military
1653 abbreviations
| Abbreviation | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| ROR | range only radar | |
| ROTA | Royal Ordnance Training Ammunition | |
| RP | Red phosphorus | |
| RP | rocket-propelled | |
| RPC | Rocket Pod Container | |
| RPG | Rocket-propelled grenade | |
| RPG | Ruchnoy Protivotankovy Granatomyot | |
| RPV | Remotely piloted vehicle | |
| RR | Recoilless rifle | |
| RRPR | Reduced Range Practice Rocket | |
| RRTR | Reduced Range Training Round | |
| RSAF | Royal Small Arms Factory (UK) (now closed) | |
| RSS | Rosette Scanning Seeker | |
| RTE | Rifle Team Equipment | |
| RTT | Roues Transporteur de Troupes | |
| RUC | Royal Ulster Constabulary | |
| RWS | Remote weapon system (or station) | |
| s | second(s) | |
| S&W | Smith & Wesson | |
| SABCA | Société Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aéronautiques | |
| SABR | Selectable Assault Battle Rifle | |
| SABS | Stabilizing Automatic Bomb Sight | |
| SAC | Small Arms Collimator | |
| SACLOS | Semi-Automatic Command to Line Of Sight | |
| SADA | Standard Advanced Dewar Assembly | |
| SADARM | Sense And Destroy Armor (US) | |
| SADF | South African Defence Force | |
| SAE | Society of Automotive Engineers | |
| SAF | Small Arms Fire | |
| SAFCS | Small Arms Fire Control System | |
| SAFIRE | Surface-to-Air Fire | |
| SAL | semi-active laser | |
| SAM | surface-to-air missile | |
| SAMM | Société d'Applications des Machines Motrices | |
| SANDF | South African National Defence Force | |
| SANG | Saudi Arabian National Guard | |
| SAP | Semi-Armour-Piercing | |
| SAPHEI | Semi-Armour-Piercing High Explosive Incendiary | |
| SAPI | semi-armour-piercing incendiary | |
| SAS | Special Air Service | |
| SAS-EAS | Sealed Authenticator System - Emergency Action Procedures (Nuclear Weapons Release Control) | |
| SASR | Special Air Service Regiment | |
| SASR | Special Application Sniper Rifle | |
| SAT | Small Arms Trainer | |
| SATCP | Systиme Anti-aérien à Trиs Courte Portée (very short-range anti-aircraft system) | |
| SAVA | Standard Army Vectronics Architecture | |
| SAW | Squad Automatic Weapon | |
| SAWS | Squad Automatic Weapon System | |
| SB | Short Barrel | |
| SCORE | Stratified Charge Omnivorous Rotary Engine |