement, 1965.
AMSAR = [UK/France] Airborne Multi-Role Solid-state Active-array Radar. Development began in 1993, with planned service introduction in 2005.
AMSL = Above Mean Sea Level
AMST = [USA] Advanced Medium STOL Transport. Requirement to which the Boeing YC-14 and McDonnell Douglas YC-15 were built.
AMTI = Airborne Moving Target Indicator
Amuck = [UK] Rocket launcher for depth charges, used by surface ships during WWII.
AMW = [USA] Air Mobility Wing
Anab = [NATO] Soviet AA-3 air-to-air missile (Bisnovat K-8, R-8, R-98)
Anakim = [Allied] Plan for a liberation of Burma. Abandoned. 1942.
AN/APS = [USA] Army-Navy / Airborne Pulse Search equipment
ANFE = Aircraft Not Fully Equipped
ANG = [USA] Air National Guard
ANG = [France] Atlantique Nouvelle Generation
ANGB = [USA] Air National Guard Base
Angels = Altitude in thousands of feet.
ANGLICO = Air and Naval Gunfire Liaison Company
ANGOSTA = [USA] Air National Guard Operational Support Transport Aircraft
Ann = [USA] Codename for the Japanese Mitsubishi Ki.30 light bomber.
ANO = Air Navigation Order
Anorak Express = [UK] Exercise. Deployment of BAe Harriers to Northern Norway, 1982.
ANP = [USA] Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion - an attempt to build a nuclear-powered aircraft, primarily a strategic bomber.
ANS = Airborne, or: Automatic Navigation System
ANT = [France] Armament Nucleaire Tactique; the nuclear-armed part of the air force.
Anvil = [Allied] Allied invasion in South France, originally intended to contemporary with 'Overlord'. Postponed and renamed 'Dragoon'.
ANVIS = [USA] Aviator's Night Vision Imaging System
ANZAC = Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
ANZUK
= Australia, New Zealand and UK. Military alliance.
AO = [USA] USN: Oiler ship
AOA = Angle of attack
AOB = Air Order of Battle
AOC = Aviation Officer Cadet
AOC = [UK] Air Officer Commanding
AOCP = Aircraft Out-of-Commission for Parts
AOE = [USA] USN: Fast Combat Support Ship
AOG = [USA] USN: Gasoline Carrier / Tanker
AOG = Aircraft On the Ground
AON = [USSR] Special Purpose Air Arm, strategic force created in 1936.
AOP = Airborne Observation Post
AOR = [USA] USN: Replenishment Oiler
AOT = [USA] USN: Transport Oiler / Tanker
AP = Armour Piercing
AP
[USA] USN: Troop Ship, non-landing.
APA = [USA] USN: Attack transport ship
APACHE = [France] Arme Propulsee A CHarge Ejectable - Propelled Weapon with ejectable warhead.
APAM = [USA] Anti-Personnel and Anti-Materiel
APAS = [Latvia] Aviacijas un Pretgaisa Aizsardzibas Speki -Air Defence Force of Latvia.
APC = Armament Practive Camp
APC = Armoured Personnel Carrier
Apex = [NATO] Soviet AA-7 air-to-air missile (Vympel K-23, R-23)
APFSDS-DU = Armor Penetrating, Fin-Stabilised, Discarding Sabot -Depleted Uranium.
Aphid = [NATO] Soviet AA-8 air-to-air missile (Bisnovat R-60)
APHIDS = Advanced Panoramic Helmet Interface Designator System
Aphrodite = [USA] Use of explosive-packed, remote controlled B-17s against V-2 launching sites.
API = Armour Piercing Incendiary
APD = [USA] USN: Fast Destroyer Transport
APFSDS = Armour Piercing, Fin-Stabilised, Discarding Sabot anti-tank projectile.
APL = [USA] USN: Auxiliary Personnel Lighter
APR = Automatic Power Reserve
APS = [USA] USN: Transport Submarine
APS = Aircraft Prepared for Service
APSI = [USA] Aircraft Propulsion System Integration
APSS = [USA] USN: Vehicle Transport Submarine
APU = Auxiliary Power Unit
APVO = [USSR] Aviatsiya Protivovozdushnoy Oborony -Aviation of the Air Defence.
AR = [USA] Training Ship
AR = [USA] USN: Repair Ship
ARB = [USA] USN: Repair Ship, battle damage
ARBS = Angle Rate Bombing System, Hughes AN/ASB-19(V)
ARC = [USA] USN: Cable Repair/Laying Ship
Archer = [NATO] Soviet AA-11 air-to-air missile (Molniya, R-73)
Archimedes = [Germany] WWII acoustic guidance system for missiles.
Arclight = [USA] Deployment of B-52s to Guam in support of the American forces in Vietnam.
ARCP = Air Refuelling Control Point
ARCT = Air Refuelling Control Time
ARD = [USA] USN: Floating Dry Dock
ARE = [UK] Admiralty Research Establishment
AREFG = [USA] Air Refuelling Group
AREFS = [USA] Air Refuelling Squadron
AREFW = [USA] Air Refuelling Wing
ARG = [USA] Air Refuelling Group
ARG = [Canada] Air Reserve Group
ARG = [USA] USN: Repair Ship, landing craft
ARG = Amphibious Ready Group
Argument = [Allied] Offensive of the 8th AF to eliminate the Luftwaffe, beginning of 1944.
Argus = [USA] NC-135A project.
ARH = Active Radar Homing
ARH = [USA] USN: Repair ship, hull repairs
ARI = [USA] Aviation Restructure Initiative. Reorganistaion of the helicopter units of the US Army
ARIA = Apollo Range Instrumentation Aircraft, later Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft, an EC-135 / EC-18.
ARIP = Air Refuelling Initial Point
ARL = [USA] Landing Craft Repair Ship
ARM = Anti-Radiation Missile
ARMADAS = [UK] Anti-Radar Missile Airborne Data Analysis System. Installed in a BAe Andover.
Armee de l'Air = [France] Air Force
Armeiskaya Aviatsiya = [USSR] Army Aviation
ARNG = [USA] Army National Guard
ARP = [UK] Air Raid Precautions. 1940, later named 'Civil Defence'.
ARP = [USA] Aero Rifle Platoon; infantrymen carried by helicopters.
ARPA = [USA] Advanced Projects Research Agency
ARPS = [USA] Advanced Radar Processing System, for the E-2C Hawkeye.
ARPV = [USA] Advanced Remotely Piloted Vehicle. RPV development programme.
ARR = [USA] Air Refueling Receiver. Receptacle for the tanking 'boom'
of USAF tankers.
ARR = [Rumania] Aeronautica Regala Romana - Royal Rumanian Air Force.
ARRS = [USA] Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service.
ARRS = [USA] Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron
ARS = [USA] Air Rescue Squadron
ARS
[USA] USN: Salvage Vessel / Ship
ARTB = [USA] Advanced Radar Test Bed. A Lockheed NC-141.
ARTI = [USA] Advanced Rotorcraft Technology Integration, a research effort to evaluate systems for new combat helicopters.
Artichokes = [UK] Lorient, when referred to for aerial minelaying ('Gardening').
Article 341 = [USA] Name the CIA used for the Lockheed U-2.
ARTW = [USA] Aerospace Reconaissance Technical Wing.
ARV = [USA] USN: Aviation Repair Vessel
ARW = [USA] Air Refuelling Wing
AS = Anti-Submarine
AS = [USA] USN: Submarine Tender
ASA = [USA] Army Security Service
ASALM = [USA] Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile, a Mach 4 air-breathing missile. Cancelled in 1980.
ASARS = [USA] Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System
ASAT = [USA] Anti-SATtelite missile, launched by an F-15 at high altitude. Some test have been completed.
ASCC = Air Standards Co-ordinating Committee. Responsible for the allocation of codenames to aircraft of the potential enemy.
ASD = [USA] Aeronautical Systems Division
ASDIC = [UK] Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee. 1917 committee that developed the device named after it, ASDIC, also known as SONAR.
ASF = [UK] Advanced Striking Force. RAF units sent to France in 1939.
Ash = [NATO] Soviet AA-5 air-to-air missile (Bisnovat K-80, R-4)
AShM = Anti-Shipping Missile
Ashtray = [USA] Modification of several F-86A Sabre fighters to RF-86A reconaissance aircraft, for service in the Korean war. 1951.
ASI = Air Speed Indicator
ASIP = [USA] Aircraft Structural Integrity Program
ASM = Air-to-Surface Missile. Also used by the USN to label its missiles, before the tri-service designation system was introduced.
ASMD = [USA] Anti-Ship Missile Defense
ASMP = [France] Air-Sol Moyenne Portee medium-range-air-to-surface missile. Supersonic, air-breathing and nuclear-armed.
ASMS = [USA] Advanced Surface Missile Sytem. Became Aegis, see there.
ASOC = Air Support Operations Center
ASP = [Allied] Air Spotting Pool
ASP = [Belgium] Annual Service Practice. Live firing of a 'Nike Hercules' SAM on NAMFI.
ASPJ = Airborne Self-Protection Jammer
ARS = [USA] USN: Submarine Rescue Ship
ASR = [UK] Air Sea Rescue
ASR = [UK] Air Staff Requirement
ASRAAM = [USA] Advanced Short Range AAM, a Sidewinder replacement. AIM-132.
ASROC = [USA] Anti Submarine Rocket
ASSET = [USA] Aerothermodynamic/Elastic Structural Systems Environmental Tests. This was a lifting-body reentry vehicle.
ASSP = [USA] USN: Auxiliary Transport Submarine
AST = [UK] Air Staff Target, an operational requirement.
ASTAR = Airborne Search Target Attack Radar
ASTEI = [USA] Air-Surface Technology Evaluation & Integration programme. reduce radar cross-sections of equipment; 'Stealth' technology.
ASTOR = Airborne Stand-Off Radar
ASTOVL = [USA] Advanced STOVL
ASTRA = [UK] Advanced System Training Aircraft. A modified Hawk Mk.1
Asura = [France] Air-to-SURface Ramjet with Automatic guidance. Development of ASMP.
ASUW = Anti-Surface Unit Warfare
ASV = Anti-Surface Vessel (radar)
ASW = Anti-Submarine Warfare
AT = [USA] USN: Tug (ship)
ATA = [USA] USN: Auxiliary Tug (ship)
ATA = [USA] Air Transport Association
ATA = [USA] Advanced Tactical Aircraft
ATA = Actual Time of Arrival
ATAF = [NATO] Allied Tactical Air Force
ATAFCS = Airborne Target Acquisition and Fire Control System
ATAP = Anti-Tank, Anti-Personnel
ATARS = [USA] Advanced Tactical Air Reconaissance System
ATB = [USA] Advanced Technology Bomber. Development program for the Northrop B-2.
ATC = [USA] Air Training Command
ATC = Air Traffic Control
ATC = [UK] Air Training Corps
ATCC = Air Traffic Control Centre
ATD = Actual Time of Departure
ATD
= [USA] Advanced Technology Demonstrator (USN)
ATD/C = [USA] Assisted Target Detection/Classification
ATDS = [USA] Airborne Tactical Data System, data processing system fitted to the E-2C Hawkeye.
ATE = [USA] Advanced Technology Engine
ATE = Automatic Test Equipment
ATEGG = [USA] Advanced Technology Engine Gas Generator
ATF = [UK] Air Transport Force
ATF = [USA] USN: Oceangoing Fleet Tug
ATF = [USA] Advanced technology Fighter. F-22 and F-23 program.
ATG = [Canada] Air Transport Group
ATGM = Anti-Tank Guided Missile
ATGW = Anti-Tank Guided Weapon
ATHS = [USA] Automatic Target Handover System
ATIRCM = Advanced Threat Infra-Red CounterMeasures
ATIS = Aerodrome Terminal Information Service
ATLANTIC = Airborne Targeting Low Altitude Navigation Thermal Imaging and Cueing.
ATLIS = [France] Automatic Tracking Laser Illumination System. Pod that combines TV target acquisition and laser designation.
ATM = Anti-Tank Missile
ATM = [USA] AGM Training Missile ATM-12 Bullpup Trainer
ATO = Air Tasking Order
ATO = Assisted Take-Off
ATO = [USA] USN: Old Tug (ship)
ATOC = [NATO] Allied Tactical Operations Center
Atoll = [NATO] Soviet AA-2 air-to-air missile (Vympel K-13, R-3)
ATP = Advanced Turbo-Prop (BAe)
ATPL = Airline Pilot's Transport Licence
ATR = [USA] USN: Rescue Tug (ship)
ATR = Air Transport Racking (standard electronics racks)
ATR = Avions de Transport Regional - Regional transport aircraft.
ATRS = [USA] Areial Training Squadron
ATS = [USA] Airmanship Training Squadron
ATS = [USA] USN: Salvage & Rescue Ship
ATS = Air Traffic Service
ATT = [USA] Advanced Theater Transport
AUM = [USA] Air-to-underwater missile AUM-N-2 Petrel
AUP = [Autralia] Avionics Upgrade Programme for the F-111C.
AURORA = Automatic Recovery Of Remotely-piloted Aircraft
Aurora Express = [NATO] Exercise for European forces, involving deployment to Eastern Turkey.
AUTEC = Atlantic Undersea Test and Evalutaion Center.
AUW = All-Up Weight
AV = [USA] Aircraft (seaplane) Tender
Avalanche = [Allied] The landing in Salerno Bay, Italy, 1943.
AVCRAD = [USA] Aviation Classification Repair Activity Depot
AVEN = [USA] Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle, a vectoring nozzle for the General Electric F-101 engine; applied to MATV.
AVG = [USA/China] American Volunteer Group, the 'Flying Tigers' unit.
AVG = [USA] Aicraft Escort Vessel, later renamed ACV. See CVE for numbers.
AVGAS = Aviation Gasoline
Aviadesantnoj Brigada = [USSR] Airborne Brigade.
Aviamatka = [USSR] Mother aircraft, for parasite planes.
Aviation Legere / Licht Vliegwezen
[Belgium] army air force
AVIM = [USA] Aviation Intermediate Maintenance facility.
