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h
hecto- (hundred) |
|
H
henry (inductance) |
|
H
Hotel (phonetic alphabet) |
|
h
hour |
|
H
Hydrogen |
|
H
Hydrographer to the navy (UK) |
|
H
Mustard. Chemical warfare blister agent |
|
H
Time zone 112.5 E - 127.5 E (GMT -8) |
|
H-band
NATO frequency band (6 - 8 GHz) |
|
H-Hour
Time of commencement |
|
H/TEU
Hull & Turret Electronics Unit |
|
H&DBTC
Hard & Depply Buried Target Defeat Capability (USA) |
|
H&K
Heckler & Koch |
|
H4
Civil aircraft marking (Solomon Islands) |
|
HA
Civil aircraft marking (Hungary) |
|
HA
Haiti (NATO country code) |
|
HA
Heavy Armor (USA) |
|
HA
Heavy Artillery |
|
HA
High Altitude |
|
HAA
Heavy Anti-Aircraft |
|
HAARP
High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program |
|
HAARP
High Altitude Auroral Research Project |
|
HAARS
High-Altitude Airdrop Resupply System |
|
HAAS
High Altitude Active / semi-active Seeker |
|
HAB
Heavy Assault Bridge (USA) |
|
HABM
Hyper Velocity Air Breathing Missile |
|
HAC
Helicoptere Anti-Char. Anti-armour helicopter (France) |
|
HAC
High Acceleration Cockpit |
|
HAC
Higher Authority Communications |
|
HAC
Honourable Artillery Company (UK) |
|
HAC
House Appropriations Committee (USA) |
|
HAC
Hover / Approach Coupler |
|
HAC
Hughes Aircraft Co. (USA) |
|
HACJ
Helicopter Applique Communications & Jammer |
|
HACR
Helicopter Active Control Rotor |
|
HACV
Heavy Armament Combat Vehicle |
|
HADAS
Helmet Airborne Display & Sight |
|
HADC
Holloman Air Development Center (USA) |
|
HADES
Hunting Area Denial System (UK) |
|
HADIS
High-speed Avionics Data Instrumentation System |
|
HADLAPS
Hydrographic Automatic Data Logging And Processing System (New Zealand) |
|
HADR
Hughes Air Defence Radar (USA) |
|
HADS
Helicopter Air Data System |
|
HADS
High Accuracy Digital Sensor |
|
HAE
High Altitude Endurance |
|
HAEC
House of Representatives Armed Services Committee (USA) |
|
HAECO
Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Co.
Ltd |
|
HAF
Hellenic Air Force (Greece) |
|
HAF
Honduran Air Force |
|
HAFCS
Howitzer Advanced Fire Control System |
|
HAHO
High Altitude, High Opening (parachuting) |
|
HAHST
High Altitude High-Speed Target |
|
HAHV
Haute Altitude/Haute Vitesse reconnaissance drone (France) |
|
HAI
Hellenic Aerospace Industry Ltd (Greece) |
|
HAINS
High Accuracy Inertial Navigation System |
|
HAIR
High Altitude IR |
|
HAIS
Hydro Acoustic Information System |
|
HAISCO
Hughes Aircraft International Service Co.
(USA) |
|
HAISS
High Altitude IR Sensor System |
|
HAL
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (India) |
|
HALE
High Altitude / Long Endurance (UAV) |
|
HALO
High Altitude Low Observable |
|
HALO
High Altitude, Low Opening (parachuting) |
|
HALO
High-Altitude Large Optics |
|
HALO
Hostile Artillery Location |
|
HALO
Hazardous Areas Life Support Organisation |
|
HALT
High Accuracy Line Track |
|
HAMC
Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Co.
