The Complete MOD Abbreviation Database
We have a complete list of over 21,000 acronyms used by the Ministry of Defence.
The abbreviations listed below are used by all brances of the Military in the UK.
Complete List Of British Army Acronyms
| Acronym | Description |
|---|---|
| AOSA | Airborne Optical Sensor Adjunct |
| AOSNI | Air Officer Commanding Scotland and Northern Ireland |
| AOSP | Army Operational Shooting Policy |
| AOSPP | Air Officer Strategic Policy & Plans |
| AOT | Asset Optimisation Tool |
| AOT | Automated Operations Tool |
| AOTC | Associated Offices Technical Committee |
| AOTF | Acousto-Optic Tuned Filter |
| AOU | Area Of Uncertainty |
| AOV | Artillery Observation Vehicle |
| AOW | Asia Oceania Workshop (for Open Systems) |
| AP | Accounting Period |
| AP | Accounts Payable |
| AP | Air Publication |
| AP | Allied Publication |
| AP | Ammonium Perchlorate |
| AP | Ammunition Point |
| AP | Anti-Personnel |
| AP | Application Protocol |
| AP | Armour Piercing |
| AP | Assessment Phase |
| AP | Authorised Person |
| APA | Advanced Pilots Aid |
| APA | All Points Addressable (computer screen) |
| APA | Amphibious transport |
| APACHE | Advanced Phased Array Chemical High Energy laser equipment |
| APACHE | Analysis of Pacific Area Communications for Hardening to EMP |
| APACHE | Arme Propulsee A Charges Ejectables |
| APAG | Atlantic Policy Advisory Group |
| APAM | Anti-Personnel Anti-Material |
| APAR | Actively Phased-Array Radar |
| APART | Advanced Phased Array Radar Technology |
| APB | Acquisition Policy Board |
| APB | Air Portable Bridge |
| APB | Analysing Printer Base |
| APB | Assessment Phase Board |
| APC | Air Pollution Control |
| APC | Armoured Personnel Carrier |
| APC | Armour-Piercing Capped |
| APC | Army Personnel Centre |
| APC | Automatic Phase Control |
| APC(L) | Air Picture Compiler (Local) |
| APCBC | Armour-Piercing Capped Ballistic Capped |
| APCOM | Air Picture Compilation |
| APC-T | Armour-Piercing Capped Tracer |
| APCT-BF | Armour-Piercing Capped Tracer Base Fuze |
| APCU | Alarm and Power Remote-Control Unit |
| APD | Amplitude photodiode |
| APDS | Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot |
| APDS | Armour-Piercing Discarding Sabot |
| APDS-T | Armour-Piercing Discarding Sabot Tracer |
| APE | Armour Piercing Explosive |
| APEI | Armour Piercing High Explosive and Incendiary |
| APEP | Armour Piercing Enhanced Performance |
| Apers | Anti-personnel |
| APERS-T | Anti-Personnel Tracer |
| APES | Azimuth Position and Elevation System |
| APEX | Advanced Photovoltaics and Electronic eXperiment |
| APEX | Analysis of Public Expenditure Statistics System |
| APFC | Air-Portable Fuel Container |
| APFD | Autopilot Flight Director |
| APFIDS | Armour-Piercing Fragmentation Incendiary Discarding Sabot |
| APFS | Air Publications Forms and Stationery |
| APFSDS | Armour Piercing Fin Stabilised Discarding Sabot |
| APFSDS | Armour-Piercing Fin-Stabilised Discarding Sabot |
| APFSDS(P) | Armour-Piercing Fin-Stabilised Discarding Sabot (Practice) |
| APFSDS-T | Armour-Piercing Fin-Stabilised Discarding Sabot-Tracer |
| APG | Aberdeen Proving Ground (US) |
| APG | Army Publications Group |
| APG | Aspect Project Group |
| APGM | Autonomous Precision Guided Munition |
| APHAZ | Aircraft Proximity Hazard |
| APHC | Armour-Piercing High Capacity |
| AP-HC | Armour-Piercing Hard Core |
| APHCI | Armour-Piercing Hard Core Incendiary |
| APHCS | Admiralty Pilotage & Harbour Control Service |
| APHCS | Army Primary Healthcare Service |
| APHE | Armour Piercing High Explosive |
| APHEI | Armour Piercing High Explosive Incendiary |