AV-MF = [USSR] Aviatsiya Voenno-Morsko Flota (Naval Air Force)
AVP = [USA] Small Seaplane Tender
AVRE = [UK] Armoured Vehicle, Royal Engineers. A Churchill tank equipped with the 'Petard' spigot mortar, firing 40lb projectiles.
AVS = [USA] USN: Aviation Supply Ship
AVT = [USA] USN: Auxiliary Aircraft Transport. Includes some former CV's of the Essex class and CVL's of Saipan and Independence class.
AW = [USA] Airlift Wing
AWACS = Airlift Wing AWACS [USA] Airborne Warning And Control System, the Boeing E-3 Sentry. Also Airborne Warning And Control Squadron.
AWACTS = [USA] Airborne Warning And Control Training Squadron.
AWAY = [France] Rocket extraction system for the pilot; made by Hurel-Dubois.
AWCLS = All-Weather Carrier Landing System
AWCW = [USA] Airborne Warning Composite Wing
AW&CS = [USA] Airborne Warning & Control Squadron
AW&CW = [USA] Airborne Warning & Control Wing
AWE = [UK] Atomic Weapons Establishment
Awl = [NATO] Soviet AA-4 air-to-air missile (Mikoyan K-9)
AWOL = [USA] Absent Without Leave.
AWPGM = Adverse Weather Precision Guided Minution
AWS = [UK] Automatic Wing Sweep. For the Tornado ADV
Axiom = [Allied] Plan for attacks on Malaya, Sumatra and Hong Kong. Not accepted.
Azon = [USA] See
Anfangsbuchstabe B:
B = [USSR] Bombardirovshkchik
BA = [Portugal] Base Aera - Air (force) Base.
BA = [France] Base Aerienne - Air base.
Babs = [USA] Codename for the Japanese Mitsubishi C5M reconaissance aircraft and Ki.15 light bomber.
Babylift = [USA] Evacuation of orphans from Vietnam, 1975.
Backfin = [NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-98 bomber
Backfire = [NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-22M / Tu-26 bomber.
Back Net = [NATO] Soviet Surveillance radar for SA-5.
Badger = [NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 bomber.
Baedeker Raids = [UK] German bomber attacks on historical cities in Britain, spring 1942.
BAFO = [UK] British Air Force of Occupation, in Germany, created in 1945.
BAI = Battlefield Air Interdiction
BALLUTE = Balloon Parachute (bombr retarder)
BAM = [Germany] Brieftauben-Abteilung Metz
Band Stand = [NATO] Soviet Radar associated with SS-N-7.
Banish Beach = [USA] Proposed fire bombing of the Ho Chi Minh trail in Vietnam, using C-130s.
Bank = [NATO] North American B-25 Mitchell bomber in Soviet service.
Banquet = [UK] Plans for the usage of trainers as ground-attack aircraft in case of German invasion, 1940.
BAO = [Germany] Brieftauben-Abteilung Ostende
BAOR = [UK] British Army Of the Rhine
BAP = [France] Bombe Anti-Piste - anti-runway bomb.
BAPC = [UK] British Aircraft Preservation Council
Barax = [France] Jamming pod.
Barbarossa = [Germany] German attack on the USSR, 22 June 1941.
BARCAP = Barrier Combat Air Patrol
Barge = [NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-85 bomber.
Baritone = [UK] Delivery of Spitfires to Malta, 17 August 1942.
Bark = [NATO] Soviet Ilyushin Il-2 bomber.
Bar Lock = [NATO] Soviet Surveillance radar for SA-5.
Barracuda = [France] Jamming pod.
Barrel Roll = [USA] The north of Laos.
Bat = [USA] A winged bomb with active radar homing, used against Japanese ships from May 1945 onwards.
Bat = [NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-2 and Tu-6 bomber.
Batseye = [Allied] Exercises to study the possibility of dusk and dawn operations, as part of the preparations for 'Overlord'.
Battleaxe = [UK] Counter-attack against Italian and German forces in North Africa, 15 June 1941.
Baytown = [Allied] Plan for the landing in Calabria, Italy. 3 September 1941
BB = [USA] USN: Battleship
BBMF = [UK] Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
BC = [USA] USN: Battlecruiser
BCAR = [UK] British Civil Airworthiness Requirement
BCD = Bad Conduct Discharge
BCE = Battlefield Coordination Element
BCGN = [USA] USN: Nuclear-powered, Guided Missile Battlecruiser
BDA = Battle / Bomb Damage Assessment
BDK = [USSR] Bol'shoy desantniy korabl' (large landing ship)
BDM = Bomber Defense Missile.
BDR = Battle Damage Repair
BDRT = [UK] Battle Damage Repair Training.
BDS = Battle Dressing Station
BDU = [USA] Practice versions of nuclear bombs.
BDZ = [NATO] Base Defense Zone
Beagle = [NATO] Soviet Ilyushin Il-28 bomber.
Bear = [USA] Nickname for the EWO.
Bear = [NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-20, Tu-95 and Tu-142 bomber.
Beast = [NATO] Soviet Ilyushin Il-10 bomber.
Beef Broth = [USA] Building of a strategical reserve in the USA for TAC units in Vietnam.
Bee Hind = [NATO] Gun laying radar for the tail guns of the Tu-95 'Bear'.
Bee Line = [USA] Upgrading of F-4B Phantom IIs to F-4N in the early 1970s.
Beethoven = [Germany] Official codename for the 'Mistel' combinations.
Belle = [USA] Codename for the Japanese Kawanishi H3K flying boat.
Bellows = [UK] Delivery of Spitfires to Malta, 11 August 1942.
Bell Tone = [USA] Transfer of F-100s to Bangkok, Thailand. 16 April 1961.
Ben = [USA] Codename for the Japanese Nagoya-Sento KI-001 fighter. Did not exist.
Bennett Spinwheel = [UK] Calculation instrument used to determine the V/STOL performance of BAe Harriers
BERP = [UK] British Experimental Rotor Programme
Bess = [USA] Codename for the German Heinkel He 111 bomber, erronously assumed to be in Japanese service.
BETASOM = [Italy] Bordeaux Summergibili -Italian Navy submarine base, set up in August 1940.
Betty = [USA] Codename for the Japanese Mitsubishi G4M / G6M bomber.
BFT = Basic Flying Training
BG = [USA] Bombardment Group 91th BG 'The Ragged Irregulars' 345th BG 'Air Apaches'
BG = [USA] USN: battle group
BG = [USA] Bomb Glider.
Bharatoya Vayusena = [India] Air Force.
BHELA = [Spain] Battalon de Helicopteros de Ataque - Battalion of attack helicopters.
Big Belly = [USA] Program to modify the B-52 to carry increased conventional bomb loads.
Big Bulge = [NATO] Radar carried by the 'Bear-D'.
Big Bulge = [NATO] Radar fitted to the Ka-25 'Hormone-B'.
Big Crow = [USA] NKC-135A program.
Big Nose = [NATO] Radar of the Tu-28P 'Fiddler'
Big Safari = [USA] Modification program of the Ryan Firebee target drone to create the Firefly recce drone.
Big Team = [USA] The program for the RC-135B and RC-135C.
Bingo fuel = Critical fuel level, usually fuel level necessary for return to base.
BIS = [USA] Board of Inspection and Survey.
Bison = [NATO] Soviet Myasichew M-4 bomber.
BITE = [USA] Built-In Test Equipment
BK = [Germany] Bordkanonem
BKAV = [USSR] Bureau of Commissars of Aviation and Aeronautics, created in 1917.
Black Buck = [UK] Attacks on Argentine positions on the Falkland Islands, flown by Vulcan bombers with air refuelling. The Vulcan was refuelled six times.
Black Crow = [USA] This equipment detects the ignition systems of piston engines. Fitted to AC-130 gunships.
Black Fly = [USA] The Fairchild Sailwing drone.
Black Hole = [USA] IR suppresion system, fitted to the exhaust stacks of the OH-58A.
Blackjack = [NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-160 bomber.
Black Night = [USA] Code name for the RB-57D high-altitude recce aircraft.
Black Shield = [USA] Operations of the Lockheed A-12 (precursor of the SR-71) from Kadena, Japan.
Black Spot = [USA] Sensor package fitted to the NC-123.
Black Velvet = [USA] Radar absorbing paint used for the U-2R.
BLC = Boundary Layer Control; a flow of pressured engine bleed air over the flaps and other lift surfaces, to keep the stalling speed down.
Blinder = [NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-22 / Tu-105 bomber.
Blowlamp = [NATO] Soviet Ilyushin Il-54 bomber.
BLT = Battalion Landing Team
BLu = [Belgium] FAB/Blu: Force Aerienne Belge / Belgische Luchtmacht. Belgian Air Force. Belgium is a bilingual country, hence the double name.
BLU = [USA] Bomb Live Unit, subminution for cluster bombs or dispensers.
Blue Bird = [USA] Boeing RC-135C, ELINT aircraft.
Blue Boar = [UK] Nuclear weapon, a glide bomb. Cancelled in 1954.
Blue Danube = [UK] Nuclear bomb, a free-fall weapon.
Blue Eagle = [USA] Boeing EC-135J, ABNCP aircraft.
Blue Rapier = [UK] Specification UB.109 for an unmanned, catapult-launched jet bomber. Cancelled
Blue Springs = [USA] The 4080th SRW unit, equipped with Ryan 147 (AQM-34) recce drones.
Blue Steel = [UK] Air-to-surface missile with a nuclear warhead. Just 50 in service in the 1962--1970 period
Blue Sword = [NATO] Close air support operations for UN peace-keeping units in Bosnia, 1994
BMD = [UK] Ballistic Missile Defence
BMDO = [USA] Ballistic Missile Defence Office. The less ambitious, lower cost follow-up of the SDI project
BMEWS = [USA] Ballistic Missile Early Warning System
BMP = [USSR] Lightly armoured infantyry transport vehicle, armed with a 73mm gun.
BMR = [NATO] Basic Military Requirement
B/N = [USA] Bombardier / Navigator
BNEP = [USA] Basic Naval Establishment Plan
Bob = [NATO] Soviet Ilyushin Il-4 bomber
Bob = [USA] Codename for the Japanese Kawasaki Ki.28 fighter
Bodenplatte = [Germany] Last major attack of the Luftwaffe, 1 January 1945. 465 allied aircraft were destroyed
Bodyguard = [Allied] Desinformation plan, introduced in 1943 to make the Germans believe that the invasion would be in Norway
Bogey = Unidentified aircraft
Bogohl = [Germany] Bomben Geschwader der OHL. Bomber wing of the OHL. Created by reorganization of the 'Kagohln' in 1917.
BOL = Bearing Only Launch
Bold Falcon = [NATO] TACEVAL exercise for RAF No.1 Squadron
Bold Journey = [USA] Modification of the F-101 Voodoo to improve the control system
Bolo = [USA] Operation in Vietnam, 2 January 1967, that ended with the shooting down of seven MiG-21s by F-4s
Bookie Escort = [USA] Air cover for transport aircraft on resupply missions
Boot = [NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-91 bomber
Bosta = [Germany] Bomben Staffel. Bomber squadron
Bosun = [NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-14 / Tu-89 bomber
Bounder = [NATO] Soviet Myasichew M-50 bomber
Bout One = [USA] Donation of ten P-51Ds to the Republic of Korea Air Force
Bowery = [UK] Delivery of Spitfires to Malta, 9 May 1942
Box Tail = [NATO] Tail warning radar fitted to the Tu-95 and the Tu-22M 'Backfire', replacing 'Bee Hind'
BOZ 100 = [UK] Decoy & chaff dispensing pod.
BPDMS = [USA] Basic Point Defence Missile System
BPE = [USA] Bomber Penetration Evaluations
BPK = [USSR] Bol'shoy protivolodochniy korabl' (large anti-submarine ship)
BPR = Bypass Ratio
BQ = [USA] Unmanned aircraft carrying explosives.
Brawn = [UK] Carrier strike against the German battleship Tirpitz.
Brawny = [NATO] Soviet Ilyushin Il-40 bomber
Brazo = [USA] Project to develop an anti-radar version of the Sparrow missile. 1972
BRDM = [USA] USN: Floating Dry Dock
Brewer = [NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-28 bomber
Briar Patch = [USA] Boeing KC-135R
Brieftauben Abteilung Ostende = [Germany] 'Ostend Carrier Pigeon Detachment', cover name for a bomber group formed in 1914 to attack Britain.
Brigg = [Germany] Receiver for Kogge.
Bright Star = [USA] Exercise.
BRK = [USSR] Bol'shoy raketniy korabl' (large rocket ship)
Broad Jump = [USA] Improvement program for the F-106. 1960 to 1963. Introduced an infrared seeker in front of the cockpit
Broussard = [NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-28 bomber (Renamed Brewer).
BRPL = [USSR] Ballistichekaya raketa podvodnykh lodok - SLBM
BRW = Brake Release Weight. Maximum permitted weight at the start of take-off run
BS = [USA] Bombardment Squadron
BS = [USSR] Berezin Skorostrelnye - Berezin Rapid-Firing gun. 12.7mm, 1000rds/min, 860m/sec.
BST = British Summer Time
BT = [USSR] Bazoviy tral'shchik (base minesweeper)
BT = Bathythermograph
BTDS = [USA] Baseline Terminal Defense System. The 'Sentry' ABM missile
BTO = [USA] Bombing Trough Overcast, a WWII bombing radar
Buccaneer = [Allied] Naval operations off the coast of Burma, to conquer the Andaman islands. Cancelled
Buck = [NATO] Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber
Buffalo Hunter = [USA] Ryan AQM-34L or M for low-altitude reconaissance
BUIC = [USA] Backup Interceptor Control
Bull = [NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-4 and Tu-80 bomber
Bullet Shot = [USA] Transfer of additional B-52s to South-East Asia, late 1972
Bumblebee = [USA] Programme to develop an shipboard SAM, started in 1945
Bunsen = [Allied] Bombing exercises, to study the accuracy and effectiveness of bombardments, prior to operation 'Overlord'. 26 April 1944.
