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6,416 terms

Defense terms

  1. RG (1) Rail Gun. (2) Review Group.
  2. RGB Red, Green, Blue (Video Engineering term).
  3. RH Abbreviation for recombinant human.
  4. RH Electronics Radiation Hardened Electronics.
  5. RHD Radiation Hardened Electronics. 249
  6. RHETT II (1) Russian Half Effect Thruster Technology Program. (2) Russian Hall Electric Thruster Test.
  7. RIA Abbreviation for radioimmunoassay.
  8. RIBIT Reverse Illuminated Blocked Impurity Transducer.
  9. RICBM Retro Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.
  10. RIIA Royal Institute of International Affairs (UK).
  11. RIL Repair Items List (ILS term).
  12. RINT Unintentional Radiation Intelligence.
  13. RIS Radar Instruction Set Computer.
  14. RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computers.
  15. RISCAE RISC Ada Environment.
  16. Risk Approval Authority (RAA) An individual designated by the Director, MDA who makes risk acceptance decisions.
  17. risk assessment a scientifically based process consisting of the following steps: i) hazard identification; ii) hazard characterization; iii) exposure assessment; and iv)…
  18. RISTA Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition.
  19. RIU Range Interface Unit.
  20. RIVET JOINT Name of USAF Reconnaissance project.
  21. RIW Reliability Incentive Warranty.
  22. RL Rome Laboratory, Griffiss Business and Technology Park, NY. (Formerly called Rome Air Development Center.)
  23. RLA Repair of Level Analysis (ILS term).
  24. RLG Ring Laser Gyro.
  25. RLRIU Routing Logic Radio Interface Unit (PATRIOT).
  26. RLRIU-U Routing Logic Radio Interface Unit Upgrade (USA term).
  27. RM Radioman (USN term). 250
  28. RMA (1) Reliability, Maintainability and Availability (see RAM) (ILS term). (2) Revolution in Military Affairs (OSD term).
  29. RMCET Resource Management Concurrent Engineering Team.
  30. RME (1) Relay Mirror Experiment (a satellite launched February 1990 and which reentered the atmosphere in May 1993). (2) Remote Multiplexer Encoder.
  31. RMI Republic of the Marshall Islands.
  32. RMO Reflectivity.
  33. RMP Risk Management Plan.
  34. RMS (1) Remote Manipulator System. (2) Root Mean Square.
  35. RNAS REL NAV Analytic Simulator (JTIDS term).
  36. RNLAF Royal Netherlands Air Force.
  37. RNLN Royal Netherlands Navy.
  38. ROB Remote Operating Base.
  39. ROBS Rapid Optical Beam Steering (system).
  40. Robust Used in describing a system; indicates its ability to endure and perform its mission against a responsive threat.
  41. Robustness (1) The ability to produce correct results despite input errors. (2) The existence of coordinated, multiple capabilities that perform the same broad…
  42. ROC (1) Regional Operations Center. (2) Required Operational Capability.
  43. ROCC Regional Operations Control Center.
  44. ROD A graduated staff used in determining the difference in elevation between two points.
  45. ROE Fish eggs
  46. ROF Rate of Fire
  47. ROI Return on Investment.
  48. ROK Republic of Korea.
  49. ROM Read Only Memory - the hardware in a computer that that can be read but not written to.
  50. ROOM Real-time Object-Oriented Methodology.
  51. RORSAT Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite.
  52. ROV Remotely Operated Vehicle. 251
  53. ROW Rest-of-World.
  54. RP Role Playing; Role Player; Role Play. To act, behave and talk in a way as though you are the character you are controlling.
  55. RP&C Resource Planning and Coordination.
  56. RPAC Resource Performance Analysis Center.
  57. RPIE Real Property Installed Equipment.
  58. RPM Short for revolutions per minute, the measurement of the engine's crankshaft.
  59. RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicle.
  60. Rqmt Requirement.
  61. RQMTS Requirements.
  62. RQn Review Question (AFMC term).
  63. RRDI Range Resolved Doppler Imagining
  64. RRFD Risk Reduction Flight Demonstration.
  65. RRG Requirements Review Group.
  66. RS Radar Set (PATRIOT).
  67. RSA Russian Space Agency.
  68. RSAV Resupply/ammunition vehicle.
  69. RSE Range Systems Engineering, a Raytheon company.
  70. RSI Rationalization, Standardization, and Interoperability.
  71. RSIP Radar System Improvement Program.
  72. RSO Resident Space Object.
  73. RSOI Reception, Staging, Operation and force Integration (Joint Forces term).
  74. RSRE Royal Signal and Radar Establishment (UK).
  75. RST Radar System Test (THAAD-GBR)
  76. RSTA Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition.
  77. RSTER Radar Surveillance Technology Experimental Radar (UHF).
  78. RSU Remote Switching Unit.
  79. RSV A virus that causes respiratory infections with cold-like symptoms. Also called respiratory syncytial virus.
  80. RT (1) Relocation Time (ILS term). (2) Repair Task Distribution (ILS term).
  81. RTC Report to Congress.
  82. RTCA Real Time Casualty Assessment (US Army term).
  83. RTD Radar Technology Demonstration. 252
  84. RTF Release To Fleet (USN term).
  85. RTG Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator.
  86. RTIM Radar Technology Identification Methodology.
  87. RTO Recovery Time Objective
  88. RTOV Real Time Operational Verification.
  89. RTOVF Real Time Operational Verification Facility (US Army term).
  90. RTS (1) Request To Send (Telecomm/Computer term). (2) Remote Tracking Station.
  91. RTWP Real Time Wave form Processor (Advanced Technology Demonstration Radar term).
  92. Rules of Engagement (ROE) Directives issued by competent military authority which delineate the circumstances and limitations under which United States forces will initiate and/or…
  93. RUPS Resource User ID and Password System.
  94. RUSI Royal United Services Institute (UK).
  95. RV See Reentry Vehicle.
  96. RV Complex A reentry vehicle and its associated objects.
  97. RV Temperature The temperature of the heat given off by the RV that allows sensors to acquire them.
  98. RVAO Reentry Vehicle Associated Objects.
  99. Rvw Review.
  100. RW Rainshower

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