| APHEI | Armour-Piercing High Explosive Incendiary |
| APHE-SD | Armour-Piercing High Explosive Self-Destroying |
| APHIDS | Advanced Panoramic Helmet Integrated Display System |
| APHIDS | Advanced Panoramic Helmet Interface Demonstrator System |
| API | Aim Point Initiative |
| API | Air Photo Interpreter |
| API | Air Position Indicator |
| API | American Petroleum Institute |
| API | Application Programme Interface |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| API | Applications Program Interface. |
| API | Armour Piercing Incendiary |
| APIA | Application Programming Interface Association |
| APICS | American Production Inventory Control Society |
| APIHC | Armour Piercing Incendiary Hard Core |
| APIT | Armour Piercing Incendiary Tracer |
| APL | Accreditation of prior learning |
| APL | Allowance Parts List |
| APL | Application Programme Libraries |
| APLD | Advanced Passive Localisation Demonstrator |
| APLM | Anti-Personnel Landmine |
| APLN | Automatic Position Location Navigator & Reporting |
| APLS | Advanced Procurement and Logistics Support |
| APLS | Advanced Procurement and Logistics Systems |
| APM | Anti-Personnel Mine |
| APM | Association for Project Management |
| APM | Authority Project Manager |
| APMI | Armour Piercing Marker Incendiary |
| APOBS | Anti-Personnel Obstacle Breaching System |
| APOD | Air Port of Debarkation |
| APOD | Air Port of Disembarkation |
| APOE | Air Ports of Embarkation |
| APP | Allied Procedural Publication |
| App | Application |
| APP | Application Portability Profile |
| APP | Armour Protection Program |
| App Admin | Applications Administrator |
| APP OEU | Air Platform Protection Operational Evaluation Unit |
| App Op | Applications Operator |
| App Spec | Applications Specialist |
| APPC | Advanced Programme to Programme Communication |
| AppID or APID | Application ID |
| APPLABS | Appleton Rutherford Laboratory |
| APPLET | A mini software application (or program) |
| AppSpec | Application Specialist |
| APQ | Armaments Planning Questionnaire |
| APR | Air Photo Reader |
| APR | Auto Power Reserve |
| APR(F) | Air Picture Reporter (Force) |
| APR(L) | Air Picture Reporter (Local) |
| APRE | Army Personnel Research Establishment |
| APRO | Army Pay and Records Office |
| APS | Adaptive Processor System (sonar) |
| APS | Advanced Fighter Crew Protection System |
| APS | Aerial Post Squadron (USAF) |
| APS | Air Plot Supervisor |
| APS | Aircraft Position Sensor |
| APS | Aircraft Prepared for Service |
| APS | Assistant Private Secretary |
| APS | Automatic Pointing System or Air Planning System |
| APSE | Ada Programming or Project Support Environment |
| APSE | ADA Programming Support Environment |
| APSE | Armour Piercing Special Effect |
| APSE | Armour-Piercing Secondary Effect |
| APSEC | Advanced Power System Electronic Control |
| APSE-T | Armour-Piercing Secondary Effect-Tracer |
| APSI | Aircraft Propulsion System Integration |
| APSOH | Advanced Panoramic Sonar - Hull-mounted |
| APSS | Atlas Port Surveillance System |
| APT | Aerospace Project Team IPT |
| APT | Armour-Piercing Tracer |
| APTC | Army Physical Training Corps |
| APTCI | Army Physical Training Corps Instructor |
| APTE | Abrams Power Train Evolution |
| APU | Armoured Patrol Unit |
| APU | Auxiliary Power Unit |
| APV | Armoured Patrol Vehicle |
| APV | Auto-piloted Vehicle |
| APWG | ASMA Priorities Working Group |
| APWG | Assessment Phase Working Group |
| APWT | Annual Personal Weapon Test |
| APX | Extended Assessment Phase |
| AQ | Acceptance Questionnaire |
| AQAP | Allied Quality Assurance Paper |
| AQAP | Allied Quality Assurance Publication |
