Military hrematonymics. Military equipment nicknames as special type of onyms
In the modern onomastics there is a set of onyms naming persons and objects. Onomasts have been actively dealing with the problem of a study of artifact names since the middle of the 20th century. However only since the beginning of the new millenniu, with an increase of influence of armed forces in the life of society, there has been a growth of interest in the study of namings of the military personnel and their surroundings, as research in the field will allow to understand better the language identity of representatives of law enforcement agencies. The present article is devoted to a problem of qualification of such onyms as informal namings of military equipment. The author singles out an original onomastic group - nicknames of military equipment, - and similarly to nicknames of people gives a structural-semantic classification of namings on the collected language material.