(China) |
|
HAMMER
Hazardous Materials Management & Energy Response (USA) |
|
HAMOTS
High Accuracy Multi-able Object Tracking System (USA) |
|
HAN
Hydroxyl ammonium nitrate |
|
HAO
Hydrated aluminium oxide |
|
HAOSS
High Altitude Orbital Space Station |
|
HAP
Helicopter Assault Primary |
|
HAP
Helicoptere d'Appui Protection. Armed escort / combat support helicopter
(France) |
|
HAP
Hydrogen ammonium percolate, fuel |
|
HAPI
Helicopter Approach Path Indicator |
|
HAPP
High Altitude Powered Platform |
|
HAPS
Helicopter Acoustic Processing System |
|
HAPS
Helicopter Airfield Performance Simulator |
|
HAPSE
Harris Ada Programming Support Environment |
|
HAR
Helicopter, search & rescue (UK) |
|
HARCO
Hyperbolic Area Coverage |
|
HARD
Helicopter & Aircraft Radio / Radar Detection |
|
HARH
High Area Rate Hunter (US Navy) |
|
HARLG
High-Accuracy Ring-Laser Gyro |
|
HARLID
High Angular Resolution Laser Irradiation Detectors |
|
HARM
High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile |
|
HARP
Halpern's Anti-Radar Point |
|
HARP
Helicopter Advanced Rotor Program (USA) |
|
HARP
High Altitude Research Programme |
|
HARS
Heading / Attitude Reference System |
|
HARU
Heading & Attitude Reference Unit |
|
HARV
High Angle-of-attack Research Vehicle |
|
HAS
Hardened Aircraft Shelter |
|
HAS
Helicopter Assault Secondary |
|
HAS
Helicopter Avionics System (USA) |
|
HAS
Helicopter, Anti-Submarine (UK) |
|
HAS
Hood, Aircrew Survival |
|
HAS
Hover-Augmentation System |
|
HASC
Hellenic Air Support Command (Greece) |
|
HASC
House Armed Services Committee (USA) |
|
HASPS
Hardened Solar Panel System (USA) |
|
HAST
Harrier Avionics System Trainer |
|
HAST
High Altitude Supersonic Target |
|
HAT
Harbour Acceptance Testing/Trials |
|
HAT
Height Above Touchdown |
|
HATIS
Helmet Acquisition & Tracking Indication System |
|
HATMD
High Altitude Theater Missile Defense (USA) |
|
HATR
Hazardous Air Traffic Reporting |
|
HATS
HAWK Advanced Training Simulator |
|
HATS
Helicopter Automatic Targeting System |
|
HAVE BLUE
Experimental US stealth aircraft |
|
HAW
Heavy Anti-tank Weapon |
|
HAWC
Homing And Warning Computer |
|
HAWFCAR
Helicopter Adverse Weather Fire Control Radar |
|
HAWK
Homing-All-the-Way-Killer (missile) |
|
HAWK-PIP
HAWK Product Improvement Program |
|
HAWK/HIP
HAWK Improvement Program |
|
HAWTADS
Helicopter All-Weather Target Acquisition & Destruction System |
|
HAZOP
Hazard Operational analysis |
|
HB
Civil aircraft marking (Liechtenstein) |
|
HB
Civil aircraft marking (Switzerland) |
|
HB
Heavy Barrel |
|
HB
Hollow Base. Ammunition |
|
HBAR
Heavy Barrelled Automatic Rifle |
|
HBO
Hyperbasic Oxygen |
|
HBPR
High ByPass Ratio (engine) |
|
HBT
Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor |
|
HC
Civil aircraft marking (Ecuador) |
|
HC
Hard Core. Ammunition |
|
HC
Helicopter, cargo (UK) |
|
HC
Hexachloroethane-zinc. Smoke mixture |
|
HC
High Capacity |
|
HC
High Carbon |
|
HC
Hollow Charge |
|
HCDR
High Capacity Data Radio (British Army) |
|
HCE
Hexachloroethane |
|
HCER
