Glossary of Russian and USSR aviation acronyms: Avionics and instruments
Introduction This is a glossary of acronyms and initials used for avionics and aircraft instruments in the Russian Federation and formerly the USSR. The Latin-alphabet names are phonetic representations of the Cyrillic originals, and variations are inevitable.__TOC__
Avionics and instruments : - navigation display/drift sight: - integrated automatic control system: - chronometer: - artificial horizons and situation display: ''Avia-gorizont Istrebitel'nyy''  – artificial horizon for fighter aircraft: - artificial horizon0: - optical bombsight: - astro-inertial navigation system:1.- directional Gyro:2.- autopilots pre1960: - secure digital data-links: - magnetic anomaly detectors MAD: - automatic control systems for dispensers ('chuff and fluff' - Chaff and Flare countermeasures): ''Avtomaht Pereklahdki Stabilizahtora'' – automatic stabiliser incidence adjuster: ''Automatcheskiy RadioKompass'' - automatic radio compass ADF: - analogue FM secure data-links and beacon rx: - analogue FM secure data-links and beacon rx: ''Avtomat Regulirovaniya Usily'' – artificial feel device: ''Avtomat Regulirovaniya Zagruzki'' - artificial feel system: ''Avtomaticheskiy Navigatsionnyy Pribor'' – automatic navigation device: ''Avtomaht Passivnykh Pomekh'' – automatic passive ECM/IRCM device:1. ''Aviacionny Strelkovy Pritsel'' – aerial gun-sight:2. ''Avtomaticheskiy Strelkovyy Pritsel'' – computing gun-sight: - airborne automatic thermo-anemometer: - GCI receivers: ''Avtomaht Oosiliy'' – automatic artificial feel unit: ''Avtomaht Ooglov Atahki, Snosa i Peregroozki'' – automatic AOA/sideslip/g limiter: - chronometer0: ''Bortovaya Avtomaticheskaya Registreeruyushchaya Sistema'' – on-board automatic recording system: - integrated defence electronics complex: ''Blok Krenovykh Popravok'' – bank compensation module: - weather research RADAR: - telemetry receiver: ''Bortovoy Tsifrovoy Kompleks'' – on-board digital suite: ''Blok Oopravleniya'' - control module: - Dutch roll damper: - combined VSI & turn and bank indicator: ''Distantsionnyy AstroKompass – DAB'' – remote celestial compass: ''Distantsionnyy Gheeromagnitnyy Kompass'' – gyro-magnetic compass: - flux-gate compass: ''Doplerovskiy Izmeritel' Skorosti i Snosa'' - doppler speed/drift sensor system: - secure data link: - pitch damper: ''Elektricheskiy Distantsionnyy Gheeromagnitnyy Kompass'' – electro-gyro-magnetic compass: ''Elektronnaya Sistema Upravleniya Vozduhozabornika'' – inlet ramp control system: ''Elektrischeskiy Ooskazahtel' Povorota'' – electric turn and bank indicator: (suffix) ''Grazahnskiy'' - civil: ''GheeroIndooktsionnyy Kompass - earth inductor/gyro flux compass: ''GLObahl'naya NAvigatsionnaya Spootnikovaya Sistema'' – global navigation satellite system: - compass system: - directional gyro: ''GheeroPoluKompas'' - gyro-compass: - exhaust gas temperature indicator: ''Izmeritel'nyy Kompleks Vysokovo Razresheniya'' – high resolution measurement system: ''Izmeritel'nyy Kompleks Vysokovo Razresheniya'' – high resolution measurement system: - advanced HUD no relation to ILS: ''Izmeritel'-Registrahtor Impool'snykh Signahlov'' – electro-magnetic pulse signal measurement and recording device: - inertial navigation system: - tachometer: ''Indikahtor Vertikahl'nykh Rezheemov'' – vertical modes indicator: ''Kompleks Vo'orouzheniya'' – weapons system: ''Korrekteeruyemaya Avia P'' - autopilot roll only: - compass: ''Kompleks Navigahtsii/Navigatsionnyy'' – navigation system: ''Kol'tsevoy Pritsel'' - ring sight: ''Kompleks Polunatoornovo Modeleerovaniya'' – testrig/combat simulator: ''Komanhdnoye Rahdio'upravleniye'' - radio command guidance system: ''Komanhdnoye Rahdio'upravleniye Oopravlyayemoy Bomboy'' - radio command guidance system for UB guided bombs: ''Koorsovaya Sistema – compass system: ''Koorsavaya Sistema Istrebiel'naya'' – course indicator system for fighters: ''Kombineerovanny oozkazahtel' Skorosti'' – airspeed indicator: - Mach meter: ''MnogoFoonktsionahl'nyy Blok Oopravleniya'' – multi-function missile control module: ''Markernyy RahdioPreeyomnik'' - marker beacon receiver:: ''Navigatsionnyy Bombardirovchnyy Avtomaht'' – automatic navigation/bomb release module: ''Navigatsionnyy Indikahtor'' - ground position indicator: ''Navigatsionnyy Kompleks'' – navigation suite: ''Nochnoy Kollimahtonyy Pritsel Bombardirovochnyy'' – night capable collimator bombsight: ''Navigatsionnoye Vychislitel'noye Oostroystvo'' - navigation computer: ''Optika-Elektronnoya Pritselnaya Sistema'' – electro-optical search and track system: ''Optika-Elektronnoya Pritsel'no-navigatsionnyy Kompleks'' – electro-optical weapons aiming and navigation system: ''Optiko-Lokatsionnaya Stahntsiya – Modernizeerovannaya'' – combined IR/TV search and track/laser ranger unit: ''Opticheskiy Pritsel'' - optical gunsight: ''Opticheskiy Pritsel bombardirovochnyy'' – optical synchronised bombsight: ''Oboroodovaniye Slepoy Posahdki'' - instrument/blind landing system: (suffix) ''Pomekhozashchishchonnost'' – ECM resistant: ''Poluaktivnaya Rahdiolokatsionnaya Golovka samonavedeniya'' – semi-active radar seeker head: ''Pritsel Dlya Bombometahniya s Kabreerovaniya'' – bomb sight for nbomb delivery in a climb toss/loft bombing sight: ''Parashootno-desahntnaya Sistema Pelengahtsii'' – parachute dropping system receiver: ''Proyektsionnyy Indikahtor Navigatsionnoy Obstanovki'' – navigation head up display: ''Pritsel KI'' - collimator sight: ''Pritsel'no-navigatsionnaya Sistema'' - nav attack system: ''Pritsel P'' – high altitude sight: ''Poluaktivnaya Rahdiolokatsionnaya Golovka Samonavedeniya'' – semi-active radar seeker: ''Pritsel'no-Navigatsionnyy Kompleks'' – nav/attack system: ''Pritsel Rahdiolokatsionnyy Strelkoyy'' - gunners RADAR sight: ''Pritsel'naya stahntsiya'' – sighting station: ''Pribor Slepovo Bomometahniya I Navigahtsii'' – search/bomb-aiming RADAR: ''Pritsel Strelkovyy Periskopicheskiy'' – flexible periscopic sight: ''Pritsel Torpednyy Nizko-vysotnyy'' – low altitude torpedo sight: - video recording system: ''Pritsel'no-Vychislitel'noye Oostroystvo'' – computing sight: - radio transmitter: ''Rahdiolokatsionnyy Bombardirovochnyy Pritsel'' – RADAR bomb sight: ''RahdioGhidroakoosticheskiy Booy'' – sonobuoy: ''Rechevoy Informahtor'' – automatic voice annunciator: ''Rahdio'iskhatel Samolyotov'' – radio device for detecting aircraft early name for RADAR in USSR: ''Reghistreeruyushcheye Indikahtornoye oostroystvo'' – display and recording unit: ''RahdioLokatsionnyy Pritsel'nyy Kompleks'' – radar targeting system: ''Radiolokahtor Obzora Zemlee'' - weather/navigation radar: ''Rahdiolokatsionnyy Pritsel'' – radioRADAR sight: ''Rahdiolokatsionnyy Pritsel - SA'' – radioRADAR sight:– translusency recorder: ''RahdioPoluKompas'' - direction finder: ''RahdioPoluKOmpas'' - direction finder: ''Rahdiolohkatsionnyy Pribor Slepoy Navigahtsii'' – blind navigation radar device: ''Radio Stahntsiya Bombardirovochnaya'' – bomber aircraft radio station: ''Radio Stahntsiya Blizhnei Navigatsii'' - short range radio navigation system SHORAN: ''Radio Stahntsiya Istrebitelnaya'' – fighter radio system: ''Radio Stahntsiya Istrebitelnaya Ultrakorotkovolnovaya'' – fighter V/UHF radio system: - data-link system: ''Radio Stahntsiya Ultrakorotkovolnovaya'' – UHF radio system: ''RahdiotelemeTricheskaya Stahntsiya'' – radio telemetry station: ''Reshayushcheye Oostroystvo Posahdki'' – landing computer ILS: ''RahdioUstroystvo Slepoy Posahdki'' – blind landing radio device ILS: ''RahdioVysotomer'' – radio altimeter: ''RahdioVysotomer UM'' – radio altimeter UM: ''Sistema Avtomaticheskoy Balansirovki'' – automatic longitudinal trim system: - airborne automatic weather