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− | This is a list of commonly used | + | This is a list of commonly used in-universe acronyms and initialisms.<br> |
See also: ''[[Dictionary]]'' and ''[[Naval prefixes]]''<br> | See also: ''[[Dictionary]]'' and ''[[Naval prefixes]]''<br> | ||
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;<span id="AI">AI</span>: Armored Infantry.<ref name=FMFSp44/><ref name=FMLAp43/> | ;<span id="AI">AI</span>: Armored Infantry.<ref name=FMFSp44/><ref name=FMLAp43/> | ||
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+ | ;<span id="AIV">AIV</span>: [[Arrow IV]]. | ||
;<span id="AMC">AMC</span>: [[Alliance Military Corps]] or [[Allied Mercenary Command]]. | ;<span id="AMC">AMC</span>: [[Alliance Military Corps]] or [[Allied Mercenary Command]]. | ||
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;<span id="BAP">BAP</span>: [[Beagle Active Probe]]. | ;<span id="BAP">BAP</span>: [[Beagle Active Probe]]. | ||
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+ | ;{{anchor|"BDA"}}BDA: Battle Damage Assessment computer. | ||
;<span id="BPM">BPM</span>: [[Bolan Province Militia]]. | ;<span id="BPM">BPM</span>: [[Bolan Province Militia]]. | ||
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;<span id="BUU">BUU</span>: [[Bannson Universal Unlimited]]. | ;<span id="BUU">BUU</span>: [[Bannson Universal Unlimited]]. | ||
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== C == | == C == | ||
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;<span id="CDF">CDF</span>: [[Convoy Defense Force]]. | ;<span id="CDF">CDF</span>: [[Convoy Defense Force]]. | ||
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;<span id="CPM">CPM</span>: [[Coventry Province Militia]] or [[Calderon Protectorate#Military|Calderon Protectorate Military]]. | ;<span id="CPM">CPM</span>: [[Coventry Province Militia]] or [[Calderon Protectorate#Military|Calderon Protectorate Military]]. | ||
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== F == | == F == | ||
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;<span id="FASCAM">FASCAM</span>: Field Artillery Scatterable Mines<ref>''LosTech: The MechWarrior Equipment Guide'', p. 36.</ref> or Field Artillery Scatterable Munitions.<ref>''TechManual'', p. 231: Thunder LRMs.</ref> | ;<span id="FASCAM">FASCAM</span>: Field Artillery Scatterable Mines<ref>''LosTech: The MechWarrior Equipment Guide'', p. 36.</ref> or Field Artillery Scatterable Munitions.<ref>''TechManual'', p. 231: Thunder LRMs.</ref> | ||
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;<span id="MTR">MTR</span>: Motorized Regiment.<ref name=FMFSp44/><ref name=FMLAp43/> | ;<span id="MTR">MTR</span>: Motorized Regiment.<ref name=FMFSp44/><ref name=FMLAp43/> | ||
− | ;<span id="MW: | + | ;<span id="MW:AoD">MW:AoD</span>: [[MechWarrior: Dark Age|MechWarrior: Age of Destruction]]. |
== N == | == N == | ||
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;<span id="PGC">PGC</span>: [[Provisional Garrison Cluster]]. | ;<span id="PGC">PGC</span>: [[Provisional Garrison Cluster]]. | ||
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;<span id="PMM">PMM</span>: [[Periphery March Militia]]. | ;<span id="PMM">PMM</span>: [[Periphery March Militia]]. | ||
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;<span id="RAF">RAF</span>: [[Republic Armed Forces]]. | ;<span id="RAF">RAF</span>: [[Republic Armed Forces]]. | ||
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+ | ;<span id="RAG">RAG</span>: [[Rocket-Assisted Grenade]].<ref name=CEp13>''Combat Equipment'', p. 13: "Rocket-Assisted Grenade"</ref> | ||
;<span id="RAT">RAT</span>: [[Random Assignment Tables|Random Assignment Table]]. | ;<span id="RAT">RAT</span>: [[Random Assignment Tables|Random Assignment Table]]. | ||
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;<span id="SLDF">SLDF</span>: [[Star League Defense Force]]. | ;<span id="SLDF">SLDF</span>: [[Star League Defense Force]]. | ||
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;<span id="SR">SR</span>: Scout Regiment.<ref name=FMFSp44/><ref name=FMLAp43/> | ;<span id="SR">SR</span>: Scout Regiment.<ref name=FMFSp44/><ref name=FMLAp43/> | ||
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;<span id="TH">TH</span>: [[Terran Hegemony]]. | ;<span id="TH">TH</span>: [[Terran Hegemony]]. | ||
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+ | ;{{anchor|"TIC"}}TIC: [[Target Interlock Circuit]]. | ||
;<span id="TMI">TMI</span>: [[Taurian Ministry of Intelligence]]. | ;<span id="TMI">TMI</span>: [[Taurian Ministry of Intelligence]]. | ||
;<span id="TO&E">TO&E</span>: Table of Organization and Equipment. | ;<span id="TO&E">TO&E</span>: Table of Organization and Equipment. | ||
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+ | ;{{anchor|"TOR"}}TOR: Tactical Operations Room. | ||
;<span id="TR">TR</span>: Tank Regiment.<ref name=FMFSp44/><ref name=FMLAp43/> | ;<span id="TR">TR</span>: Tank Regiment.<ref name=FMFSp44/><ref name=FMLAp43/> | ||
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;<span id="TTM">TTM</span>: [[Timbuktu Theater Militia]]. | ;<span id="TTM">TTM</span>: [[Timbuktu Theater Militia]]. | ||
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;<span id="XL">XL</span>: Extra-Light.<ref>''TechManual'', p. 36: "Engine - Shielding and Fusion Engine Types".</ref> | ;<span id="XL">XL</span>: Extra-Light.<ref>''TechManual'', p. 36: "Engine - Shielding and Fusion Engine Types".</ref> | ||
− | ;<span id="XXL"> | + | ;<span id="XXL">XXL</span>: [[XXL fusion engine|Extra-Extra-Light]]. |
==References== | ==References== |
Latest revision as of 18:09, 9 May 2024
This is a list of commonly used in-universe acronyms and initialisms.