High Capacity Extended Range |
|
HCF
High Cycle Fatigue |
|
HCF
Honorary Chaplain to the Forces |
|
HCHE
High Capacity High Explosive |
|
HCHM
Highway Controller / Health Monitor |
|
HCI
Hughes Communications Inc. (USA) |
|
HCI
Human Computer Interface |
|
HCN
Hydrogen Cyanide. Chemical warfare blood agent (also known as AC) |
|
HCO
Hanger / Helicopter Control Officer |
|
HCPE
Hybrid Collective Protection Equipment |
|
HCS
Helicopter Combat Support |
|
HCS
Helicopter Control Ship |
|
HCS
High Carbon Steel |
|
HCSC
Higher Command & Staff Course (British Army) |
|
HCSHT
High Carbon Steel, Heat-Treated |
|
HCT
Heavy Crawler Tractor |
|
HCT
Helicopter Control Trainer |
|
HCT
HOT Compact Turret |
|
HCU
Hoist Control Unit |
|
HD
Distilled Mustard. Chemical warfare blister agent |
|
HD
Heavy Duty |
|
HD
High Drag (bomb) |
|
HD
Home Defence |
|
HDB
High Density Bombing |
|
HDBK
Hand Book |
|
HDBTDC
Hard & Deeply Buried Target Defeat Capability |
|
HDC
Helicopter Direction Centre |
|
HDD
Head-Down Display |
|
HDDR
Head-Down Display Radar |
|
HDF
Hellenic Defence Forces |
|
HDF
High frequency Direction Finding |
|
HDF
Hungarian Democratic Forum |
|
HDFPA
High Density Focal Plane Array |
|
HDI
High-Density Interconnect technique |
|
HDI
Horizon Direction Indicator |
|
HDIP
Hazardous-Duty Incentive Pay |
|
HDL
Harry Diamond Laboratories (USA) |
|
HDLC
High Level Data Link Control |
|
HDMI
High Density Multi-chip Interconnect |
|
HDMR
High Density Multitrack Recording |
|
HDMS
His / Her Danish Majesty's Ship |
|
HDOS
Hughes Danbury Optical Systems Inc.
(USA) |
|
HDR
High Data Rate |
|
HDRS
Home Defence Radio System (UK) |
|
HDRV
Heavy Duty Recovery Vehicle |
|
HDS
Headquarters Distribution System |
|
HDS
Helicopter Delivery Service |
|
HDS
High Definition Systems |
|
HDSB
Heavy Dry Support Bridge (USA) |
|
HDTI
High Definition Thermal Imager |
|
HDTM
Heavy-Duty Tank Target Mechanism |
|
HDTV
High Definition TV |
|
HDTV
High-Definition Television |
|
HDU
Harbour Defence Unit (Canada) |
|
HDU
Hose Drum Unit |
|
HDW
Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft AG (Germany) |
|
HE
Heavy Equipment |
|
He
Helium |
|
HE
High Explosive |
|
HE-APERS-FRAG
High Explosive, Anti-Personnel, Fragmentation |
|
HE-FRAG
High Explosive, Fragmentation |
|
HE-FRAG-FS
High Explosive, Fragmentation, Fin-Stabilised |
|
HE-FS
High Explosive, Fin-Stabilised |
|
HE-OM
High Explosive OTO Munition |
|
HE-RAP
High Explosive Rocket Assisted Projectile |
|
HE-S
High Explosive, Spotting |
|
HE-SD
High Explosive, Self-Destroying |
|
HE-T
High Explosive, Tracer |
|
HE-T SD
High Explosive, Tracer, Self-Destruct |
|
HE-WAM
Hand Emplaced WAM |
|
HE/AP
High Explosive, Armour Piercing |
|
HE/DPSD
High Explosive, Dual Purpose, Self-Destruction |
|
HE/PDSD
High Explosive, Point Detonating, Self-Destruction |
|
HE/PR
High Explosive, Practice |
|
HEA
Hydrogen Engineering Applications Ltd (UK) |
|
HEAA
High Explosive, Anti-Armour |
|
HEAD
High Explosive, Air Defence |
|
HEAP
High Explosive, Anti-Personnel |
|
HEAP-T
High Explosive, Anti-Personnel, Tracer |
