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RAF
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raf Raf râf räf raf-
English
Pronunciation
en æf ɛf 1 3
Proper noun
en military aviation en Royal Air Force, the British RAF.
en Julian Borger Return of US nuclear weapons to UK would be an escalation, says Russia w:The Guardian 2023-09-05 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/05/return-of-us-nuclear-weapons-to-uk-would-be-an-escalation-says-russia 0261-3077 Andrew Roth The foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova was responding to a report last week about an item in the 2024 US air force budget for building a dormitory at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk for personnel on a “potential surety mission” – military jargon for nuclear safety and security. https://web.archive.org/web/20240430130858/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/05/return-of-us-nuclear-weapons-to-uk-would-be-an-escalation-says-russia
en military rare en w:Russian Armed Forces To avoid confusing with the preceding sense, the Russian Armed Forces are more often abbreviated in other ways, like RuAF.
en 1998 Issues & Studies This paper discusses ongoing military reforms in the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and tries to determine
en 2019-08-09 Yi Edward Yang Challenges to China's Economic Statecraft: A Global Perspective Rowman & Littlefield 9781498583459 26 Russia's military intervention in the former Soviet states of Ukraine and Crimea and the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) display of military might
en 2023-03-01 David Kuehn; Aurel Croissant Routes to Reform: Civil-Military Relations and Democracy in the Third Wave Oxford University Press 9780192525024 123 While the military was pulled into power conflicts between Gorbachev and his opponents inside the communist nomenclature in 1991, and between Yeltsin and the Duma in 1993, the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) did not develop an organizational
The German Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction).
en motorsport en Russian Automobile Federation.
The national identifier for Russians in international motorsport while Russia is under ban by the ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sport supporting the ban enacted by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
en ROC RPC RHF
Derived terms
UK en RAFA
Related terms
UK en RFC, en RNAS, en FAA
UK en RAAF, en RCAF, en RNZAF
See also
Germany Red Army Faction
Anagrams
en afr 'arf AFR AFr. ARF Afr. FAR FRA Fra RFA arf far fra
en Organizations United Kingdom
French
Alternative forms
fr R.A.F.
Etymology
fr rien à foutre.
Pronunciation
èr_a-èf 1
Phrase
fr vulgar I don't give a fuck!
German
de:
Etymology 1
Noun
de noun m
de historical Nazi de Reichsarbeitsführer
See also
de RAD (= de Reichsarbeitsdienst)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
de /ˌɛʁ.aˈɛf/ /ʁaf/ acronym
de De-RAF.ogg
de De-raff.ogg acronym
de raff acronym
Members and supporters have almost invariably used the acronym pronunciation. Otherwise it is less frequent, but still common.
Proper noun
f.article
de historical de Rote Armee Fraktion Red Army Faction, German far-left terrorist organisation active 1970–1998
de Kersten Augustin Razzien bei der Letzten Generation: Immer noch krasser Die Tageszeitung: taz 2022-12-18 https://taz.de/!5900384/ 0931-9085 Vielleicht ist diese avantgardistische Vorstellung, dass eine Gruppe wild Entschlossener nur überzeugt genug vorangehen muss, damit viele folgen, die einzige ernstzunehmende Parallele zur RAF. https://web.archive.org/web/20261022131212/https://taz.de/Razzien-bei-der-Letzten-Generation/!5900384/ 22 October 2026