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F
Civil aircraft marking (France) |
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F
fahrenheit (temperature) |
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F
farad (electrical capacitance) |
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f
femto- (thousand million millionth) |
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F
Fluorine |
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F
Foxtrot (phonetic alphabet) |
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F
Frequency |
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F
Time zone 82.5 E - 97.5 E (GMT -6) |
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F&C
Fire & Control (missile guidance) |
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F&D
Fix & Destroy |
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F&F
Fire & Forget (missile guidance) |
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F&U
Fire & Update (missile guidance) |
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F-band
NATO frequency band (3 - 4 GHz) |
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F/F
Front Frame |
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F/H
Flame Holder |
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F3
Form, Fit & Function |
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F3
Form-Fit-Function (USA) |
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F3OEU
Tornado F3 Operational Evaluation Unit |
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FA
Field Army (China) |
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FA
Field Artillery |
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FA
Russian Frontal Aviation |
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FA
Fraticide Avoidance |
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FAA
Federal Aviation Administration (USA) |
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FAA
Fleet Air Arm (UK Royal Navy) |
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FAA
Forces Administrative Area |
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FAA
Fuerza Aerea Argentina. Argentine Air Force |
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FAACA
Force Anti-Air Co-ordination Area |
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FAACB
Fuel/air aero cargo bomb |
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FAACO
First Aid Aircraft (Repair) Outfit |
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FAAD
Forward Area Air Defense (USA) |
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FAADC2I
Forward Area Air Defence Command, Control & Intelligence |
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FAADC3I
Forward Area Air Defence C3 Intelligence |
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FAADS
Forward Area Air Defense System (USA) |
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FAAG
Commandement des Forces Aeriennes aux Antilles-Guyane (France) |
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FAAITM
Fleet Air Arm Information Technology Management (UK Royal Navy) |
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FAALS
Field Artillery Acoustic Locating System (US Army) |
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FAALS
Forward Area Armored Logistic System |
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FAAM
Family of Air-to-Air Missiles |
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FAAO
Field Artillery Aerial Observer |
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FAAPS
Field Artillery Ammunition Processing System |
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FAAR
Forward Area Alerting Radar (USA) |
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FAASV
Field Artillery Ammunition Support/Supply Vehicle (USA) |
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FAAV
Future Air Attack Vehicle |
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FAAWC
Force Anti-Air Warfare Co-ordinator |
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FAAWF
Future Anti-Air Warfare Frigate |
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FAB
Forca Aerea Brasileira. Brazilian Air Force |
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FAB
Forward Air Base |
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FAB
Fugasnaya Aviabomba. General-purpose bomb (Russia) |
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FABA
Fabrica de Artilleria de Bazan (Spain) |
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FABMDS
Field Army Ballistic Missile Defense System (USA) |
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FAC
Fast Attack Craft |
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FAC
Flight Augmentation Computer |
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FAC
Forward Air Controller |
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FAC
Fuerza Aerea Colombiana. Colombian Air Force |
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FAC/A
Forward Air Controller / Airborne |
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FACA
Future Attack & Combat Aircraft |
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FACE
Field Artillery Computing Equipment (UK) |
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FACH
Fuerza Aerea de Chile (Chilean Air Force) |
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FACIP
Fighter Avionics / Cockpit Integration Predesign studies |
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FACON
Facilities Control |
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FACP
Forward Air Control Post |
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FACTA
Frequency Agile Tactical VHF Antenna (UK) |
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FACTC
Federal Army Combat Training Centre.
(Bosnian-Croatian Federation) |
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FACTS
FLIR Augmented Cobra TOW Sight |
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FAD
Fleet Air Defense (USA) |
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FAD
Forward Ammunition Depot / Dump |
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FAD
Free Air Delivery |
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FADAC
Field Artillery Digital Automatic Computer |
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FADEC
Full Authority Digital Engine Control |
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FAE
Fuel-Air Explosive |
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FAE
Fuerza Aerea Ecuatoriana (Ecuador) |
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FAESHED
Fuel-Air Explosive Helicopter Delivered |
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FAF
Final Approach Fix |
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FAF
Finnish Air Force |
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FAF
French Air Force |
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FAFC
Full Authority Fuel Control |
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FAI
Federation Aeronautique Internationale (France) |
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FAIP
First Assignment Instructor Pilot |
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FAIRS
Fairchild Automatic Intercept & Response System (USA) |
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FAISS
FORSCOM Automated Intelligence Support System (US Army) |
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FAL
Fusil Automatique Legere. Selective-fire rifle (Belgium) |
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FALAC
Forward Area Liaison & Control |
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FALCON
Fission Activated Laser Concept |
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FALCON
Frequency-Agile Low Coverage Netted radar |
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FALCON
Fuel / Air Line Charge Ordnance Neutraliser |
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FALCON
Family of Advanced Laser Components, Near infrared (US Army) |
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FALICS
Field Artillery Lightweight Integrated Computer System |
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FALW
Family of Air-Launched Weapons |
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FAM
Field Alarm Module |
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FAM
Fighter Attack Manoeuvring |
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FAM
Flexible Attrition Model. Simulation system |
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FAM
Forca Aeronaval da Marinha (Brazilian Naval Aviation) |
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FAM
Friendly Aircraft Movements |
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FAM
Fuel Air Munition |
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FAMA
Forward Airhead Maintenance Area |
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FAMAS
Financial And Management Accounting System |
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FAMAS
Fusil Automatique de Manufacture d'Armes de St. Etienne.