BuOrd = [USA] Bureau of Ordnance of the USN
Burney Gun = [UK] Recoilless guns developed by Sir Denis Burney
Burning Candy = [USA] Operations of the Boeing RC-135M. From Yokota, Japan
Burza = [Poland] 'Storm'. Action plan of the Polish 'internal army', for the Warsaw uprising of August 1944
BUSANDA = [USA] Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
Busy Brewer [USA] Development of B-52s to Fairford, UK
Busy Prairie II = [USA] Exercise, 1981
Butcher = [NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-82 bomber
BuWeps = [USA] Bureau of Weapons of the USN
BVR = Beyond Visual Range
BW = [USA] Bombardment Wing
Anfangsbuchstabe C:
C^2
Command and Control
C^3
Command, Control and Communications
C^3I
Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence
C^3CM
Command, Control and Communications Countermeasures
C^4I
Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence
--CA-------------------------------------------------------------------------
CA
[USA] USN: Heavy Gun Cruiser (Traditionally, 'Heavy' cruisers are
armoured, and Light Cruisers are not, relying on speed for protection.)
CA
[UK] Controller Aircraft
CAA
[UK] Civil Aviation Authority
CAAC
[China] Civil Aviation Administration of China
Cab
[NATO] Soviet Lisunov Li-2 transport aircraft.
CAB
[USA] Civil Aeronautics Board
CADC
[USA] Central Air Data Computer
Cadillac
[USA] Development of an Airborne Early-Warning (AEW) radar, initiated in
February 1944 by the US Navy.
CADS
[UK] Concealed Approach and Departure Points
CAEO
[France] Commandement Air en Extreme Orient --- Far East Air Command.
CAEWW
[USA] Carrier Airborne Early Warning Wing
CAF
[Canada] Canadian Armed Forces
CAFDA
[France] Commandement Air des Forces Defence Aerienne -- Air Command,
Air Defence Forces.
CAFI
[France] Composante Air des Forces d'Intervention -- Air component of
the intervention force.
CAG
[USA] Carrier Air Group (Commander)
CAG
[USA] USN: Commander of Air Group
CAG
[USA] USN: Guided Missile Heavy Cruiser
CAH
[USA] Through-deck cruiser, i.e. a small carrier with helicopters and
VTOL aircraft, like the British HMS Invincible.
CAINS
[USA] Carrier Airborne Inertial Navigation System
Calendar
[UK] Delivery of Spitfires to Malta, 20 April 1942.
CALF
[USA] Common Affordable Lightweight Fighter. Demands for a light
(24000lb) STOVL fighter aircraft, to enter service early in the
21th century. Combined with the ASTOVL project at the insistence
of the US Congress.
Calliope
[Allied] Rocket battery, carried on top of Sherman tanks.
CAMAL
[USA] A Continuous Airborne alert, Missile-launching Aircraft with Low
level penetration capability. The acronym doesn't mention the most
important part: CAMAL was going to have nuclear jet engines.
Cancelled in 1961.
Camber
[NATO] Soviet Ilyushin Il-86 transport aircraft.
Camel
[NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-104 transport aircraft.
Camel Hump
[USA] Operations by U-2R from Taif, Saudi-Arabia, monitoring Iraq
after the Gulf War.
Camp
[NATO] Soviet Antonov An-8 transport aircraft.
CANA
[Argentina] Comando de Aviacion Naval Argentina -- Argentine Naval
Aviation Command.
Candid
[NATO] Soviet Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft.
CAP
Combat Air Patrol
Capital
[Allied] Plan for an attack in Burma, late in 1944. Changed to
create 'Extended Capital'.
CAR
Civil Airworthiness Regulation
Careless
[NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-154 transport aircraft.
CarGru
[USA] Carrier Group
Carolina Moon
[USA] Attempt to use the C-130 for the bombing of bridges in
Vietnam.
Carpetbaggers
[Allied] (Unofficial?) Operations of aircraft to carry supplies and
personnel to resistance groups in occupied Europe, during WWII.
CARQUAL
[USA] Carrier Qualification
Cart
[NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-70 transport aircraft.
Cartwheel
[Allied] Plan for operations against the Japanese base in Rabaul,
1943.
CAS
Close Air Support
CAS
Calibrated AirSpeed --- IAS corrected for system errors.
CAS
Chief of Air Staff
CAS
Collision Avoidance System
CASEVAC
Casualty Evacuation
CASF
[USA] Composite AIr Strike Force.
Cash
[NATO] Soviet Antonov An-28 transport aircraft.
CASOM
[UK] Conventionally-Armed Stand-Off Missile
CASREP
[USA] Casualty Report
Cast
[USA] Unit that tested an AEW radar (see Cadillac) on an XTBM-3E.
Castor
[France] The fight at Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam.
CASTOR
Corps Airborne Stand-Off Radar
Cat
[NATO] Soviet Antonov An-10 transport aircraft.
CATac
[France] Commandement Aerienne Tactique, tactical air command.
Catapult
[UK] British attempt to disable the remains of the French fleet, July
1940.
CATCS
[UK] Central Air Traffic Control School
CATGME
[Canada] Canadian Air Task Group Middle East.
Cat House
[NATO] Radar associated with ABM-1.
CATRE
[France] Centre Aerien Technique de Reception et d'Entrainement.
CAVOK
Ceiling And Visibility OK
--CB-------------------------------------------------------------------------
CB
[USA] Construction Battalion
CB
[USA] USN: Large Cruiser
CBDE
[UK] Chemical Biological Defence Establishment
CBI
[Allied] China-Burma-India, an operational sector of the Allied forces
in WWII.
CBI
Computer Based Instruction
CBLS
[UK] Carrier, Bomb, Light Store
CBMU
Construction Battalion, Maintenance Unit
CBO
[Allied] Combined Bomber Offensive
CBR
[USA] Chemical/Biological/Radioactive Weapons
CBR
California Bearing Ratio --- measure for the wheel pressure an
airfield surface will sustain.
CBR
Common Bomb Rack
CBU
Cluster Bomb Unit
CBW
Chemical and Biological Warfare
--CC-------------------------------------------------------------------------
CC
[USA] USN: Tactical Command Ship
CCA
Carrier Controlled Approach
CCA
Command and Control Agency
CCF
[UK] Combined Cadet Corps
CCIL
Continously-Computed Impact Line
CCIP
Continously-Computed Impact Point
CCIR
Commander's Critical Information Requirement
CCS
[Allied] Committee of Chiefs of Staff.
CCT
Combat Control Team
CCTS
[USA] Combat Crew Training Squadron
CCTW
[USA] Combat Crew Training Wing
CCV
[USA] Control Configured Vehicle, a test program that involved
aircraft with additional control surfaces. At least a B-52, a
F-104 and an F-16 were modified.
CDR
[USA] Critical Design Review
CDU
Control and Display Unit
--CE-------------------------------------------------------------------------
CEAA
[France] Commandement des Ecoles de l'Armee de l'Air ---- Air training
command of the French airforce.
CEAM
[France] Centre d'Experimentations Aeriennes Militaires ---
Military aeronautical experiments center. Mont-de-Marsan,
France.
CEAT
[France] Centre d'Essais Aeronautiques de Toulouse
CECAT
[USA] Combat Enhancing Capability Aviation Team
Cedar
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Tachikawa Ki.17 trainer
Cefirm Leader
[USA] RU-21 mission.
Cefly Lancer
[USA] Electronic intelligence mission, flown by the RU-21J.
CEL
[France] Centre d'Essais des Landes -- Landes test centre.
CEM
[USA] Combined Effect Munition. BLU-97/B cluster bomb.
CEMA
[France] Centre d'Essais des Materiels Aeriens --- Center for
testing of airborne equipment.
CENTCOM
[USA] Central Command
CENTO
Central Treaty Organisation
Central Enterprise
[USA] Excercise mission to Southern Europe.
Central Exercise
[USA] Exercise in central Europe.
CEP
Circular Error Probability, the radius within which 50% of the launched
weapons hit.
Cerberus
[Germany] Jamming Pod
CEV
[France] Centre d'Essais en Vol. Flight test center. Istres, France.
CEVSV
[France] Centre d'Entrainement en Vol Sans Visibility -- IFR training
centrum.
--CF-------------------------------------------------------------------------
CFB
[Canada] Canadian Force Base
CFE
Conventional armed Forces in Europe treaty -- a force reduction treaty.
CFE
[UK] Central Fighter Establishment
CFE
Contractor-Furnished Equipment
CFIT
Controlled Flight Into Terrain
CFRP
Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastics
CFS
[UK] Central Flying School-------------------
CG
[USA] USN: Guided Missile Cruiser
CG
Centre of Gravity
CGAS
[USA] Coast Guard Air Station
CGH
[USA] Light aircraft carrier / aviation cruiser, a cruiser carrying
missiles, helicopters and possible VSTOL aircraft.
CGM
[USA] Missile. See "us_mil.txt" for an explanation of the USA
designation system.
CGM-13 Mace
CGN
[USA] USN: Nuclear-powered Guided Missile Cruiser
--CH-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Charger
[NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 transport aircraft.
Charlie
[NATO] Submarine class.
Chattanooga (Choo-Choo)
[USA] Attacks on trains, during WWII.
Chel Ha'Avir
[Israel] Name of the Air Force / Isreali Defence Forces from 1948
to 1951.
Cherry
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Yokosuka H5Y flying boat.
CHG
[USA] USN: Helicopter cruiser with guided missile armament.
Chicago
[Allied] Airborne operation on D-day, by the 101st Airborne in the
US sector.
ChiCom
Chinese Communist
Chung-kuo Kung Chuan
[Taiwan] Chinese Nationalist Air Force.
Chutai
[Japan] Squadron
--CI-------------------------------------------------------------------------
CIA
[USA] Central Intelligence Agency
CIC
[USA] Combat Information Centre
CIEH
[France] Centre d'Instruction des Equipages d'Helicopeteres
CIFAS
[France] Centre d'Instruction de Force Aerienne Stragique -- training
center of the strategic air force
CIM
[USA] Coffin launched Intercept Missile, a Surafce-to-Air missile that
is fired for a horizontally stored box.
CIM-10 Bomarc
CINC
[USA] Commander-in-Chief
CINCAIR
[USA] Commander-in-Chief, Air Base
CINCLANT
[USA] Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Forces
CINCNAVBASE
[USA] Commander-in-Chief, Naval Base
CINCNAVSURFLANT
[USA] Commander-in-Chief, Naval Surface Fleet, Atlantic
CINCNORNAVEUR
[USA] Commander-in-Chief, Northern Naval Forces in Europe
CINCPAC
[USA] Commander-in-Chief, Pacific
CINCPACAF
[USA] Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Air Force
CINCPACFLT
[USA] Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet
CINCSEURCOM
[USA] Commander-in-Chief, Southern Europe Command
CINCSOUTH
[NATO] Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe
CINCUSNAVEUR
[USA] Commander-in-Chief, US Navy in Europe
CIS
Commonwealth of Independent States
CIT
Combined Interrogator-Transponder
CIWS
Close-In Weapons System
CJTF
[USA] Combined Joint Task Force-------------------------------------------------------------
CL
[USA] USN: Light Cruiser
CLAA
[USA] USN: Light Anti-Aircraft Cruiser
Clam
[NATO] Soviet Ilyushin Il-18, renamed Coot.
Clam Pipe
[NATO] Nose radar fitted to the Tu-95MS Bear-H
Clank
[NATO] Soviet Antonov An-30 transport aircraft.
Clara
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Tachikwawa Ki.70 reconaissance aircraft.
Clarion
[Allied] Offensive against communications centres and transport in
Germany, 22 February 1945.
Classic
[NATO] Soviet Ilyushin Il-62 transport aircraft.
Claude
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Mitsubishi A5M fighter.
CLBRP
[USA] Cannon-Launched Beam-Rider Projectile.
CLC
[USA] USN: Task Fleet Command Ship
Cleat
[NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-114 transport aircraft.
CLG
[USA] USN: Guided Missile Light Cruiser
CLGN
[USA] USN: Guided Missile Light Cruiser, nuclear-powered
CLGP
Cannon-Launched Guided Projectile
Cline
[NATO] Soviet Antonov An-32 transport aircraft.
CLK
[USA] USN: Hunter-Killer Cruiser
Clobber
[NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-42 transport aircraft.
Clod
[NATO] Soviet Antonov An-14 transport aircraft.
Clog
[NATO] Soviet Antonov An-28 (?) transport aircraft.---------------
CMCA
[USA] Cruise Missile Carrier Aircraft
CMS
Cockpit Managment System
--CN-------------------------------------------------------------------------
CNATRA
[USA] Chief of Naval Air Training
CNI
Communications, Navigation and Identification
CNO
[USA] Chief of Naval Operations.
--CO-------------------------------------------------------------------------
CO
Commanding Officer
Coach
[NATO] Soviet Ilysuhin Il-12 transport aircraft.
Coaler
[NATO] Soviet Antonov An-72 transport aircraft.
Cobra
[Allied] Concentrated air attack on a 6 by 12 km sector near St. Lo,
to create a gap in the German lines. 25 July 1944.
Cobra Ball
[USA] Boeing RC-135S.
Cobra Dane
[USA] Missile warning radar on the isle Shemya.
Cobra Eye
[USA] Boeing RC-135X, a modfied RC-135S for TELINT missions.
COC
Command Operations Centre
Cock
[NATO] Soviet Antonov An-22 transport aircraft.
COCOM
COordinating COMmittee, for export restrictions
COD
Carrier Onboard Delivery -- aircraft designed to deliver goods to
carriers, but not necessarily carrier-based.
Codling
[NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-40 transport aircraft.
COEA
Cost and Operational Effectiveness Analysis
COIN
Counter-insurgency, anti-guerilla warfare.
Coke
[NATO] Soviet Antonov An-24 transport aircraft.
Cold Chuck
[USA] RB-57F mission.
Cold Dome
[USA] RB-57F mission.
Cold Fire
[NATO] Exercise, 1984, in Germany.
Cold Flare
[USA] Study of solar flare activity at high altitude, in preparation
for polar or high-altitude supersonic flights.
Cold Hunt
[USA] Missions in support of the ALOC project.
Cold Rap
[USA] NASA earth resources study.