|
HEART
Health Evaluation And Risk Tabulation |
|
HEART
Hydrometeor Erosion & Recessing Test (USA) |
|
HEAT
High Explosive, Anti-Tank |
|
HEAT-FS
High Explosive, Anti-Tank, Fin-Stabilised |
|
HEAT-MP
High Explosive, Anti-Tank, Multi-Purpose |
|
HEAT-MP(P)
High Explosive, Anti-Tank, Multi-Purpose, (Practice) |
|
HEAT-MP-T
High Explosive Anti-Tank, Multi-Purpose, Tracer |
|
HEAT-T
High Explosive, Anti-Tank, Tracer |
|
HEAT-T-HVY
High Explosive, Anti-Tank, Tracer, Heavy |
|
HEAT-T-MP
High Explosive, Anti-Tank, Tracer, Multi-Purpose |
|
HEAT-TP-T
High Explosive, Anti-Tank, Target Practice, Tracer |
|
HEBF
High Explosive Blast Fragmentation |
|
HECR
High Explosive Continuous Rod |
|
HEDI
High Endoatmospheric Defence Interceptor |
|
HEDM
High-Energy-Density Materials |
|
HEDP
High Explosive, Dual Purpose |
|
HEDS
High Endoatmospheric Defense System |
|
HEED
Helicopter Emergency Egress Device |
|
HEER
High Explosive, Extended Range (USA) |
|
HEERFB
High Explosive, Extended Range, Full Bore |
|
HEF
High Elevation Fire |
|
HEFS
Helicopter Emergency Flotation System |
|
HEFT
High Explosive, Follow Through |
|
HEI
High Explosive, Incendiary |
|
HEI-SAP
High Explosive, Incendiary, Semi-Armour-Piercing |
|
HEIT
High Explosive, Incendiary, Tracer |
|
HEL
High-Energy Laser |
|
HEL
Human Engineering Laboratory (USA) |
|
HELBAT
Human Engineering Laboratory Battalion Artillery Test |
|
HELCM
High Energy Laser Countermeasures |
|
HELD
Helicopter Laser Designator |
|
HELDAF
High Energy Laser Device And Facilities (USAF) |
|
HELEX
High Energy Laser Experimental |
|
HELIBRAS
Helicopteros do Brasil S/A |
|
HELIOS
Helicopter Instrument & Operational Procedures Simulator |
|
HELIP
HAWK European Limited Improvement Programme |
|
HELMINERON
Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron (US Navy) |
|
HELMS
Helicopter Malfunction System |
|
HELP
Howitzer Extended Life Program (USA) |
|
HELPS
Helicopter Protection & Support |
|
HELRAPS
Heliborne Long-Range Acoustic Path Sonar |
|
HELRAS
Helicopter Long-Range Sonar |
|
Helstar
Heliborne Loitering System with Thermal imaging And Radar (Israel) |
|
HELSTF
High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility |
|
HELTADS
High Energy Laser Tactical Air Defence System |
|
HELTAS
Helicopter Towed Array Support |
|
HELWEPS
High Energy Laser Weapon System (USA) |
|
HEMA
Heavy Engineering Manufacturers' Association (Australia) |
|
HEMAT
Heavy Expanded Mobility Ammunition Trailer (USA) |
|
HEMC
High Explosive, Medium Capacity |
|
HEML
High-Energy Microwave Laboratory (USAF) |
|
HEMLOC
Helicopter Emitter / Locator Countermeasures |
|
HEMP
High Altitude EMP protection |
|
HEMP
High Explosive Multi-Purpose |
|
HEMT
High Electron Mobility Transistor |
|
HEMTT
Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (USA) |
|
HEO
Highly Eliptical Orbit |
|
HEOB
Hostile Electronic Order of Battle |
|
HEOS
HAWK Electro-Optical Sensor |
|
HEOS
Highly Eccentrically Orbiting Satellite |
|
HEP
Haupt-Entstrahlungs, Entseuchungs-und Entgiftungs-Platz.
