GhostBuddy [WoodCats] » 02 ноя 2003 19:12
Так, отсканил с книжонки разные аббревиатурки. Книга 1987 года "Guns of the elite". Может многовато для конфы, да ладно:
The most popular abbreviations and acronyms encountered in relation to Special Forces and their light firearms.
AF Airborne forces
AIT Army Individual Training (USA)
AK Avtomat Kalashnikova (Kalashnikov assault rifle, USSR) AKM Avtomat Kalashnikova Modernizirovanii (modernized Kalashnikov assault rifle,USSR)
ANC (i) Congolese National Army, (ii) African National Congress
ANZAC Australia and New Zeland Army Corps ARVN Army of the Republic of Vietnam ("South Vietnamese')
AUG Armee-Universal-Gewehr (made by Steyr-Daimler-Puch)
AVS Avtomaticheskaia Vintovka Simonova (Simonov automatic rifle, USSR, 1936)
AVT Avtomaticheskaia Vintokva Tokareva (Tokarev automatic rifle, USSR, 1940)
B6EK Bundesgendarmerie-Einsatz-Kommando (Austrian state police CTW unit)
BGS Bundesgrenzschutz (West German border guards)
Blue Berets Metropolitan Police marksmen (UK); Berets sometimes also applied to the
French Alpine troops, Les Diables Bleus ("Blue Devils')
Bren An acronym of Brno and fnfield
BSD Palestinian Black September Organization
BSU Boat Support Unit (USA)
BUD Basic Underwater Demolition (USA)
CAL Carabine Automatique Legere (light automatic carbine, made by FN)
CAWS Close Assault Weapon System (USA)
CCO Clandestine Communist Organisation(Sarawak, c. 1963-6)
CIA Central Intelligence Agency (USA)
CIDG Civilian Irregular Defense Group (formed by the US Special Forces in Vietnam from local tribesmen, 1960 onwards)
CMG Company machine-gun (USA)
COIN counter-insurgency operations ("COIN-OPS')
COPP Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (UK, Second World War)
CQB Close-quarters battle (UK)
CRWW Counter-Revolutionary Warfare Wing, SAS (UK)
CTW Counter-terrorist warfare
DLF Dhofar Liberation Front (c. 1962, succeeded by PFLOAG, q.v.)
DRB Division Ready Brigade (USA)
DZ Dropping zone
ECM Electronic Countermeasures
EDES National Republican Greek Army (1943-50)
EDRE Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise (USA)
ELAS National Popular Liberation Army (Greece, 1943-50)
ELF Eritrean Liberation Front
ERP Ejercito Revolucionaria de Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army,Argentina)
ESI Escadron Speciale d'lntervention "Diane'(Belgian police CTW unit)
ETA Basque Separatist Movement (Spain)
FAL Fusil Automatique Leger (the standard FN semi-automatic rifle)
FALN Venezuelan guerrilla group
FALO Fusil Automatique Lourd (heavy barrel version of FAL)
FAR Force d'Action Rapide (France)
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA)
FG Fallschirmjagergewehr (paratroops' rifle, Germany)
FLCS Front de Liberation de la Cote des Somali's
FLN Front de Liberation Nationale (Algeria,1954-62)
FLOSY Front for the Liberation of South Yemen
FLQ Front de Liberation de Quebec (Canada)
FNC Fabrique Nationale Carabine (successor to the CAL)
FNLA Frente Nacional de Liberatagao de Angola (Angolan Liberation Front)
FRELIMO Frente de Liberatagao de Mogambique (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique)
6EO, Grupo Especial de Operacidnes
GEOS (Spanish CTW unit)
GIGN Groupement d'lntervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (French CTW group), colloquially known as "Gigene'
GIS Gruppo Intervenzione Speciale (Italian Carabiniere unit)
Green Berets US Special Forces
GSG-9 Grenzschutzgruppe-9 (West German CTW group)
GPMG General-purpose machine-gun
HALO High altitude, low opening (parachute)
HEAT High explosive, anti-tank
HEHO High extraction, high opening (parachute)
HELO High extraction, low opening (see also HALO)
HESH High explosive, squash head
HRT Hostage Rescue Team (USA, FBI groups)
ICEX Intelligence, Countermeasures and Exploitation Program (USA)
IDF Israeli Defense Force
INLA Irish National Liberation Army
IRA Irish Republican Army
IZL Irgun Zvai Leumi ("National Military Organization', Israel, formed c. 1944)
JCG Joint Command Group (US/ARVN)
JSSAP Joint Services Small Arms Program (USA)
LAR Light Automatic Rifle (English version of FAL, q.v.)
LEHI Lochamei Herut Israel ("Israeli Freedom Fighters', c. 1944 onwards)
LMG Light machine-gun
LRDG Long Range Desert Group (UK, Second World War)
LRPU Long Range Photographic Unit (predecessor of the LRDG, q.v.)
LSW Light support weapon
LZ Landing zone
MAB Marine Amphibious Brigade (USA)
MACV Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (US)
MAG Mitrailleuse a Gaz ("gas-operated machine-gun', FN's original name for the GPMG, q.v.); now known as Mitrailleuse d'Appui General
MALI Marine Amphibious Unit (USA)
MOP Malayan Communist Party guerrillas
MG (i) Machine-gun; (ii) Maschinengewehr (Germany)
MGF Mobile Guerrilla Force (USA, 1966/7,replaced by MSF, q.v.)
MKb Maschinenkarabiner (Germany,1942^1)
MMG Medium machine-gun
MNC Congolese National Movement
MP, MPi Maschinenpistole (Germany)
MPABA Malayan People's Anti-British Army (1948-9, became MRLA, q.v.)
MPLA Movimento Popular de Liberatagao de Angola (Angolan People's Liberation Movement)
MPRF Multi-Purpose Reaction Force (USA, c.1964-6, replaced by MGF, q.v.)
MRLA Malayan Races Liberation Army(1949-60)
MSF Mobile Strike Force (USA, 1967-70)
MSU Mobile Support Unit (USA) MTT Mobile Training Team (USA: early Special Forces units in Vietnam)
NAHAL Fighting Pioneer Youth (Israel)
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NAVS-PECWAR Naval Special Warfare (US)
NJM New Jewel Movement (Grenada,1979-83)
NLF National Liberation Front (Yemen and South Vietnam)
NOGS Nucleo Operative Centrale di Sicurezza (Italian CTW unit)
NVA North Vietnamese Army (US abbreviation)
OAS Organisation Armee Secrete (Algeria, 1960-2)
OSS Office of Strategic Services (USA)
PAIGC Partido Africano da Independecia de GuineeCabo Verde (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde)
PATU Police Anti-Terrorist Unit (Rhodesia/Zimbabwe)
PDP Para-Desant Polk (USSR, paratroops)
PFLOAG Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf (successor to DLF, q.v.)
PLO Palestine Liberation Organization
PLFP Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
PK Pulemet Kalashnikova (Kalashnikov machine-gun, USSR)
PKM Pulemet Kalashnikova Modernizirovanyi (modernized Kalashnikov machine-gun, USSR)
PRA People's Revolutionary Army (Grenada)
PRU Provincial Reconnaissance Unit (USA)
QRF Quick Reaction Force (USA, current)
RAF Red Army Faction (West Germany)
RCT Regimental Combat Team (US, Korean War)
RDF Rapid Deployment Force (USA, current)
Red Berets British paratroops
REP Regiment Etranger de Parachutistes (French Foreign Legion unit)
RIP Ranger Induction Program (USA)
RMBPD Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment (UK)
RMSBS Royal Marines Special Boat Squadron (UK)
RPD Ruchnoi Pulemet Degtyareva (Degtyarev light machine-gun, USSR)
RPG Rocket-propelled grenade
RPK Ruchnoi Pulemet Kalashnikova (Kalashnikov light machine-gun, USSR)
RT Reconnaissance Team (USA)
SADF South African Defence Force
SAS Special Air Service (UK)
SAIQA Special Security Company (Jordan)
SBS Special Boat Service (UK)
SEAL Sea-Air Landing Teams (US Navy)
SEK Spezial-Einsatz-Kommando (West German police CTW units)
SERE Survival-Evasion-Resistance-Escape (USA)
SF Special Forces (USA), the 'Green Berets'
SFG Special Forces Group (USA)
SG SayeretGolani (Golani Infantry', Israel), or Scharfschutzengewehr (German for 'sniper rifle', see also SSG)
SIS Special Intelligence Service (UK)
SKS Samozariadniya Karabina Simonova (Simonov semi-automatic carbine, USSR, 1945)
SLA Symbionese Liberation Army (USA)
SLAM Search-Locate-Annihilate Mission (US/ SMG Submachine-gun
SOCOM Special Operations Command (USA) SOE Special Operations Executive (UK)
SOG Special Operations Group (USA)
Spetznaz Diversionary Troops (USSR Special Forces)
SPIW Special Purpose Infantry Weapon (USA)
SSB Special Service Brigade (UK, Second World War)
SSG Scharfschutzengewehr ('sniper rifle' in German; see also SG ii)
SSRF Small Scale Raiding Force (UK)
Sten An acronym of Shepherd, Turpin and Enfield
StG, Sturmgewehr Stgw
SVD Snayperskaya Vintovka Dragunova (Dragunov sniper rifle, USSR)
SVT Samozariadniya Vintovka Tokareva (Tokarev semi-automatic rifle, 1938-1940, USSR)
SWAPO South West Africa People's Organizatii
SWAT Special Weapons and Tactics
TF Task Force
THQ Tactical Headquarters (USA)
UDT Underwater Demolition Team (USA)
UN United Nations
UNEF United Nations Emergency Force
UNITA Uniao Nacional para a Independecia Total de Angola (National Union for To Independence of Angola)
UPSR United Party of Socialist Revolution (Cuba)
URA Japanese Red Army
UVF Ulster Volunteer Force
UW Unconventional Warfare
VC Vietcong (guerrilla force in Vietnam)
VNSF Vietnam Special Forces
WP Warsaw Pact
ZANLA Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army
ZANU Zimbabwe African National Union
ZAPU Zimbabwe African People's Union
ZIPRA Zimbabwe People's Republican Army
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