SOME DEFENCE ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ....

[Jason bourne]

AAA Anti-aircraft artillery

AAD Advanced Air Defense (missile intercept system) ,Area Air Defence

AAM Air-to-Air missile

AESA Active Electronically Scanned Array

AEW Airborne early warning

AI Air Intercept

AMCA Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft

AMRAAM Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile

ASMAR Active Multimode Solid-State Active Radar

ASM Air-to-Surface Missile

ASW AntiSubmarine Warfare

ASAT AntiSATellite weapon

ATFLIR Advanced Tactical Forward Looking Infrared

ATGM antitank guided missile

ATRD Active towed radar decoy

AWACS Airborne warning and control system

BMP Battle Management Processor

BMD Ballistic Missile Defense

BVR Beyond-visual-range

BVRAAM Beyond-Visual-Range Air-to-Air Missile

C3I Command, control,communications,and intelligence

CAESAR Captor Active Electronically Scanned Array Radar

C-AISR Counter-airborne intelligence,surveillance and reconnaissance

CAP Combat Air Patrol

CAS Close Air Support

CBG Carrier Battle Group

CCD-TV Charge-coupled device television

CCS Cabinet Committee on Security

CEP Circular Error Projection

CIWS Close In Weapon System

CSG Carrier Strike Group

DAS Defensive avionics suite

DASS Defensive Aids Sub-System

DPB Defense Procurement Board

DPP Defense Procurement Procedure

DRDO Defence Research Development Organization (India)

DRFM Digital radio frequency memory

EADS European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company

EOTS Electro-Optical Targeting System

ESM Electronic support measures

EW Electronic warfare

EW/CGI Early warning and ground control intercept

FGFA Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (indian)

FLIR Forward looking infrared

FOC Final Operational Clearance

HAL Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

HOTAS Hands on throttle and stick

HUMINT Human Intelligence

IADS Integrated air defense systems

IAF Indian Air Force

ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile ( range more then 5500 km )

IDECM Integrated Defensive Electronic Counter measures

IEWS Integrated Electronic Warfare System

IFF Identification, friend or foe

IOC Initial Operational Clearance

IIR Imaging infrared

IJT Intermediate Jet Trainer

IRBM Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile ( range of 3,000–5,500 km )

IRST Infrared search and tracking

ISAF ISraeli Air Force

ISR Intelligence, surveillance,and reconnaissance

ISRO Indian Space Research Organisation (Bangalore, India)

JDAM Joint Direct Attack Munition

JSOW Joint Standoff Weapon

LCA Light Combat Aircraft

LPI Low probability of intercept

LRCM Long Range Cruise Missile

LRSAM Long Range Surface-to-Air Missile

MAWS Missile approach warning system

MBRL Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher

MIRV Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle

MMRCA Medium multi-role combat aircraft

MOD Ministry of Defense

MRBM Medium-Range Rallistic Missile ( range between 1000km. to 3500 km )

NORA Not Only a Radar

PAF Pakistan Air Force

PAK-FA Perspektivny Aviatsionny Kompleks Frontovoy Aviatsii- literally Prospective Airborne Complex of Frontline Aviation

PAD Point Air Defense ( Prithvi Air Defence )

PESA Passive Electronically Scanned Array

PIRATE Passive Infra-Red Airborne Tracking Equipment

PLAAF People’s Liberation Army Air Force

R&D Research and development

RCS Radar cross-section

RFP Request for Proposals

RWR Radar warning receiver

SAM Surface-to-air missile

SEAD Suppression of enemy air defenses

SIGINT Signals Intelligence

SRBM Short Range Ballistic Missile range between ( range below 1000 km.)

SRSAM Short Range Surface-to-Air Missile

T/R Transmit/receive

UAV Unmanned aerial vehicle

UCAV Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle

WVR Within-visual-range





INDIAN ARMY AND SPECIAL FORCES





MARCOS MARine COmmandoS

SFF Special Frontier Force

SOG Special Operations Group

NSG National Security Guards

GCF Garud Commando Force

SSG State Security Guard

BSF Border Security Force



submarine :



SSBN Submarine, Ballistic Missile, Nuclear powered



SSN Submarine, Attack, Nuclear powered



SSGN Submarine, Guided missile, Nuclear powered



SSK Submarine, Attack, Diesel electric powered



SS Submarine, Attack

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Help if i missed some important acronyms ...THANKS .

 

[The_magnificent]

Nicely articulated Thumbs up for this

 

[Don Jaguar]

Thanks buddy.

 

[tvsram1992]

good one buddy

 

[T90TankGuy]

nice . knew a lot but not all

 

[Jason bourne]

nice . knew a lot but not all

in defence nobody knows all anyway if i missed some important u can remind me

 

[Kinetic]

Thanks for sharing bro.

 

[Nirvana]

Nice job !!

 

[KRAIT]

In SSBN etc , SS stands for submersible ship.....

BTW Thanks for the info.

Cheers

 

[Jason bourne]

thanks guys

 

[Jason bourne]

MiG-23 Rakshak / Vijay
MiG-27 Bahadur
jaguar Shamsher
MiG-29 Baaz
MIRAGE VAJRA
MIG 25 GARUDA
Mig-21m trishul
MIg-21 bis. vikram

SU-30 ?????? does anyone know ?

 

[third eye]

MI 25 / 35 Akbar