Commonly used abbrevations in Radar
AAI Air-to-Air Intercept; militärisches Abfangen in der Luft;
Air-to-Air Interrogator Secondary radar (on-board interrogator)
AESA Active Electronically Scanned Array
AEW Airborne Early Warning
AFC Automatic Frequency Control
ASR Airport Surveillance Radar
ATC Air Traffic Control
ATZ Aerodrome Traffic Zone
BITE Buildt In Test Equipment
BSD Blind Spot Detection
CFAR Constant False Alarm Rate
CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
COHO Coherent Local Oscillator
DOA Direction of Arrival
DPDPS Dual Purpose Digital Processing System
DTM Digital Terrain Model
DUT Device Under Test
DWG Digital Waveform Generator, circuit in which the waveform of transmission pulse is generated from a memory content.
ECC Error Correcting Code
ECCM Electronic Counter-Countermeasures
EIRP Effective Isotropic Radiated power
ELINT Electronic Intelligence
EMPAR European Multifunction Phased Array Radar
EMV Electromagnetic Vulnerability
EPM Electronic Protective Measures
ESA Electronically Steerable Array
ESM Electronic (Warfare) Support Measures
ETP Equivalent Transmitter Power
FAR False Alarm Rate
FCC Fault Collection Unit
FCW Forward Collision Warning
FMCW Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
GCA Ground-Controlled Approach
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization
IF Intermediate Frequency
IFF Identification Friend or Foe military secondary radar, interrogator for weapon control.
LO Local Oscillator;;
Low Observability.
LPI Low Probability of Intercept
LRU Line-Replaceable Unit, auch Lowest Replaceable Unit
MMIC Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuit
MSSR Monopulse Secondary Surveillance Radar
MTTR Multi Target Tracking Radar.
OTH Over-The-Horizon.
PA Power Amplifier
PESA Passive Electronically Scanned Array
PRF Pulse Repetition Frequency
PRN Pseudo-Random-Noise
RADAR Radio Detection and Ranging
RAM Random Access Memory;
Radar Absorbing Material;
Rolling Airframe Missile;
Reliability, Availability and Maintainability
RASS Radio acoustic sounding system Kombination aus Radar und Sonar, meist als Wetterradar verwendet;
Radar Analysis Support System Measurement tool for Radar systems.
RBW Resolution Bandwidth
RDF Range and Direction Finding
RS Ramp Slope
RWR Radar Warning Receiver
RX Receive, Receiver
SAM Surface-to-Air Missile
SIF Selective Identification Feature more civil secondary radar, possibility to identify aircraft for air traffic control.
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface;
Special Purpose Identification
SSPA Solid-State Power-Amplifier
SSR Secondary Surveillance Radar
STALO Stable Local Oscillator
STAP Space-Time Adaptive Processing
T/R Transmit/Receive
TBP Time-Bandwidth Product a special parameter for chirp-radars
TMA Terminal Manoeuvring Area
TRM Transmitter-Receiver Module
TX Transmit, Transmitter
ULA Uniform Linear Array
UWB Ultra Wideband
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator