Category VII
Ground Vehicles
Paragraphs marked SME are Significant Military Equipment.
| Paragraph | Text |
|---|---|
| (a) | Armored combat ground vehicles as follows: SME |
| (1) | Tanks; or |
| (2) | Infantry fighting vehicles. |
| (b) | Ground vehicles (not enumerated in paragraph (a) of this category) and trailers that are armed or are specially designed to be used as a firing or launch platform to deliver munitions or otherwise destroy or incapacitate targets (e.g., firing lasers, launching rockets, firing missiles, firing mortars, firing artillery rounds, or firing other ammunition greater than .50 caliber) (MT if specially designed for rockets, space launch vehicles, missiles, drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles capable of delivering a payload of at least 500 kg to a range of at least 300 km). SME |
| (c) | Ground vehicles and trailers equipped with any mission systems controlled under this subchapter (MT if specially designed for rockets, space launch vehicles, missiles, drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles capable of delivering a payload of at least 500 kg to a range of at least 300 km). |
| (d) | [Reserved] |
| (e) | Armored support vehicles capable of off-road or amphibious use specially designed to transport or deploy personnel or materiel, or to move with other vehicles over land in close support of combat vehicles or troops (e.g., personnel carriers, resupply vehicles, combat engineer vehicles, recovery vehicles, reconnaissance vehicles, bridge launching vehicles, ambulances, and command and control vehicles). SME |
| (f) | [Reserved] |
| (g) | Ground vehicle parts, components, accessories, attachments, associated equipment, and systems as follows: |
| (1) | Armored hulls, armored turrets, and turret rings; |
| (2) | Active protection systems (i.e., defensive systems that actively detect and track incoming threats and launch a ballistic, explosive, energy, or electromagnetic countermeasure(s) to neutralize the threat prior to contact with a vehicle) and specially designed parts and components therefor; |
| (3) | Composite armor parts and components specially designed for the vehicles in this category; |
| (4) | Spaced armor components and parts, including slat armor parts and components specially designed for the vehicles in this category; |
| (5) | Reactive armor parts and components; |
| (6) | Electromagnetic armor parts and components, including pulsed power specially designed parts and components therefor; |
| (7) | Built in test equipment (BITE) to evaluate the condition of weapons or other mission systems for vehicles identified in this category, excluding equipment that provides diagnostics solely for a subsystem or component involved in the basic operation of the vehicle; |
| (8) | Gun mount, stabilization, turret drive, and automatic elevating systems, and specially designed parts and components therefor; |
| (9) | Self-launching bridge components rated class 60 or above for deployment by vehicles in this category; |
| (10) | Suspension components as follows: |
| (i) | Rotary shock absorbers specially designed for the vehicles weighing more than 30 tons in this category; or |
| (ii) | Torsion bars specially designed for the vehicles weighing more than 50 tons in this category; |
| (11) | Kits specially designed to convert a vehicle in this category into either an unmanned or a driver-optional vehicle. For a kit to be controlled by this paragraph, it must, at a minimum, include equipment for: |
| (i) | Remote or autonomous steering; |
| (ii) | Acceleration and braking; and |
| (12) | Fire control computers, mission computers, vehicle management computers, integrated core processers, stores management systems, armaments control processors, vehicle-weapon interface units and computers; |
| (13) | Test or calibration equipment for the mission systems of the vehicles in this category, except those enumerated elsewhere; or |
| (14) | Any part, component, accessory, attachment, equipment, or system that (MT for those articles designated as such): SME |
| (i) | Is classified; |
| (ii) | Contains classified software directly related to defense articles in this subchapter or 600 series items subject to the EAR; or |
| (h) | Technical data (see § 120.33 of this subchapter) and defense services (see § 120.32 of this subchapter) directly related to the defense articles described in paragraphs (a) through (g) of this category and classified technical data directly related to items controlled in ECCNs 0A606, 0B606, 0C606, and 0D606 and defense services using the classified technical data. (See § 125.4 of this subchapter for exemptions.) (MT for technical data and defense services related to articles designated as such.) |
| (i) | -(w) [Reserved] |
| (x) | Commodities, software, and technical data subject to the EAR used in or with defense articles. |
Source: eCFR, version
2026-08-01, retrieved
2026-08-20T04:08:36+00:00.