Main decontamination unit (Germany) |
|
HEP
High Explosive, Plastic |
|
HEP-T
High Explosive, Plastic, Tracer |
|
HEPD
High Explosive, Point Detonating |
|
HEPI
High Explosive, armour Piercing & Incendiary |
|
HEPL
High Energy Pulse Laser |
|
HER
Harsh Environment Recorder |
|
HERA
High Explosive, Rocket-Assisted |
|
HERALD
Helicopter Equipment for Radar And Laser Detection |
|
HERD
Health Effects Research Division (US Army) |
|
HERD
High-Explosive Research & Development |
|
HERID
High Energy Railgun Integration Demonstration (USAF) |
|
HERETIC
Heat Removal by Thermo-integrated Circuit (DARPA) |
|
HERLIS
Helicopter Extended Range Laser Illuminating System |
|
HERO
Hazards of Electro-magnetic Radiation to Ordnance |
|
HEROS
Heeres-Fuhrungsinformationsystem zur Rechnergestutzten Operationsfuhrung
in Staben (Germany) |
|
HERT
Headquarters Emergency Relocation Team |
|
HERTF
High Energy Research & Technology Facility (LANL) (USA) |
|
HES
Hardcopy Exploitation Segment (JSIPS) |
|
HESH
High Explosive, Squash Head |
|
HESH-T
High Explosive, Squash Head, Tracer |
|
HEST
High Explosive Simulation Test |
|
HET
Heavy Equipment Transporter |
|
HET-PF
High Explosive, Tracer, Percussion Fuze |
|
HETA
Harpoon Engagement Training Aid |
|
HETE
High Energy Transient Experiment (USA) |
|
HETS
Heavy Equipment Transporter System (USA) |
|
HEU
Highly Enriched Uranium |
|
HEU
HUD Electronics Unit |
|
HEUS
High-Energy Upper Stage |
|
Hexal
Hexogen / aluminium powder |
|
Hf
Hafnium |
|
HF
Harassing Fire |
|
HF
High Frequency |
|
HFAARS
High Frequency Adaptive Antenna Receiving System |
|
HFAC
Helicopter Flight Advisory Computer |
|
HFAJ
High Frequency Anti-Jam |
|
HFAJ
High Frequency Anti-Jam programme (USA) |
|
HFCC
Howitzer Fire Control Computer (USA) |
|
HFCS
Helicopter Fire Control System |
|
HFDF
High Frequency Direction Finding |
|
HFET
Heterojunction Field-Effect Transistor |
|
HFHTB
Human Factors Howitzer Test-Bed (USA) |
|
HFIC
HF Intra-task force Communications (USA) |
|
HFIP
High Frequency Improvement Programme (NATO) |
|
HFL
Hydrogen Fluoride Laser |
|
HFM
Heavy Force Modernisation (USA) |
|
HFMS
High Frequency Monitoring System |
|
HFP
High Fragmentation Projectile |
|
HFR
Height-Finder Radar |
|
HFRG
High Frquency Radio Group |
|
HFSWRS
High Frequency Surface Wave Radar |
|
HFT
Higher Formation Trainer |
|
HFTUAAM
High Frequency Tuning Unit Antenna Automatic Matching |
|
HG
Hand Generator |
|
Hg
Mercury |
|
HGAS
High Gain Antenna System |
|
HgCdTe
Mercury-cadmium-telluride |
|
HGMS
Heavy Ground Mobility System |
|
HGP
Handset, General Purpose |
|
HGR
Hypervelocity Guided Rocket |
|
HGS
Holographic Guidance System |
|
HGSS
Hellfire Ground Support Simulator |
|
HGU
Horizon Gyroscope Unit |
|
HGV
Heavy Goods Vehicle |
|
HGV
Hypersonic Glide Vehicle |
|
HH
Civil aircraft marking (Haiti) |
|
HHC
Hand-Held Controller |
|
HHC
Headquarters & Headquarters Company (USA) |
|
HHCU
Hand-Held Control Unit |
|
HHLL
Hand-Held Laser Locator |
|
HHLR
Hand-Held Laser Rangefinder |
|
HHRSD
Helicopter Hauldown Rapid Securing Device (Canada) |
|
HHSAR
Hand-Held Synethic Aperture Radar |
|
HHTI
Hand-Held Thermal Imager |
|
HHTR
Hand-Held Tactical Radar |
|
HHUD
Holographic Head-Up Display |
|
HHV
Heavy HMMWV Variant |
|
HI
Civil aircraft marking (Dominican Republic) |
|
HI
Hawaii (US state) |
|
Hi-CAMP
Highly Calibrated Airborne Measurements Program (USA) |
|
hi-lo-hi
High-low-high |
|
HI-SPOT
High Altitude Surveillance Platform for Over-the-horizon Targeting |
|
HIBAT
Helicopter Identification By Acoustic Techniques |
