What are we talking about?
Through out this website and online, you mite hear or see words that you don't know the meaning of. So we here at the GKA thought that we might help you out.
Acronyms
IFV - Infantry Fighting vehicle e.g. LAV - 25, BMP - 2M or BTR - 90
USMC - United States Marine Corps, this is one of the playable factions in Battlefield 3.
RGF's - Russian Ground Force's, the other playable faction in Battlefield 3
AA - Anti air e.g. AA missiles or AA Gun
AT - Anti Tank
AR - Assault Rifle
LMG - Light Manichean Gun e.g. M249 SAW, M27 IAR
GPMG - General Purpose Manichean Gun e.g. M240, M60E4
SAW - Squad Automatic weapon, another name for the M249
IAR - Infantry Automatic Rifle.
DMR - Designated Marksmen Rifle, a mid range sniper rifle used by a designated Marksmen e.g. SVD, Mk 11 Mod o
Mk - Mark, a version of a weapon.
RDS - red dot sight e.g. Kobra RDS
GL - Grenada Launcher.
Short hand
Heli - Helicopter
Armor - any vehicle that is armored e.g. tank's, IFV's and armored Jeeps.
Armored Jeeps - M1114 HMMWV or GAZ - 3937 VODNIK
Cap - Capture
Flag - another name for a Objective in Conquest.
Mini Gun - the guns mounted on the Transport heli's.
Other
Dead Sever - this is when people leave a server and it empties, this is not a good thing as means you need to find another server your self.
Mag - magazine, no not the reading kind the kind that holds cartridges.
SOFLAM - This is a laser designator used by the recon class, it allows Guided shells and javelins, to lock on to targets at greater rang as well as air targets.
Javelin - a Guided AT launcher used by the Engineer.
Acronyms
IFV - Infantry Fighting vehicle e.g. LAV - 25, BMP - 2M or BTR - 90
USMC - United States Marine Corps, this is one of the playable factions in Battlefield 3.
RGF's - Russian Ground Force's, the other playable faction in Battlefield 3
AA - Anti air e.g. AA missiles or AA Gun
AT - Anti Tank
AR - Assault Rifle
LMG - Light Manichean Gun e.g. M249 SAW, M27 IAR
GPMG - General Purpose Manichean Gun e.g. M240, M60E4
SAW - Squad Automatic weapon, another name for the M249
IAR - Infantry Automatic Rifle.
DMR - Designated Marksmen Rifle, a mid range sniper rifle used by a designated Marksmen e.g. SVD, Mk 11 Mod o
Mk - Mark, a version of a weapon.
RDS - red dot sight e.g. Kobra RDS
GL - Grenada Launcher.
Short hand
Heli - Helicopter
Armor - any vehicle that is armored e.g. tank's, IFV's and armored Jeeps.
Armored Jeeps - M1114 HMMWV or GAZ - 3937 VODNIK
Cap - Capture
Flag - another name for a Objective in Conquest.
Mini Gun - the guns mounted on the Transport heli's.
Other
Dead Sever - this is when people leave a server and it empties, this is not a good thing as means you need to find another server your self.
Mag - magazine, no not the reading kind the kind that holds cartridges.
SOFLAM - This is a laser designator used by the recon class, it allows Guided shells and javelins, to lock on to targets at greater rang as well as air targets.
Javelin - a Guided AT launcher used by the Engineer.