military
1653 abbreviations
| Abbreviation | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| AMS-H [Heavy] | Advanced Missile System | |
| AMX | Atelier de Construction d'Issy-les-Moulineaux | |
| ANAD | Anniston Army Depot | |
| ANZAC | Australia and New Zealand Army Corps | |
| ANZUS | Australia New Zealand United States Treaty | |
| AO | Area of operations | |
| AOI | Arab Organisation for Industrialisation | |
| AOS | Add-on stabilisation | |
| AP | Anti-personnel | |
| AP | Armour-piercing | |
| APAM | Anti-personnel, anti-matériel | |
| APBC | Armour-piercing ballistic cap | |
| APC | Armoured personnel carrier | |
| APC | Armour-piercing capped | |
| APCBC | Armour-piercing capped ballistic cap | |
| APCNR | Armour-piercing composite non-rigid | |
| APCR | Armour-piercing composite rigid | |
| APCRBC | Armour-piercing composite rigid ballistic cap | |
| APC-T [tracer] | Armour-piercing capped | |
| APCT-BF [base fuze] | Armour-piercing capped tracer | |
| APDS | Armour-piercing discarding sabot | |
| APDS-T | Armour-piercing discarding sabot - tracer | |
| APE | Amphibisches Pionier-Erkundungsfahrzeug (amphibious front-line reconnaissance vehicle) | |
| APEP | Armour-Piercing Enhancement Programme | |
| APERS | Anti-personnel | |
| APERS-T | Anti-personnel tracer | |
| APFIDS | Armour-piercing fragmentation incendiary discarding sabot | |
| APFSDS(P) | Armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot (practice) | |
| APFSDSDU | Armour piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot, depleted uranium | |
| APFSDS-T | Armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot - tracer | |
| APG | Aberdeen Proving Grounds | |
| APGM | Autonomous precision-guided munition | |
| APHC | Armour-piercing hard core | |
| APHE | Armour-piercing high explosive | |
| API | Armour-piercing incendiary | |
| APIT | Armour-piercing incendiary tracer | |
| APM | Anti-personnel mine | |
| APS | Advanced propulsion system | |
| APS | Artillery pointing system | |
| APSA | Armour piercing secondary effect | |
| APSE | Armour-piercing secondary effect | |
| APSE-T [tracer] | Armour-piercing secondary effect | |
| APT | Armour-piercing tracer | |
| APTE | Abrams Power Train Evolution (US) | |
| APU | Auxiliary power unit | |
| APV | Armoured patrol vehicle | |
| AR | Assault rifle | |
| AR/AAV | Armored Reconnaissance/Airborne Assault Vehicle (US) | |
| ARD | Anti-reflective device | |
| ARDEC | Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center |