Aerospace Acronym and Abbreviation Guide
December 2010
Avionics proudly presents the fifth edition of our biennial Aerospace Acronym and Abbreviation Guide. Updated with the latest terms from the magazine’s pages, this comprehensive guide has grown to more than 3,000 civil and military acronyms.
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- UA unnumbered acknowledgment
- UA unmanned aircraft
- UART universal asynchronous receiver transmitter
- UAS unmanned aircraft system
- UASTB Unmanned Aircraft System Training Battalion (U.S. Army)
- UAT universal access transceiver
- UATP universal air travel plan
- UAV unmanned aerial vehicle
- UBI uplink block identifier
- UCAV unmanned combat aerial vehicle
- UCD universal cockpit display
- UCI user computer interface
- UD user data
- UDF unducted fan
- UDP user datagram protocol
- UGCS universal ground control station
- UGDT universal ground data terminal
- UGS unattended ground sensors
- UHF ultra-high frequency
- UI unnumbered information
- UIR upper information region
- UL uplink
- ULV ultra-low voltage
- ULWG upper layer working group
- UML unified modeling language
- UMS unmanned system
- UMTS universal mobile telecommunications system
- UP universal platform
- UPRM universal platform resource management
- UPS uninterruptible power supply
- URET user request evaluation tool
- URL universal resource locator
- USAACE United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence
- USAF U.S. Air Force
- USB universal serial bus
- USC United States code
- USCG U.S. Coast Guard
- USSOCOM United States Special Operations Command
- UTC universal time coordinated
- UTP unshielded twisted pair
- UV ultraviolet
- UUT unit under test
- UWB ultra wide-band