Talk:Archives/@comment-34838867-20180301051000/@comment-30076690-20180302153357

Well, GAU is an actual acronym - the GAU-8 avenger is a very real gatling gun. And some of them I believe did have other meanings explained... It may have been the AT spiral (AT=Anti-tank), etc. But mostly the prefixes were there just to look cool, they weren't given official meanings.