| 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) |
