This study is devoted to the study of ways to translate military abbreviations from English into Russian. The object of the study is the features of military vocabulary on the example of the field manual of the American army, and the subject is the methods of translating specific military vocabulary from English into Russian. In this paper, translation techniques were considered and the frequency of their use in the translation of abbreviations for the field manual of the American Army was revealed. The article identifies difficulties that can be encountered when translating English military abbreviations. Also the author provides quantitative data on the use of different methods of translating abbreviations, obtained by translation analysis of the charter of the US Army.