scope:

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 specialpurpose vehicles.

(c) Fire control systems, excluding those integral to missile systems and missile-airdefense 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- purposepayload 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).