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AABNCP Advanced AirBorne National Command Post (E-4) AACS Airways and Air Communications Services AAM Air-to-Air Missile ABC Advancing Blade Concept ABCCC Airborne Battlefield Command & Control Center (EC-130) ACLS Air-Cushioned Landing System (C-8) Aero Ind. Aero Industries Aerospat. Aerospatiale AETC Air Education and Training Command AEW Airborne Early Warning AEW&C Airborne Early Warning and Control AGM Air-to-Ground Missile Airship I. Airship Industries AKA Also Known As Amer. Heli. American Helicopter AMST Advanced Medium STOL Transport (C-14 / C-15) ANG Air National Guard ANGOSTA Air National Guard Operational Support Transport Aircraft (C-26) ARIA Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft (EC-18, EC-135) ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency ASM Air-to-Surface Missile ASW Anti-Submarine Warfare ATARS Advanced Tactical Airborne Relay System ATA Advanced Tactical Aircraft (A-12) ATB Advanced Tactical Bomber (B-2) ATCA Advanced Tactical Cargo Aircraft (C-10) ATF Advanced Tactical Fighter (F-22 / F-23) Atl. Atlantic ATSC Air Training Systems Command? AUTEC Atlantic Underwater Test and Evaluation Center AWACS Airborne Warning And Control Station (E-3, EC-137) BAe British Aerospace BAI Battlefield Air Interdictor Bell/Boe. Bell/Boeing Ber.Joyce Berliner-Joyce BFW-Mess. Bayerische Flugzeug Werke-Messerschmidt BLC Boundary Layer Control Boe. Can. Boeing Canada Boeing V. Boeing Vertol BUFF Big Ugly Fat Fucker/Fella (B-52) c. circa (around) C3 Command, Control, Communications Can. C&F Canadian Car & Foundry CAS Close Air Support CATT Cobra Air Interception Team (AH-1G Snake) CCV Control Configured Vehicle C-FIN Combat Flight Inspection and Navigation CFT Conformal Fuel Tanks Chance Vo. Chance Vought Christoph. Christopher CINC Commander-IN-Chief civ. civilian COD Carrier Onboard Delivery COIN COunter INsurgency COMINT COMmunications INTelligence Consolid. Consolidated Cons. Vul. Consolidated Vultee CRV Crew Return Vehicle CTOL Conventional Take Off and Landing Curt.-Wri. Curtiss-Wright DACT Dissimilar Air Combat Trainer DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DASH Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter (H-50) Dass. Breg. Dassault Breguet Dayton-Wr. Dayton-Wright De Havil. De Havilland demon. demonstrator des. designation dev. development D.H.C. De Havilland Canada DoD Department of Defense DOS Douglas Observation Seaplane DWC Douglas World Cruiser ECM Electronic CounterMeasures Eng. Div. Engineering Division Eng. Res. Engineering Research EFM Enhanced Fighter Maneuverable (X-31) ELINT ELectronic INTelligence EW Electronic Warfare exper. experimental FAC Forward Air Control Fair. Rep. Fairchild Republic FAST Fuel And Sensors, Tactical FATE Future Aircraft Technology Enhancements FICON FIghter CONveyer (GRB-36F) FLIR Forward-Looking InfraRed FLIT Fighter LeadIn Trainer (AT-38) FOD Foreign Object Damage FSW Forward Swept Wing (X-29) G&A Aircr. G & A Aircraft GAC General Aircraft Corporation GAX Ground Attack eXperimental G.D. General Dynamics Gen. Airb. General Airborne Gen. Avia. General Aviation Gen. Mot. General Motors GLOB Ground Loving Old Bastard ([K]C-135) GMB Glenn Martin Bomber GMC Glenn Martin Cannon gov't government Great La. Great Lakes Hand. Page Handley Page Hawk.-Sid. Hawker-Siddeley HLH Heavy Lift Helicopter ([C]H-62) Huff-Dal. Huff-Daland IAI Israeli Aircraft Industries ICBM InterContinental Ballistic Missile INFANT Iroquois Night Fighter ANd Tracker (UH-1M) IR Infra-Red IRBM Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile JAST Joint Advanced Strike ? JGG Jolly Green Giant (H-3 and variants) JPATS Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (T-6 Texan II) JSF Joint Strike Fighter (X-32 / X-35) J-STARS Joint Services Targeting Attack Radar System Junk.