- 1MC—U.S. Navy shipboard internal communications system
- ALQ-293—SPEAR electronic combat system
- Angara-A5—Russian medium-lift rocket
- AN/SPY-1—phased-array radar system aboard guided missile vessels
- BDU-33—practice bombs
- Chenaya Osa—Black Wasp, a Russian anti-satellite weapon
- CIC—Combat Information Center
- CID—Cybernetic Infantry Device, a manned combat robot
- Chang’e-10, -11, -12, and -13—manned lunar lander spacecraft built by the People’s Republic of China, similar in basis design
to the Apollo Lunar Module
- CLAD—Cybernetic Lunar Activity Device, a variation of a CID used for construction work on the moon
- COMS—Cybernetic Orbital Maneuvering Systems, a variation of a CID made for orbital construction work
- DF-26—Dong Feng-26, a Chinese long-range anti-ship missile
- DTF—Digital Terrain Following, a system for flying at very low altitudes and high airspeed without using radar
- Eagle Station—a captured Russian military space station in Earth orbit
- EEAS—Electronic Elastomeric Activity Suit, a space suit that uses compressible fabric instead of oxygen for pressurization
- Energia-5VR—a Russian heavy rocket
- EVA—Extra Vehicular Activity, a space walk
- FONOP—Freedom of Navigation Operation
- Harbin Z-20—PRC medium-lift helicopter
- HJ-12—Hóng Jiàn-12, modern, man-portable Chinese anti-tank guided missile
- HUD—Head-Up Display
- ICBM—Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
- IFF—Identification Friend or Foe, coded aircraft identification sysem
- IRBM—Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
- JY-9—a Chinese missile guidance radar
- Ka-52 Alligator—Russian helicopter gunship
- KC-767—an American aerial refueling aircraft
- KLVM—Kiberneticheskaya Lunnaya Voyennaya Mashina, Cybernetic Lunar War Machine, a manned Russian combat robot
- LEAF—Life Enhancing Assistive Facility, a wearable life-support system
- lidar—an imaging system using lasers
- LM—Lunar Module
- Long March-8, -9—Chinese heavy rockets
- LPDRS—Laser Pulse Detonation Rocket System, a hybrid turbojet-scramjet-rocket propulsion engine
- Mă Luó—a large automated cargo lander spacecraft built by the People’s Republic of China, a derivative of Blue Origin’s Blue
Moon cargo lander
- Mars One—a Russian combat space station
- MFD—multifunction display
- Mi-8MTV-5—Russian medium transport helicopter
- MiG-31—Russian supersonic jet fighter
- MQ-55 Coyote—combat unmanned aircraft
- MQ-77 Ghost Wolf—advanced combat unmanned aircraft
- Okno—Russian space surveillance system
- Oort Cloud—a shell of trillions of ice comets surrounding the solar system
- PRC—People’s Republic of China
- Queqiao—Magpie Bridge, Chinese communications sattelite
- regolith—loose soil or debris covering bedrock
- Roscosmos—Russian space agency
- RTG—radioisotope thermoelectric generator, a small nuclear power generator
- S-29 Shadow—American single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane
- SAM—surface-to-air missile
- SBIRS—Space Based Infrared Surveillance, American missile launch detection satellite system
- SH-60 Sea Hawk—American carrier-based helicopter
- Shenyang J-15—advanced Chinese jet fighter
- SM-2—American naval antiaircraft missile system
- SPEAR—Self-Protection Electronic Agile Reaction, American advanced electronic warfare system
- taikonaut—Chinese astronaut
- toroids—a circular object with a hole in the center
- Type 052C—Chinese guided missile destroyer
- Type 366—Chinese surveillance radar
- UAV—unmanned aerial vehicle, a drone
- XCV-62 Ranger, XCV-70 Rustler—American stealthy short takeoff/vertical landing tactical transport aircraft
- Xeus lander—a prototype lunar lander designed conceived by Masten Space Systems and the United Launch Alliance. Subsequently
purchased and modified by Sky Masters Aerospace Inc.
- YJ-62—Chinese anti-ship cruise missile