Selective-fire rifle (France) |
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FAME
Frequency Assignment Management Equipment |
 |
FAMES
Frequency Agile Multiple Emitter Simulator |
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FAMET
Fuerzas Aeromoviles del Ejercito de Tierra.
Army Helicopter Forces
Command (Spain) |
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FAMG
Field Artillery Missile Group (USA) |
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FAMS
Family of Anti-air Missile Systems |
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FAMS
Field Automatic Message Switch |
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FAMSIM
Family of Simulations |
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FAMTO
First Aid Mechanical Transport (Repair) Outfit |
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FAMV
Forward Area Multi-purpose Vehicle |
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FAN
Force d'Action Navale (France) |
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FAN
Forces Armees du Nord. Northern Armed Forces (Chad) |
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FAN
Forward Air Navigator |
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Fanazul
Fabrica Militar Polvoras y Explosivos Azul (Argentina) |
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FANCI
Forces Armees Nationales de la Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) |
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FANG
Fin-stabilised, Armour-piercing, Next Generation |
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FANS
Future Air Navigation System (UK) |
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FANY
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry |
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FAO
Foreign Area Officer |
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FAOR
Fighter Areas Of Responsibility |
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FAP
Final Approach |
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FAPA
Force Area Populaire de Angola |
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FAPDS
Frangible Armour-Piercing, Discarding Sabot |
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FAPDS-T
Frangible Armour-Piercing, Discarding Sabot-Tracer |
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FAPES
Force Augmentation Planning & Execution System |
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FAPIP
Fighter Airframe / Propulsion Integration Predesign |
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FAPLA
Angolan People's Liberation Army |
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FAPP
Field Artillery Projectile Pallet |
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FAR
False Alarm Rate |
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FAR
Federal Acquisition Regulation (USA) |
 |
FAR
Federal Aviation Regulations (USA) |
 |
FAR
Federal Aviation Requirements (USA) |
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FAR
Fighter - Attack - Reconnaissance |
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FAR
Force d'Action Rapide (France) |
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FAR
Fuerza de Accion Rapida (Spanish Army) |
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FARADA
Failure Rate Data programme (USA) |
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FARC
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia |
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FARCOS
Fast Adaptive HF Radio Communication System |
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FARE
Forward Area Refuelling Equipment |
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FARP
Forward Area Rearm-refuel Point |
 |
FARP
People's Revolutionary Armed Forces (Guinea Bissau) |
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FARR
FAA / Air Force Radar Replacement |
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FARRP
Forward-Area Rearming & Refuelling Point |
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FARS
Fast Acquisition Receiver System |
