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Рассматриваются диахронические особенности военного сленга ВВС Канады. Проанализированы лексические единицы военного сленга. Произведена их тематическая классификация. Делается вывод о диахронических особенностях данной категории английского военного сленга и актуальности её изучения. The article considers the diachronic features of the military slang of the Royal Canadian Air Force. The lexical units of the said category are examined and analyzed. The authors classify them thematically. The period of use in everyday communication within the RCAF is given after each unit. It was shown that most of the given units have appeared during the WWII and Cold War periods; this could be explained by extralinguistic factors such as the RCAF development during the said periods and cooperation with the British Royal Air Force, and in the after-WWII period – with other NATO allies as well. Some of the slang words became obsolete due to, for example, progress in aviation technology. However, the number of units appeared during the WWI, Interbellum and after-Cold War periods is relatively small, because in the beginning of the 20th century the air force were a young and few-in-numbers branch of armed forces throughout the world. In the modern period, many aspects of military activity, traditions of service, etc. of the air forces are already formed, thus slowing the process of military slang development. However, with the progress of modern military aviation, new lexical units in the Canadian Air Force military slang will presumably continue to appear. It follows that a big part of the vocabulary listed in the article is still in use today, and thus is actual for the military interpreters to study nowadays.