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)