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General.

The procedures contained herein detail the methods for establishing item names and type designations as associated with specific categories and types of Army materiel. These procedures are referred to as the Army Nomenclature System and define the intent, limitations and process involved in nomenclature assignment.

Application.

Typical materiel to which the Army Nomenclature System applies are listed below:

(a) Weapons and ammunition, nuclear and nonnuclear, including:

(1) Artillery weapons.

(2) Infantry weapons (individual, crew and squadron served).

(3) Gun-type air defense weapons.

(4) Surface-vehicle-mounted weapons.

(5) Aircraft-mounted weapons for conventional and remotely piloted aircraft.

(b) Weapon systems, sub-systems, and support equipment, including: vehicle-mounted weapon systems, self-propelled artillery systems, gun-air-defense systems, and assigned special-purpose vehicles.

(c) Fire control systems, excluding those integral to missile systems and missile-air-defense fire-coordination systems.

(d) Rocket and missile warhead sections (excluding guidance and control).

(e) Demolition munitions, firing devices, mines, bombs, and grenades; pyrotechnic systems and munitions (including illuminating, flame, incendiary, etc.); smoke and other obscuration systems and materiel; simulator, and training munitions; chaff and special- purpose-payload munitions; reactive armor tiles.

(f) Chemical systems/material, riot-control systems, and assigned defensive biological materiel and radiological materiel.

(g) Fuzes, safing and arming, and other control devices.

(h) Explosives and propellants.

(i) Launch and dispenser systems and devices for the foregoing assigned materiel.

(j) Clips, links, magazine fillers, and linker-delinkers for conventional ammunition.

(k) Related components, basic-issue items, packaging, handling, checkout and ancillary equipment for assigned materiel.

(l) Training, practice, and dummy equipment and devices relating to assigned materiel.

(m) Special tools; certain types of test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment (TMDE) which are a part of or used with assigned materiel (including special inspection and test equipment).

Exclusions.

This standard does not apply when an item falls into an equipment category accommodated by one of the following type designation/nomenclature systems:

MIL-STD-196 Joint Electronics Type Designation System

MIL-STD-1812 Aeronautical and Support Equipment Type Designation System

AR70-50 Designating and Naming Defense Military Aerospace Vehicles {AFI 16-401; NAVAIRINST 13100.16}

Nuclear weapons test and handling equipment.

In addition to the above exclusions, the Nomenclature System described herein does not apply to end items identifiable as "testing and handling equipment" in support of nuclear weapons. The type-designation system used on such support equipment is recognizable by a four-digit numeric assignment and a XH or H, XT or T prefix. (The actual nuclear weapons-integral major items employ the Army Nomenclature System.)

Army-adopted items.

Commercial and foreign-government type designations.

Items adopted or proposed for adoption for Army use but accommodated by commercial or foreign-government designation are not to be re-type designated in accordance with the system contained herein unless an approved Requirements Document (see 4.2.4.3.1) indicates that some change in design, function or interchangeability is necessary for Army applications. A commercial nondevelopmental item (NDI) may be assigned a designation when approved requirements exist and the responsible requesting activity has a military identification to distinguish between like items already in use.

Other type designation systems.

Other type-designation systems within Department of Army.

Items accommodated by other type- designation systems, such as referenced in 1.2.1, will employ the applicable type designator reflecting that type of item, regardless of the user activity.

Other DOD users of ordnance materiel items.

Items, such as listed in 1.2, adopted by an activity outside DA, will often have an assigned type designator other than the system contained herein, reflecting the fact that use of that item was unique to that service. An Army activity may need to adopt that item for its own use and will do so using the original type designation system unless modification is required. If a required modification, as necessary for Army application, is of no use to the original adopting service, then the modified item will be accommodated by the type designation system contained herein.

Examples.

The examples offered in this standard are intended only as guidance in aiding the user in understanding the principles and detail involved in the Army Nomenclature System as described herein. The absence of an example for a given General or Detailed requirement is not a basis for assuming inapplicability. In some instances, examples show complete detail for emphasis; in other instances, examples are by intent incomplete. Numeric and alphabetic components of type designators and item names and modifiers employed herein are intended as usage guidance only.

Deliverable data.

The definitions, General and Detailed requirements, nomenclature format and type designator assignment, as described in this standard, should serve as guidance and information throughout the Department of Defense and private industry. However, the requirement for submission of DD Form 61 (see 5.3) and the data required thereon is a matter internal to Departments and Agencies of the Department of Defense with no anticipation of associated contractual requirements. Therefore, there is no Data Item Description, or similar deliverable data, associated with or required by this standard.

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