Glossary of Russian and USSR aviation acronyms: Avionics and instruments

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.

 Glossary of Russian and USSR aviation acronyms: Aircraft designations
 Glossary of Russian and USSR aviation acronyms: Avionics and instruments
 Glossary of Russian and USSR aviation acronyms: Engines and equipment
 Glossary of Russian and USSR aviation acronyms: Miscellaneous
 Glossary of Russian and USSR aviation acronyms: Organisations
 Glossary of Russian and USSR aviation acronyms: Weapons and armament

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

 Navigatsionnoye Vychislitel'noye Oostroystvo - navigation computer

 Optika-Elektronnoya Pritselnaya Sistema – electro-optical search and track system

 Optika-Elektronnoya Pritsel'no-navigatsionnyy Kompleks – electro-optical weapons aiming and navigation system

 Optiko-Lokatsionnaya Stahntsiya – Modernizeerovannaya – combined IR/TV search and track/laser ranger unit

 Opticheskiy Pritsel - optical gunsight

 Opticheskiy Pritsel bombardirovochnyy – optical synchronised bombsight

 Oboroodovaniye Slepoy Posahdki - instrument/blind landing system

 (suffix) Pomekhozashchishchonnost – ECM resistant

 Poluaktivnaya Rahdiolokatsionnaya Golovka [samonavedeniya] – semi-active radar seeker head

 Pritsel Dlya Bombometahniya s Kabreerovaniya – bomb sight for nbomb delivery in a climb [toss/loft bombing sight]

 Parashootno-desahntnaya Sistema Pelengahtsii – parachute dropping system receiver

 Proyektsionnyy Indikahtor Navigatsionnoy Obstanovki – navigation head up display

 Pritsel KI - collimator sight

 Pritsel'no-navigatsionnaya Sistema - nav attack system

 Pritsel P – high altitude sight

 Poluaktivnaya Rahdiolokatsionnaya Golovka Samonavedeniya – semi-active radar seeker

 Pritsel'no-Navigatsionnyy Kompleks – nav/attack system

 Pritsel Rahdiolokatsionnyy Strelkoyy - gunners RADAR sight

 Pritsel'naya stahntsiya – sighting station

 Pribor Slepovo Bomometahniya I Navigahtsii – search/bomb-aiming RADAR

 Pritsel Strelkovyy Periskopicheskiy – flexible periscopic sight

 Pritsel Torpednyy Nizko-vysotnyy – low altitude torpedo sight

 - video recording system

 Pritsel'no-Vychislitel'noye Oostroystvo – computing sight

 - radio transmitter

 Rahdiolokatsionnyy Bombardirovochnyy Pritsel – RADAR bomb sight

 RahdioGhidroakoosticheskiy Booy – sonobuoy

 Rechevoy Informahtor – automatic voice annunciator

 Rahdio'iskhatel Samolyotov – radio device for detecting aircraft early name for RADAR in USSR

 Reghistreeruyushcheye Indikahtornoye oostroystvo – display and recording unit

 RahdioLokatsionnyy Pritsel'nyy Kompleks – radar targeting system

 Radiolokahtor Obzora Zemlee - weather/navigation radar

 Rahdiolokatsionnyy Pritsel – radio[RADAR] sight

 Rahdiolokatsionnyy Pritsel - SA – radio[RADAR] sight

– translusency recorder

 RahdioPoluKompas - direction finder

 RahdioPoluKOmpas - direction finder

 Rahdiolohkatsionnyy Pribor Slepoy Navigahtsii – blind navigation radar device

 Radio Stahntsiya Bombardirovochnaya – bomber aircraft radio station

 Radio Stahntsiya Blizhnei Navigatsii - short range radio navigation system SHORAN

 Radio Stahntsiya Istrebitelnaya – fighter radio system

 Radio Stahntsiya Istrebitelnaya Ultrakorotkovolnovaya – fighter V/UHF radio system

 - data-link system

 Radio Stahntsiya Ultrakorotkovolnovaya – UHF radio system

 RahdiotelemeTricheskaya Stahntsiya – radio telemetry station

 Reshayushcheye Oostroystvo Posahdki – landing computer ILS

 RahdioUstroystvo Slepoy Posahdki – blind landing radio device ILS

 RahdioVysotomer – radio altimeter

 RahdioVysotomer UM – radio altimeter UM

 Sistema Avtomaticheskoy Balansirovki – automatic longitudinal trim system

 - airborne automatic weather research module

 Sistema Avtomaticheskoy Registratsii Poletnykh Parametrov/Parametrov Polyota – in-flight recorder