See also: Dictionary and Naval prefixes
A[edit]
- AC
- Autocannon or Armored Cavalry Regiment.[1][2]
- AIV
- Arrow IV.
- AMS
- Anti-missile system.
- ASF
- Aerospace fighter.
B[edit]
- BAP
- Beagle Active Probe.
- BDA
- Battle Damage Assessment computer.
C[edit]
- C3
- A communications network linking multiple units, it stands for "Command/Control/Communications".[6]
- CDF
- Convoy Defense Force.
- CrMM
- Crucis March Militia.
D[edit]
- DHS
- Double Heat Sink.
E[edit]
- EI
- Enhanced Imaging.
- ELH
- Eridani Light Horse.
- ER
- Extended range.
F[edit]
- FCCW
- FedCom Civil War.
- FFF
- Federated Fast Food Restaurants (pronounced "Triple-F").
- FM
- Field Manual.
G[edit]
- GDL
- Gray Death Legion.
- GM
- General Motors.
H[edit]
- HAG
- Hyper-Assault Gauss Rifle.
- HBS
- Harebrained Schemes.
- HE
- High Explosive.
- HPG
- Hyperpulse Generator.
I[edit]
- IFV
- Infantry Fighting Vehicle.
- IIC
- "Two-C", an Inner Sphere designation[11] for items of superior Clan technology that have evolved out of certain classic designs or items from which they derive their names.
J[edit]
- JAG
- Judge Advocate General.
- JJ
- Jump Jet.
K[edit]
- K-F
- Kearny-Fuchida, usually referring to the Kearny-Fuchida Drive.
L[edit]
- LAM
- Land-Air BattleMech.
- LAW
- Luthien Armor Works.
- LB-X AC
- LB-X Autocannon.
- LCT
- Light Combat Team.
- LRM
- Long Range Missile.
- LRT
- Long Range Torpedo.
M[edit]
- MASH
- Mobile Auxiliary Surgical Hospital. Alternatively, Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
- MG
- Machine Gun or Mounted Grenadiers.[1][2]
- MGA
- Machine Gun Array.
- MRM
- Medium Range Missile.
- MW:AoD
- MechWarrior: Age of Destruction.
N[edit]
- NAC
- Naval Autocannon.
- NAC
- Naval Laser.
O[edit]
P[edit]
- PBI
- A MechWarrior's acronym for "Poor Bloody Infantry", those forced to fight without a 'Mech or other vehicle. Often crushed underfoot, toasted with Flamers, or riddled with Machine Gun bullets by amused pilots; PBIs fight back with shoulder-launched SRMs, Inferno missiles, hand Flamers, and satchel charges.
R[edit]
- RAC
- Rotary Autocannon.
- RG(s)
- Recognition Guide(s).
- RL
- Rocket Launcher.
- ROM
- ComStar's internal and external security force. The meaning of the acronym "ROM" has been lost to time.
- RotS
- Republic of the Sphere.
- RWA
- Rim Worlds Army.
- RWR
- Rim Worlds Republic.
S[edit]
- S7
- Solaris VII.
- SAFE
- The intelligence agency of the Free Worlds League. The meaning of the acronym "SAFE" had been described as "an obscure phrase in a forgotten language, the meaning of which has been lost."[13]
- SDS
- Space Defense System.
- SRM
- Short Range Missile.
- SRT
- Short Range Torpedo.
T[edit]
- TA
- Terran Alliance.
- TH
- Terran Hegemony.
- TO&E
- Table of Organization and Equipment.
- TOR
- Tactical Operations Room.
- TRO(s)
- Technical Readout(s).
U[edit]
- UAC
- Ultra Autocannon.
V[edit]
W[edit]
- WiGE
- Wing in Ground Effect.
- WMD(s)
- Weapon(s) of Mass Destruction.
- WOB
- Word of Blake.
- WWE
- Worldwide Events, event scenarios run by the Catalyst Demo Team.
X[edit]
- XL
- Extra-Light.[14]
- XXL
- Extra-Extra-Light.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 Field Manual: Federated Suns, p. 44: "Standard AFFC Nomenclature"
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 Field Manual: Lyran Alliance p. 43: "Standard LAAF Nomenclature"
- ↑ TechManual, p. 218: "Gauss Rifle - Anti-Personnel Gauss Rifle"
- ↑ TechManual, p. 208: "Autocannon Munitions - Armor-Piercing Ammunition"
- ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 105: "Regional Militias"
- ↑ TechManual, p. 209: "Improved C3 Computer"
- ↑ LosTech: The MechWarrior Equipment Guide, p. 36.
- ↑ TechManual, p. 231: Thunder LRMs.
- ↑ TechManual, p. 207: Artemis IV Fire-Control System.
- ↑ Field Manual: Federated Suns, p. 25: "AFFC WarShip Fleet"
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3055, p. 92: "Clan BattleMechs"
- ↑ Combat Equipment, p. 13: "Rocket-Assisted Grenade"
- ↑ House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p. 121: "SAFE: NIA and the Star League"
- ↑ TechManual, p. 36: "Engine - Shielding and Fusion Engine Types".