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FARS
Field Artillery Rocket System |
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FARS
Frequency Array Radar System |
 |
FARV
Future Ammunition Resupply Vehicle (USA) |
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FARV-A
Future Armored Resupply Vehicle, Artillery (USA) |
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FAS
Federation of American Scientists |
 |
FAS
Flank Array Sonar (Germany) |
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FAS
Flexible Assembly Subsystems |
 |
FAS
Force Aerienne Strategique (France) |
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FAS
Forward Acquisition Sensor |
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FAS
Frequency-Agile Subsystem |
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FASAT
Future Anti-Satellite weapon |
 |
FASCAM
Family of Scatterable Mines |
 |
FASCAM
Field Artillery Scatterable Mines |
 |
FASH
Future Amphibious Support Helicopter (UK Royal Navy) |
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FASM
Future Attack Submarine (UK Royal Navy) |
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FASM
Forward Air Support Munition |
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FASO
Forward Airfield Supply Organization |
 |
FAST
Fly Away Satellite Terminal |
 |
FAST
Forward Area Shelterized Terminal |
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FAST
Forward Area Support Team |
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FAST
Fully Automatic Scoring Target |
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FAST
Fuze Activating Static Targets |
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FAST Pack
Fuel And Sensor Tactical Package |
 |
FAST-I
Forward Area Secondary image dissemination & Tactical related applications
- Improved |
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FASTA
Flugzeugabwehrstartanlage. Air defence launcher assembly (Germany) |
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FASTAR
Forward Area Surveillance & Target Acquisition System |
 |
FASTC
Foreign Aerospace Science & Technology Directorate Center (USAF) |
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FASTHAT
Fast High-Accuracy Tunable receiver |
 |
FASTNET
Fixed Army Strategic Telephone Network |
 |
FAT
Factory Acceptance Trial |
 |
FAT
First Article Testing |
 |
FAT
Flechette anti-tank |
 |
FATAC
Commandement des Force Aerienne Tactiques (France) |
 |
FATE
Fuze Automatic Test Equipment |
 |
FATE
Fuzing, Arming, Test & Evaluation |
 |
FATG
Fixed Air-To-Ground |
 |
FATOC
Forward Air Transport Operations Centre |
 |
FATS
Field Automatic Telephone Switch |
 |
FATS
Firearms Training System |
 |
FATS
Forward Air Transport Support |
 |
FATSO
First Aid Technical Stores Outfit |
 |
FATT
Forward Area Tactical Teletype (USA) |
 |
FAV
Fast Attack Vehicle (USA) |
 |
FAW
Fighter, All-Weather (UK) |
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FAWPSS
Forward Area Water Point Supply System |
 |
FAWS
Flight Advisory Weather Service |
 |
FAX
Facsimile |
 |
FB
Fighter, Bomber |
 |
FB
Fire Base |
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FBA
Fighter Bomber Aviation |
 |
FBC
Fighter Bomber China |
 |
FBCB2
Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below (US Army) |
 |
FBE
Fleet Battle Exercise (US Navy) |
 |
FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA) |
 |
FBL
Fly-By-Light |
 |
FBM
Fleet Ballistic Missile |
 |
FBMS
Formation Battle Management System (UK Army) |
 |
FBO
Fixed Base Operator |
 |
FBO
Full Battle Order |
 |
FBRL
Final Bomb Release Line |
 |
FBRV
Future Beach Recovery Vehicle (UK Royal Marines) |
 |
FBS
Fly-By-Speech |
 |
FBS
Forward-Based System |
 |
FBW
Fly-By-Wire |
 |
FC
Corvette |
 |
FC
Fighter Control / Controller |
 |
FC
Fire Control |
 |
FC/NP
Fire-Control / Navigation Panel |
 |
FCBA
Future Carrier-Borne Aircraft (UK Royal Navy) |
 |
FCBMP
Fleet Command Battle Management Project (USA) |
 |
FCC
Federal Communications Commission (USA) |
 |
FCC
Fire Control Centre |
 |
FCC
Fire Control Computer |
 |
FCC
