ABRegt (airborne regiment)

ABRegt is a NATO military abbreviation that stands for airborne regiment. It is recorded in NATO's Glossary of NATO Acronyms and Abbreviations (AAP-15, 2013 edition), which lists the entry as "ABRegt, airborne regiment" and gives the French equivalent as "régiment aéroporté".

The term describes a regiment whose military role is airborne. It is a short form used in NATO terminology materials, so it is the form a reader should expect in NATO-aligned military documents. This page explains where the abbreviation comes from, how it is built, and how a supplier should read it when it turns up in documentation.

What the NATO AAP-15 glossary records for ABRegt

AAP-15 is a bilingual NATO glossary that sets out abbreviations in English and French. In that glossary, ABRegt is filed as a military abbreviation, and its expansion is airborne regiment. The glossary entry is the authoritative basis for the meaning given on this page.

The glossary entry gives the expansion and its French equivalent. It does not go further to set out doctrine, force structure or the equipment and support a regiment of this kind would use. A reader who needs that detail must take it from the document in front of them rather than from the abbreviation itself.

How the abbreviation is built

ABRegt is a compound of two shortened words. Each part carries one piece of the meaning:

• AB stands for airborne, the word that describes the regiment's role.
• Regt stands for regiment, the type of unit.

Read together, the two parts give "airborne regiment". Note the capitalization: the NATO glossary writes the term as ABRegt, with capitals for AB and R and lower case for the rest. Matching that form helps when searching documents or writing text that refers to the term.

The French equivalent and bilingual documents

NATO lists the French equivalent of ABRegt as régiment aéroporté. Canadian bid teams routinely handle English and French documents, and the pairing lets them match an English abbreviation to its French expansion. When a French-language document spells out régiment aéroporté, the English counterpart in NATO terminology is airborne regiment, abbreviated ABRegt.

NATOTerm as the reference for NATO military terminology

NATO publishes its terminology through NATOTerm, the official NATO terminology database. NATOTerm contains non-classified military terminology. It is maintained by the NATO Terminology Office, which is part of the NATO Standardization Office.

Anyone who needs to check how NATO uses a military term can start there. For ABRegt, the abbreviation and its expansion are confirmed by the AAP-15 glossary described above.

What ABRegt means for a supplier bidding on Canadian public contracts

When a supplier meets ABRegt in a document, the reading is airborne regiment. If a solicitation or its attachments define the term differently or add detail, the document's own wording governs for that bid, so read the definitions section and any statement of work closely.

Opportunities are published on CanadaBuys, the Government of Canada's online service for procurement and contracting information. Suppliers can browse current tender opportunities and review the procurement and contracting data published there. Where a notice uses an unfamiliar abbreviation, ask the contracting authority to clarify it through the question process set out in the solicitation.