| AQAP1 | Allied Quality Assurance Plan Vol 1 |
| AQD | Aeronautical Quality Assurance Directorate |
| AQF | Acquisition Competence Framework |
| AQL | Acceptable Quality Level |
| AQL | Advanced Quick-fix sensor |
| AQMS | Artificer Quatermaster Sergeant Major |
| AQRD | Air Quartermasters Readiness Date |
| AR | Army Regulation |
| AR | Assault Rifle |
| AR&M | Availability Reliability and Maintainability |
| AR/AAV | Armoured Reconnaissance / Airborne Assault Vehicle |
| ARA | Aircraft Research Association |
| ARA | Army Rifle Association |
| ARALL | ARAMID Reinforced Aluminium ALLoy |
| ARAMIS | American Requisitions And Management Information System |
| ARBS | Angle Rate Bombing Set |
| ARC | Admiralty Raster Chart. |
| ARC | Air Refuelling And Comms Fleets IPT |
| ARC | Ames Research Centre |
| ARC | Area Reprogramming Capability |
| ARC | Authority Responsible Code |
| ARCADS | Armament Control and Delivery System |
| ARCE | Amphibious River Crossing Equipment |
| ARCM | Anti-Radiation Countermeasures |
| Arcrw | Aircrew |
| ARCS | Acquisition Radar and Control System |
| ARCS | Aerial Rocket Control System |
| ARCS | Automatic Radio Control System |
| ARCS | Automatic Release Consent Switch |
| ARCS(HCRF) | Admiralty Raster Chart (Hydrographic Chart Raster Format) |
| ARD | Acquired Rights Directive (connected with TUPE) |
| ARD | All Round Defence |
| ARD | Anti-Radar Drone |
| ARD | Applied Research Technology Demonstration |
| ARD | Auxiliary Repair Dry dock |
| ARDEC | Armament Research Development and Engineering Centre (US Army) |
| ARDNOT | Automatic Day / Night Optical Tracker |
| ARDS | Airborne Radar Demonstrator System |
| ARE | Addressable Remote Encoder |
| ARE | Admiralty Research Establishment |
| ARE | Airborne Radar Extension |
| AREN | Army Radio Engineered Network |
| ARES | Active Relief Sensor |
| ARETS | Armoured Remoted Target System |
| ARF | Air Reserve Forces |
| ARFA | Allied Radio Frequency Agency |
| ARGS | Advanced Resolution Gunnery Simulator |
| ARH | Active Radar Homing |
| ARH | Anti-Radar / Radiation Homing |
| ARI | Airborne Radio Installation |
| ARI | Air-power Research Institute (USAF) |
| ARI | US Army Research Institute |
| ARIC | Air-borne Radio and Intercom Control system |
| ARINC | Aeronautical Radio Incorporated |
| ARJS | Air-borne Radar Jamming System |
| AR-L | Airborne Reconnaissance - Low |
| ARLT | Administrative Repair Lead Time |
| ARM | Advanced RISC Machines |
| ARM | Aerodrome Retroreflective Marker |
| ARM | Anti-Radar Missile |
| ARM | Anti-Radiation Measures |
| ARM | Anti-Radiation Missile |
| ARM | Artillery Re-arm Module |
| ARM | Availability Reliability Maintainability |
| ARM 1 | Armament 1 |
| ARM&T | Availability Reliability Maintainability & Testability |
| ARMA | Annual Report of Material Accounted |
| ARMAD | Armoured and Mechanised Unit Air Defence |
| ARMADAS | Anti-Radiation Missile Airborne Data Analysis System |
| Armd | Armed |
| ARMD | Armoured |
| ARM-D | Anti-Radiation Missile Decoy |
| ARMP | Allied Reliability and Maintainability Publication |
| armr | armour |
| Armr | Armourer |
| Armrd | Armoured |
| ARMS | Advanced Radar Missile Scoring System |
| ARMS | Advanced Reconfigurable Mission Simulator |
| ARMS | Advanced Remote Mine-hunting System |
| Arms | Armaments |
| ARMS | Armoured Re-supply Maintenance System |
| ARMSCOR | Armament Manufacturing Corporation (South Africa) |
| ARMVAL | Anti-Armour Vehicle Evaluation |
| ARNE | ATM Network Research Environment |
| ARNG | Army National Guard |
| ARO | Accident Response Officer. |
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