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SCOPE AND PURPOSE

This document provides guidance on appropriate measures and metrics, for the purpose of objectively determining the technical and operational performance of non-lethal land Vehicle Arresting Devices (VADs). A VAD is a technical means specifically designed and primarily employed to deliberately stop a moving vehicle.

The aim of this STANREC is to have a capability-based standard, i.e. explicitly linking the technical performance of NLW to their purpose as a NLC.

The current edition is not meant to be a standard for the qualification of VADs. Instead, it is a common frame of reference to promote exchange and enable comparison of performance test results between nations. This document shall therefore provide a set of measures and metrics that, when assessed, would determine the performance of non-lethal VADs, relevant to the capability it represents.

The following general categories of non-lethal land VADs are recognized.

a. Permanent VADs: devices planned and intended to be part of a comprehensive obstacle system at permanent sites to defeat vehicles. These VADs typically require heavy/specialized equipment and skilled labour for their installation, and are constructed over a lengthy period of time (typically days/weeks).

b. Deliberative VADs: devices planned and intended for use at deployed sites to defeat vehicles. These VADs can be recovered, relocated and emplaced at other sites. These VADs require no heavy/specialised equipment and skilled labour, and are constructed over a moderate period of time (typically hours).

c. Hasty VADs: mobile devices that provide limited scale/scope defence against vehicles. These VADs require no heavy/specialised equipment and skilled labour for their installation. These VADs are quickly emplaced, employed and recovered (typically seconds).

The current edition is limited to:

a. Non-lethal land VADs primarily based on mechanical technology.

b. Deliberative and hasty emplaced VADs.

c. Targets which are wheeled, civil-based, land vehicles.