Preventer Void
Yeah, and later the retconned it so that Alex stands for Armored Layers EXperimental, or something like.
Yup, that little goodie is from the MG manuals, which also give us acronyms for U.N.T. Spacy (Under Normal Tactical SPecial Assortment Construction Yard) and CHOBHAM Armor (Ceramics Hybrid Outer-shelled Blowup Act-on Materials). The latter acronym strikes me as particularly superfluous, because Chobham Armor was developed in the 1960s by the British, and it was named after Chobham Common.
rolleyes