-Lar. Junkers-Larsen Kai.-Flee. Kaiser-Fleetwings Keys.Loe. Keystone-Loening Krei.-Rei. Kreider-Reisner Lai.-Kauf. Laister-Kaufman LAMPS Light Airborne MultiPurpose System LARA Light Army Reconnaissance Aircraft (OV-10) Lawr.-Sp. Lawrence-Sperry lb. pound LERX Leading Edge Root eXtension LHX Light Helicopter eXperimental (H-66) LLLTV Low Light-Level TeleVision LOH Light Observation Helicopter (H-4, H-6 and variants) LRAACA Long-Range Air ASW Capable Aircraft (P-7) LUSAGH LePere United States Army Ground Harrassment LUSAO LePere United States Army Observation L.W.F. Edmond Lowe, Jr., Charles Willard, Charles Fowler manu. manufacturer Mar.Cur. Martin-Curtiss Mar.Kl. Martin-Klemin MATS Military Air Transport Service MBB Messerschmidt-Bolkow-Blohm McDD McDonnell Douglas MCM Mine Counter-Measures MMS Mast-Mounted Sight mod. modified MRR Medium Range Recovery NAGPAW North American General-Purpose Attack Weapon (A-5/A3J) NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASP National AeroSpace Plane (X-30) NEACP National Emergency Airborne Command Platform (E-4) New Stan. New Standard NGT New Generation Trainer (T-46 / T-48) NOAA National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration North Amer. North American Northwest. Northwestern ORENCO Ordinance Engineering Company OSA Operational Support Aircraft PACCS Post Attack Command and Control System (E-4) Penn. Air. Pennsylvania Aircraft pusher-prop. pusher-propellor RAF Royal Air Force RAAF Royal Australian Air Force RCAF Royal Canadian Air Force recon. reconnaissance redes. redesignated RLV Reusable Launch Vehicle RN Royal Navy Rock. Rockwell International RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicle RTU Replacement Training Unit RWR Radar Warning Receiver SAC Strategic Air Command SAM Surface-to-Air Missile SAR Search And Rescue SBD Silent But Deadly (A-10) Scaled Comp. Scaled Composites SIGINT SIGnals INTelligence SLAR Side-Looking Airborne Radar SLAT Slow Low Aerial Target (A-10) SLEP Service Life Extension Program SLUF Short Little Ugly Fucker/Fella (A-7) SMV Space Maneuver Vehicle SOF Special Operations Force SOTAS Stand-Off Target Acquisition System SSM Surface-to-Surface Missile SSTO Single Stage To Orbit Stea.-Boe. Stearman-Boeing Stin.Vul. Stinson Vultee STOL Short Take-Off/Landing STOVL Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing strat. strategic Supermar. Supermarine TAC Tactical Air Command TACAMO TAke Charge And Move Out (E-6, EC-130) tact. tactical TACOS Tanker Aircraft, Countermeasures Or Strike (EKA-3) TASES TActical Signal Exploitation System (ES-3) Taylorcr. Taylorcraft tech. technology THAP Tactical High-Altitude Penetrator (TR-3) Thom.Mor. Thomas-Morse TIFS Total In-Flight Simulator TOW Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided [missile] TTTS Tanker Transport Training System (T-1) Tucker Av. Tucker Aviation TV television UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle UHB Ultra-High Bypass UK United Kingdom USAAC United States Army Air Corps USAAF United States Army Air Forces USAAS United States Army Air Service USAF United States Air Force USAGF United States Army Ground Forces USANG United States Air National Guard USB Upper-Surface Blowing USCG United States Coast Guard USMC United States Marine Corps USN United States Navy USNR United States Naval Reserve UTTAS Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System VATOL Vertical Attitude Take-Off/Landing VERTREP VERTical REPlenishment Vid.-Vult. Viddell-Vultee VIP Very Important Person Vought-Sik. Vought-Sikorsky VTO Vertical Take-Off VTOL Vertical Take-Off and Landing Wed.Will. Wedell-Williams WWII World War II
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