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20. Cryogenic and "superconductive" equipment, as follows, and specially designed components and accessories therefor:

  1. Equipment specially designed or configured to be installed in a vehicle for military ground, marine, airborne or space applications capable of operating while in motion and of producing or maintaining temperatures below 103 K (- 1700C);

  2. Note Sub-item a. includes mobile systems incorporating or employing accessories or components manufactured from non-metallic or non-electrical conductive materials, such as plastics or epoxy-impregnated materials.

  3. "Superconductive" electrical equipment (rotating machinery and transformers) specially designed or configured to be installed in a vehicle for military ground, marine, airborne or space applications, capable of operating while in motion.
    Note Sub-item b. does not control direct-current hybrid homopolar generators that have single-pole normal metal armatures which rotate in a magnetic field produced by superconducting windings, provided those windings are the only superconducting component in the generator.

23. Directed energy weapon systems (DEW), related or countermeasure equipment and test models, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:

  1. "Laser" systems specially designed for destruction or effecting mission-abort of a target;

  2. Particle beam systems capable of destruction or effecting mission-abort of a target;

  3. High power radio-frequency (RF) systems capable of destruction or effecting mission-abort of a target;

  4. Equipment specially designed for the detection or identification of, or defence against, systems controlled by a., b. or c.;

  5. Physical test models and related test results for the systems, equipment and components controlled by this Item.

Note 1 Directed energy weapon systems controlled by this Item include systems whose capability is derived from the controlled application of:
  1. "Lasers" of sufficient continuous wave or pulsed power 10 effect destruction similar to the manner of conventional ammunition;
  2. Particle accelerators which project a charged or neutral particle beam with destructive power;
  3. High pulsed power or high average power radio frequency beam transmitters which produce fields sufficiently intense to disable electronic circuitry at a distant target.

Note 2 This Item includes the following when specially designed for directed energy weapon systems:
  1. Prime power generation, energy storage, switching, power conditioning or fuel-handling equipment;
  2. Target acquisition or tracking systems;
  3. Systems capable of assessing target damage, destruction or mission-abort;
  4. Beam-handling, propagation or pointing equipment;
  5. Equipment with rapid beam slew capability for rapid multiple target operations;
  6. Adaptive optics and phase conjugators;
  7. Current injectors for negative hydrogen ion beams;
  8. "Space qualified" accelerator components;
  9. Negative ion beam funnelling equipment;
  10. Equipment for controlling and slewing a high energy ion beam;
  11. "Space qualified" foils for neutralising negative hydrogen isotope beams.

 

24. "Software", as follows:

  1. "Software" specially designed or modified for the "development". "production" or "use" of equipment or materials controlled by this List;

  2. Specific "software", as follows:
    1. "Software" specially designed for:
      1. Modelling, simulation or evaluation of military weapon systems;
      2. Development. monitoring, maintenance or up-dating of "software" embedded in military weapon Systems;
      3. Modelling or simulating military operation scenarios, not controlled by Item 14;
      4. Command, Communications, Cpntrol and Intelligence (C3I) applications;
    2. "Software" for determining the effects of conventional, nuclear, chemical or biological warfare weapons.

25. "Technology" according to the General Technology Note - Munitions List for the "development", "production" or "use" of items controlled in this List, other than that "technology" controlled in ML Items 7 and 18.

26. High velocity kinetic energy weapon systems and related equipment, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:

  1. Kinetic energy weapon systems specially designed for destruction or effecting mission-abort of a target;
  2. Specially designed test and evaluation facilities and test models, including diagnostic instrumentation and targets, for dynamic testing of kinetic energy projectiles and systems;

    (For weapon systems using sub-calibre ammunition or employing solely chemical propulsion, and ammunition therefor, see Items 1, 2, 3 and 4).

Note 1 This Item includes the following when specially designed for kinetic energy weapon systems:
  1. Launch propulsion systems capable of accelerating masses larger than 0.1 g to velocities in excess of 1.6 km/s, in single or rapid fire modes;
  2. Prime power generation, electric armour, energy storage, thermal management, conditioning, switching or fuel-handling equipment; and electrical interfaces between power supply, gun and other turret electric drive functions;
  3. Target acquisition, tracking. fire control or damage assessment systems;
  4. Homing seeker, guidance or divert propulsion (lateral acceleration) systems for projectiles.

Note2

This Item controls weapon systems using any of the following methods of propulsion:

  1. Electromagnetic;
  2. Electrothermal;
  3. Plasma;
  4. Light gas; or
  5. Chemical (when used in combination with any of the above).

Note 3 This Item does not control "technology" for magnetic induction for continuous propulsion of civil transport devices.

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