F
(Elec. Eng.) farad, faraday     F or f
fathom     f(or fath.)
farad, farthing, female, feminine, fine, following,
 force, fort, franc, frequently     f.
false, February, fellow, fluorine French, Friday (Magn.) magneto motive force (Chem.) fluorine, (Phys.) Fahrenheit., (Light.) luminous flax     F.
field Artillery     F. A.
Federal Aviation Agency     F. A. A.
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United
Nations    F. A. O.
fleet admiral     F. Adm.
freight bill     F. B.
Federal Bureau of Investigation     F. B. I.
fire department, free dock     F. D.
Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry     F. I. C.
field officer, foreign office    F. O.
Fahrenheit    F. or Fah.
(or Fahr.)
feet per minute     f. p. m. or FPM
or ft/min 570
fleet post office     F. P. O.
freezing point, (Phys.) fission product, foot pound    f. p. or F.P.
feet per second, foot-pound-second     f. p. s. or FPS572
Fellow of the Royal College of Music     F. R. C. M.
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society     F. R. G. S.
Fellow of the Royal Society     F. R. S.
 on the back of the page     f. v.
Fellow of the Zoological Society     F. Z. S.
fresh-air inlet     F.A.I.
free alongside ship    F.A.S.
final boiling point     F.B.P.
(Eng.)friction horse-power     F.H.P.
free on board     f.o.b or
F. O. B.
free on board    f.o.b.
Free of charge     F.O.C.
CIS frontal aviation    FA
Federal Aviation Administration    FAA
forward area air defense    FAAD
Forward Area Air Defense System    FAADS
Forward Area Armored Logistic System    FAALS
Field Artillery Ammunition Support Vehicle    FAASV
Fast attack craft    FAC
Forward Air Control    FAC
facsimile, factor, factory, faculty     fac.
Field Artillery Computer Equipment (UK)    FACE
field artillery digital automatic computer    FADAC
Full authority digital engine (or electronic) control.    FADEC
Fuel Air Explosive    FAE
fuel-air explosive helicopter delivered    FAESHED
French Air Force    FAF
Field Alarm Module    FAM
familiar, family    fam.
family of air missile systems    FAMS
Forward area multipurpose vehicle    FAMV
Food and Agriculture Organization    FAO
Force Augmentation Planning and Execution System    FAPES
Federal Aviation Regulations.    FAR
Farthing    far.
Forward area refueling equipment    FARE
Fully integrated armored rearm    FARV-A
future anti-satellite weapon    FASAT
fascicle     fasc.
family of scatterable mines    FASCAM
fuse activating static targets    FAST
First Article Testing    FAT
Forward Area Tactical Teletype    FATT
Fast attack vehicle    FAV
Forward area water point supply system    FAWPSS
facsimile    FAX
Fly-by-light    FBL
fleet ballistic missile    FBM
Filter Blower Unit    FBU
Fly-by-wire (which see).    FBW
fire-control center (or computer)    FCC
foolscap     fcp.
fire-control system    FCS
field    fd
full development    FD
farad     fd.
fire distribution center    FDC
fiber data distribution interface    FDDI
frequency division multiplex    FDM
frequency division multiplex access    FDMA
Flight data recorder.    FDR
Flight director system.    FDS
(Chem.) iron     Fe,
February     Feb.
Forward Edge of Battle Area    FEBA
Forward Error Correction    FEC
fedral, federation     fed.
federation    fedn.
free electron laser    FEL
feminine     fem.
Federal Emergency Management Agency    FEMA
field effect transistor    FET
Follow-on Early Warning System    FEWS
Fleet Electronic Warfare Support Group    FEWSG
Frigate    FF
folios – and the following (pages, verses …etc.), fortissimo     ff.
frigate/with area SAM/with helicopter (in Military Balance)    FF/G/H
Folding-fin (or free-flight) aircraft rocket.    FFAR
guided missile frigate    FFG
Future Family Light Armored Vehicles    FFLAV
Fitted for radio    FFR
Fast Fourier transform    FFT
fighter, ground-attack    FGA
Frequency-Hopping    FH
Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles    FHTV
(Chem.)fluorine     FI
Fighting In Built-Up Areas    FIBUA
fiction     fict.
