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14. Specialised equipment for military training or for simulating military scenarios, specially designed components and accessories therefor.

Note 1 The term 'specialised equipment for milltary training' includes military types of attack trainers, operational flight trainers, radar target trainers, radar target generators, gunnery training devices, anti-submarine warfare trainers, flight simulators (including human-rated centrifuges for pilot/astronaut training), radar trainers, instrument flight trainers, navigation trainers, missile launch trainers, target equipment, drone "aircraft", armament trainers, pilotless "aircraft" trainers and mobile training units.
Note 2 This Item includes image generating and interactive environment systems for simulators when specially designed or modified for military use.

15. Imaging or countermeasure equipment, as follows, specially designed for military use, and specially designed components and accessories therefor:

Note This Item does not control "first generation image intensifier tubes."
  1. Recorders and image processing equipment;
  2. Cameras, photographic equipment and film processing equipment;
  3. Image intensifier equipment;
  4. Infrared or thermal imaging equipment;
  5. Imaging radar sensor equipment;
  6. Countermeasure or counter-countermeasure equipment for the equipment controlled by subitems a. to e.
(See also Category 6A.2.a.2. and 6A.2.b.)
Note 1 The term 'specially designed components' includes the following when specially designedfor military use:
  1. infrared image converter tubes;
  2. image intensifier tubes (other than first generation);
  3. Microchannel plates;
  4. Low-light-level television camera tubes;
  5. Detector arrays (including electronic interconnection or read out Systems);
  6. Pyroelectric television camera tubes;
  7. Cooling systems for imaging Systems;
  8. Electrically triggered shutters of the photochromic or electrooptical type having a shutter speed of less than 100 µs, excern shutters which are an essential part of a high speed camera;
  9. Fibre optic image inverters;
  10. Compound semiconductor photocathodes.
Note 2 Sub-item f includes equipment designed to degrade the operation or effectiveness of military imaging systems or to minimize such degrading effects.

16. Forgings, castings and other unfinished products the use of which in a controlled product is identifiable by material composition, geometry or function, and which are specially designed for any products controlled by Items 1,2,3,4,6,9, 10,23 or 26 on this List.

17. Miscellaneous equipment, materials and libraries, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:

  1. Self-contained diving and underwater swimming apparatus, as follows:
    1. Closed or semi-closed circuit (rebreathing) apparatus specially designed for military use (i.e. specially designed to be amagnetic);
    2. Specially designed components for use in the conversion of open-circuit apparatus to military use;
    3. Articles designed exclusively for military use with self-contained diving and underwater swimming apparatus;

  2. Construction equipment specially designed for military use;

  3. Fittings, coatings and treatments for signature suppression, specially designed for military use;

  4. Field engineer equipment specially designed for use in a combat zone;

  5. "Robots", "robot" controllers and "robot" "end-effectors", having any of the following characteristics:
    1. Specially designed for military use;
    2. Incorporating means of protecting hydraulic lines against externally induced punctures caused by ballistic fragments (e.g., incorporating self-sealing lines) and designed to use hydraulic fluids with flash points higher than 839 K (5660C);
    3. Specially designed or rated for operating in an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) environment;

  6. Libraries (parametric technical databases) specially designed for military use with equipment controlled by this List;

  7. Nuclear power generating equipment or propulsion equipment, including nuclear reactors, specially designed for military use and components therefor specially designed or modified for military use;

  8. Equipment or material coated or treated for signature suppression specially designed for military use, other than those controlled elsewhere in this list;

  9. Simulators specially designed for military "nuclear reactors";

  10. Mobile repair shops specially designed to service military equipment;

  11. Field generators specially designed for military use; and

  12. Containers specially designed for military use.

Technical Note
For the purpose of this Item, the term 'library' (parametric technical database) means a collection of technical information of a military nature, reference to which may enhance the performance of military equipment or systems.

18. Equipment and "technology" for the "production" of products refereed toin this List, as follows:

  1. Specially designed or modified "production" equipment for the "production" of products controlled by this List, and specially designed components therefor;

  2. Specially designed environmental test facilities and specially designed equipment therefor, for the certification, qualification or testing of products controlled by this List;

  3. Specific "production" "technology", even if the equipment with which such "technology" is to be used is not controlled;

  4. "Technology" specific to the design of, the assembly of components into, and the operation, maintenance and repair of complete "production" installations even if the components themselves are not controlled.
Note 1

Sub-items a. and b. include the following equipment:

a. Continuous nitrators;

b. Centrifugal testing apparatus or equipment having any of the following characteristics:

1. Driven by a motor or motors having a total rated horsepower of more than 298 kW (400 hp);

2. Capable of carrying a payload ofll3 kg or more; Qt

3. Capable of exerting a centnfti gal acceleration of 8 g or more on a payload of 91 kg or more;

c. Dehydration presses;

CL Screw extruders specially designed or modified for military explosive extrusion;

e. Cutting machines for the sizing of extruded propellants;

f Sweetie barrels (tumblers) 1.85 mand over in diameter and having over 227 kg product capacity;

g. Continuous mixers for solid propellants;

h. Fluid energy mills for grinding or milling the ingredients of military explosives;

L Equipment w achieve both sphericity and uniform particle size in metal powder listed in Note 1.~1 w Item 8;

J. Convection current converters for the conversion of materials listed in Note 1.a.6. to Item 8
Note 2

The term 'products referred to in this List' includes:


1. Products not controlled if inferior to specified concentrations as follows:
a. hydradne (see Note L&1& to item 8);
b. "Military high ~xp~5iv~5ff (see item 8);
2. Products not controlled if inferior to technical hmits, Le., "superconductive" materials not controlled by Category~ 1.C.S. on the industrial List; ~superconducn.ve electromagnets not controlled by Cate gory 3-A.1.e.3. on the Industrial List; "superconductive" electrical equipment excluded from control under Item 20 b.;
3. Metal fliels and oxidants deposited in laminar form from the vapour phase (see Note 1.£L2. to item 8);
b. The term 'products referred to in this List' does not include:
1. Signal pistols (see item 2.b.);
2. The substances excluded from control under Note 2 to Item 7;
3. Personal radiation monitoring dosimeters and niasks for protection against specific industrial hazards (see Note 4 to Item 7);
4. Acetylene, propane, liquid oxygen, difluoramine (HNF2), fi~ming nitric acid and potassium nitrate powder (see Note 7 to Item 8);
5. Aero-engines excluded from control under item 10;
6. Conventional steel helmets not equipped with, or modified or designed to accept, any type ofaccessory device (see Note 2 to Item 13);
7. Equipment fitted with industrial machinery, which is not controlled such as coating machinery not elsewhere specified and equipment for the casting of plastics;
8 Muskets, rifles and carbines dated earlier than 1938, reproductions of muskets, rifles and carbines dated earlier than 1890, revolvers, pistols and machine guns dated earlier than 1890, and their reproductions;
(Note 2.b.8. does not allow the export of "technology" or production equipment for non-antique small arms, even if used to produce reproductions ofantique small arms.)
Note 3 Sub-item CL does not include "technology" for civil purposes, such as agricultural, pharmaceutical, medical, veterinary, environmental, waste management, or in the food indusiry (see Note S to Item 7).

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