This article is devoted to an extensive class of military abbreviations, as well as the process of their formation. The impetus for the creation and widespread use of abbreviations was the reduction of wartime. A characteristic feature of military vocabulary is the extremely wide use of abbreviations, the variety of their types and the high rate of renewal. This phenomenon is due to the rapid improvement of military equipment and weapons, and the formation of the armed forces as one of the main social institutions led to the emergence of a huge number of new concepts, terms, nomenclature names.