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CB 1 Circuit breaker.
2 Chlorobromo-type fire extinguishants.
3 Citizens’ band radio.
4 Centre of balance (or c.b., C–B).
5 Chemical/biological.
6 Centre/center barrel (major portion of fuselage).
7 Construction Battalion (USMC ‘Seabees’, USN).
8 Chaff block.
C B Lift proportionality constant for circulationcontrolled
wing.
Cb Cumulonimbus.
CBA Capabilities-based assessment.
CBAA Canadian Business Aircraft Association [office,
Mississauga, ON).
CBACS C-band airborne communications system.
CBASS Common broadband advanced sonar system
[‘sea bass’].
CBAST Computer-based advanced skills, or systems,
trainer.
CBC 1 Carbon/BMI composite.
2 Common booster core.
CBD 1 Central business district of city.
2 Chemical/biological defence.
CBDC Chemical and Biological Defence Centre
(Porton Down, UK).
CBDP Chemical and Biological Defense Program
(DoD).
CBDS Chemical and biological detection system.
CBE CAIS(2) bus emulator.
CBERS China/Brazil Earth-resources satellite
programme.
CBF Coalition Blue Force; SA adds situational awareness
(US).
CBG Carrier Battle Group (USN).
CBH Chemical/biological hardening.
CBI 1 Computer-based instruction.
2 Component burn-in.
3 Confederation of British Industries.
4 China/Burma/India (theatre WW2).
5 Chemical/biological incident; RF adds Response
Force (USMC).
CBIM Cloudbase information manager.
C-BIT Continuous built-in test.
C-bite Continuous built-in test equipment.
CBL 1 Control by light [registered name].
2 Conveyor-belt loader (cargo).
3 Crowd barrier line.
CBLS Carrier, bomb, light store.
CBM 1 Chlorobromomethane.
2 Confidence-building measure[s].
3 Chronological bus monitor[ing].
C b M, C b MAM Cumulonimbus mammatus.
CBMS Chemical and biological mass spectrometer.
CBN Cubic boron nitride.
CBO Congressional Budget Office (US).
CBOM Common bill of material.
CBP 1 Contact-burst preclusion.
2 Customs and Border Protection, merger of US
Customs Service and Border Patrol as part of DHS2
(2003–).
3 Code of Best Practice.
CBR 1 California Bearing Ratio; system for assessing
ability of soft (ie unpaved) surfaces to support aircraft
operations; contains terms for aircraft weight, tyre
CCB
characteristics, landing gear configuration and rutting
after given numbers of sorties.
2 Chemical, biological, radiological warfare.
3 Common bomb rack.
4 Center-barrel [3] replacement.
5 Cloud-base recorder.
CBRN Chemical, bioogical, radiological and nuclear; E
adds explosive.
CBS 1 Cavity-backed spiral.
2 Central Bulletin Service (NATS AIS).
CBSF Common baggage service facilities.
CBSIFTCB Common preflight cockpit check for glider:
controls, ballast, straps, instruments, flaps, trim, canopy,
brake [airbrakes].
CBSS Coarse-beam steering system.
CBT Computer-based training.
CBTE Carrier, (or conventional) bomb triple ejector.
CBU Cluster bomb unit.
CBW 1 Chemical and biological (or bacteriological)
warfare.
2 Combat Bombardment Wing (USAAF).
CBX Control, or copilot control, box (UAV).
C by C Correctness by instruction (ATC).
CC 1 Central or countermeasures, computer.
2 Critical crack.
3 Coastal Command (RAF).
4 Communications (UK role prefix).
5 Composite command (USAF).
6 Circulation controlled (wing or rotor).
7 Compass course.
8 Co-ordinating committee.
9 Counterclockwise.
10 C-check.
11 Cape Canaveral.
12 Component command (DoD).
C/C Carbon/carbon [also rendered as C-C].
C c 1 Equivalent centreline chord.
2 Cirrocumulus.
CC 3 Counter-C 3 .
CCA 1 Cooled cooling air.
2 Current cost accounting.
3 Carrier-controlled approach.
4 Continental Control Area (US + Alaska at 14,500+ ft
AMSL).
5 Close-combat attack [helos] (US).
6 Common-cause analysis.
CCAA Camara de Comercio de la Aeronautica y Afines
[Montevideo, Uruguay].
CCAFS Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
CCAM Centre of excellence for Composites and
Advanced Materials (NIAR).
CC&D 1 Camouflage, concealment and deception.
2 Common command and decision.
CCAOU Central Counties Air Operations Unit (UK).
CCAQ Consultative Committee on Administrative
Questions (ICAO).
CCAS Centralised crew-alerting system.
CCAT Carrier control approach trainer.
CCATE Common-core automatic test equipment.
CCB 1 Configuration-change, or -control, board (software).
2 Converter circuit-breaker, or [Boeing usage] control
breaker.
3 Common-core booster.
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