Cold Speck
[USA] RB-57F mission.
Colmar
[Germany] Radio guidance receiver, used with Kehl. Fitted to Hs 298.
COLREGS
International Nautical rules.
Colt
[NATO] Soviet Antonov An-2 transport aircraft.
COMAIRBASE
[USA] Commander of Air Base
COMAIRPAC
[USA] Commander, Air Forces, Pacific Fleet
COMAO
[USA] Combined Air Operations
Combat Angel
[USA] Programme that used the Ryan AQM-34G, J and H RPV's.
Combat Apple
[USA] Boeing RC-135M (SIGINT aircraft) operations over Vietnam. 'Combat
Apple' required a RC-135 to be in the air continuously over the Gulf of
Tonkin. RC-135s flying 19-hr missions continued this for four years.
After 1972 the RC-135s also flew over Laos.
Combat Beef
[USA] See Beef Broth.
Combat Bronco
[USA] Six-month combat evaluation of the Rockwell OV-10 Bronco in
Vietnam, from August 1968.
Combat Bullseye
[USA] Service tests with the F-111A. 1967
Combat Dawn
[USA] Programme that used the Ryan AQM-34Q and R.
Combat Hornet
[USA] Project to convert C-119's to gunships.
Combat Lancer
[USA] First deployment of F-111As to Southeast Asia, 1968.
Combat Lightning
[USA] Boeing KC-135A relay aircraft, equipped with radio receivers
and transmitters to assure communications. The electronics package
could easily be transferred from one KC-135 to another.
Combat Martin
[USA] This involved specially-equipped F-105's that jammed
communications between Nort Vietnamese MiG's and their
ground control.
Combat Pink
[USA] Boeing RC-135U, SIGINT aircraft.
Combat Scent
[USA] Boeing RC-135U, SIGINT aircraft.
Combat Shadow
[USA] The HC-130N and HC-130P rescue versions of the C-130.
Combat Talon
[USA] Versions of the C-130 for the Special Forces, equipped for
low-altitude deep-penetration missions.
Combat Tree
[USA] Provision of a special attachment for ECM gear on F-4 Phantom IIs,
to keep all other pylons available for the weapons load. 1968.
Comet
[Allied] Codename used during the planning of 'Market Garden', see
there.
Comfy Levi
[USA] Psychological warfare version of the C-130 Hercules. EC-130E.
COMInt
Communications Intelligence
COMIREX
[USA] Committee on Imagery Requirements and Exploitation. Sets
specifications for spy sattelites and the like.
Commando Buzz
[USA] The EC-121S.
Commando Hunt
[USA] Attacks on North-Vietnamese supply lines in the south of Laos.
Commando Lava
[USA] Attempt to use the C-130 for attacks on the Ho CHi Minh trail
in Vietnam, with the goal of turning it into mud.
Commando Nail
[USA] F-105's equipped for low-level night bombardment missions.
COMMERMARLANT
[USA] Commander, Merchant Marine Atlantic
Common Energy
[NATO] Exercise in long-range air operations. Belgian F-16s and C-130s
exercise, with the help of USAF KC-10 tankers, attacks in bases in
Spain. 1994.
COMNATONAVFORLANT
[USA] Commander, NATO Naval Baltic Forces
COMNAVAIRSTA
[USA] Commander, Naval Air Station
COMNAVBASE
[USA] Commander, Naval Base
COMNAVSURFLANT
[USA] Commander of the Naval Surface Force, Atlantic fleet
Compass Arrow
[USA] Ryan AQM-91A, a high-flying reconaissance drone.
Compass Bin
[USA] Program that used a series of Ryan RPV's, the types AQM-34G, H,
L, M, K, Q, P and R.
Compass Call
[USA] Lockheed EC-103E and EC-130H electronic warfare aircraft. The
Compass Call aircraft are used to disrupt enemy communications and
command.
Compass Cookie
[USA] Program to gather data on the SA-2 Guideline SAM missile by
unmanned recconaissance drones.
Compass Cope
[USA] A high-altitude long-range reconaissance RPV programme. Boeing
QM-94 and Ryan QM-98.
Compass Dawn
[USA] Program to locate ground-based enemy radars. Used the Ryan 147TE
RPV.
Compass Dwell
[USA] Program to locate ground-based enemy radars. Used the Ryan 147TE
drone.
Compass Robin
[USA] The AQM-34M(L) drone.
COMPATWINGSLANT
[USA] Commander, Patrol WIngs Atlantic
COMPG
[USA] Composite Group
COMRATS
[USA] Commuted Rations
COMSEC
Communications Security
COMSECONDFLT
[USA] Commander of the Second Fleet
COMSTRKFORLANT
[USA] Commander, Strike Force Atlantic
COMSUBGRP
[USA] Commander, Submarine Group
COMSUBLANT
[USA] Commander, the Submarine Forces, Atlantic Fleet
COMSUBPAC
[USA] Commander, Submarine Forces, Pacific Fleet
COMSUBRON
[USA] Commander, Submarine Squadron
COMSURFPAC
[USA] Commander, Surface Forces, Pacific Fleet
Conckernut
[UK] Rocket-propelled aircraft bomb, filled with 137lb of explosives.
Proved inpractical as a weapon against concrete fortifications, because
of its inaccuracy.
Condor
[NATO] Soviet Antonov An-124 transport aircraft.
CONT
[USA] USN: Container Ship
CONUS
[USA] Continental United States
Cook-Craigie plan
[USA] The Cook-Craigie production plan intended to hasten service
entry of new aircraft by building the prototypes on actual production
lines, and incorporating any modifications while the production was
already running. It was troublesome because a large number of
unsuitable aircraft were delivered, and very costly if the aircraft
had to be completely redesigned, as was the case with the F-102 and
F-105.
Cooker
[NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-110 transport aircraft.
Cookpot
[NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-124 transport aircraft.
COOP
[USA] Craft-Of-Opportunity Program
Cooperative Bridge
[NATO] Small excercise for NATO and PFP partners. C.B.'94 was held
in Poznan, Poland.
Cooperative Spider
[NATO] Excercise in Holland for NATO and PFP partners. 1994.
Cooperative Venture
[NATO] Excercise in the North Sea for NATO and PFP partners. 1994.
Coot
[NATO] Soviet Ilyushin Il-18 and Il-20 transports.
Copper Canyon
[USA] Research programme into hypersonic aircraft.
Copperhead
[USA] Development of a cannon-launched missile with terminal laser
guidance.
Corail
[France] Chaff and flare dispenser.
CORDS
[USA] Coherent On-Receive Doppler System. Look-down radar system, to
be incorporated in the AN/APQ-120 radar, but cancelled in 1968.
Cork
[NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-16 transport aircraft.
Coronet
[USA] Plan for the invasion of the Japanese island of Honshu. 1945.
Coronet Cove
[USA] Deployment of te A-7D to Howard AFB, Panama.
Coronet Havoc
[USA] Deployment of F-117's to Gilze-Rijen in the Netherlands.
Coronet Sandpiper
[USA] Deployment of F-15A's to Soesterberg AB, Netherlands.
Coronet Solo
[USA] Coronet Solo I: The EC-121S surveillance version of the
C-121 Constellation; Coronet Solo II: The EC-130E.
Corporate
[UK] British operation to retake the Falkland islands on Argentina,
in 1982. The term 'Corporate Mod' is used for changes that were
applied -- in a hurry -- to increase combat readiness. E.g. the
Harrier GR.3 was given AIM-9 Sidewinder capability in one month.
Corvus
[USA] Missile project, cancelled in 1960. Intended as stand-off attack
missile for carrier aircraft.
CoS
Chief-of-Staff
COSSAC
[Allied] Chief of Staff Allied Supreme Headquarters
Cossack
[NATO] Soviet Antonov An-225 transport aircraft.
CoTAM
[France] Commandement du Transport Aerien Militaire -- Military air
transport command.
Cotton Candy
[USA] Boeing RC-135D, equipped with side-looking airborne radar.
Cover All
[USA] Boeing EC-135A and EC-135L, ALCC and ABNCP aircraft.
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CPA
[USA] Central Pacific Area
CPIR
[France] Centre de Prediction et INstruction Radar
CPL
Commercial Pilot's Licence
CPT
Cockpit Procedures Trainer
CP/VC
[Belgium] Centre de perfectionnement / Vervolmakingscentrum --
advanced training centre.
CR
[USA] Control and Reporting
CRAF
[USA] Civilian Reserve Air Fleet; airliners that have special equipment
and can be used for military transport operations.
CRAS
[France] Centre de Reception des Avions de Serie --- Center for the
reception of series-built aircraft.
Crate
[NATO] Soviet Ilyushin Il-14 transport aircraft.
Crazy Dog
[USA] RU-21 mission.
CRC
[NATO] Control and Reporting Center
Credible Chase
[USA] Development programme of the AU-23 and AU-24 small gunships.
Credible Sport
[USA] Version of the C-130 for special operations, modified for
the use of very short runways.
Creek
[NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-12 transport aircraft.
Crew Chief
[USA] Research project on the ergonomics of cockpits.
Crib
[NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-6 and Yak-8 transport aircraft.
CRL
Common Rail Launcher
CRO
[UK] Civilian Repair Organization. Set up during WWII to repair
aircraft damaged in combat.
Crossbow
[Allied] Attacks on V-1 and V-2 launching sites.
Crow
[NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-10 and Yak-12 transport aircraft.
Crown Drum
[NATO] Nose radar of the Tu-95 'Bear-B'
CRP
[USA] Control and Reporting Post
CRT
Cathode Ray Tube
CRUD
[USA] Corrosive, Radioactive, Undetermined Deposit
Crusty
[NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-134 transport aircraft.
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CS
[USA] Seaplane Tender (WW2)
CS
[USA] Strike cruiser (post WW2)
CS
[USA] Commisaryman
CSA
[USA] Combat Support Aircraft. Also: Command Support Aircraft
CSAF
Czechoslovakian Air Force
CSAR
Combat Search And Rescue
CSD
Constant Speed Drive
CSIRS
Covert Survivable In-Weather Reconiassance/Strike. Claimed development
project that created the TR-3A stealth recce aircraft and the F-117.
CSMP
[USA] USN: Current Ship's Maintenance Project
CSRL
[USA] Common Strategic Rotary Launchers, launchers that can accept
both ALCM and SRAM.
CSW
[USA] Conventional Standoff Weapon.
CT
Case-Telescoped, a round that contains the bullet withing the
cartridge, to have a compact, cilindrical round.
CTA
Case-Telescoped Ammunition
CTD
Colour Tactical Display
CTE
[USA] Commander, Task Element
CTF
[USA] Commander, Task Force
CTF
[USA] Combined Test Force
CTG
[USA] Commander, Task Group
CTOL
Conventional Take Off and Landing
CTP
Chief Test Pilot
CTS
[USA] Composite Training Squadron
CTS
Central Tactical System
CTTO
[UK] Central Tactics and Trials Organisation
CTU
[USA] Commander, Task Unit
Cub
[NATO] Soviet Antonov An-10 and An-12 transport aircraft.
Cuff
[NATO] Soviet Beriev Be-30 transport aircraft.
Cupola
[NATO] First large NATO air exercise in Europe, 25-27 August 1950.
Curl
[NATO] Soviet Antonov An-26 transport aircraft.
Cutter
[USA] First part of operation 'Strangle' in Korea: attacks on
the railroad system in north Korea.
CV
[USA] Aircraft Carrier, conventional power. Numbers are unique for
ships, names are not; CV-5 Yorktown and CV-10 Yorktown are
different ships, but CV-12 'Kearsage' and 'Hornet' indicates
that the ship was renamed. Double class names (Essex, Oriskany)
identify a modification.
CV-1 Langley (Langley)
CV-2 Lexington (Lexington)
CV-3 Saratoga (Lexington)
CV-4 Ranger (Ranger)
CV-5 Yorktown (Enterprise)
CV-6 Enterprise (Enterprise)
CV-7 Wasp (Ranger, modified)
CV-8 Hornet (Enterprise, modified)
CV-9 Essex (Essex, Oriskany)
CV-10 Bonhomme Richard (Essex)
CV-10 Yorktown (Essex, Oriskany)
CV-11 Intrepid (Essex, Oriskany)
CV-12 Kearsage (Essex, Oriskany)
CV-12 Hornet (Essex)
CV-13 Franklin (Essex)
CV-14 Hancock (Essex)
CV-14 Ticonderoga (Essex, Oriskany)
CV-15 Randolph (Essex, Oriskany)
CV-16 Cabot (Essex)
CV-16 Lexington (Essex, Oriskany)
CV-17 Bunker Hill (Essex)
CV-18 Oriskany (Essex)
CV-18 Wasp (Essex, Oriskany)
CV-19 Ticonderoga (Essex)
CV-19 Hancock (Essex, Oriskany)
CV-20 Bennington (Essex, Oriskany)
CV-21 Boxer (Essex)
CV-22 Independence (Independence)
CV-23 Princeton (Independence)
CV-24 Belleau Wood (Independence)
CV-25 Cowpens (Independence)
CV-26 Monterey (Independence)
CV-27 Crow Point (Independence)
CV-27 Langley (Independence)
CV-28 Cabot (Independence)
CV-29 Bataan (Independence)
CV-30 Reprisal (Independence)
CV-30 San Jacinto (Independence)
CV-31 Bonhomme Richard (Essex, Oriskany)
CV-32 Crown Point (Essex)
CV-32 Leyte (Essex)
CV-33 Kearsage (Essex)
CV-34 Oriskany (Essex, Oriskany)
CV-35 Reprisal (Cancelled)
CV-36 Antietam (Essex)
CV-37 Valley Forge (Essex)
CV-37 Princeton (Essex)
CV-38 Shangri-La (Essex, Oriskany)
CV-39 Lake Champlain (Essex, Oriskany)
CV-40 Tarawa (Essex)
CV-41 Midway (Midway)
CV-42 Franklin D. Roosevelt (Midway)
CV-43 Coral Sea (Midway)
CV-45 Valley Forge (Essex)
CV-46 Iwo Jima
CV-47 Wright (Essex)
CV-47 Phillipine Sea (Essex)
CV-59 Forrestal (Forrestal)
CV-60 Saratoga (Forrestal)
CV-61 Ranger (Forrestal)
CV-62 Independence (Forrestal)
CV-63 Kitty Hawk (Kitty Hawk, improved Forrestal)
CV-64 Constellation (Kitty Hawk, improved Forrestal)
CV-66 America (Kitty Hawk, improved Forrestal)
CV-67 John F. Kennedy (John F. Kennedy, improved Kitty Hawk)
CVA
[USA] Attack carrier
CVA-11 Intrepid
CVA-14 Ticonderoga
CVA-19 Hancock
CVA-34 Oriskany
CVA-41 Midway (Midway)
CVA-42 Franklin D. Roosevelt (Midway)
CVA-43 Coral Sea (Midway)
CVA-58 United States cancelled
CVA-59 Forrestal (Forrestal)
CVA-60 Saratoga (Forrestal)
CVA-61 Ranger (Forrestal)
CVA-62 Independence (Forrestal)
CVA-63 Kitty Hawk (Kitty Hawk (improved Forrestal))
CVA-64 Constellation (Kitty Hawk (improved Forrestal))
CVA-66 America (Kitty Hawk (improved Forrestal))
CVA-67 John F. Kennedy (Kitty Hawk (improved Forrestal))
CVAN
[USA] Attack aircraft carrier, nuclear powered.