 Sistema Avtomaticheskogo Upravleniya - autopilot

 - phased array, pulse-doppler radar

 - Svoy/Choozkoy - IFF IFF

 - distance measuring equipment

 Sistema Distancionnogo Upravleniya – fly by wire control system

 Samolyotnoye Gromkogovoryashcheye Oostroystvo – airborne loudspeaker system

 Sheeroko'ugol'nyy Kollimahtornyy Aviatsionnyy Indikahtor – wide angle collimated display for aircraft wide angle HUD

 Samolyotnyy Infrakrahsnyy Vizeer – aircraft mounted Infra-Red sight

 Sistema Navigahtsii - navigation system

 Samoletny Otvetchik – aircraft transponder

 Stahntsiya Opredeleniya Dahl'nosti - radio rangefinder DME

 Sistema otobrazheniya Informahtsii – data presentation system

 Samolyotnyy Otvetchik Mezhdunarodnyy – aircraft mounted international transponder

 Sistema Organicheniya Oogla Atahki – angle of attack limiter system

 Sistema Organichitel'nykh Signahlov – AOA limiter

 [sistema / apparatoora] Slepoy Posahdki - ILS

 Samolotnoye Preeyomnoye Avtomaticheskoye RahdioUstroystvo – airborne automatic radio receiver device [sono-buoy receiver]

 Samolyotnaya peregovornaya Gromkogovoryashchaya Sistema – intercom system

 - LORAN

 Sistema Preduprezhdeniya ob Obluchenii – irradiation warning system[RWR]

 - heading radar

 Stahntsiya Pomekhovykh Signahlov – [lit. interference emitter] active jammer

 Samolyotnoye Peregovornoye Oostroystvo - intercom

 Samolyotnyy RahdioDahl'nomer – aircraft radio rangefinder[gun ranging radar]

 Samolyotnyy Rahdiolokatsionnyy Otvetchik – airborne IFF  transponder

 Shchotno-reshayushchiy Pribor – counting and computing device

 Stahntsiya Razvedki Svyazi – signals intelligence pack

 Sistema/Samolyotnyy Radio[lokatsionnyy] Zaproschik Otvetchik – IFF airborne / system

 Sistema Signalizahtsii Pozhara – fire warning system

 - approach/landing system

 - fuel metering system

 Sistema Oostoychivosti I Oopravlyayemosti - stability and control system

 Sistema Oopravleniya Vo'oruzheniyem – weapons control system

 - medium wave radio

 Sistema Vozdushnyh Signahlov – air data computer

 Sistema Yedinovo Vremeni – time synchronisation system

 Televizionnyy Aviatsionnyy Razvedyvatel'nyy Kompleks – TV reconnaissance system

 TeleKodovaya Sistema – encrypted data-link system

1. TeploPelengahtor – FLIR sensor
2. Televizionnyy Pritsel - television sight

 Tablo Signalizahtsii – warning/caution light panel

 Televizionnyy Strelkovyy Ptritsel - television sighting system

 - Gyro-flux gate

 - fire control RADAR

 Tsifrovoy Pilatzhno-Navigatsionnyy Kompleks – digital flight avionics/navigation suite

 - central air data system

 Tsifrovaya Vychislitel'naya Mashina – digital computer

 Rahdio-Ghidroakoosticheskiy Booy N - sonobuoy

 - combined ASI/machmeter

 - combined ASI/machmeter

1. - nozzle position indicator
2. Ookazahtel' Povorota – turn indicator

 Ookazahtel Polozheniya Stabilizahtora – tailplane incidence indicator

1. - radio receiver
2. Ookazahtel' skorosti - combined airspeed indicator

 Ukazatel Uglov Ataki i Peregruzki – combined AOA and g indicator indicator

 Ookazaht' Oogla Tangazha – pitch angle indicator

 Ookazahtel' Vysoty i Perepahda Davleniya – cockpit altitude and pressure indicator

 Variometr - vertical speed indicator / variometer

 Vychslitel' Ballisticheskiy – ballistics computer

 - altimeter

 - two-needle altimeter

 - sonobuoy system

 - correction switch

 Vychislitel' Kriticheskikh rezheemov - dangerous flight modes computer

 Vremennoy Mekhanizm Shtoormovika – attack release timing mechanism

 - speed altitude auto-hold module

 - altimeter

 - altimeter

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