Overview[]
This page is devoted to terms used by the German military.
Terms[]
Below is a table of terms and their meanings.
| Full | Short | English
Equivalent |
Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bataillon | Btl | Battalion | |
| Befehl | Bef or Bf | Command | |
| Begleit | Bg | Support | |
| Beobachtung | Beob | Observation | |
| Bordkanone | BK | On-board cannon | Used for aircraft guns, but also tank guns. |
| Deutsches Modell | DM | German Model | |
| Fahrzeug | Fz | Vehicle | |
| Feuerleitpanzer Artillerie | FLtPzArt | Fire-control armoured artillery | |
| Flugabwehr | Fla | Anti-aircraft | |
| Flugabwehrraketenradwagen | FlaRakRad | Anti-Aircraft Rocket Vehicle | Used to denote a wheeled anti-aircraft missile system carrier. |
| Flugabwehrraketenträger | FlaRakTrg | Anti-Aircraft Rocket Vehicle | Used to denote an anti-aircraft missile system carrier. |
| Führung | Fü | Command | |
| Führung/Funk | FüFu | Command/Radio | |
| Gewehr | G | Rifle | Used alongside a number for most service rifles in the Bundeswehr. |
| Jagdpanzer | JPz | Tank destroyer | |
| Kampfpanzer | KPz | Main battle tank | |
| Kanone | K | Cannon | |
| Kanonenjagdpanzer | KJPz | Tank destroyer | Tank destroyer armed with a cannon. |
| lang | lg | Long | |
| Leopard | Leop | Leopard | Name for the KPz Leopard, officially shortened to KPz Leop. |
| Leichtgeschütz | LG | Recoilless Gun (literally Light Gun) | |
| Maschinengewehr | MG | Machine gun | |
| Maschinenkanone | MK | Autocannon | |
| mit | m | With | |
| Panzer | Pz | Tank | General term for armoured vehicles, but also used to dictate that a vehicle is tracked. |
| Panzerkanone | PzK | Tank cannon | |
| Rakete / Raketen | Rak | Rocket | Used for rockets, missiles, ATGMs, etc. |
| Raketenjadgpanzer | RakJPz | Tank destroyer | Tank destroyer armed with an anti-tank guided missile launcher. |
| Rheinmetall | Rh | Rheinmetall | |
| Schützenpanzer | SPz | Infantry fighting vehicle | |
| Träger | Trg | Carrier | Often used to denote weapons carriers, |
| Transportpanzer | TPz | Armoured personnel carrier | |
| Turm | T | Turret | |
| Typ | — | Type | |
| Radwagen | Rad | Wheeled vehicle | |
| Waffen | Wa | Weapon | |
| Waffenträger | WaTrg | Weapons carrier |