- Royal Air Force, RAF - the airforce of Great Britain
--1 is a kind of air force, airforce
- Red Army Faction, RAF - a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998
--2 is a kind of terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO