AIR-SPECIAL-HANDLING Data Values
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| 1 | Highest sensitivity, Category I: Missiles and Rockets; Arms, Ammunition and Explosives. These items are not classified. Man-portable missiles and rockets in a ready-to-fire configuration. Included are the Redeye, Stinger, Dragon, Javelin, light antitank weapon (66mm), shoulder-launched multi-purpose assault weapon rocket (83mm), M136 (AT4) anti-armor launcher and cartridge (84mm). These weapons, when jointly stored or transported with the launcher tube and/or grip stock and the explosive round, though not in a ready-to-fire configuration, will be considered Category I items. Complete explosive rounds for Category I missiles and rockets. |
| 2 | Highest sensitivity, Category II: Missiles and Rockets; Arms, Ammunition and Explosives. These items are not classified. Missiles and rockets that are crew-served or require platform mounted launchers and other equipment to function. Included in this group are the Tube-Launched Optically Tracked Weapon (TOW) missile and Hydra-70. Light automatic weapons up to and including 50 caliber and 40mm MK 19 machine guns. Weapon components such as silencers, mufflers, and noise suppression devices will be treated as Category II items. Includes the following items: a.Hand or rifle grenades (high explosive and white phosphorous). b.Antitank or antipersonnel mines (each with an unpacked weight of 50 pounds or less). c.Explosives used in demolition operations, C-4, military dynamite, and TNT with an unpacked weight of 100 pounds or less. d.Warheads for sensitive missiles and rockets weighing less than 50 pounds each. e.The binary intermediates "DF" and "QL" when stored separately from each other and from the binary chemical munitions bodies in which they are intended to be employed. (See Department of Defense Directive 5210.65, Chemical Agent Security Program) for security requirements for other chemical agents.) |
| 3 | Moderate sensitivity, Class III: Missiles and Rockets; Arms, Ammunition and Explosives. These items are not classified. Missiles and rockets that require platform-mounted launchers and complex hardware and software equipment to function. Included in this group is the Hellfire missile. Includes the following items: a. Launch tube and grip stock for the Stinger missile. b. Launch tube, sight assembly, and grip stock for the Redeye missile. c. Tracker for the Dragon missile. d. Mortar tubes up to and including 81mm. e. Grenade launchers. f. Rocket and missile launchers with an unpacked weight of 100 pounds or less. g. Flame throwers. h. The launcher or missile guidance set, or the optical sight for the TOW. i. Ammunition, 50 caliber and larger, with explosive-filled projectile (unpacked weight of 100 pounds or less). j. Incendiary grenades and fuses for high explosive grenades. k. Blasting caps. l. Supplementary charges. m. Bulk explosives. n. Detonating cord. o. Warheads for sensitive missiles and rockets weighing more than 50 pounds, but less than 100 pounds each. |
| 4 | Low sensitivity, Category IV: Arms, Ammunition and Explosives with this classification are not classified. Includes the following items: a. Shoulder-fired weapons, other than grenade launchers, not fully automatic. b. Handguns. c. Recoilless rifles up to and including 106mm. d. Ammunition with non-explosive projectile (unpacked weight of 100 pounds or less). e. Fuses (other than those for high explosive grenades). f. Illumination, smoke, and CS grenades. g. Incendiary destroyers. h. Riot control agents (100 pound package or less). i. Ammunition for weapons above, not otherwise categorized. j. Explosive compounds of sensitive missiles and rockets (except warheads). k. Warheads for precision-guided munitions weighing more than 50 pounds (unpacked weight). |
| 5 | Highest sensitivity, Category I: Missiles and Rockets; Arms, Ammunition and Explosives with a classification of Secret. |
| 6 | Highest sensitivity, Category I: Missiles and Rockets; Arms, Ammunition and Explosives with a classification of Confidential. |
| 8 | Highest sensitivity, Category II: Missiles and Rockets; Arms, Ammunition and Explosives with a classification of Confidential. |
| A | Hazardous material requiring hand to hand receipt to include items not requiring a Shipper's Declaration For Dangerous Goods; e.g. Radioactive Materials Excepted Packages, certain biological substances, and items in excepted quantities. (Includes classified HAZMAT materiel.) |
| B | Whole blood. |
| C | Material classified as "Confidential", but which is not highly sensitive. |
| D | Hazardous material (not required hand-to-hand receipt) including all regulated items other than special weapons and their components to include items not requiring a Shipper's Declaration For Dangerous Goods; e.g. Radioactive Materials Excepted Packages, certain biological substances, and items in excepted quantities. |
| E | Aircraft engine, drained and purged. |
| F | Foodstuffs requiring normal refrigeration. |
| G | Engines (support equipment, aircraft and vehicle), not drained or purged (shipper's declaration must be annotated). |
| H | Special weapons, including hazardous components. |
| I | In-Bond shipment. An in-bond shipment is a term applied to the status of merchandise admitted provisionally to a country without payment of duties -- either for storage in a bonded warehouse or for trans-shipment to another point, where duties will eventually be imposed. |
| J | Materiel normally hazardous rendered non-hazardous for shipment processing. |
| K | Materiel which must be accompanied by a military courier (or escort) and, when required, under Armed Guard. |
| L | Sets or Systems that must move together to the Consignee. |
| M | Non controlled munitions excluded from Categories 1 through 4 which although reflected as pilferable on the shipment release document, do not require protection other than that provided based on the class/degree and hazard/explosive. |
| N | Non-sensitive weapons excluded from the above categories and which, although reflected as pilferable on the shipment Release/Receipt Document, do not require protection other than normally afforded items such as TVs, Radios, Typewriters, Hand Tools, etc. |
| O | Not to be used. |
| P | Cargo requiring protection from freezing. |
| Q | Extremely fragile items including delicate instruments. |
| R | Revenue. |
| S | Materiel classified as Secret but which does not meet Code 5 criteria. |
| T | Cargo requiring both normal refrigeration and hand-to-hand receipt. |
| U | Perishable cargo requiring refrigeration only. |
| V | Vaccine. |
| W | Highly perishable cargo requiring subfreezing refrigeration only. |
| X | Highly perishable cargo requiring both subfreezing refrigeration and hand-to-hand receipt. |
| Y | Protected cargo, other than that defined by the other Special Handling Codes, including sensitive cargo, requiring hand-to-hand receipt and/or security precautions. |
| Z | No special handling required. |
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