Recurring Military and Technological Abbreviations and Acronyms

AESA - Active Electronically Scanned Array
AEV - Armoured Engineer Vehicle
AEW - Airborne Early Warning
AEW&C - Airborne Early Warning and Control
AFB - Air Force Base
AFV - Armoured Fighting Vehicle
APC - Armoured Personnel Carrier
ASW - Anti-Submarine Warfare
ASuW - Anti-Surface Warfare
ATGM - Anti-Tank Guided Missile
AUV - Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
BAAINBw - Germany's Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support
C2 - Command and Control
C4 - C2, Communications and Computers
C4I - C4 and Information
CAS - Close Air Support
CASEVAC - Casualty Evacuation
CBRNE - Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive
COIN - Counterinsurgency
COMINT - Communications Intelligence
COTS - Commercial Off The Shelf
DGA - French Procurement Agency
DIRCM - Directed Infrared Counter Measure
DPP - Defence Procurement Procedure
DPSU - Defence Public Sector Undertakings
DRDO - Defence Research and Development Organisation
EDA - European Defence Agency
EEZ - Exclusive Economic Zone
EFP - Explosively Formed Penetrator
ELINT - Electronic Intelligence
EO - Electro-Optical
EOD - Explosive Ordnance Disposal
ESM - Electronic Support Measure
FIBUA - Fighting in Built Up Area
FLIR - Forward Looking Infra-Red
FMS - Foreign Military Sale
GDP - Gross Domestic Product
GPS - Global Positioning Satellite NEUNEUNEU
HALE - High Altitude Long Endurance
HAZMAT - Hazardous Materials
HEAT - High Explosive Anti-Tank
HF - High Frequency NEUNEUNEU
HMMWV - High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle
I2 - Image Intensified
IDF - Israel Defense Forces
IDIQ - Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity
IED - Improvised Explosive Device
ICV - Infantry Carrier Vehicle
IFF - Identification-Friend-or-Foe
IFV - Infantry Fighting Vehicle
IOC - Initial Operational Capability
IR - Infra Red
ISR - Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
M-ATV - MRAP All-Terrain Vehicle
MALE - Medium Altitude Long Endurance
MANPADS - Man-Portable Air-Defence Systems
MBT - Main Battle Tank
MEDEVAC - Medical Evacuation
MOTS - Military Off The Shelf
MOUT - Military Operations in Urban Terrain
MPA - Maritime Patrol Aircraft
MRAP - Mine Resistant Ambush Protected
MRO - Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul
NVG - Night Vision Goggle
OEF - Operation "Enduring Freedom"
OIF - Operation "Iraqi Freedom"
OPV - Offshore Patrol Vessel
PEO - Program Executive Officer
PEO STRI - Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation
PRR - Personal Role Radio
R&D - Research and Development
ROV - Remotely Operated Vehicle
RPA - Remotely Piloted Aircraft
RPG - Rocket Propelled Grenade
SDSR - Strategic Defence and Security Review
SINCGARS - Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System
SME - Small and Medium Sized Enterprise
STOL - Short Take-Off and Landing
SWaP - Size, Weight and Power
UAS - Unmanned Air System
UAV - Unmanned Air Vehicle
UGV - Unmanned Ground Vehicle
UHF - Ultra High Frequency NEUNEUNEU
UOR - Urgent Operational Requirement
USSOCOM - US Special Operations Command NEUNEUNEU
USV- Unmanned Surface Vehicle
UUV - Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
UXO - Unexploded Ordnance
VHF - Very High Frequency NEUNEUNEU
VoIP - Voice over Internet Protocol
VTOL - Vertical Take-Off and Landing