Recurring Military and Technological Abbreviations and Acronyms

AESA - Active Electronically Scanned Array
AEV - Armoured Engineering Vehicle
AFV - Armoured Fighting Vehicle
ASW - Anti-Submarine Warfare
AUV - Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
C2 - Command and Control
C4 - Command, Control, Communications and Computers
CAS - Close Air Support
COIN - Counterinsurgency
COTS - Commercial Off The Shelf
EFP - Explosively Formed Penetrator
EO - Electro-Optical
FLIR - Forward Looking Infra Red
HALE High Altitude Long Endurance
IDF - Israel Defense Forces
IED - Improvised Explosive Device
ICV - Infantry Carrier Vehicle
IFF - Identification-Friend-or-Foe
IFV - Infantry Fighting Vehicle
IOC - Initial Operational Capability
IR -         Infra Red
ISR - Intelligency, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
M-ATV - MRAP All-Terrain Vehicle
MALE - Medium Altitude Long Endurance
MBT - Main Battle Tank
MOTS - Military Off The Shelf
MRAP - Mine Resistant Ambush Protected
OEF - Operation "Enduring Freedom"
OIF - Operation Iraqi Freedom"
PPR - Personal Role Radio
ROV - Remotely Operated Vehicle
RPG - Rocket Propelled Grenade
STOL - Short Take-Off and Landing
UAS - Unmanned Air System
UAV - Unmanned Air Vehicle
UGV - Unmanned Ground Vehicle
UOR - Urgent Operational Requirement
USV- Unmanned Surface Vehicles
UUV - Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
VTOL - Vertical Take-Off and Landing