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Ammunition Abbreviations
A
- ACP: Automatic Colt Pistol
- AP: Armor-Piercing
- AP-I: Armor-Piercing Incendiary
F
- FMJ: Full Metal Jacket
G
- GAP: Glock Automatic Pistol
H
- HE: High Explosive
- HEAT: High Explosive Anti-Tank
- HE-Frag: High Explosive-Fragmentation
- HE-I: High Explosive-Incendiary
M
- mm: millimeter
N
- NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
J
- JHP: Jacketed Hollow Point
- JSP: Jacketed Soft Point
L
- LC: Long Colt
- LR: Long Rifle
Gun Abbreviations
A
- AA: Anti Aircraft
- ACOG: Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight
- ACR: Adaptive Combat Rifle
- AN-94: Avtomat Nikanova - 94
- AR: Assault Rifle
- AR-15: Armalite Rifle - 15
- AT: Anti Tank
B
- BAR: Browning Automatic Rifle
- BDM: Bunker Defeat Munition
- BUIS: Back-Up Iron Sight
C
- CCO: Close Combat Optic
- CQB-R: Close Quarters Battle - Receiver
- CZ: Crvena Zastava
D
- DMR: Designated Marksman Rifle
- DShK: Degtyaryova-Shpagina Krupnokaliberny
E
- EBR: Enhanced Battle Rifle
- ECOS-N: Enhanced Combat Optical Sight - Navy
- ELCAN: Ernst Leitz Canada
F
- FAL: Fusil Automatique Léger
- FAMAS: Fusil d'Assaut de la Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Étienne
- FN: Fabrique Nationale
- FNC: Fabrique Nationale Carabine
G
- GPMG: General Purpose Machine Gun
- GMG: GranatMaschinenGewehr
H
- H&K: Heckler & Koch
- HMG: Heavy Machine Gun
I
- IMI: Israel Military Industries
- INSAS: Indian Small Arms System
- ITL MARS: International Technologies Lasers Multi-purpose Aiming Reflex Sight
L
- LAM: Laser Aiming Module
- LAW: Light Anti-armor Weapon
- LMG: Light Machine Gun
M
- M: Model
- MAG: Mitrailleuse d'Appui Général
- MANPADS: MAN-Portable Air Defense System
- MASS: Modular Accessory Shotgun System
- MG: Machine Gun
- MG: Maschinengewehr
- MGO: Machine Gun Optic
- Minimi: Mini Mitrailleuse
- Mk: Mark
- MWS: Modular Weapon System
P
- PDW: Personal Defense Weapon
R
- RAS: Rail Adapter System
- RCO: Rifle Combat Optic
- RIS: Rail Interface System
- RPD: Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova
- RPG: Rocket-Propelled Grenade
- RPG: Ruchnoy Protivotankovy Granatomyot
S
- S&W: Smith & Wesson
- SAA: Single Action Army
- SAW: Squad Automatic Weapon
- SIG: Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft
- SKS: Samozaryadniy Karabin sistemi Simonova
- SLR: Self-Loading Rifle
- SMAW: Shoulder-launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon
- SMAW-D: Shoulder-launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon - Disposable
- SOPMOD: Special Operations Peculiar Modification
- SR-25: Stoner Rifle - 25
- SRAW: Short-Range Anti-armor Weapon
- SUSAT: Sight Unit Small Arms, Trilux
T
- TAR-21: Tavor Assault Rifle - 21st century
- TMRP-6: Protivtenkovska Mina Razorno Probojna - 6
U
- UBGL: Under Barrel Grenade Launcher
- USP: Universale SelbstladePistole
- UCP: Ultimate Combat Pistol
X
- XM: EXperimental Model
Special Abbreviations
AW
- AW: Arctic Warfare
- AWM: Arctic Warfare Magnum
- AWP: Arctic Warfare Police
AK
This is for all Kalashnikov/similar guns related abbreviations.
AK
- AK-47: Avtomat Kalashnikova - 47
- AK-74: Avtomat Kalashnikova - 74
AKS
- AKS-47: Avtomat Kalashnikova Skladnoy - 47
- AKS-74: Avtomat Kalashnikova Skladnoy - 74
- AKS-74U: Avtomat Kalashnikova Skladnoy - 74 Ukorochenniy
AKM
- AKM: Avtomat Kalashnikova Modernizirovanniy
- AKMSU: Avtomat Kalashnikova Modernizirovanniy Skladnoy Ukorochenniy
RPK
- RPK: Ruchnoy Pulemyot Kalashnikova
- RPK-74: Ruchnoy Pulemyot Kalashnikova - 74
SVD
SVD
- SVD: Snayperskaya Vintovka Dragunova
- SVDU: Snayperskaya Vintovka Dragunova Ukorochenniy
- SVDS: Snayperskaya Vintovka Dragunova Skladnoy
SVU
- SVU: Snayperskaya Vintovka Ukorochenniy
PK
- PK: Pulemyot Kalashnikova
- PKM: Pulemyot Kalashnikova Modernizirovanniy
- PKP: Pulemyot Kalashnikova Pecheneg
- PKT: Pulemyot Kalashnikova Tankovy
PP
- PP: Polizeipistole
- PPK: Polizeipistole Kriminal
MP
This is for various MP-series submachine guns.
Heckler & Koch MP5
- MP5A1/2/3/4/5: Machinenpistole 5 Ausführung 1/2/3/4/5
- MP5SD3/6: Machinenpistole 5 Schalldämpfer 3/6
- MP5K: Machinenpistole 5 Kurz
Others
- MP7A1: MachinenPistole 7 Ausführung 1
- MP-9: MachinenPistole - 9
- MP18: MachinenPistole 18
- MP38: MachinenPistole 38
- MP40: MachinenPistole 40
- MP41: MachinenPistole 41
UMP
- UMP: Universale MachinenPistole
- USC: Universal Self-loading Carbine
SA
This section is for all Czech 'SA' guns:
SA vz. 61/23
- SA Vz.61: SAmlopal Vzor 61
- SA Vz.23: SAmlopal Vzor 23
SA vz. 58
- SA Vz.58: SAmlopal Vzor 58
- SA Vz.58P: SAmlopal Vzor 58 Pěchotní
G3
This section lists all G3 series of abbreviations.
G3
- G3A3/4: Gewehr 3 Ausführung 3/4
PSG-1/MSG-90
- PSG-1: PräzisionsScharfschützenGewehr - 1
- MSG-90: MilitärischesScharfschützenGewehr - 90
G36
- G36K: Gewehr 36 Kurz
- G36C: Gewehr 36 Carbine
- MG36: MaschinenGewehr 36
- AG36: AnbauGranatwerfer 36
RPG
This is for various RPG launchers.
- RPG-2: Rocket-Propelled Grenade 2
- RPG-7: Rocket-Propelled Grenade 7
- RPG-22: Rocket-Propelled Grenade 22
- RPG-26: Rocket-Propelled Grenade 26
NSV
- NSV: Nikitin Sokolov Volkov
- NSVT: Nikitin Sokolov Volkov Tankovy