12Category VII—Ground Vehicles

12  Category VII—Ground Vehicles

 (a) Armoured combat ground vehicles as follows:

 (1) tanks;

 (2) infantry fighting vehicles.

 (b) Ground vehicles (not enumerated in paragraph (a)) and trailers that are armed or are specially designed to be used as a firing or launch platform to deliver munitions or otherwise destroy or incapacitate targets (for example, firing lasers, launching rockets, firing missiles, firing mortars, firing artillery rounds, or firing other ammunition greater than .50 calibre) (MT if specially designed for rockets, space launch vehicles, missiles, drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles capable of delivering a payload of at least 500 kg to a range of at least 300 km).

Note: “Payload” is the total mass that can be carried or delivered by the specified rocket, space launch vehicle, missile, drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle that is not used to maintain flight. For definition of “range” as it pertains to aircraft systems, see note 2 to paragraph (a) of Category VIII. For definition of “range” as it pertains to rocket systems, see note to paragraph (f)(6) of Category VI.

 (c) Ground vehicles and trailers equipped with any mission systems controlled under this list (MT if specially designed for rockets, space launch vehicles, missiles, drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles capable of delivering a payload of at least 500 kg to a range of at least 300 km).

Note 1: “Mission systems” are defined as “systems” that are defence articles that perform specific military functions, such as by providing military communication, target designation, surveillance, target detection, or sensor capabilities.

Note 2: “Payload” is the total mass that can be carried or delivered by the specified rocket, space launch vehicle, missile, drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle that is not used to maintain flight. For definition of “range” as it pertains to aircraft systems, see note 2 to paragraph (a) of Category VIII. For definition of “range” as it pertains to rocket systems, see note to paragraph (f)(6) of Category VI.

 (e) Armoured support vehicles capable of off‑road or amphibious use specially designed to transport or deploy personnel or materiel, or to move with other vehicles over land in close support of combat vehicles or troops (for example, personnel carriers, resupply vehicles, combat engineer vehicles, recovery vehicles, reconnaissance vehicles, bridge launching vehicles, ambulances, and command and control vehicles).

 (f) [Reserved]

 (g) Ground vehicle parts, components, accessories, attachments, associated equipment, and systems as follows:

 (1) armoured hulls, armoured turrets, and turret rings;

 (2) active protection systems (that is, defensive systems that actively detect and track incoming threats and launch a ballistic, explosive, energy, or electromagnetic countermeasure(s) to neutralise the threat prior to contact with a vehicle) and specially designed parts and components therefor;