CATEGORY X-PROTECTIVE PERSONNEL EQUIPMENT (a) Military body armor (including armored vests), flak suits and components and parts specifically designed therefor; military helmets, including liners. (b) Partial pressure suits, pressurized breathing equipment, military oxygen masks, anti-"G" suits, protective clothing for handling guided missile fuel, military crash helmets, liquid oxygen converters used for aircraft (enumerated in Category VIII(a)), missiles, catapults, and cartridge-actuated devices utilized in emergency escape of personnel from aircraft (enumerated in Category VIII (a)). (c) Protective apparel and equipment specifically designed for use with the articles in paragraphs (a) through (d) in Category XIV. (d) Components, parts, accessories, attachments, and associated equipment specifically designed for use with the articles in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this category. CATEGORY XI-MILITARY AND SPACE (a) Electronic equipment assigned a milltary designation including, but not limited to, the following items: Radar, active and passive countermeasures, counter countermeasures, underwater sound, computers, navigation, guidance, electronic fuzes, object-locating methods and means, displays that represent signals of military use, identification systems, missile and antimissile systems, telemetering and communications electronic equipment; and regardless of designation, any experimental or developmental electronic equipment specifically designed or modified for military application, or for use with a military system. (b) Electronic equipment specifically designed or modified for spacecraft and spaceflight. (c) Electronic systems or equipment designed, configured, used, or intended for use in search, reconnaissance, collection, monitoring, direction-finding, display, analysis, and production of information from the electromagnetic spectrum for intelligence or security purposes. (d) Components, parts, accessories, attachments, and associated equipment specifically designed for use or currently used with the equipment in paragraphs (a) through (c) of this category, except such items as are in normal commercial use. CATEGORY XII-FIRE CONTROL, RANGE FINDER, OPTICAL AND GUIDANCE AND CONTROL EQUIPMENT (a) Fire control systems; gun and missile tracking and guidance systems; military infrared, image intensifier and other night sighting and night viewing equipment; military masers and military lasers; gun laying equipment; range, position and height finders and spotting instruments; aiming devices (electronic, gyroscopic, optic, and acoustic); bomb sights, bombing computers, military television sighting and viewing units, inertial platforms, and periscopes for the articles of this section. (b) Inertial and other weapons or space vehicle guidance and control systems; spacecraft guidance, control and stabilization systems; astro compasses; and star trackers. (c) Components, parts, accessories, attachments, and associated equipment specifically designed or modified for the articles in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this category, except such items as are in normal commercial use. CATEGORY XIII-AUXILIARY MILITARY (a) Aerial cameras, space cameras, special purpose military cameras, and specialized processing equipment therefor; military photointerpretation, stereoscopic plotting, and photogrammetry equipment, and specifically designed components therefor. (b) Speech scramblers, privacy devices, cryptographic devices (encoding and decoding), and specifically designed components therefor, ancillary equipment, and especially devised protective apparatus for such devices, components, and equipment. (c) Self-contained diving and underwater breathing apparatus designed for a military purpose and specifically designed components therefor. * (b) Biological agents adapted for use in war to produce death or disablement in human beings or animals, or to damage crops and plants. (c) Equipment for dissemination, detection, and identification of, and defense against the articles in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Category (see § 123.31). (d) Nuclear radiation detection and measuring devices, except such devices as are in normal commercial use. (e) Components, parts, accessories, attachments, and associated equipment specifically designed or modified for the articles in paragraphs (c) and (d) of this category. CATEGORY XV—[RESERVED] CATEGORY XVI-NUCLEAR WEAPONS DESIGN AND TEST EQUIPMENT 3 (a) Any article, material, equipment, or device, which is specifically designed or specifically modified for use in the design, development, or fabrication of nuclear weapons or nuclear explosive devices. (b) Any article, material, equipment, or device, which is specifically designed or specifically modified for use in the devising, carrying out, nuclear evaluating of weapons tests