MUNITIONS LIST
1.* Arms and automatic weapons with a calibre of 12.7 mm (calibre 0.50)
or less
and accessories, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:
- Rifles, carbines, revolvers, pistols, machine pistols and machine
guns, except:
- Muskets, rifles and carbines manufactured earlier than 1938;
- Reproductions of muskets, rifles and carbines the originals
of which were manufactured earlier than 1890;
- Revolvers, pistols and machine guns manufactured earlier than
1890, and their reproductions;
- Smooth-bore weapons specially designed for military use;
- Weapons using caseless ammunition;
- Silencers, special gun-mountings, clips and flash suppressers for
arms controlled by sub-items a., b. or c.
Technical Note
Smooth-bore weapons specially designed for military use as specified
in sub-item b. are those which:
- Are proof tested at pressures above 1,300 bars;
- Operate normally and safely at pressures above 1,000 bars; and
- Are capable of accepting ammunition above 76.2 mm in length
(e.g., commercial 12-gauge magnum shot gun shells).
The paramelers in this Technical Note are to be measured according
to the standards of the Commission Internationale Permanente.
Note 1 |
This Item does not control smooth-bore
weapons used for hunting or sporting purposes. These weapons must
not be specially designed for military use or of the fully automatic
firing type. |
Note 2 |
This Item does not control firearms
specially designed for dummy ammunition and which are incapable
of firing any controlled ammunition. |
Note3 |
This Item does not control weapons
using non-centre fire cased ammunition and which are not of the
fully automatic firing type. |
(* Italy does not agree to control the following
small arms with a calibre of 12.7 mm (calibre 0:50) or less in the Munitions
List: revolvers: non automatic pistols and rifles: sbot guns not specially
designed for military purposes.)
2. Armament or weapons with a calibre greater
than 12.7 mm (calibre 0.50), projectors and accessories, as follows,
and specially designed components therefor:
- Guns, howitzers, cannon, mortars, anti-tank weapons, projectile
launchers, military flame throwers, recoilless rifles and signature
reduction devices therefor;
Note: This sub-item includes injectors, metering devices,
storage tanks and other specially designed components for use with
liquid propelling charges for any of the equipment controlled by this
sub-item.
- Military smoke, gas and pyrotechnic projectors or generators. Note
This sub-item does not control signal pistols.
3. Ammunition, and specially designed components therefor, for
the weapons controlled by Items 192 or 26.
Note 1 - Specially designed components include:
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a. Metal or plastic fabrications such as primer anvils, bullet cups,
cartridge links1 rotating bands and munitions metal parts;
- Safing and arming devices5 juses1 sensors
and initiation devices;
- Power supplies with high one-time operational output;
- Combustible cases for charges;
- Submunitions including bomblets, minelets and terminally guided
projectiles;
Note 2 - This item does not control ammunition crimped
without a projectile (blank star) and dummy ammunition with a pierced
powder chamber.
4. Bombs, torpedoes, rockets, missiles and accessories, as follows,
specially designed for military use, and specially designed components
therefor:
- Bombs, torpedoes, grenades, smoke canisters, rockets, mines, missiles,
depth charges, demolition-charges, -devices and -kits, "military
pyrotechnics", cartridges and simulators (i.e. equipment simulating
the characteristics of any of these items);
Note - Sub-item a. includes:
- Smoke grenades. fire bombs, incendiary bombs
and explosive devices;
- Missile rocket nozzles and re-entry vehicle nosetips.
- Equipment specially designed for the handling, control, activation,
powering with one-time operational output, launching, laying, sweeping,
discharging, decoying, jamming, detonation or detection of items controlled
by sub-item a.
Note: Sub-item b. includes:
- Mobile gas liquefying equipment capable of producing 1,000 kg
or more per day of gas in Iiquid form;
- Buoyant electric conducting cable suitable for sweeping magnetic
mines.
5. Fire control, and related alerting and warning equipment, and
related systems and countermeasure equipment, as follows, specially
designed for military use, and specially designed components or accessories
therefor:
- Weapon sights, bombing computers, gun laying equipment and weapon
control systems;
- Target acquisition, designation, range-finding, surveillance or
tracking systems; detection, data fusion, recognition or identification
equipment; and sensor integration equipment;
- Countermeasure equipment for a. and b. above.
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