The article presents a comparative study of word-formation models of English military abbreviations and strategies for their equivalent rendering into Russian and Uzbek. The relevance of the study is determined by the high degree of linguistic compression characteristic of contemporary military terminology and by the continuous expansion of professional vocabulary through abbreviated units used in regulatory documents, operational communication, military-technical documentation, and digital command-and-control systems. The study aims to identify the most productive structural and word-formation models of English military abbreviations and to determine the factors that influence the choice of translation strategy in Russian and Uzbek. The material is examined through structural-word-formation, comparative, and translation-oriented methods. Initialisms, acronyms, clippings and complex abbreviated formations, as well as alphanumeric models, are analyzed. The results demonstrate that equivalent rendering cannot be reduced to the mechanical reproduction of an abbreviation's graphic form. The translator must consider the semantic content, terminological conventionalization, context, communicative function, and norms of the target language. The most reliable strategies are the use of an established equivalent, calquing, transliteration, descriptive translation, and, where terminological grounds exist, the creation of a national abbreviation. The findings may be used in military translator training, the compilation of bilingual and trilingual military dictionaries, and the standardization of military terminology.

abbreviation, word formation, military terminology, English, Russian, Uzbek, translation, equivalence, terminology, military discourse.

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