|
HIBIRD
Helicopter Identification By Infra-Red Detection |
|
HIBRAD
Helicopter Identification By Radar Detection |
|
HICAP
High Capacity / Projectile |
|
HID
Head-In Display |
|
HIDAD
High Density Array Development programme (USA) |
|
HIDAR
High Instantaneous Dynamic Range |
|
HIDAS
Helicopter Integrated Defensive Aids System |
|
HIDEC
Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control |
|
HIDEC
Highly Integrated Digital Engine Control |
|
HIDL
High Integrity Data Link |
|
HIDS
Headquarters Information Distribution System |
|
HIE
Helicopter Installed Equipment |
|
HIFR
Hover/Helicopter In-Flight Refuelling |
|
HIGE
Hover In Ground Effect |
|
HIK
Hook Interface Kit for transport of ISO containers |
|
HIL
Harware-in-the-loop (USA trialling process) |
|
HILEX
High Level Exercise |
|
HILMDS
High Intensity Laser Missile Defence System |
|
HIM
High Inclination Mission |
|
HIMAD
High to Medium Altitude Air Defence |
|
HIMAG
High-Mobility Agility Test Vehicle (USA) |
|
HIMARS
High Mobility Artillery Rocket System |
|
HIMAT
Highly Manoeuvrable Aircraft Technology programme (USA) |
|
HIP
HAWK Improvement Program (USA) |
|
HIP
Hot Isostatic Press |
|
HIP
Howitzer Improvement Program (USA) |
|
HIPACT
High Power Acoustic Coaxial Transducer |
|
HIPAD
High Performance Air Defence |
|
HIPAR
High Power Acquisition Radar |
|
HIPAS
High Performance Armament System |
|
HIPAS
High Performance Sonar |
|
HIPCOR
High-Power Coherent Radar |
|
HIPERNAS
High Performance Navigation System (USA) |
|
HiPPAG
High Pressure Pure Air Generator |
|
HIPPI
High Performance Parallel Interface |
|
HIRAM
Hycor Infra-Red Anti-Missile decoy (USA) |
|
HIRE
Hughes Infra-Red Equipment thermal subsystem |
|
HIREL
High Reliability |
|
HIRIS
High Resolution Infra-red System |
|
HIRL
High-Intensity Runway Lights |
|
HIRNS
Helicopter Infra-Red Navigation System |
|
HIROCC
Hawaii Region Operations Control Center (USA) |
|
HIRS
Helicopter Infra-Red System |
|
HIRSS
Hover Infra-Red Suppressor System |
|
HIS
High Integrity Systems Ltd (UK) |
|
HIS
Hostile Intelligence Service |
|
HISARS
Hughes Integrated Surveillance & Reconnaissance System |
|
HISOS
Helicopter Integrated Sonar System |
|
HISS
Horizon IR Surveillance Sensor (USA) |
|
HIT
Homing Intercept Technology |
|
HIT
Hughes Improved Terminal |
|
HITL
Hardware-In-The-Loop |
|
HITMORE
Helicopter Installed Television Monitor Recorder |
|
HITP
High Ignition Temperature Propellant |
|
HITS
High-definition Indoor Trainer for Small-arms |
|
HITS
Hostile Identification / Targeting System |
|
HITS
Hughes Integrated Tank Sight (USA) |
|
HITTS
Harpoon Interactive Tactical Training System |
|
HIU
Heading Indicator Unit |
|
HIV
Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
|
HIVOS
High-Vacuum Orbital Simulator |
|
HK
Civil aircraft marking (Colombia) |
|
HK
Heckler & Koch GmbH (Germany) |
|
HKMSC
Hong Kong Military Service Corps (UK) |
|
HKV
Hughes Kongsberg Vaapenfabrik (Norway) |
|
HL
Civil aircraft marking (Korea, South) |
|
HL
Mustard-Lewisite mixture. Chemical warfare blister agent |
|
HLA
High Level Architecture |
|
HLAD
High Level Air Defence |
|
HLD
Head Level Display |
|
HLG
High Level Group (NATO) |
|
HLH
Heavy Lift Helicopter |
|
HLLV
Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle |
|
HLOS
Horizontal Line-of-Sight |
|
HLTF
High Level Task Force (NATO) |
|
HLTF (R)
High Level Task Force (Reinforced) (NATO) |
|
HLV
Heavy Lift Vehicle |
|
HLV
Heavy-lift Launch Vehicle |
|
HLVW
Heavy Logistic Vehicle Wheeled (Canada) |
| HLWE
Helicopter Laser Warning Equipment |