or any other nuclear explosions except such items as are in normal commercial use for other purposes. or (c) Cold cathode tubes such as krytrons and sprytrons. CATEGORY XVII-CLASSIFIED ARTICLES All articles including technical data relating thereto, not enumerated herein, containing information which is classified as requiring protection in the interests of national defense. CATEGORY XVIII-TECHNICAL DATA Technical data relating to the articles designated in this subchapter as arms, ammunition, and implements of war (see § 125.01 for definition and § 125.11 for exemptions; see also § 123.38). CATEGORY XIX-[RESERVED] CATEGORY XX-SUBMERSIBLE VESSELS, OCEANOGRAPHIC AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT 4 (a) Submersible vessels, manned and unmanned, designed for military purposes or 3 See § 123.38. See also Department of Commerce Export Regulations, 15 CFR 373.7. having independent capability to maneuver vertically or horizontally at depths below 1,000 feet or powered by nuclear propulsion plants. (b) Submersible vessels, manned or unmanned, designed in whole or in part from technology developed by or for the U.S. Armed Forces. (c) Any of the articles in Categories VI, IX, XI, XIII, and elsewhere in § 121.01 of this subchapter that may be used with submersible vessels. (d) Equipment, components, parts, accessories, and attachments designed specifically for any of the articles in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this category.5 CATEGORY XXI—[RESERVED] CATEGORY XXII-MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES Any article and technical data relating thereto not enumerated herein having significant military applicability, determined by the Director, Office of Munitions Control, Department of State, in consultation with appropriate agencies of the Government and having the concurrence of the Department of Defense. Any submersible vessels, oceanographic or associated equipment assigned a military designation shall constitute an article on the U.S. Munitions List, whether expressly enumerated therein. Items, including technical data relating thereto, for submarine nuclear propulsion plants which upon review are determined to have significant naval nuclear propulsion applicability will be considered as naval nuclear propulsion items for the purposes of these regulations and processed in accordance with Category VI (e) and the footnote thereto. 60-363 O 75 19 1. 2. 3. MC NOTES * -An asterisk preceding any paragraphs under any of the Munitions List Categories refers to the footnotes to sections 123.10 and 124.10 of this subchapter regarding third-country assurances for significant combat equipment. In Category XI (c): Communications intelligence means technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipient. Electronic intelligence means the intelligence information product of activities engaged in the collection and processing, for subsequent intelligence purposes, of foreign, non-communications, electro-magnetic radiations emanating from other than nuclear detonations and radioactive sources. Security means communications security · the protection resulting from all measures designed to deny unauthorized persons information of value which might be derived from the possession and study of telecommunications, or to mislead unauthorized persons in their interpretations of the results of such possession and study. Communications security includes (a) cryptosecurity, (b) transmission security, (c) emission security, and (d) physical security of communications security materials and information. Persons who need interpretations or clarifications which are not sufficiently covered in sections 121.01 through 121.21 should consult the Office of Munitions Control. Similarly, persons who need to know whether specific articles are covered by the Munitions List should send suitable descriptive information to the Office of Munitions Control to obtain commodity jurisdiction decisions. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS § 121.02 Equipment. The term "equipment" as used in this subchapter, unless it appears otherwise in the context, means any article (see footnote 1, § 121.01) not including technical data. The terms "equipment" and "article" include (a) experimental equipment being developed for military use, and (b) models and mockups (with or without moving parts) if they reveal any information relating to the use, operation, maintenance, repair, overhaul, production, processing, manufacture, research, development, or design of any arms, ammunition, and implements of war on the U.S. Munitions List. Rifles, carbines, revolvers, and pistols, to caliber .50 inclusive, and shotguns with barrels less than 18 inches in length, are included under Category I(a). Machineguns, submachineguns, machine pistols, and fully automatic rifles to caliber .50 inclusive are