CVAN-65 Enterprise (Enterprise)
CVB
[USA] Large Aircraft Carrier
CVB-41 Midway (Midway)
CVB-42 Coral Sea (Midway)
CVB-42 Franklin D. Roosevelt (Midway)
CVB-43 Coral Sea (Midway)
CVBG
[USA] USN: Carrier Battle Group
CVE
[USA] Escort aircraft carrier.
(Casablanca class also known as Anzio class)
CVE-1 Long Island (Long Island)
CVE-9 Bogue (Bogue)
CVE-11 Card (Bogue)
CVE-12 Copahee (Bogue)
CVE-13 Core (Bogue)
CVE-16 Nassau (Bogue)
CVE-18 Altamaha (Bogue)
CVE-20 Barnes (Bogue)
CVE-21 Block Island
CVE-23 Breton (Bogue)
CVE-25 Croatan (Bogue)
CVE-26 Sangamon (Sangamon)
CVE-27 Suwannee (Sangamon)
CVE-28 Chenango (Sangamon)
CVE-29 Santee (Sangamon)
CVE-30 Charger (Long Island)
CVE-31 Prince William (Prince William)
CVE-55 Ameer (Casablanca)
CVE-55 Alazon Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-55 Casablanca (Casablanca)
CVE-56 Liscombe Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-57 Alikula Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-57 Coral Sea (Casablanca)
CVE-57 Anzio (Casablanca)
CVE-58 Anguilla Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-58 Corregidor (Casablanca)
CVE-59 Atheling (Casablanca)
CVE-59 Mission Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-60 Astrolabe Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-60 Guadalcanal (Casablanca)
CVE-61 Bucareli Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-61 Manilla Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-62 Begum (Casablanca)
CVE-62 Natoma Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-63 Chapin Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-63 Midway (Casablanca)
CVE-63 St Lo (Casablanca)
CVE-64 Didrickson Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-64 Tripoli (Casablanca)
CVE-65 Dolomy Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-65 Wake Island (Casablanca)
CVE-66 Elbour Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-66 White Plains (Casablanca)
CVE-67 Nassuk Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-67 Solomons (Casablanca)
CVE-68 Kalinin Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-69 Kasaan Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-70 Fanshaw Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-71 Kitkun Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-72 Fortezela Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-72 Tulagi (Casablanca)
CVE-73 Gambier Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-74 Nehenta Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-75 Hoggatt Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-76 Kadashan Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-77 Kanalku Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-77 Markus Island (Casablanca)
CVE-78 Kaita Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-78 Savo Island (Casablanca)
CVE-79 Ommaney Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-80 Petrof Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-81 Rudyerd Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-82 Saginaw Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-83 Sargent Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-84 Shamrock Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-85 Shipley Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-86 Sitkoh Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-87 Steamer Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-88 Cape Esperance (Casablanca)
CVE-89 Takansis Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-90 Thetis Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-91 Makassar Strait (Casablanca)
CVE-92 Windham Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-93 Makin Island (Casablanca)
CVE-94 Lunga Point (Casablanca)
CVE-95 Alikula Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-95 Bismarck Sea (Casablanca)
CVE-96 Salamaua (Casablanca)
CVE-97 Astrolabe Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-97 Hollandia (Casablanca)
CVE-98 Bucareli Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-98 Kwajalein (Casablanca)
CVE-99 Chapin Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-99 Admiralty Islands (Casablanca)
CVE-100 Didrickson Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-100 Bougainville (Casablanca)
CVE-101 Dolomi Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-101 Manitakau (Casablanca)
CVE-102 Attu (Casablanca)
CVE-103 Alava Bay (Casablanca)
CVE-103 Roi (Casablanca)
CVE-104 Munda (Casablanca)
CVE-105 St Joseph Bay (Commencement Bay)
CVE-105 Commencement Bay (Commencement Bay)
CVE-106 Sunset Bay (Commencement Bay)
CVE-106 Block Island (Commencement Bay)
CVE-107 St Andrews Bay (Commencement Bay)
CVE-107 Gilbert Islands (Commencement Bay)
CVE-108 Vermillion Bay (Commencement Bay)
CVE-108 Kula Gulf (Commencement Bay)
CVE-109 Willapa Bay (Commencement Bay)
CVE-109 Cape Gloucester (Commencement Bay)
CVE-110 Salerno Bay (Commencement Bay)
CVE-111 Totem Bay (Commencement Bay)
CVE-111 Vella Gulf (Commencement Bay)
CVE-112 Frosty Bay (Commencement Bay)
CVE-112 Siboney (Commencement Bay)
CVE-113 Hobart Bay (Commencement Bay)
CVE-113 Puget Sound (Commencement Bay)
CVE-114 Rendova (Commencement Bay)
CVE-115 Bairoko (Commencement Bay)
CVE-116 Badoeng Strait (Commencement Bay)
CVE-117 Saidor (Commencement Bay)
CVE-118 Sicily (Commencement Bay)
CVE-119 Point Cruz (Commencement Bay)
CVE-120 Mindoro (Commencement Bay)
CVE-121 Rabaul (Commencement Bay)
CVE-122 Palau (Commencement Bay)
CVE-123 Tinian (Commencement Bay)
CVE-124 Bastogne (Cancelled)
CVE-125 Eniwetok (Cancelled)
CVE-126 Lingayen (Cancelled)
CVE-127 Okinawa (Cancelled)
CVH
[USA] USN: Helicopter Carrier
CVHA
[USA] USN: Assault Helicopter Transport
CVHA-1 Thetis Bay (Anzio)
CVHE
[USA] USN: Escort Helicopter Aircraft Carrier.
CVHG
[USA] USN: Helicopter Carrier with guided missile armament.
CVL
[USA] USN: Light aircraft carrier.
CVL-22 Independence (Independence)
CVL-23 Princeton (Independence)
CVL-24 Belleau Wood (Independence)
CVL-25 Cowpens (Independence)
CVL-26 Monterey (Independence)
CVL-27 Langley (Independence)
CVL-28 Cabot (Independence)
CVL-29 Bataan (Independence)
CVL-30 San Jacinto (Independence)
CVL-48 Saipan (Saipan)
CVL-49 Wright (Saipan)
CVN
[USA] USN: Nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
CVN-65 Enterprise (Enterprise)
CVN-68 Nimitz (Nimitz)
CVN-69 Dwight D. Eisenhower (Nimitz)
CVN-70 Carl Vinson (Nimitz)
CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt (Nimitz)
CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln (Nimitz)
CVN-73 George Washington (Nimitz)
CVN-74 John Stennis (Nimitz)
CVN-75 United States (Nimitz)
CVR
Cockpit Voice Recorder
CVS
[USA] Support (ASW) Aircraft Carrier. Includes some former CV-'s of
the Essex class.
CVS-11 Intrepid
CVS-12 Hornet
CVS-15 Randolph
CVS-20 Bennington
CVS-29 Lake Champlain
CVT
[USA] USN: Aircraft Carrier, Training
CVU
[USA] Utility Aircraft Carrier
CVW
[USA] Carrier Air Wing
CW
[USA] Composite Wing
CWP
[UK] Central Warning Panel -- 'Christmas Tree' of waring lights in
aircraft's cockpit.
CWS
[Germany] Container Weapon System
CWW
[USA] Cruciform Wing Weapon, the GBU-15 guided bomb.
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CX-HLS
[USA] Cargo Experimental - Heavy Logistics System. Requirement
filled in by the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy.
CX-X
[USA] Requirement for an utility aircraft for US embassies.
The Beech C-12F was selected.
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Cycle
[UK] Evacuation of troops from West-France, June 1940.
Cypress
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Kyushu K9W trainer
CzAF
Czech Air Force
Anfangsbuchstabe D:
DA
[USSR] Dalnaya Aviatsiya (Strategic Aviation)
DAACM
[USA] Direct Airfield Attack Combined Munition, CBU-98/B
cluster bomb.
DAB
[USA] Defense Acquisition Board
DACM
[USA] Dissimilar Air Combat Maneuvering, i.e. training in air combat
with 'aggressor' aircraft.
DACT
Dissimilar Air Combat Training
DAD
Dischargeable Aviation Device. Containerised water-bomber system
for Il-76 Candid transports.
DADCAP
Dawn And Dusk Combat Air Patrol
DAFCS
Digital Automatic Flight Control System
Daguet
[France] French participation in the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq.
DARO
[USA] Defense Airborne Reconaissance Office
DARPA
[USA] Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, a research institute.
Renamed ARPA.
Dart Board
[USA] Modification program for the F-106. 1961. New ejection seat and
cockpit hood, and improved fuel systems.
DAS
Direct AIr Support
DASH
Drone Anti Submarine Helicopter
Dash Ten
[UK] Jamming pod.
DASS
[Europe] Defensive Aids Sub System, EW system for the Eurofighter 2000.
Dave
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Nakajima E8N floatplane
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DB
Depth bomb
DBA-GK
[USSR] Supreme Command's Long Range Bomber Arm; replaced the AON (see
there) in 1940.
DBNS
Doppler Bombing / Navigation System
DBS
Doppler Beam Sharpening
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DC
Depth Charge
DC
Direct Current
DCA
Defensive Counter Air
DCI
[USA] Director of Central Intelligence
DCMU
[UK] Digital Colour Map Unit
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DD
[USA] USN: Destroyer
DD
[Allied] Duplex Drive. Designation for Sherman tanks for amhibious
operations, fitted with twin propellers and a buoyancy screen.
DDE
[USA] Escort Destroyer
DDG
[USA] USN: Guided Missile Destroyer
DDH
[USA] USN: Helicopter-carrying destroyer
DDI
Digital Display Indicator
DDK
[USA] USN: Hunter-Killer Destroyer
DDR
[USA] USN: Radar Picket Destroyer
DDS
Digital Data System
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DE
[USA] Escort Destroyer
DEA
[USA] Drug Enforcement Agency
Deadlight
[UK] Destruction of German submarines after WWII. 110 submarines
were scuttled.
Deadstick
[UK] Attack by glider and paratroop units to capture bridges over
the Orne river and the Caen canal, near Ouistreham, as part of
'Overlord'. These were the first soldiers to set foot in occupied
France.
DEC
[USA] USN: Control Escort Ship
DECM
[USA] Deceptive Electronic Counter Measures. AN/ALQ-126.
DECU
Digital Engine Control Unit
DEEC
[USA] Digital Electronic Engine Control
Deep Freeze
[USA] Arctic expedition. The purpose and results of this have entered
the realms of myth. 1956.
DEFCON
[USA] Defence Condition:
DEFCON 1 Nuclear War
DEFCON 2 Conventional War
DEFCON 3 Emergency / Crises
DEFCON 4 Heightened Readiness
DEFCON 5 Peacetime
DEG
[USA] USN: Guided Missile Escort Ship
Delta
[NATO] Soviet submarine class
DEMVAL
[USA] Demonstration & Evaluation
Deny Flight
[NATO] NATO operation to enforce the 'no-fly' zone over Bosnia.
DER
[USA] USN: Radar Picket Escort Ship
Desert Shield
[USA] Operation to reinforce the forces in the Gulf to defend
Saudi-Arabia and prepare for an eventual conflict with Iraq.
Desert Storm
[USA] Operation to remove the Iraqi Army from Kuwait.
DESO
[UK] Defence Export Services Organisation
Detroit
[Allied] Airborne operation on D-day, by the 82nd Airborne in the
US sector.
DEW
[USA / Canada] Distant Early Warning, a line of radar sites close
to the Arctic, on the northern coast of Canada and on Greenland.
Dewey Canyon
[USA] Sweep of the A Shau and Da Krong valleys in Vietnam, April
1969.
--DF-------------------------------------------------------------------------
DF
Direction Finding
DFCS
Digital Fire Control System
DFDR
Digital FLight Data Recorder
DFVLR
[Germany] Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt fur Luft- und
Raumfahrt --- German research and test institute for air and
space.
--DG-------------------------------------------------------------------------
DGAC
[France] Direction Generale de l'Aviation Civile
DGT&E
[UK] Directorate General of Test and Evaluation
--DH-------------------------------------------------------------------------
DH
Direct Hit
DHA
[France] Detachement d'Helicopteres Armes -- Armed helicopter
detachment.
DI
[Czechoslovakia] Duverne Israel -- Isreal confidential. Sale of 25
Avia C-210 (Bf 109 with Jumo 211 engine) and 54 Spitfires to Israel,
in 1948. Eleven more were sent in 1949.
DIA
[USA] Defense Intelligence Agency
DIANE
[USA] Digital Integrated Attack and Navigation Equipment, for the
Grumman A-6 intruder.
Dick
[USA] Codename for the Seversky A8V (deriver from P-35) fighter, no longer
in service with the Japanese forces during WWII.
Dinah
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Mitsubishi Ki.46 reconaissance aircraft.
