1MC — U.S. Navy shipboard internal communications system
ALQ-293—SPEAR electronic combat system
Angara-A5—Russian medium-lift rocket
AN/SPY-1—phased-array radar system aboard guided missile vessels
BDU-33—practice bombs
CIC–Combat Information Center
CID — Cybernetic Infantry Device, a manned combat robot
Chang’e-10, -11, -12, and -13—manned lunar lander spacecraft built by the People’s Republic of China, similar in basis design to the Apollo Lunar Module
CLAD — Cybernetic Lunar Activity Device, a variation of a CID used for construction work on the moon
COMS — Cybernetic Orbital Maneuvering Systems, a variation of a CID made for orbital construction work
DF-26—Dong Feng-26, a Chinese long-range anti-ship missile
DTF — Digital Terrain Following, a system for flying at very low altitudes and high airspeed without using radar
Eagle Station — a captured Russian military space station in Earth orbit
EEAS — Electronic Elastomeric Activity Suit, a space suit that uses compressible fabric instead of oxygen for pressurization
Energia-5VR — a Russian heavy rocket
EVA — Extra Vehicular Activity, a space walk
FONOP — Freedom of Navigation Operation
Harbin Z-20—PRC medium-lift helicopter
HJ-12—
HUD — Head-Up Display
ICBM — Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
IFF — Identification Friend or Foe, coded aircraft identification sysem
IRBM — Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
JY-9—a Chinese missile guidance radar
Ka-52 Alligator — Russian helicopter gunship
KC-767—an American aerial refueling aircraft
KLVM—
LEAF — Life Enhancing Assistive Facility, a wearable life-support system
lidar — an imaging system using lasers
LM — Lunar Module
Long March-8, -9—Chinese heavy rockets
LPDRS — Laser Pulse Detonation Rocket System, a hybrid turbojet-scramjet-rocket propulsion engine
Mă Luó—a large automated cargo lander spacecraft built by the People’s Republic of China, a derivative of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon cargo lander
Mars One — a Russian combat space station
MFD — multifunction display
Mi-8MTV-5—Russian medium transport helicopter
MiG-31—Russian supersonic jet fighter
MQ-55 Coyote — combat unmanned aircraft
MQ-77 Ghost Wolf — advanced combat unmanned aircraft
Okno — Russian space surveillance system
Oort Cloud — a shell of trillions of ice comets surrounding the solar system
PRC — People’s Republic of China
regolith — loose soil or debris covering bedrock
Roscosmos — Russian space agency
RTG — radioisotope thermoelectric generator, a small nuclear power generator
S-29 Shadow — American single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane
SAM — surface-to-air missile
SBIRS — Space Based Infrared Surveillance, American missile launch detection satellite system
SH-60 Sea Hawk — American carrier-based helicopter
Shenyang J-15—advanced Chinese jet fighter
SM-2—American naval antiaircraft missile system
SPEAR — Self-Protection Electronic Agile Reaction, American advanced electronic warfare system
taikonaut — Chinese astronaut
toroids — a circular object with a hole in the center
Type 052C–Chinese guided missile destroyer
Type 366—Chinese surveillance radar
UAV — unmanned aerial vehicle, a drone
XCV-62 Ranger, XCV-70 Rustler — American stealthy short takeoff/vertical landing tactical transport aircraft
Xeus lander — a prototype lunar lander designed conceived by Masten Space Systems and the United Launch Alliance. Subsequently purchased and modified by Sky Masters Aerospace Inc.
YJ-62—Chinese anti-ship cruise missile
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