scope:

This standard establishes dimensional limits, design considerations, positioning requirements, and strength requirements for lifting (to include helicopter external air transport (EAT)) and tiedown provisions for lifting or tying down tanks and other tracked vehicles, tactical wheeled vehicles, helicopters, and other military equipment shipped assembled or disassembled in unboxed or uncrated condition, and for restraining cargo or accessories to such equipment. The lifting and tiedown requirements in this standard are necessary to permit compatibility between military equipment and the transportation systems used for deployments.

This standard excludes external provisions on International Organization for Standardization (ISO) cargo containers. It also excludes helicopter and aircraft cargo tiedown provisions.

Although the design of lifting provisions is covered in this standard, items of equipment requiring helicopter EAT certification must also meet the static lift and helicopter flight-test requirements of MIL-STD-913.

Even though airdrop design criteria for military equipment are specified in MIL-STD-814, equipment must also be transported by surface modes. Therefore, lifting and tiedown provisions for airdrop-designed equipment should meet both the requirements of this standard and MIL-STD-814.

This standard applies to the following:

a. All new commercial, modified commercial, nondevelopmental, developmental, and reprocurements as noted above.

b. Modified equipment, when the modifications result in changes to lifting or tiedown requirements (for example, provision relocation or item weight increase).

The following provision names will be used throughout this standard (definitions for each provision are in paragraph 3):

Lifting provisions

Equipment tiedown provisions

Multipurpose provisions

Cargo bed tiedown provisions

Flatbed/flatrack cargo tiedown provisions

Largo cargo tiedown provisions

Equipment is classified as follows:

Type I. Developmental, non-developmental and modified commercial equipment (for example, combat, tactical and tactical support vehicles, armored carriers, self-propelled artillery, tanks, and recovery vehicles, semitrailers, trailers, trucks, materials handling equipment and construction equipment.) Type II. Unmodified materials handling equipment and commercial construction equipment, helicopters and items that are shipped unboxed or uncrated, and lifted separately as individual units.

intended Use:

This standard covers the design and testing of slinging, tiedown, and cargo tiedown provisions.