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This standard establishes general human engineering design criteria for military systems, subsystems, equipment and facilities.

The purpose of this standard is to present human engineering design criteria, principles, and practices to achieve mission success through integration of the human into the system, subsystem, equipment, and facility, and achieve effectiveness, simplicity, efficiency, reliability, and safety of system operation, training, and maintenance.

This standard shall be applied to the design of all systems, subsystems, equipment and facilities. Nothing in this standard shall be construed as limiting the selection of hardware, materials, or processes to the specific items described herein. Unless otherwise stated in specific provisions, this standard is applicable to design of systems, subsystems, equipment and facilities for use by both men and women. This standard is not intended to be a criterion for limiting use of materiel already in the field in areas such as lift repetition or temperature exposure time. Where the procuring activity establishes use by male personnel exclusively, the following paragraphs are changed as noted below:

Paragraph Line From To 3.1 9 female (delete) 5.2.1.4.11 3 635 mm (25 in) 700 mm (28 in) 5.4.4.2 4&5 which...adjustment) (delete) 5.4.4.3 5-7 The,...adjustment) (delete) 5.6.1 4 female, male (delete) 5.7.2.2 3 1.780 m (70 inches) 1.880 m (74 inches) 5.7.2.3 3&4 1.650 m (65 inches) 1.750 m (69 inches) 5.7.2.4 3 1.780 m (70 inches) 1.880 m (74 inches) 5.7.2.5 2&3 1.350 m (53 inches) 1.450 m (57 inches) 5.7.2.5 3&4 530 mm (21 inches) 560 mm (22 inches) 5.7.3.4.2 2 380 mm (15 inches) 400 mm (16 inches) 5.7.3.6 3 1.170 m (46 inches) 1.220 m (48 inches) 5.7.3.7 2&3 890 mm (35 inches) 940 mm (37 inches) 5.7.3.7 3 530 mm (21 inches) 560 mm (22 inches) 5.7.3.9 3 860 mm (34 inches) 890 mm (35 inches) 5.7.3.10 2 740 mm (29 inches) 760 mm (30 inches) 5.7.6.1.4 2&3 685 mm (27 inches) 750 mm (29.5 inches) Table XX A1 1.170 m (46.0 in) 1.210 m (47.5 in) 1.335 m (52.5 in) 1.370 m (54.0 in) 1.435 m (56.5 in) 1.470 m (58.0 in) A3&4 1.535 m (60.5 in) 1.570 m (62.0 in) B1 520 mm, (20.5 in) 560 mm (22.0 in) B3&4 620 mm (24.5 in) 660 mm (26.0 in) Figure 30 G 150 mm (6 in) 125 mm (5 in) H 190 mm (7.5 in) 165 mm (6.5 in) Figure 36 B-Max 380 mm (15 inches) 410 mm (16 inches) 5.7.7.1.2 5 13 kg (29 lbs) 18 kg (40 lbs) 5.9.11.4.1 5-7 (Delete second and third sentences)

If it is known that an item is to be used by an already established military occupational specialty, for which physical qualification requirements for entry into that specialty are also established, any discrepancy between the force criteria of this standard and the physical qualification requirements shall be resolved in favor of the latter. In this event, the least stringent physical qualification requirement of all specialties which may operate, maintain, transport, supply, move, lift or otherwise manipulate the item, in the manner being considered, is selected as a maximum design force limit. If such physical qualification requirements for entry into a specialty do not cover the task addressed by the criteria herein, the criteria herein shall govern.

When manufacturing tolerances are not perceptible to the user, this standard shall not be construed as preventing the use of components whose dimensions are within a normal manufacturing upper or lower limit tolerance of the dimensions specified herein.

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