scope:

This handbook contains information on support equipment for aircraft and missile weapons systems. Support equipment is construed to include ground operation, handling, and servicing equipment. Support equipment is further defined as all equipment required in the ground to make a weapon system operational in its intended environment. This includes all equipment required to install, launch, arrest (except Navy shipboard and shore based launching and arresting equipment), guide, control, direct, inspect, test, adjust, calibrate, appraise, gage, measure, assemble, disassemble, handle, transport, safeguard, store, actuate, service, repair, overhaul, maintain or operate the system, subsystem, or end item.

Data sheets for the Technical Information File (TIF) will normally be selected or submitted only for support equipment items that have a unit cost of $1,000 and over or a potential or actual procurement total dollar value in excess of $100,000 regardless of unit cost.

Data sheets will not normally be acquired or submitted for common tools or power tools normally found in a standard machine shop component parts or subassemblies of end items; kits, sets of tools, fixtures for manufacturing of depot use; slings, adapters, small containers, cabinets; or obsolete items of supply.