research module: ''Sistema Avtomaticheskoy Registratsii Poletnykh Parametrov/Parametrov Polyota'' – in-flight recorder: ''Sistema Avtomaticheskogo Upravleniya'' - autopilot: - phased array, pulse-doppler radar: - ''Svoy/Choozkoy'' - IFF IFF: - distance measuring equipment: ''Sistema Distancionnogo Upravleniya'' – fly by wire control system: ''Samolyotnoye Gromkogovoryashcheye Oostroystvo'' – airborne loudspeaker system: ''Sheeroko'ugol'nyy Kollimahtornyy Aviatsionnyy Indikahtor'' – wide angle collimated display for aircraft wide angle HUD: ''Samolyotnyy Infrakrahsnyy Vizeer'' – aircraft mounted Infra-Red sight: ''Sistema Navigahtsii'' - navigation system: ''Samoletny Otvetchik'' – aircraft transponder: ''Stahntsiya Opredeleniya Dahl'nosti'' - radio rangefinder DME: ''Sistema otobrazheniya Informahtsii'' – data presentation system: ''Samolyotnyy Otvetchik Mezhdunarodnyy'' – aircraft mounted international transponder: ''Sistema Organicheniya Oogla Atahki'' – angle of attack limiter system: ''Sistema Organichitel'nykh Signahlov'' – AOA limiter: ''sistema / apparatoora Slepoy Posahdki'' - ILS: ''Samolotnoye Preeyomnoye Avtomaticheskoye RahdioUstroystvo'' – airborne automatic radio receiver device sono-buoy receiver: ''Samolyotnaya peregovornaya Gromkogovoryashchaya Sistema'' – intercom system: - LORAN: ''Sistema Preduprezhdeniya ob Obluchenii'' – irradiation warning systemRWR: - heading radar: ''Stahntsiya Pomekhovykh Signahlov'' – lit. interference emitter active jammer: ''Samolyotnoye Peregovornoye Oostroystvo'' - intercom: ''Samolyotnyy RahdioDahl'nomer'' – aircraft radio rangefindergun ranging radar: ''Samolyotnyy Rahdiolokatsionnyy Otvetchik'' – airborne IFF  transponder: ''Shchotno-reshayushchiy Pribor'' – counting and computing device: ''Stahntsiya Razvedki Svyazi'' – signals intelligence pack: ''Sistema/Samolyotnyy Radiolokatsionnyy Zaproschik Otvetchik'' – IFF airborne / system: ''Sistema Signalizahtsii Pozhara'' – fire warning system: - approach/landing system: - fuel metering system: ''Sistema Oostoychivosti I Oopravlyayemosti'' - stability and control system: ''Sistema Oopravleniya Vo'oruzheniyem'' – weapons control system: - medium wave radio: ''Sistema Vozdushnyh Signahlov'' – air data computer: ''Sistema Yedinovo Vremeni'' – time synchronisation system: ''Televizionnyy Aviatsionnyy Razvedyvatel'nyy Kompleks'' – TV reconnaissance system: ''TeleKodovaya Sistema'' – encrypted data-link system:1. ''TeploPelengahtor'' – FLIR sensor:2. ''Televizionnyy Pritsel'' - television sight: ''Tablo Signalizahtsii'' – warning/caution light panel: ''Televizionnyy Strelkovyy Ptritsel'' - television sighting system: - Gyro-flux gate: - fire control RADAR: ''Tsifrovoy Pilatzhno-Navigatsionnyy Kompleks'' – digital flight avionics/navigation suite: - central air data system: ''Tsifrovaya Vychislitel'naya Mashina'' – digital computer: ''Rahdio-Ghidroakoosticheskiy Booy N'' - sonobuoy: - combined ASI/machmeter: - combined ASI/machmeter:1.- nozzle position indicator:2. ''Ookazahtel' Povorota'' – turn indicator: ''Ookazahtel Polozheniya Stabilizahtora'' – tailplane incidence indicator:1.- radio receiver:2. ''Ookazahtel' skorosti'' - combined airspeed indicator: ''Ukazatel Uglov Ataki i Peregruzki'' – combined AOA and g indicator indicator: ''Ookazaht' Oogla Tangazha'' – pitch angle indicator: ''Ookazahtel' Vysoty i Perepahda Davleniya'' – cockpit altitude and pressure indicator: ''Variometr'' - vertical speed indicator / variometer: ''Vychslitel' Ballisticheskiy'' – ballistics computer: - altimeter: - two-needle altimeter: - sonobuoy system: - correction switch: ''Vychislitel' Kriticheskikh rezheemov'' - dangerous flight modes computer: ''Vremennoy Mekhanizm Shtoormovika'' – attack release timing mechanism: - speed altitude auto-hold module: - altimeter: - altimeter
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