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.
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