Foreign Internal Defense    FID
figurative, figuratively, figure     fig.
Figures    figs.
finance, financial, finish     fin.
financial secretary    fin. sec.
Finnish    Finn.
floor, florin, fluid     fl.
Flourished    fl.
fluidram    fl. dr.
fluid ounce    fl. oz.
Florida    Fla.
Engine having four horizontally opposed cylinders thus, flat-twin, flat-six etc.    flat-four
Flemish    Flem.
Forward-looking Infra-Red    FLIR
float-on, float-off    flo-flo
Flow Generation computer model    FLOGEN
floating point operations per second, k = thousand,    Flop/s,
Forward Line of Own Troops    FLOT
Fork lift pallet trailer    FLPT
Front Line States    FLS
flight    flt
Fleet Satellite Communications    FLTSATCOM
Code designation for titanium tetrachloride smoke mixture, used in mortar bombs.    FM
fathom, from.    fm.
(Chem.) fermium    Fm.
frequency modulation     FM.
Foreign Military Assistance / Financing / Sales    FMA/F/S
Fully Mission Capable    FMC
Flight management computer system.    FMCS
Fleet Marine Force    FMF
Foreign Materiel Intelligence Battalion    FMIB
Foreign Military Sales    FMS
Fuels Management Support Equipment    FMSE
Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles    FMTV
Folding Medical Unit    FMU
Footnote    fn.
Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center    FNOC
forward observer    FO
Folio    fo. or fol.
full operational capability    FOC
Fiber Optical Communications for Aerospace Systems    FOCAS
Foam overhead cover support system    FOCOS
Foreign-object damage.    FOD
follow-on forces attack    FOFA
fiber optic guidance    FOG
fiber optic-guided missile    FOGM
Forward Operating Location    FOL
Falling object protective structure    FOPS
foreign, forestry     for.
Forces Command    FORSCOM
U.S. Army Forces Command    FORSCOM
formula translating system    FORTRAN
Follow-on Spares Kits    FOSK
field-of-view    FOV
flowing pressure    FP.
fast patrol boat    FPB
Federal procurement regulation    FPR
fast packet switch    FPS
fleet patrol Ship    FPS
(Chem.) francium     Fr,
father, franc, friar, from     fr.
France, French, Friday     Fr.
Fleet Requirements and Air Direction Unit.    FRADU
Fleet Rehabilitation And Modernization    FRAM
Frankish     Frank.
free rocket anti-submarine    FRAS
frequent, frequentative, frequently     freq.
Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany); used for information dated before 3 October 1990 or CY91    FRG
Friday     fri.
Frisian     Fris.
Free Rocket Over Ground    FROG
Frontispiece    front.
Fleet Readiness Squadron    FRS
freight     frt.
Code designation for a sulphur trioxide/chlorsulphonic acid mixture used as a screening smoke composition in mortar bombs.    FS
filmstrip     Fs.,
future surface-to-air family    FSAF
Full-scale aerial target    FSAT
Fire Support Coordination Line    FSCL
full-scale development    FSD
Full-scale engineering development    FSED
frequency shift keying    FSK
Fast Sealift Support    FSS
former Soviet Union    FSU
Forward-swept wing.    FSW
foot (feet) per second     ft per sec.
feet, foot, fort, fortification     ft.
Fedral Trade Commission     FTC,
Fathom    fth. or fath.
foot, pound    ft-lb
fighter (aircraft)    ftr
flexible turret system    FTS
Field Training Exercise    FTX
Fundamental    fund.
Forward-Looking Infrared    FUR
Furlong    fur.
furlough     furl.
Future    fut.
Fighting vehicle    FV
Fighting vehicle system    FVS
fixed-wing    FW
Full width attack mine    FWAM
Four-wheel drive    FWD
forward    fwd.
foreign weapons evaluations    FWE
Full width mine plough    FWMP
fiscal year    FY
five-year defense program    FYDP
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia    FYROM
Franc Zone    FZ