included under Category I(b). (a) As used in this subchapter, the term "firearm" denotes a weapon not over .50 caliber which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive. (BB and pellet guns are not included on the Munitions List.) (b) A "rifle" is a shoulder firearm discharging bullets through a rifled barrel at least 16 inches in length, including combination and drilling guns. (c) A "carbine" is a lightweight shoulder firearm with a short barrel, under 16 inches in length. (d) A "pistol" is a hand-operated firearm having a chamber integral with, or permanently aligned with, the bore. (e) A "revolver" is a hand-operated firearm with a revolving cylinder containing chambers for individual cartridges. (f) A "machinegun," "machine pistol" or "submachinegun" is a firearm originally designed to fire, or capable of being fired fully automatically by a single pull of the trigger. § 121.04 Cartridge and shell casings. Cartridge and shell casings are included under Category III of the U.S. Munitions List unless, prior to their exportation, they have been rendered useless beyond the possibility of restoration for use for the purpose originally produced by means of excessive, heating, flame treatment, mangling, crushing, cutting, or popping. (Shotgun ammunition is not included in the Munitions List.) § 121.05 Military demolition blocks and blasting caps. The term "military demolition blocks and blasting caps" does not include the following articles: (a) Electric squibs. (b) No. 6 and No. 8 blasting caps, including electric. (c) Delay electric blasting caps (including No. 6 and No. 8 millisecond). (d) Seismograph electric blasting caps (including SSS, Static-Master, Vibrocap SR, and SEISMO SR). (e) Oil well perforating devices. § 121.06 Apparatus and devices under Category IV (b). Category IV (b) includes inter alia the following: Fuzes and components thereof, bomb racks and shackles, bomb shackle release units, bomb ejectors, torpedo tubes, torpedo and guided missile boosters, guidance system materials (except those having a commercial application), launching racks and projectors, pistols (exploders), igniters fuze arming devices, intervalometers, and components therefor, guided missile launchers and specialized handling equipment and hardened missile launching facilities. § 121.07 Amphibious vehicles. As used in Category VII (f), the term "amphibious vehicles" includes, but is not limited to, automotive vehicles or chassis embodying all-wheel drive and equipped to meet special military requirements, with adaptation features for deep water fording and sealed electrical systems. The term "propellants" includes but is not limited to the following: (a) Propellant powders, including smokeless shotgun powder (see § 123.37). (b) Hydrazine (including Monomethyl hydrazine and symmetrical dimethyl hydrazine but excluding hydrazine hydrate). (c) Unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine. (d) Hydrogen peroxide over 85 percent concentration. (e) Nitroguanadine or picrite. (f) Nitrocellulose with nitrogen content of over 12.20 percent. (g) Nitrogen tetroxide. (h) Other solid propellant compositions, including but not limited to the following: (1) Single base (nitrocellulose). (2) Double base (nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin). (3) Triple base (nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin, nitroguanidine). (4) Composite of nitroglycerin, ammonium perchlorate, potassium perchlorate, nitronium perchlorate, guanidine (guanidinium) perchlorate, nitrogen tetroxide, ammonium nitrate or nitrocellulose with plastics, metal fuels, or rubbers added; and compounds composed only of fluorine and one or more of the following: Other halogens, oxygen, or nitrogen. (5) Special purpose chemical base high energy solid military fuels. (i) Other liquid propellant compositions, including but not limited to the following: (1) Monopropellants (hydrazine, hydrazine nitrate, and water). (2) Bipropellants (hydrazine, fuming nitric acid HNO3)). (j) Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (penthrite, pentrite or PETN). (k) Tetranitronaphthalene. (m) Trinitronaphthalene. (n) Trinitrophenol (picric acid). (0) Trinitrophenylmethylnitr a mine (Tetryl). (p) Trinitrotoluene (TNT). (r) Ammonium perchlorate nitrocellulose (military grade). (s) Any combinations of the above. § 121.11 Military fuel thickeners. The term "military fuel thickeners" includes: compounds (e.g., octal), or mixtures of such compounds (e.g., napalm) specifically formulated for the purpose of producing materials which, when added to petroleum products, provide a gel-type incendiary material for use in bombs, projectiles, flame throwers, or other implements of war. § 121.12 Vessels of war and special naval equipment. (See Category VI.) The term "vessels of war" includes, but is not limited to, the following: (a) Combatant: |