Arctic Gambit

GLOSSARY

ADCAP: Advanced Capability (a variant of the Mark 48 torpedo)

ADM: Admiral

ARDM: Auxiliary Repair Medium Dry Dock

ASAP: As Soon As Possible

ASW: Antisubmarine Warfare

BND: Bundesnachrichtendienst, Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service

BZ: Bravo Zulu, U.S. Navy shorthand for “Well Done”

CAPT: Captain

CDR: Commander

CIA: Central Intelligence Agency

CINC: Commander-in-Chief

CO: Commanding Officer

COB: Chief of the Boat

COMINT: Communications Intelligence

CPA: Closest Point of Approach

CSO: Chief Staff Officer (of a submarine squadron staff)

CTML: Conventional Twelve-Mile Limit (the edge of a nation’s territorial waters)

Datum: Last known location of a submarine

DCI: Director of Central Intelligence (Agency)

DEVRON: Submarine Development Squadron

DNI: Director of National Intelligence

EAB: Emergency Air Breathing system

EB: Electric Boat

EDT: Eastern Daylight Savings Time

ENS: Ensign

EPM: Emergency Propulsion Motor

ESM: Electronic Support Measures (detecting radar transmissions)

ETA: Estimated Time of Arrival

EU: European Union

Fortify: Code name for the plan to reinforce Europe

GRU: Russian Military Intelligence

HUD: Heads Up Display

HUMINT: Human Intelligence (spies)

JCS: Joint Chiefs of Staff

Ka-27M: Helix antisubmarine warfare helicopter

LCDR: Lieutenant Commander

LT: Lieutenant

LTJG: Lieutenant, junior grade

MAD: Magnetic Anomaly Detector

MGK-608M: Modernized Sever fixed acoustic array

NAE: Naval Acoustic Electromechanical (a type of acoustic countermeasure)

NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NSA: National Security Advisor (position)

or

NSA: National Security Administration (organization)

NSC: National Security Council

OOD: Officer of the Deck

Overcharge: Code name for the plan to destroy the Russian launch facility

PBXN-103: A powerful high explosive

PMK-2: Russian propelled-warhead mine (MPT-1UM torpedo)

RADM: Rear Admiral

RGB: Radiogidrakustichesky buoy, Russian designation for a sonobuoy

SCI: Sensitive Compartmented Information (a special type of classified information/data)

SCIF: Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility

SIGINT: Signals Intelligence

SSAN: Nuclear-powered auxiliary submarine

SSBN: Nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine

SSN: Nuclear-powered attack submarine

SSTG: Ship’s Service Turbine Generator

SUBFOR: Submarine Forces Commander

SUBRON: Submarine Squadron

SVR: Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki, Russian intelligence agency, successor to the Cold War KGB

Tensor: Code name for information related to the Russian Drakon weapon

UCC: UUV Control Center

UKSK: Universal’nyy Korabel’nyy Strel’bovoy Kompleks, Universal Shipboard Firing Complex UMGT-1: Russian 40cm electric torpedo

UUV: Unmanned Underwater Vehicle

VADM: Vice Admiral

XO: Executive Officer