military
1653 abbreviations
| Abbreviation | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| ADF | Australian Defence Force | |
| ADI | Australian Defence Industries | |
| AE | action express | |
| AEF | Allied expeditionary force | |
| AESA | Active electronically scanned array | |
| AEV | Armoured engineer vehicle | |
| AF | Air force | |
| AFA/ARA | Aerial field artillery/aerial rocket artillery (US, Vietnam war era attack helicopter batteries employing 2.75 in. FFAR) | |
| AFARV | Armored, Forward Area, Re-arm Vehicle (US) | |
| AFAS | advanced Field Artillery System | |
| AFC | Australian Flying Corps | |
| AFCS | automatic fire-control systems | |
| AFD | automatic feeding device | |
| AFSC | air force specialty code | |
| AFSV | armoured fire support vehicle | |
| AFV | Armored Family of Vehicles (US) | |
| AFV | Armoured fighting vehicle | |
| AGC | automatic gain control | |
| AGF | Army ground forces | |
| AGL | above ground level | |
| AGL | automatic grenade launcher | |
| AGLS | automatic gun laying system | |
| AGS | armored gun system (US) | |
| AGV | assault gun vehicle | |
| AGVT | Advanced Ground Vehicle Technology | |
| Ah | Ampere hour | |
| AHC | Attack Helicopter Company (USA) | |
| AICS | Accuracy International Chassis System | |
| AICW | Advanced Individual Combat Weapon | |
| AIF | Australian Imperial Force (Australia, WWI) | |
| AIFS | Advanced Indirect Fire System | |
| AIFV | Armoured infantry fighting vehicle | |
| AIPS | Advanced Integrated Propulsion System (US) | |
| ALAAVS | Advanced Light Armored/Amphibious Vehicle System (US) | |
| ALC | Advanced Land Combat (US) | |
| ALICE | All-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment | |
| ALS | Advanced laying system | |
| ALSV | Armoured logistics support vehicle | |
| ALT | Armoured launching turret | |
| AMC | United States Army Materiel Command | |
| AMC | Advanced Mortar Carrier (Turkey) | |
| AMCCOM | Armament Munitions and Chemical Command | |
| AMDS | Anti-Missile Discarding Sabot | |
| AMF | Amphibische Mehrzweck-Fahrzeuge (multipurpose amphibious vehicle) | |
| AML | Automitrailleuse Légère (light armoured car) | |
| AMOS | Advanced mortar system | |
| AMR | Anti-materiel rifle | |
| AMR | Automitrailleuse de Reconnaissance | |
| AMRWS | Advanced multi-role weapon station | |
| AMS | Armoured mortar system |