Term | Meaning |
5-AK | Truck-borne radio station (AM) |
6-PK | Infantry portable radio station (AM) |
11-AK | Truck-borne heavy radio station (AM) |
71-TK | Armored vehicle radio station (AM) |
AA | Antiaircraft |
AAHMG | Antiaircraft Heavy Machine Gun (12,7mm) |
AAMG | Antiaircraft Machine Gun |
AAMMG | Antiaircraft Medium Machine Gun |
AES-1 | Mobile electric power plant (truck-borne electric generator) |
AES-3 | Mobile electric power plant (truck-borne electric generator) |
Ammo | Ammunition |
APC | Armored Personnel Carrier (Halftrack) |
ATG | Antitank Gun |
BAD | Breakthrough Artillery Division |
Commissar | Political Officer (Communist party functionary to control and indoctrinate the military) |
Decon | Decontamination |
Div | Division |
Dual | Two machine guns in a a single mounting. |
G-H | Gun-Howitzer |
GL | Grenade Launcher |
HMG | Heavy Machine Gun |
How | Howitzer |
Hqs | Headquarters |
Hvy | Heavy |
JAG | Judge Advocate General Corps |
LMG | Light Machine Gun |
Lt | Light |
Maint | Maintenance |
Mech | Mechanized (motorized infantry with tanks) |
Men | Personnel, comprising Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Other Ranks |
MG | Machine Gun |
MMG | Medium Machine Gun (7,62mm) |
NCO | Non-Commissioned Officer (Sergeants and senior sergeants) |
NKVD | People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Russian: Народный Комиссариат Внутренних Дел / Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del) |
Obsv | Observation |
OR | Other Rank (Enlisted men, without sergeants) |
PO | Political Officer (Commissar, Communist party functionary to control and indoctrinate the military |
PVO | National Defense (Russian: Противовоздушная Оборона / ProtivoVozdushnaya Oborona) |
Quad | Four guns in a single mounting (lit.: Quadrupel) |
RB radio | RB transmitter-receiver. Short-wave. (Range: 8km for voice, 12km for morse) |
Recon | Reconnaissance |
RRU | pack radio (VHF) |
RSB | truck-borne ground-to-air radio (AM) (Range with 4m antenna: 30km for voice, 60km for morse)
(also known as forward air support link / " tentacle ") |
SMG | Sub-Machine Gun (also known as Machine Pistol) |
T/O | Table of Organization (Number) |
Tele | Telephone |
Topo | Topographic |
w/sc | with sidecar |
Shtat | Table of Organization (number) |