U.S. Military Abbreviations & Acronyms: Z

The military and government are famous for using - or overusing - abbreviations and acronyms for designating equipment, programs, and agencies. These eight pages are chock full of nearly every commonly used abbreviations and acronyms used by the U.S. military (at least up through around the year 2000).

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Z: Zulu Time (Greenwich Mean Time)

ZBB: Zero-Based Budget

ZF: Zone of Fire

ZG: Zero Gravity

ZI: Zone of the Interior

ZICON: (1) Zone of the Interior Consumers‚Äô Network; (2) Zone of Interior Communication Network

ZOS: Zone of Separation

ZPU: Soviet (FSU) Antiaircraft Machinegun

ZSU: Soviet (FSU) Self-Propelled Antiaircraft Gun

ZU: Soviet (FSU) Towed Antiaircraft Gun

Zulu: Greenwich Mean Time

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