Category II
Guns and Armament
Paragraphs marked SME are Significant Military Equipment.
| Paragraph | Text |
|---|---|
| (a) | Guns and armament greater than .50 caliber (12.7 mm), as follows: |
| (1) | Guns, howitzers, artillery, and cannons; SME |
| (2) | Mortars; SME |
| (3) | Recoilless rifles; SME |
| (4) | Grenade launchers; or SME |
| (5) | Developmental guns and armament greater than .50 caliber (12.7 mm) funded by the Department of Defense and specially designed parts and components therefor. |
| (a) | in production; |
| (b) | determined to be subject to the EAR via a commodity jurisdiction determination; or |
| (c) | identified in the relevant Department of Defense contract or other funding authorization as being developed for both civil and military applications. |
| (b) | Flamethrowers with an effective range greater than or equal to 20 meters. |
| (c) | [Reserved] |
| (d) | Kinetic energy weapon systems specially designed for destruction or rendering mission-abort of a target. SME |
| (e) | Signature reduction devices specially designed for the guns and armament controlled in paragraphs (a), (b), and (d) of this category (e.g., muzzle flash suppression devices). |
| (f) | -(i) [Reserved] |
| (j) | Parts, components, accessories, and attachments, as follows: |
| (1) | Gun barrels, rails, tubes, and receivers specially designed for the weapons controlled in paragraphs (a) and (d) of this category; |
| (2) | Sights specially designed to orient indirect fire weapons; |
| (3) | Breech blocks for the weapons controlled in paragraphs (a) and (d) of this category; |
| (4) | Firing mechanisms for the weapons controlled in paragraphs (a) and (d) of this category and specially designed parts and components therefor; |
| (5) | Systems for firing superposed or stacked ammunition and specially designed parts and components therefor; |
| (6) | Servo-electronic and hydraulic elevation adjustment mechanisms; |
| (7) | Muzzle brakes; |
| (8) | Bore evacuators; |
| (9) | Independent ammunition handling systems for the guns and armament controlled in paragraphs (a), (b), and (d) of this category; |
| (10) | Components for independently powered ammunition handling systems and platform interface, as follows: |
| (i) | Mounts; |
| (ii) | Carriages; |
| (iv) | Hydro-pneumatic equilibration cylinders; or |
| (v) | Hydro-pneumatic systems capable of scavenging recoil energy to power howitzer functions; |
| (11) | Ammunition containers/drums, ammunition chutes, ammunition conveyor elements, ammunition feeder systems, and ammunition container/drum entrance and exit units, specially designed for the guns and armament controlled in paragraphs (a), (b), and (d) of this category; |
| (12) | Systems and equipment for the guns and armament controlled in paragraphs (a) and (d) of this category for use in programming ammunition, and specially designed parts and components therefor; |
| (13) | Aircraft/gun interface units to support gun systems with a designed rate of fire greater than 100 rounds per minute and specially designed parts and components therefor; |
| (14) | Recoil systems specially designed to mitigate the shock associated with the firing process of guns integrated into air platforms and specially designed parts and components therefor; |
| (15) | Prime power generation, energy storage, thermal management, conditioning, switching, and fuel-handling equipment, and the electrical interfaces between the gun power supply and other turret electric drive components specially designed for kinetic weapons controlled in paragraph (d) of this category; |
| (16) | Kinetic energy weapon target acquisition, tracking fire control, and damage assessment systems and specially designed parts and components therefor; or |
| (17) | Any part, component, accessory, attachment, equipment, or system that: SME |
| (i) | Is classified; |
| (ii) | Contains classified software; or |
| (k) | 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), (b), (d), (e), and (j) of this category and classified technical data directly related to items controlled in ECCNs 0A602, 0B602, 0D602, and 0E602 and defense services using the classified technical data. (See § 125.4 of this subchapter for exemptions.) |
| (l) | -(w) [Reserved] |
| (x) | Commodities, software, and technology subject to the EAR used in or with defense articles. |
Source: eCFR, version
2026-08-01, retrieved
2026-08-20T04:08:36+00:00.