DINAS
Digital Inertial Navigation / Attack System
DINS
Digital Inertial Navigation System
Disclipined Guard
[USA] Operation to provide aircover for UN forces in Bosnia.
Disney
[USA] Rocket-powered 4500lb bombs, intended for attacks on U-boat
shelters immune to most other bombs. Only twice used operationally.
DIV
[USA] Division
Diver
[UK] Codename for the V-1.
Dixie
[Allied] The communist movement in China (then in civil war as
well as involved in WWII.) Name given because of the song 'Is it true
waht they say about Dixie?'.
DK
[USSR] Desantniy korabl' (landing ship)
--DL-------------------------------------------------------------------------
DL
[USA] USN: Frigate
DLC
Direct Lift Control
DLG
[USA] USN: Guided Missile Frigate
DLGH
[USA] USN: Guided Missile Frigate, Helicopter
DLGN
[USA] USN: Guided Missile Frigate, nuclear-powered
DLI
[USA] Deck-Launch Intercept
DLZ
Dynamic Launch Zone
--DM-------------------------------------------------------------------------
DM
[USA] USN: Light Minelayer
DM
[USSR] Dopolnitelny Motor --- Auxiliary Motor. Ramjet engines, usually
fitted underwing to WWII fighters, in an attempt to increase
performance.
DMA
[USA] Defence Mapping Agency
DME
Distance Measuring Equipment
DMPI
Desired Mean Point of Impact
DMS
[USA] High Speed Minelayer
DMZ
Demilitarised Zone
--DN-------------------------------------------------------------------------
DOAC
[UK] Defence Operational Analysis Centre
Doc
[USA] Codename for the German Messerschmitt Bf 110, assumed to be in
Japanese service. It was not.
DOD
Department of Defense
DOE
Department of Energy
Dog House
[NATO] Medium range early-warning ground radar for ABM-1.
Doris
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Mitsubishi B-97. Did not exist.
DOSAAF
[USSR] Dobrovoln'oe Obshchestvo Sodeistviya Armii, Aviatsii i Flotu.
Voluntary Association for the support of Army, Aviation and Fleet.
Paramilitary sport organization that undertook basic flying
training.
DOT
[UK] Details Of Tasking
Down Beat
[NATO] Nose radar of the Tu-95 'Bear-G' and Tu-22M 'Backfire'.
Downfall
[USA] Plan for the invasion of Japan in 1945. The first phase was
to be 'Olympic', the second phase 'Coronet'.
--DP-------------------------------------------------------------------------
DPC
Defence Planning Committee, of NATO.
DR
Dead Reckoning
DRA
[UK] Defence Research Agency. Created on April 1, 1991 to do all
non-nuclear research.
Dragon
[USA] M47 tube-launched, wire-guided anti-tank missile. 14.6kg,
disposable tube.
Dragon Fly
[USA] ?
--DS-------------------------------------------------------------------------
DSFC
Direct Side-Force Control
DSP
[USA] Defense Support Programme. A network of early-warning satellites.
DSRV
[USA] USN: Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle.
DSTA
[UK] Defence Science and Technology Agency
--DT-------------------------------------------------------------------------
DTG
Date-Time Group
DTM
Data Transfer Module
--DU-------------------------------------------------------------------------
--DV-------------------------------------------------------------------------
DVI
Direct Voice Input
--DW-------------------------------------------------------------------------
DWS
[Germany] Dispenser Weapon System
DZ
Dropping Zone
Anfangsbuchstabe E:
E^3
[USA] Electronic Environmental Effects (mainly interference).
EA
[France] Ecole d'Application
EAATS
[USA] Eastern ARNG Aviation Training Site
EAB
Emergency Air Breathing (Mask)
EADI
[USA] Electronic Attitude Direction Indicator
Eagle Claw
[USA] The failed attempt in 1980 to free the hostages in the US embassy
in Teheran. Also referred to as 'Evening Light'.
EAP
[UK] Experimental Aircraft Programme, technology demonstrator for the
EFA.
EAS
Equivalent Airspeed (corrected for compressibility)-
EB
[France] Escadre de Bombardement -- bombardment wing
EB 1/91 'Gascogne'
EB 2/91 'Bretagne'
EB 3/91 'Cevennes'
EB 1/94 'Guyenne'
EB 2/94 'Marne'
EB 3/94 'Arbois'
E-boat
[UK] British term for the German S-boot, a motortorpedoboat
EC
Electronic Combat
EC
[France] Escadre de Chasse -- fighter wing
EC 1/2 'Cicognes'
EC 3/2 'Alsace'
EC 1/3 'Navarre'
EC 2/3 'Champagne'
EC 3/3 'Ardennes'
EC 1/4 'Dauphine'
EC 2/4 'La Fayette'
EC 1/5 'Vendee'
EC 2/5 'Ile de France'
EC 1/7 'Provence'
EC 2/7 'Argonne'
EC 3/7 'Languedoc'
EC 1/10 'Valois'
EC 2/10 'Seine'
EC 3/10 'Vexin'
EC 1/11 'Rousillon'
EC 2/11 'Vosges'
EC 3/11 'Corse'
EC 4/11 'Jura'
EC 1/12 'Cambresis'
EC 2/12 'Cornouaille'
EC 1/13 'Artois'
EC 2/13 'Alpes'
EC 3/13 'Auvergne'
ECCD
Electronic Cockpit Control Device
ECCFFA
[France] Escadrille de Commandement Central de Forces Francais
Allemande -- flight of the central command of the French forces in
Germany.
ECCM
Electronic Counter-Counter Measures
ECE
[France] Escadron de Chasse et d'Entrainment -- fighter trainer
squadron.
Echo
[NATO]Soviet Submarine class.
ECM
Electronic Counter Measures
ECR
Electronic Combat and Reconaissance. Version of the Panavia Tornado.
ECS
[USA] Electronic Combat Squadron
ECS
Environmental Control System
ECT
[France] Escadron de Chasse et de Transformation -- fighter
trainer conversion squadron.
ECTT
[France] Escadre de Chasse Tous Temps -- All-wheater fighter wing.
ECU
Electronic Control Unit
ECU
Environmental Control Unit
ECU
Engine Change Unit
EDA
[France] Escadre de Detection Aeroportee --- AEW squadron.
EDA 1/36 Berry
EDA 2/36 Nivernais
EDD
[USA] USN: Experimental Destroyer
EDE
[USA] USN: Experimental Escort Ship
Edna
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Mitsubishi Ki.71 attack aircraft.
EDO
[USA] Engineering Duty Officer
EDSA
[USA] European Distribution System Aircraft. The C-23, or Shorts
330.
EDU
Electronic Display Unit
EDU
Engine Diagnostic Unit
EE
[France] Escadre Electronique
EEZ
Electronic Exclusion Zone
EFA
European Fighter Aircraft, also known as Eurofighter 2000.
EFAMS
[USA] Enhanced Fuel and Armament Management System, for the
RAH-66 Comanche. Non-lifting, detachable stubs with
additional attachment points.
EFCS
Electronic Flight Control System
EFIS
Electronic Flight Instrumentation System
EFM
[USA] Enhanced Fighter Maneuvrability, the X-31 test aircraft.
EFPH
[USA] Equivalent Full-Power Hours
EFS
[USA] Enhanced Flight Screener
EFTS
[UK] Elementary Flying Training School
Eglantine
[UK] The approach to Heligoland, when referred to for aerial
minelaying ('Gardening').
EGT
Exhaust Gas Temperature
EH
Escadre d'Helicopteres -- helicopter wing
EH 1/67 'Pyrenees'
EH 2/67 'Valmy'
EH 3/67 'Parisis'
EH 4/67 'Durance'
EH 5/67 'Alpilles'
EHAC
Escadrille d'Helicopteres Anti-Chars -- Anti-tank helicopter flight.
EHDD
[UK] Electronic Head-Down Display
EHF
Extremely High Frequency
EHL
Escadrille d'Helicopteres Legers -- light helicopter flight
EHLM
[Belgium] Eenheid voor de Herstelling van het LuchtvaartMaterieel --
Repair Unit for Air Equipment.
ehp
Equivalent Horse Power
EHSI
[USA] Electronic Horizontal Situation Indicator
EICAS
Engine Indication and Crew Alerting System
Eiche
[Germany] Operation to free Mussolini, 1944.
EID
[UK] Electronic Identification Device
EIS
Electronic Instrument System
Eisenhammer
[Germany] Late 1944 plan to attack the power stations in the Soviet
Union, at first with bombers, later the plan was modified to use the
'Mistel' combination. Never done. EKA
[Germany] Elektronische Kampffuhrung und Aufklarung. German for ECR,
Electronic Combat and Reconaissance, the electronic warfare version
of the Tornado.
ekW
Equivalent Kilowatt
EL
Emitter Locator
ELA
[France] Escadre de Liaison Aeriennes
ELAS
[France] Escadre de Liaison Aeriennes et de Sauvetage
Eldorado Canyon
[USA] Attack on Libya in 1986.
ELF
[USA] Extremely Low Frequency, frequency band used to communicate with
submarines.
ELINT
Electronic Intelligence
Elliniki Polemiki Aeroporia
[Greece] Greek Air Force
Elmira
[Allied] Airborne operation on D-day, by the 82nd Airborne in the
US sector.
ELS
Emitter Location System
ELT
Emergency Locator Transmitter
EM
[USSR] Eskadrenniy minonosets (destroyer)
EMC
Electro-Magnetic Compatibility
EMCON
Emission Control
EMD
Engineering, Manufacture and Development
EMDG
Euro Missile Dynamics Group
EME
ElectroMagnetic Environment
EMERCOM
[Russia] Federation State Committee of Emergencies.
EMI
ElectroMagnetic Interference
Emily
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Kawanishi H8K flying boat.
EMP
Electromagnetic Pulse (from a nuclear explosion at high altitude)
Enhance Plus
[USA] Transfer of aircraft South Vietnam, just before the signing
of the Paris peace treaty. 1972.
ENJJPT
Euro Nato Joint Jet Pilot Training
Enterprise
[Allied] Crossing of the Elbe, 29 April 1945.
Enzian
[Germany] SAM, designed and built during WWII. Abandoned in January
1945.
EO
Electro-Optically. Said of missile guidance systems and similar
equipment which can 'see', in the most primitive case steering on
contrasting objects, e.g. a dark ship at the horizon, but sometimes
a full-TV link is used.
EOB
Electronic Order of Battle
EOD
[USA] Explosive Ordnance Disposal
EOGB
Electro-Optically Guided Bomb.
EOOW
[USA] USN: Engineering Officer of the Watch.
EP
Estimated Position
EPA
Evasive Plan of Action
EPA/VVS
[Belgium] Ecole de Pilotage Avance / Voortgezette Vliegopleidings
school -- advanced flying school.
EPE/EVS
[Belgium] Ecole de Pilotage Elementaire / Elementaire Vliegschool --
elementary flying school.
EPR
Engine Pressure Ratio
EPU
Emergency Power Unit
EPW
Enemy Prisoner of WarER
[France] Escadre de Reconaissance -- reconaisssance wing
ER 1/33 'Belfort'
ER 2/33 'Savoie'
ER 3/33 'Moselle'
ER
Extended Range
EROPS
Extended Range Operations
ERSA
[USA] Extended Range Strike Aircraft. Requirement, 1963.
E&ERFTS
[UK] Elementary & Reserve Training School, at Sywell before WWII.
ERV
[France] Escadre de Ravitaillement en Vol -- air tanker wing
ERV 1/93 'Aunis'
ERV 2/93 'Landes'
ERV 3/93 'Sologne'
ES
[France] Ecole de Specialisation
ESC
[USA] Electronic Security Command
ESM
Electronic Surveillance Measures
ESM
Electronic Support Measures
ESM
Electronic Signal Monitoring
ESM
[USA] Edible Structural Material. This was proposed for the Lunar
Module, the moon landing craft of the Apollo missions. ESM would have
been made of powdered milk, corn starch, wheat flour, hominy grits,
and banana flakes, baked at high pressure. It could be machined and
drilled and had 300 calories per gram. Its use was not adopted.
ESR
[USA] Equivalent Service Round
ESRP
[Europe] European Supersonic Research Programme, for the development
of a successor to Concorde.
ESSS
[USA] External Stores Support System. Detachable stub wings with
pylons, for the UH-60.
ET
[France] Escadre de Transport -- transport wing
ET 3/60 'Esterel'
ET 1/61 'Touraine'
ET 2/61 'Franche Comte'
ET 3/61 'Poitou'
ET 1/62 'Vercors'
ET 1/64 'Bearn'
ET 2/64 'Anjou'
ET 2/64 'Maine'
ET 3/64 'Bigorre'
ETA
Estimated Time of Arrival
ETAC
[USA] Enlisted Terminal Attack Controller
ETC
Electrothermal Chemical (Gun)
ETD
Estimated Time of Departure
ETE
Estimated Time Enroute
ETO
[USA] European Theatre of Operations
ETOM
[France] Escadre de Transport d'Outre Mer -- overseas transport wing
ETOPS
Extended Range Twin-Engine Operations.
ETPS
[UK] Empire Test Pilots School. At Cranfield until 1946, at Farnborough
from 1946 to 1968, and since then at Boscombe Down.
EUCLID
European Co-Operations for the Long-term In Defence
Eureka
[UK] Beacon transmitter, used by paratroop 'pathfinders' during WWII
to identify a landing site to the dropping aircraft.
Eurofar
[Europe] European Future Advanced Rotorcraft.
EVA
Extra Vehicular Activity. Activity outside a spacecraft (in space).
Eva
[USA] Codename for a Japanese aircraft, that was later found not
to be a military aircraft.
Eve
[USA] Codename for a Japanese aircraft, that was later found
not to be a military aircraft.
Evening Light
[USA] Codename used to refer to 'Eagle Claw' (see there)
EVK
[Russia] 'Flotilla a flying ships', the first unit of four-engined
bombers. Created on 10 December 1914. The aircraft were 'Ilya
Mourometz' biplanes designed by Sikorsky.
EVS
[USA] Electro-Optical Viewing System -- system fitted in the turrets
under the nose of the B-52.