Fleet Command Centre |
 |
FCC
Flight Control Centre |
 |
FCC
Flight Control Computer |
 |
FCCS
Forces Courier Communication Service (UK) |
 |
FCCSET
Federal Co-ordinating Commission for Science & Technology (USA) |
 |
FCCT
Field Communication Centre Terminal |
 |
FCCVS
Future Close-Combat Vehicle System (USA) |
 |
FCDC
Flight Control Data Recorder |
 |
FCDNA
Field Command / Defense Nuclear Agency (USA) |
 |
FCDT
Fleet Clearance Diving Team |
 |
FCE
Fire Control Equipment |
 |
FCEP
Flight Control Electronic Package |
 |
FCEU
Fire Control Electronics Unit |
 |
FCF
Functional Check Flight |
 |
FCI
Flight Command Indicator |
 |
FCIM
Flexible Computer Integrated Manufacturing |
 |
FCLP
Field Carrier Landing Practice |
 |
FCLV
Future Command and Liaison Vehicle (British Army) |
 |
FCMC
Fire-Control & Monitoring Computer |
 |
FCNP
Fire Control Navigation Panel |
 |
FCO
Fire Control Officer |
 |
FCO
Forces Courier Office |
 |
FCO
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK) |
 |
FCP
Fire Control Panel |
 |
FCP
Fire Control Predictor |
 |
FCP
Forward Control Post |
 |
FCP
Fuel Cell Power |
 |
FCPEM
Fire Control Processor Electronics Module |
 |
FCPO
Fleet Chief Petty Officer (UK Royal Navy) |
 |
FCPS
Fuel-Cell Power System |
 |
FCR
Fire Control Radar |
 |
FCR
Functional Capability Requirements |
 |
FCRC
Federal Contract Research Center (USA) |
 |
FCRL SYS
Flight Control Ready Light System |
 |
FCS
Field-expedient Mineclearing System |
 |
FCS
Fire / Flight Control System |
 |
FCS
Flight Control Software |
 |
FCS
Flight Control System |
 |
FCS
Free Channel Search |
 |
FCS
Fuel Control System |
 |
FCS
Fiber Channel Standard |
 |
FCS
Future Combat System |
 |
FCSS
Fire / Flight Control Sight System |
 |
FCSS
Flight Control Stabilisation System |
 |
FCSTUP
Fleet Combat Systems Training Unit, Pacific (US Navy) |
 |
FCT
Facility Control Terminal |
 |
FCT
Firepower Control Team |
 |
FCT
Foreign Comparative Test program (US DoD) |
 |
FCTC
Fleet Combat Training Center (US Navy) |
 |
FCTS
Flight Controller Training System |
 |
FCTT
Future Command Training Team (UK Royal Navy) |
 |
FCU
Fuel Consumption / Control Unit |
 |
FCV
Future Combat Vehicle (US Army) |
 |
FCV
Future Cargo Vehicle (UK) |
 |
FCZ
Forward Combat Zone |
 |
FD
Fill Device. Communications |
 |
FD
Full Development |
 |
FD-TD
Finite Difference - Time Domain |
 |
FDA
Food & Drug Administration (USA) |
 |
FDAI
Flight Director Altitude Indicator |
 |
FDAS
Flight Data Acquisition System |
 |
FDAU
Flight Data Acquisition Unit |
 |
FDC
Fire Direction / Distribution Centre |
 |
FDCV
Fire Direction Centre Vehicle |
 |
FDD
Forward Divisional Dump |
 |
FDDA
Fibre Distributed Data Interface |
 |
FDDCE
Force Development Data Collection Exercise (USA) |
 |
FDDI
Fibre Distributed Data Interface |
 |
FDDM
Fire Direction Data Management |
 |
FDDS
Flag Data Display Systems |
 |
FDEP
Flight Data Entry Panel |
 |
FDFF
Foreningen af Danske Fabrikanter af Flymateriel (Denmark) |
 |
FDI
Federation of Danish Industries |
 |
FDI
Flight Director Indicator |
 |
FDIP
Full Development & Initial Production |
 |
FDIU
Flight Data Interface Unit |
 |
FDL
Fast Deployment Logistic |
 |
FDL
Flight Dynamics Laboratory (USAF) |
 |
FDLS
Fast Deployment Logistics Ship |
 |
FDM
Frequency Division Multiplex |
 |
FDMA
Frequency-Division Multiple Access |
 |
FDO
Flight Deck Officer |
 |
FDOA
Frequency, difference of arrival |
 |
FDOC
Fire Distribution Operation Centre (Italian Army SAM batteries) |
 |
FDOT
Furezas de Defensa Operativa del Territorio (Spain) |
 |
FDP
Full Development and Production (UK) |
 |
FDR
Flight Data Recorder |
 |
FDR
Future Data Radio (US Army) |
 |
FDS
Fire Direction System |
 |
FDS
Fixed Distributed System |
 |
FDS
Flight Director System |
 |
FDS
Functionally Distributed Simulation |
 |
FDS
Fusion Display System (USA) |
 |
FDSWS
Future Direct Support Weapon System |
 |
FDT&E
Force Development Test & Evaluation |
 |
FDU
Fire & Distribution Unit |
 |
FDU
Flight Data Unit |
 |
FE
Frequency Electronics Inc. (USA) |
 |
FE
Future Escort. Now Future Surface Combatant (UK Royal Navy) |
 |
Fe
Iron |
 |
FEA
