"Munitions List"
Category 2-10

Canada has exported products in Category 2-10 to fourteen countries in the Middle East & North Africa
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Summary
2-10: Aircraft, helicopters, unmanned airborne vehicles
Aircraft, helicopters, unmanned airborne vehicles (UAVs) and related military components such as aero-engines and equipment to launch and control UAVs. Includes aircraft for combat as well as for military reconnaissance, assault, training, logistics support, transport and airdropping troops or military equipment.

The above summary -- by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) for its web report "Canadian Military Exports to the Middle East and North Africa" -- was derived from a detailed description of this category of munitions published by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) in a document called A Guide to Canada’s Export Controls (June 2006).  This DFAIT document describes seven different groups of products on the "Export Control List" whose export is "controlled" by the Government of Canada.  One of these seven groups, known as "Group 2" or the "Munitions List," is comprised of 22 categories of military products.  These are the categories of products whose export is documented in a series of DFAIT documents published since 1990, called Export of Military Goods from Canada.

The relevant section from A Guide to Canada’s Export Controls detailing this category on the "Munitions List" is provided below:

2-10

“Aircraft”, “lighter-than-air vehicles”, unmanned airborne vehicles, aero-engines and “aircraft” equipment, related equipment and components, specially designed or modified for military use, as follows:

N.B.:

For guidance and navigation equipment, see 2-11., Note 7.

a. Combat “aircraft” and specially designed components therefor;

b. Other “aircraft” and “lighter-than-air vehicles” specially designed or modified for military use, including military reconnaissance, assault, military training, transporting and airdropping troops or military equipment, logistics support, and specially designed components therefor;

c. Unmanned airborne vehicles and related equipment, specially designed or modified for military use, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:

1. Unmanned airborne vehicles including remotely piloted air vehicles (RPVs), autonomous programmable vehicles and “lighter-than-air vehicles”;

2. Associated launchers and ground support equipment;

3. Related equipment for command and control.

d. Aero-engines specially designed or modified for military use, and specially designed components therefor;

e. Airborne equipment, including airborne refuelling equipment, specially designed for use with the “aircraft” controlled by 2-10.a. or 2-10.b. or the aero-engines controlled by 2-10.d., and specially designed components therefor;

f. Pressure refuellers, pressure refuelling equipment, equipment specially designed to facilitate operations in confined areas and ground equipment, developed specially for “aircraft” controlled by 2-10.a. or 2-10.b., or for aero-engines controlled by 2-10.d.;

g. Military crash helmets and protective masks and specially designed components therefor, pressurised breathing equipment and partial pressure suits for use in “aircraft”, anti-g suits, liquid oxygen converters used for “aircraft” or missiles, and catapults and cartridge actuated devices for emergency escape of personnel from “aircraft”;

h. Parachutes and related equipment, used for combat personnel, cargo dropping or “aircraft” deceleration, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:

1. Parachutes for:

a. Pin point dropping of rangers;

b. Dropping of paratroopers;

2. Cargo parachutes;

3. Paragliders, drag parachutes, drogue parachutes for stabilisation and attitude control of dropping bodies, (e.g., recovery capsules, ejection seats, bombs);

4. Drogue parachutes for use with ejection seat systems for deployment and inflation sequence regulation of emergency parachutes;

5. Recovery parachutes for guided missiles, drones or space vehicles;

6. Approach parachutes and landing deceleration parachutes;

7. Other military parachutes;

8. Equipment specially designed for high altitude parachutists (e.g. suits, special helmets, breathing systems, navigation equipment);

i. Automatic piloting systems for parachuted loads; equipment specially designed or modified for military use for controlled opening jumps at any height, including oxygen equipment.

Note 1:

2-10.b. does not control “aircraft” or variants of those “aircraft” specially designed for military use which:

a. Are not configured for military use and are not fitted with equipment or attachments specially designed or modified for military use; and

b. Have been certified for civil use by the civil aviation authority in a participating state.

Note 2:

2-10.d. does not control:

a. Aero-engines designed or modified for military use which have been certified by civil aviation authorities in a participating state for use in “civil aircraft”, or specially designed components therefor;

b. Reciprocating engines or specially designed components therefor, except those specially designed for unmanned airborne vehicles.

Note 3:

The control in 2-10.b. and 2-10.d. on specially designed components and related equipment for non-military “aircraft” or aero-engines modified for military use applies only to those military components and to military related equipment required for the modification to military use.

Compiled by COAT

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Canadian Military Exports
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