EW
Electronic Warfare
EW
Early Warning
EWO
[USA] Electronic Warfare Officer
EWSM
Early-Warning Support Measures
EWTR
[UK] Electronic Warfare Training Range. At Spadedam, in
Northumberland. Extended Capital
[Allied] Attack in Burma, late 1944 and 1945.
Extend Sentry
[USA] Upgrade programme for the Boeing E-3 Sentry.
Anfangsbuchstabe F:
FA
[USSR] Frontovaya Aviatsiya -- tactical air force.
FAA
[UK] Fleet Air Arm
FAA
[USA] Federal Aviation Administration
FAB
[Belgium] FAB/Blu: Force Aerienne Belge / Belgische Luchtmacht. Belgian
Air Force.
FAB
[USA] Forward Avionics Bay
FAC
[USA] Forward Air Control
Faceplate
[NATO] Soviet Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich E-2A fighter prototype.
FACP
[USA] Forward Air Control Post
FAD
[USA] Fleet Air Defense
FADEC
Full Authority Digital Engine Control
FAE
Fuel-Air Explosive
FAEC
[Cuba] Fuerza Aerea del Ejercito Cubano -- Cuban Army Air Force.
Fagot
[NATO] Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 fighter.
FAHV
[Upper Volta] Force Aerienne de Haute Volta -- Air Force of Upper
Volta.
FAI
Federation Aeronautique Internationale
FAirMed
[USA] Fleet Air Mediterranean
Faithless
[NATO] Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-231 fighter prototype.
Falcon
[NATO] Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 fighter, renamed Fagot.
Falcon Eye
[USA] Night vision system for the F-61.
Falke
[Germany] T4 homing torpedo, 1943. Rapidly replaced by T5 Zaunkonig.
FAMET
[Spain] Fuerzas Aeromoviles del Ejercito de Tierras --- Air-mobile
forces of the land army.
FAMG
[USA] Field Artillery Missile Group.
FAN
[USA] Forward Air Navigator
FAN
[Cuba] Fuerza Aerea Naval -- Naval Air Force.
Fang
[NATO] Soviet Lavochkin La-11 fighter.
FANS
Future Air Navigation System
Fan Song
[NATO] Radar associated with the SA-2 'Guideline'
Fantail
[NATO] Soviet Lavockhin La-15 fighter.
Fantan
[NATO] Chinese Nanchang Q-5 fighter.
FAP
[Portugal] Forca Aerea Portuguesa -- Portugese Air Force
FAR
[USA] Federal Aviation Regulations
FAR
[Cuba] Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias --- Revolutionary Armed Forces.
Fargo
[NATO] Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9 fighter.
Farmer
[NATO] Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 fighter.
Farm Gate
Detachement of the 440th 'Combat Crew Training Squadron', a COIN unit,
to Bien Hoa, Vietnam.
FARP
Forward Area Rearm / Refuel Point
Far Side
[USA] Launch of a four-stage rocket from a balloon flying at 30480m,
reaching an altitude of 4345km.
FAS
[France] Force Aerienne Strategique, Strategic Air Force
FAS
[El Salvador] Fuerza Aerea Salvadorena -- Air Force of El Salvador
FAST
[USA] Fighter Airborne Supply Tank, low-drag conformal tanks
attached to the sides of F-15s.
FAST
[USA] Fast Automatic Shuttle Transfer System
FAST
[UK] Farnborough Air Sciences Trust
FATAC
[Congo] Force Aerienne Tactique --- Tactical Air Force. In fact the
air force of the new republic, after its independence in 1960.
FAV
[Venezuela] Fuerzas Aereas Venezolanas -- Venezuelan Air Force
--FB-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FBL
Fly By Light
FBM
[USA] USN: Fleet Ballistic Missile
FBW
Fly By Wire
--FC-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FCLP
[USA] Field Carrier Landing Practice
FCR
Fire Control Radar
FCS
Fire Control System
FCS
Flight Control System
--FD-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FDAS
[USA] Flight Deck Avionics System
FDO
Flight Deck Officer
FDR
Flight Data Recorder
--FE-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FEAF
[USA] Far East Air Force
Feather
[NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-15 and Yak-17 fighters.
FEBA
[USA] Forward Edge of Battle Area
FEFA
[Europe] Future European Fighter Aircraft, renamed EFA.
Feldt-Fl-Abt
[Germany] Feld-Flieger Abteilung, field flying section. Normally
with six aircraft.
Felix
[Germany] German plan, 1940, for operations in the Mediterranean.
Fencer
[NATO] Soviet Sukhoi Su-24 fighter.
Fest-Fl-Abt
[Germany] Festung-Flieger Abteiling -- fortress flying unit. WWI.
Feuerlilie
[Germany] SAM under development in 1944. Never entered service. Had
radio command guidance.
FEWSG
[USA] USN: Fleet Electronic Warfare Support Group
--FF-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FF
[USA] USN: Frigate.
FFAR
Folding Fin Aircraft Rocket, originally Forward Firing Aircraft Rocket.
FFCC
[Europe] Forward-facing Crew Cockpit. The two-seat cockpit of the
Airbus A300.
FFG
[USA] USN: Guided missile Frigate
FFGH
[USA] USN: Guided missile Frigate, Helicopter
FFH
[USA] USN: Frigate, Helicopter
FFI
[Norway] Forsvaret Forskining Institut, defense research establishment.
FFL
[USA] [USA] USN: Corvette
FFOS
Forward Flying Observation System
FFS
Full Flight Simulator
--FG-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FG
[USA] Fighter Group
FGA
[UK] Fighter Ground Attack
FGM
[USA] Man-launched, surface-target missile -- mainly anti-tank
missiles.
FGM-77 Dragon
FGR
[UK] Fighter Ground Attack Reconaissance
--FH-------------------------------------------------------------------------
--FI-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fickle
[Allied] See 'Flabby'.
FICON
[USA] FIghter CONveyer: a GRB-36 carried a RF-84K reconaissance
aircraft in its bomb-bay. Brief operational use in 1955-1956.
Fiddler
[NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-28 fighter.
Fido
[USA] Oficially known as 'Mark 24 Mine', this was a torpedo with
an acoustic homing head, introduced during WWII.
FIDO
[UK] FOg DIspersal equipment. Kerosene was burned by a system of flares
along the runway. (1945)
FIG
[USA] Fighter-Interceptor Group
177th FIG 'Jersey Devils'
Filo
[Turkey] Squadron.
FIM
[USA] Man-launched SAM.
FIM-43 Redeye.
FIM-92 Stinger
Fin
[NATO] Soviet Lavochkin La-7 fighter.
Finback
[NATO] Chinese Shenyang F-8 II fighter.
Finder
[USA] Signal intelligence missions, flown by RC-135Cs.
FINRAE
[UK] Ferranti Intertial Rapid Alignment Equipment. Equipment to
initialize the INS of a BAe Harrier. Developed during the Falkland
War, to be used by Harrier GR.3s operated during shipboard operations.
FIP
[USA] Fleet Introduction Program
FIR
Flight Information Region
FIRAMS
Flight Incident Recorder and Aircraft Monitoring System
Firebar
[NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-28 fighter.
Fire Can
[NATO] Radar used with Soviet 57mm and 85mm AAA.
Firedog
[UK] Operations against communist infiltration in Malaya, 1948 -- 1960.
Fire Fly
[USA] Also known as 'United Effort', see there.
FIS
[USA] Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
87th FIS 'Red Bulls'
177th FIS 'Jersey Devils'
178th FIS 'Happy Hooligans'
Fishbed
[NATO] Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 fighter.
Fishpot
[NATO] Soviet Sukhoi Su-9 and Su-11 fighter.
Firebee
[USA] The Ryan BQM-34A / MQM-34D RPV.
Firebee II
[USA] The Ryan BQM-34E/F, a supersonic development of the Ryan 147 RPV,
model 166.
Fitter
[NATO] Soviet Sukhoi Su-7, Su-17, Su-20 and Su-22 fighter-bombers.
FitWing
[USA] Fighter Wing
--FJ-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FJLIN
[UK] Fast-Jet Lead-IN (training)
--FL-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FL
Flight Level
FLA
[Europe] Future Large Airlifter, a proposed C-130 replacement.
FLA
[Germany] Feld-Luftschiffer-Abteilung. Field Airship Section, equipped
with (static) balloons for observation purposes during WWI.
Flabby
[Allied] Operational condition of the defences against V-1 flying
bombs, in 1944. 'Flabby' : Fighter only, AA guns not firing; 'Spouse':
Fighters not flying, AA guns only; 'Fickle' : Guns firing up to 8000ft,
fighters flying above.
Fl-Abt(A)
[Germany] Artillerie-Flieger-Abteilung, artillery flying unit.
Six aircraft each.
Flagon
[NATO] Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 and Su-21 fighter.
Flanker
[NATO] Soviet Sukhoi Su-27 fighter.
Flap Wheel
[NATO] Gun laying radar for Soviet 130mm AAA.
Flash Dance
[NATO] Radar of the MiG-31.
Flashlight
[NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-25 and Yak-27 fighters.
Flat Face
[NATO] Radar used with SA-3 and SA-5.
Flat Jack
[NATO] Radar radome of the Tu-126 'Moss'.
Flax
[Allied] Operations against German and Italian transport aircraft
ferrying supplies from Italy to Tunisia. 1943.
Flipper
[NATO] Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152 fighter prototype.
FLIR
Forward-Looking Infra-Red
Flogger
[NATO] Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 and MiG-27 fighters.
Flora
[NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-23 fighter.
FLOT
[NATO] Forward Line of Own Troops
Flying Carpet
[Belgium] Transfer of refugees from Amman to Cairo, 1990.
--FM-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FMC
Flight Management Computer
FMCS
Flight Management Computer System
FMF
[USA] Fleet Marine Force
FMRAAM
[UK] Future Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile.
FMS
[USA] Foreign Military Sales
FMS
Flight Management System
--FN-------------------------------------------------------------------------
--FO-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOA
[UK] Future Offensive Aircraft. Design study by BAe, 1995.
FOB
Forward Operating Base
FOBS
Fractional Orbit Bombardment System
FOC
Full Operation Capability
FOD
Foreign Object Damage, damage caused by dirt or stones sucked into
jet engines.
Fo Fu
[Germany] Forschungsfuhrung --- Research directorate (of the
Luftwaffe).
FOG
[USA] Finger-On-Glass. A touch-sensitive display screen.
FOL
Forward Operating Location
FOO
[Allied] Forward Observation Officer. Naval officer accompanying the
ground forces, to coordinate and direct fire support from warships
at amphibious operations.
Forca Aerea Portuguesa
[Portugal] Portugese Air Force
Forger
[NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-38 fighter.
Forget-me-nots
[UK] The Kiel canal, when referred to for aerial minelaying
('Gardening').
Form 700
[UK] Logbook of an aircraft
Fortitude
[Allied] Desinformation plan, to mislead the Germans about the location
of the 1944 invasion. See 'Skye' and 'Quicksilver'.
FOT&E
Follow-On Test & Evaluation
FOV
Field Of View
Foxbat
[NATO] Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 fighter.
Foxer
[UK] Noise-maker towed by escorts, against the German acoustic
homing torpedoes.
Fox Fire
[NATO] Radar of the MiG-25 Foxbat-A
Foxhound
[NATO] Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-31 fighter.
--FP-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FPB
Fast Patrol Boat
FPV
Force Projection Vehicle
--FQ-------------------------------------------------------------------------
--FR-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FR
Flight Refuelling
FRA
[UK] First-Run Attack
FRAM
[USA] Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernisation
Frances
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Yokosuka P1Y Ginga / Kyokko fast bomber.
Frank
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Mitsubihi TK-4. Did not exist.
Frank
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Nakajima Ki.84 Hayate fighter.
Frank
[NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-9 fighter.
Frantic
[Allied] 'Shuttle' bombardments of Germany. American bombers
flew over Germany to the USSR and back. The USSR allowed -- under
strict conditions -- American aircraft to use its bases.
Fred
[USA] Codename for the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190. It was not in Japanese
service.
Fred
[NATO] US Bell P-63 Kingcobra fighter in Soviet service.
Freedom Train
[USA] Limited bombing offensive against North Vietnam, began on
April 2, 1972.
Freehand
[NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-36 fighter fighter.
Freestyle
[NATO] Soviet Yakovlev Yak-141 fighter fighter.
Frequent Wind
[USA] The helicopter evacuation of Siagon, April 1975.
Fresco
[NATO] Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 fighter.
Friction
[Canada] Canadian participation in the 1991 Gulf War.
Friedensengel
[Germany] Winged torpedoes, developed during WWII. A more or less
standard torpedo was fitted with short wings with endplates and a
tail with twin fins. ABout 450 built.
Fritz
[NATO] Soviet Lavochkin La-9 fighter.
Fritz X
[Germany] WWII guided bomb, also known as FX-1400. Fritz-X sank the
battleship Roma, damaged the battleships Italia and Warspite, sank
the cruiser Spartan, damaged the cruisers Savannah and Uganda, and
sank the destroyer Janus. Numerous merchant ships also fell victim
to Fritz-X.
Frog
[NATO] Free Rocket Over Ground, or Free flight Range Over Ground,
or something else... A family of USSR unguided artillery rockets.
Frogfoot
[NATO] Soviet Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircraft.
Frosty
[NATO] Soviet Tupolev Tu-10 attack aircraft.
FRS
[USA] Fleet Replenishment Squadron
FRS
[UK] Fighter, Reconaissance, Strike
--FS-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FS
[USA] Fighter Squadron
526th FS 'Black Knights'
FSAT
[USA] Full Scale Aerial Target. Radio-controlled conversions of
older aircraft, as the QF-100 and QF-106.
FSCL
Fire Support Control Line
FSD
Full Scale Development
FSS
[USA] Flight Screening Squadron
FSW
Forward Swept Wings
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FTEG
[USA] Flight Test and Engineering Group.
FTRFLT
[USA] Fighter Flight
FTS
[UK] Flight Training School
FTS
[USA] Flight Training Squadron
FTW
[USA] Flying Training Wing
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Fuerza Area Argentina
[Argentina] Argentine Air Force
Fuerza Aerea del Ejercito Cubano
[Cuba] Cuban Army Air Force.