Front-End Analysis |
 |
FEAF
Far East Air Force |
 |
FEAMCom
Far East Materiel Command |
 |
FEATS
Feasibility & Experimentation in Acquisition & Tracking Systems |
 |
FEATS
Firing Evaluation And Training System |
 |
FEBA
Forward Edge of the Battle Area |
 |
FEC
Forward Error Correction |
 |
FECS
Field Expedient Countermine System (US Army) |
 |
FED
Forward Entry Device |
 |
FED
Field Emission Display |
 |
FED
Field Effect Display |
 |
FED-STD
Federal Standard (USA) |
 |
FEDS
Forced Entry Deterrent System |
 |
FEDSIM
Federal computer performance evaluation & Simulation centre (USA) |
 |
FEFA
Future European Fighter Aircraft project |
 |
FEI
Flightline Electronics Inc. (USA) |
 |
FEL
Fibre Elastomeric (rotor head) |
 |
FEL
Frame Electrical System |
 |
FEL
Free Electron Laser |
 |
FELIN
Fantassin a Equipements et Liaisons Integres. Clothing and equipment for
future soldier programme (France) |
 |
FEL-TNO
TNO Physics & Electronics Laboratory (Netherlands) |
 |
FELT
Free Electron Laser Technology |
 |
FEM
Force Effectiveness Measure |
 |
FEMA
Federal Emergency Management Agency (USA) |
 |
FEMC
Far Eastern Maritime Command (Port Blair, Indian Navy) |
 |
FEMS
Fleet Exercise Minelaying System (UK Royal Navy) |
 |
FENE
Fixed Exhaust Nozzle Engine |
 |
FER
Force Exchange Ratio |
 |
FES
Fleet Excercise Section |
 |
FES
Force Entry Switch. Communications |
 |
FET
Field Effect Transistor |
 |
FET
Future Engineer Tank (British Army) |
 |
FEW
Fighter Escort Wing |
 |
FEWS
Follow-on Early Warning System |
 |
FEWSG
Fleet Electronic Warfare Support Group (US Navy) |
 |
FEZ
Fighter Engagement Zone |
 |
FF
Frigate (US Navy) |
 |
FFA
Aeronautical Research Institute of Sweden |
 |
FFA
Field Firing Area |
 |
FFA
Forces Francaises en Allemagne. French Forces in Germany |
 |
FFAR
Folding-Fin Aircraft Rocket |
 |
FFAR
Forward-Firing Aircraft Rocket |
 |
FFAR
Free-Flight Aircraft Rocket |
 |
FFB
Filter-Fan-Battery |
 |
FFB
Faltfesbrucke. Foldable Bridge (German Army) |
 |
FFBNW
Fitted For But Not With |
 |
FFC
Full Function Crew station |
 |
FFCS
Free-Fall Control System |
 |
FFE
Free From Explosives |
 |
FFE
Forca Fuzileiros da Esquadra (Brazilian Fleet Marine Force) |
 |
FFG
Flensburger Fahrzeugbau GmbH (Germany) |
 |
FFG
Guided Missile Frigate (US Navy) |
 |
FFUG
Frigate Upgrade programme (Royal Australian Navy) |
 |
FFH
Fast Frequency Hopping |
 |
FFH
Type abbreviation: Frigate, helicopter (Canada) |
 |
FFISTS
Fast Frigate Integrated Shipboard Tactical System (USA) |
 |
FFL
Light frigate or corvette |
 |
FFLAV
Future Family Light Armoured Vehicle programme (UK) |
 |
FFLG
Guided missile light frigate or corvette |
 |
FFMA
Field Force Maintenance Area |
 |
FFO
Furnace Fuel Oil |
 |
FFOS
Forward Flying Observation System |
 |
FFP
Firm Fixed Price |
 |
FFPB
Free-Fall Practice Bomb |
 |
FFPIQ
Firm Fixed Price, Indefinite Quantities (US procurement) |
 |
FFR
Fitted For Radio / Radar |
 |
FFR
Free Flight Rocket |
 |
FFR
Free Flooding Projector. Acoustic projector |
 |
FFRDC
Federally Funded Research & Development Center (USA) |
 |
FFSK
Fast Frequency Shift Keying |
 |
FFSP
Full Function Signal Processor |
 |
FFSV
Future Fire Support Vehicle |
 |
FFT
Fast Fourier Transform |
 |
FFTA
The Finnish Foreign Trade Association |
 |
FFVD
Full Field of View Dome |
 |
FFVV
Federation Francaise de Vol a Voile (France) |
 |
FFZ
Free Fire Zone |
 |
FG
Field Gun |
 |
FG
Fighter Group |
 |
Fg Off
Flying Officer |
 |
FGA
Fighter Ground Attack |
 |
FGAN
Forschungsgesellschaft fur Angewandte Naturwissenschaften (Germany) |
 |
FGCM
Field General Court-Martial |
 |
FGCP
Flight Guidance Control Panel |
 |
FGM
Force de Guerre de Mines.
Mine Warfare Force (French
Navy) |
 |
FGR
Fighter, Ground Attack Reconnaissance (UK) |
 |
FGS
Federal German Ship (Prefix to warship name) |
 |
FH
Field Howitzer |
 |
FH
Frequency Hopping |
 |
FHFS
Foundation Health Federal Services (USA) |
 |
FHI
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd (Japan) |
 |
FHS
Forsvarshogskolan (Sweden) |
 |
FHTV
Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles (US Army) |
 | FHU
Force Helicopter Unit (NATO) |