military
1653 abbreviations
| Abbreviation | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| AVH | Armoured Vehicle Heavy | |
| AVL | Armoured Vehicle Light | |
| AVLB | Armoured vehicle-launched bridge | |
| AVM | Armoured Vehicle Medium | |
| AVR | Armoured vehicle reconnaissance | |
| AVRE | Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers (UK) | |
| AVT | Advanced Vehicle Technologies (US) | |
| AWE | Advanced Warfighting Experiment | |
| AWOL | Absent without official leave | |
| BAe | British Aerospace | |
| BAR | M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle | |
| BARV | Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle | |
| BASE | British Aerospace Systems and Equipment | |
| BAT | Biometrics Automated Toolset | |
| BATES | Battlefield Artillery Target Engagement System | |
| BB | Base bleed | |
| BBSP | Blowback shifted pulse | |
| BC | Battery commander | |
| BCC | battery control centre | |
| BCP | Battery command post | |
| BCT | Brigade combat team (US) | |
| BCT | Basic combat training | |
| BCV | Battle command vehicle | |
| BD | base detonating | |
| BDA | Browning double action or bomb damage assessment | |
| BDM | Bunker demolition munition | |
| BDU | Battle dress uniform | |
| BE | Base ejection | |
| BFA | Blank-firing adaptor or blank-firing attachment | |
| BFV | Bradley Fighting Vehicle | |
| BGT | Brigade combat team | |
| bhp | Brake horsepower | |
| BIFF | Battlefield identification friend or foe | |
| BILL | Bofors, infantry, light and lethal | |
| BITE | Built-in test equipment | |
| BL | Blank | |
| BLITS | Beta lighted infantry telescope system | |
| BLR | Blindado Ligero de Ruedas | |
| BL-T | Black tracer | |
| BLT | Battalion landing team | |
| BMF | Belgian Mechanical Fabrication | |
| BMNT | Begin morning nautical twilight | |
| BMP | Pronounced "bimp". A Former Warsaw Pact IFV | |
| BMR | Blindado Medio de Ruedas | |
| BMS | Battalion mortar system | |
| BMS | Battlefield management system | |
| BNCC (USAF) | Base network control center | |
| BNS | Bill night sight | |
| BOCV | Battery operations centre vehicle | |
| BOG-Dwell | Boots on the ground – dwell (down time) |