Fuerza Aero Moviles del Ejercito de Tierra
[Spain] Air-mobile force of the Spanish Army.
Fuerza Aerea Naval
[Cuba] Naval Air Force.
Fuerza Aerea Salvadorena
[El Salvador] Air Force of El Salvador
Fuerzas Aereas Venezolanas
[Venezuela] Venezuelan Air Force
Fu-Go
[Japan] Attacks on the US during WWII, using balloons carrying
incendiary bombs -- a mode of attack pioneered by the Austrians in
1849. The balloons were released in Japan and carried over the Pacific
by jet streams. Began in November 1944.
Fulcrum
[NATO] Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 fighter.
Full Flow
[UK] Exercise, in 1984, of the deployment of troops to Germany. 35000
are transported by air.
Full House
[USA] Escort missions for fighters of the 8th AF and 9th AF on
D-day.
Funryu
[Japan] 'Raging Dragon', a series of SAM's developed by the
Imperial Navy during WWII.
Fur ball
(Jargon) Dogfight.
FUSAG
[Allied] First US Army Group. 'Ghost Army' created as part of the
desinformation campaign named Quicksilver (see there).
--FW-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FW
[USA] Fighter Wing
FWIT
Fighter Weapons Instructors Training
FWOC
[UK] Forward Wing Operations Centre.
FWS
Forward Swept Wing
--FX-------------------------------------------------------------------------
--FY-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FY
Fiscal Year. 1 October to 30 September.
--FZ-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FZG
[Germany] Flakzielgerat -- target for anti-aircraft artillery. The
cover designation FZG 76 was applied to the V-1.
Anfangsbuchstabe G:
GA
General Arrangment (drawing)
GA
General Aviation
Gadfly
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-11, SA-N-7.
Gainful
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-6
Galahad
[Allied] Allied special operations unit, operating in Northern Burma.
Better known as "Merril's Marauders".
GALCA
[France] Groupe d'Avitaion Legere de Corps d'Armee -- army corps
light aircraft group.
GALDiv
[France] Groupe d'Aviation Legere de Division -- division light
aircraft group.
Galosh
[NATO] Soviet Anti-Ballistic missile, ABM-1
GALReg
[France] Groupe d'Aviation Legere de la Region -- regional light
aircraft group.
GALSTA
[France] Groupement ALAT de Section Technique de l'Armee de Terre.
GAM
[France] Groupe Aerienne Mixte
GAM 56 'Vaucluse'
GAM
[USA] Air-to-Surface missile.
GAM-63 Rascal
GAM-77 Hound Dog
GAM-83 Bullpup
GAM-87 Skybolt
Game Warden
[USA] USN operations in the Mekong Delta.
Gammon
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-5
Gander
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Kokusai Ku-8 glider.
Ganef
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-4
GAO
[USA] General Accounting Office
GAR
[USA] Guided Aircraft Rocket
GAR-1 AIM-4 Falcon (4 and 4A)
GAR-2 AIM-4 Falcon (4B, 4C and 4D)
GAR-3 AIM-4 Falcon (4E and 4F)
GAR-4 AIM-4 Falcon (4G)
GAR-8 AIM-9 Sidewinder
GAR-9 AIM-47 Falcon
GAR-11 AIM-26 Falcon (A and B)
Garden
[Allied] Ground troop component of 'Market Garden'
Gardening
[UK] Minelaying by aircraft.
Gargoyle
[USA] USN guided missile. Flown in 1944, but never operational.
Gaskin
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-9
GAU
[USA] Designation for aircraft guns.
GAU-2 Minigun 7.62mm 2000-6000rds/min 869m/sec
GAU-4 Vulcan
Derivative of the M61 Vulcan.
GAU-7 25mm
Cancelled in 1974, was intended to replace the M61 Vulcan.
GAU-8 Avenger 30mm 2100-4200rds/min 1066m/sec
GAU-12 Equaliser 25mm 3600-4200rds/min 1100m/sec
GAU-13 30mm 3000rds/min 1037m/sec
Derivative of the GAU-8.
Gauntlet
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-15, SA-N-9
Gazelle
[NATO] Soviet Anti-Ballistic missile, ABM-3
GB
[USA] Guided bomb, a standard bomb fitted with wings and a tail on twin
booms. The GB-1 series weapons were used by the 8th AF from 1944
onwards, but had no guidance, effectively being glide bombs. GB-4
entered service in July 1944 with camera guidance, but suffered from
unreliability.
GB-1 glide bomb, unguided
GB-4 TV-guidance
GB-6 IR seeker
GB-8 radio, visual control
GB-12 Light-contrast anti-ship seeker
GB-13 Light flare seeker
GB-14 Active radar seeker
GBTS
[USA] Ground-Based Training System
GBU
[USA] Guided, or Glide Bomb Unit
GCA
Ground Controlled Approach
GC&CS
[UK] Government Code & Cypher School. Also responsible for the
decoding of German transmissions during WWII.
GCI
Ground-Control of Interception
GCHQ
[UK] Government Communications Headquarters
GCT
[USA] Government Competitive Test.
GDE
[UK] Graduate Direct Entrant (pilot student)
GE
[France] Groupement Ecole
Gecko
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-8, SA-N-4
GEE
[UK] For 'Grid'. A navigation system invented by the British during
WWII. A chain of radio station emitted synchronized pulses; aircraft
calculated their position from the phase shift between pulses. The
range of GEE was 400 miles. GEE was used until 1970.
GEM
Ground Effect Machine
GEOREF
Geographical Reference
George
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Kawanishi N1K1-J and N1K2-J fighters.
GFC
Gun Fire Control
GFE
Government-Furnished Equipment
GFRP
Glass-Fibre Reinforced Plastic
GGS
Gyro Gunsight
GH
[USA] Gee-H, a more advanced development of 'Gee'.
GHA
Greenwich Hour Angle
GHL
[France] Groupe d'Helicopteres Legers -- light helicopter group
GI
[France] Groupement d'Instruction -- Training Group.
Giant
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-12B
Gimlet
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-16
GIRD
[USSR] Rocket Propulsion Study Group, formed in 1931.
GK
[USSR] Germeticheskaya Kabina -- Pressured cabin.
Glad Customer
[USA] Exercises in Australia.
Gladiator
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-12A
GLAM
[France] Groupe de Liaison Aeriennes Ministerielles
Glaviaprom
[USSR] Chief Directorate for the Aviation Industry.
GLCM
[USA] Ground Launched Cruise Missile.
Glenn
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Yokosuka E14Y seaplane.
Glimmer
[Allied] Operation of aircraft simulating a convoy near Boulogne,
as a diversion of the invasion in Normandy. 6 June 1944. See also
'Taxable'.
GLO
[UK] Ground Liaison Officer
GLOC
G-induced loss of consciousness
Glomb
[USA] The Pratt-Read LBE glide bomb, a conversion of a light plane
with a 1814kg warhead. 1942--1944.
GLORIA
[USA] Geographical Long Range Inclined Asdic
GMAv
[UK] GEC Marconi Avionics
GMEA
[France] Groupe de Manoevre de l'Ecolde d'Applications
GMT
Greenwich Mean Time
Gnat
[UK] German Naval Acoustic Torpedo. British codename for
"Zaunkonig".
Gnat-750
[USA] Unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, sponsored by the CIA.
GNS
Global Navigation System
Goa
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-3, SA-N-1
Goblet
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-N-3
Gold
[Allied] One of the landing beaches used for 'Overlord'.
Golf
[NATO] Soviet submarine class
Goose
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Kokusai Ku-8 glider.
Gopher
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-13
GOR
[USA] General Operational Requirement
GOR 49
[USA] The official requirement for the Republic F-105.
Gorgon
[USA] Missiles tested by the USN, 1945--1953.
GP
General Purpose
GPI
Glide Path Indicator
GPMG
General-Purpose Machine Gun
GPS
Global Positioning System
GPU
Ground Power Unit
GPU
[USA] Gun Pod Unit.
GPU-2 Pod with the M197 20mm gun.
GPU-5 Pod with a GAU-13 gun.
GPWS
Ground-Proximity Warning System
GQ
General Quarters (battle stations
GR
[UK] Ground Attack, Reconaissance
Grace
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Aichi B7A Ryusei bomber.
Grail
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-7
Grand Slam
[UK] 22000lb bomb, larger version of 'Tallboy'. (See Tallboy)
Grapple
[UK] Series of nuclear tests. 1957.
Grasshopper
[Allied] See 'Stickleback'.
GRD
[Switzerland] Gruppe fur Rustungsdienste
Great Panjadrum
[UK] Great Panjandrum was designed to demolish concrete fortifications.
It consisted of two wheels, with rockets attached to them to propel the
device, and two tons of explosives attached to the axle. It was
intended to be launched by landing ships. Tests were a failure, but it
may well ahve been only a deception move. 1944.
Green Bamboo
[UK] Nuclear bomb, experimental only. Also used as codename for the
UK H-bomb development effort.
Green Bean
[Belgium] Evacuation of Belgians and Europeans from Ruanda, 1990.
Green Flag
Electronic Warfare exercise, held on Nellis AFB, Nevada, USA.
Green Granite
[UK] Nuclear bomb. 'Green Granite Small' was a 300Kt thermonuclear
device. 'Green Granite Large' was bigger, but yielded only 200Kt.
Both were partial failures.
Green Grass
[UK] Code name for a 'physics package', the actual nuclear weapon
in a series of nuclear bombs --- the bomb casings had their own
codenames. 'Green Grass' was a megaton warhead, but seems to have
been a pure fission weapon, not a H-bomb.
Gremlin
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-14
Griffon
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-5 (renamed Gammon)
Grindstone
[USA] Modernization programme for the F-104C Starfighter. 1961
Grisha
[NATO] Soviet corvette class
Grisom
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-19, SA-N-11
GRP
Glass Reinforced Plastic
GRU
[USSR] Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye -- military intelligence
service.
Grumble
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-10, SA-N-6
G/S
Ground Speed
GSE
Ground Support Equipment
GSh
[USSR] Gryazev-Shipunov. (gun designers)
GTS
Gas Turbine Starter
GUAP
[USSR] Chief Directorate of the Aviation Industry.
Guard Channel
[UK] 243.0MHz -- International Distress Frequency
Guideline
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-2, SA-N-2
Guild
[NATO] Soviet Surface-to-air missile, SA-1
Gulf Stream
[Belgium] Logistic support flights for the Coalition units
in the Gulf, 1990.
Gun Dish
[NATO] Gun-laying radar for ZSU-23-4 and ZSU-52-2 AAA sets.
Gunsmoke
[USA] Exercise and competition for fighter-bomber squadrons
at Nellis AFB, Nevada.
GU-RKKF
[USSR] Glavoce Upravlenie-Raboche-Krestyanskogo Krasnogo
Vozdushnogo Flota --- Chief directorate of the Workers and Peasants
Military Air Fleet. Created in 1918.
Gus
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Nakajima AT-27. Did not exist.
GvOTBVP
[USSR] Gvardeyskii Otdelni'i Transportni'i Boevoi Vertoletni'i Polk ---
Guards Independent Combat Transport Helicopter Regiment.
GW
Guided Weapon
-Gymnast
[Allied] Invasion in French North Africa. Renamed Torch.
Anfangsbuchstabe H:
HA
[USA] USN attack helicopter squadron
HA(L)-3 'Seawolves'
HAAC
Helicopter Air-to-Air Combat
HAARS
High-Altitude Airdrop Resupply System
Habakkuk
[Allied] A project to create large "aircraft carriers" constructed
from "pykrete" --- a mix of ice and wood pulp. The need for such
floating airfields soon disappeared.
HAC
[France] Helicoptere Anti-Char -- anti-tank helicopter.
HADAS
Helmet Airborbe Display And Sight
HADS
Helicopter Air Data System
Haerens Flyvetjeneste's
[Denmark] Army Aviation.
Hagelkorn
[Germany] WWII long-range glided bomb. Range was up to 200km if
launched at 10500m; but guidance was a problem. Hagelkorn was very
streamlined and had high aspect ratio wings with steel cores and
_concrete- aerofoils.
HA-GO
[Japan] Plan for an attack in Birma, that began in February 1944.
Failed.
HALO
High Altitude, Low Opening. A parachuting technique.
Halo
[NATO] Soviet Mil Mi-26 helicopter.
Halpro
[USA] Plan to attack Japan with B-24 bomber based in Chiina, 1942.
Cancelled.
Han-guk Kong Goong
[Korea] Korean Air Force (South)
Hamp
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Reisen with clipped
wing tips.
Hank
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Aichi E10A seaplane
Hap
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Reisen with clipped
wing tips, renamed 'Hamp' as a courtesy for general 'Hap' Arnold.
HAP
[France] Helicoptere d'Appui Protection
HAR
[UK] Helicopter, search-and-rescue
Hare
[NATO] Soviet Mil Mi-1 helicopter.
Harke
[NATO] Soviet Mil Mi-10 helicopter.
HARM
[USA] High-Speed Anit-Radiation missile. AGM-88A.
Harp
[NATO] Soviet Kamov Ka-20 helicopter.
Harry
[USA] Codename for the Japanese Mitsubishi TK-4. Did not exist.
HARS
Heading / Attitude Reference System
Harvest Reaper
[USA] Modification programme for the F-111A. 1967.
HARV
[USA] High-Alpha Research Vehicle. A modified F-18.
Harvey
[UK] Launcher for 3in anti-aircraft rockets. WWII.
Harvey
[USA] Development of radar absorbent materials
HAS
Hardened Aircraft Shelter
HASC
[USA] House Armed Services Committee.
HASP
[USA] High Altitude Sampling Programme.
HASPA
[USA] High Altitude Superpressure Powered Aerostat: Navy programma for
a high-altitude, remotely controlled airship for surveillance and data
relay purposes.
HAST
[USA] High-Altitude Supersonic Target: Project for a target drone that
is to fly at Mach 4 and at altitudes up to 30500m.
HAST
[UK] Harrier Avionics Systems Trainer
Hat
[NATO] Soviet Kamov Ka-10 helicopter.
Have Atlas