23Category XVIII—Directed Energy Weapons

23  Category XVIII—Directed Energy Weapons

 (a) Directed energy weapon systems specifically designed or modified for military applications (for example, destruction, degradation or rendering mission‑abort of a target). These include, but are not limited to:

 (1) laser systems, including continuous wave or pulsed laser systems, specifically designed or modified to cause blindness;

 (2) lasers of sufficient continuous wave or pulsed power to effect destruction similar to the manner of conventional ammunition;

 (3) particle beam systems;

 (4) particle accelerators that project a charged or neutral particle beam with destructive power;

 (5) high power radio‑frequency (RF) systems;

 (6) high pulsed power or high average power radio frequency beam transmitters that produce fields sufficiently intense to disable electronic circuitry at distant targets;

 (7) prime power generation, energy storage, switching, power conditioning, thermal management or fuel‑handling equipment;

 (8) target acquisition or tracking systems;

 (9) systems capable of assessing target damage, destruction or mission‑abort;

 (10) beam‑handling, propagation or pointing equipment;

 (11) equipment with rapid beam slew capability for rapid multiple target operations;

 (12) negative ion beam funneling equipment;

 (13) equipment for controlling and slewing a high‑energy ion beam.

 (b) Equipment specifically designed or modified for the detection or identification of, or defence against, articles controlled in paragraph (a).

 (c) Tooling and equipment specifically designed or modified for the production of defence articles controlled by this category.

 (d) Test and evaluation equipment and test models specifically designed or modified for the defence articles controlled by this category. This includes, but is not limited to, diagnostic instrumentation and physical test models.

 (e) Components, parts, accessories, attachments and associated equipment specifically designed or modified for the articles in paragraphs (a) to (d).

 (f) Technical data and defence services directly related to the defence articles enumerated in paragraphs (a) to (e).

 (g) The following interpretations explain and amplify terms used in this category and elsewhere in this list:

 (a) the components, parts, accessories, attachments and associated equipment include, but are not limited to adaptive optics and phase conjugators components, space‑qualified accelerator components, targets and specifically designed target diagnostics, current injectors for negative hydrogen ion beams, and space‑qualified foils for neutralising negative hydrogen isotope beams;