Key: "Military Equipment Types" Exported by
Canada
1 Firearms and automatic weapons with a calibre of 12.7 mm, including firearms
for sporting and competition purposes, and their components and accessories.
2 Armaments with a calibre greater than 12.7 mm, and their components.
3 Ammunition for arms covered by 1 & 2.
4 Bombs, torpedoes, grenades, smoke canisters, rockets, military pyrotechnics,
demolition charges and components.
5 Fire control equipment, range-finding sensors, ballistic computers and related
alerting and warning equipment, specially designed for military use, and their
parts and their components.
6 Ground vehicles specially designed or modified for military use (i.e.,
armoured vehicles; amphibious vehicles; recovery vehicles and vehicles for
transporting weapons systems or ammunition) and related equipment and
components.
7 Equipment and components (eg. masks and protective clothing, for detection of
and defence against radioactive materials, biological and chemical agents.)
8 Explosives and fuels, including propellants and related substances, specially
designed for military purposes.
9 Naval vessels, specially designed naval equipment and accessories (e.g.
engines, navigation systems and underwater detection equipment and components).
10 Aircraft, helicopters, unmanned air-borne vehicles and related equipment,
engines and components, specially designed or modified for military use.
11 Electronic equipment for military use, (e.g. communications and electronic
counter-measures equipment and radar systems.
12 High-velocity kinetic energy weapons systems and related components.
13 Armoured or protective equipment, such as armoured plates, body armour and
military helmets and components.
14 Specialized equipment for military training or for simulating military
scenarios, such as computerized trainers and aircraft and vehicle simulators,
and their components and accessories.
15 Imaging or imaging countermeasures equipment, including photographic and
thermal imaging equipment and specially designed components.
16 Forgings, castings and semi-finished products, specially designed for
products covered by 1,2,3,4,6,9,10,12 and 19.
17 Misc. materiel, equipment and technical databases, specially designed for
military use, and their components (e.g., diving apparatus; mobile workshops or
bridges; military construction or field engineering equipment; signature
suppression equipment or coatings and robotic equipment).
18 Equipment and technology for the production of the products listed here.
19 Directed energy weapons systems and their countermeasures.
20 Cryogenic and super-conductive equipment and specially designed components
and accessories.
21 Software designed for military uses.
22 Technology.
Sources: Export of Military Goods from Canada, Annual Report 1999.
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, tabled in the House of
Commons Feb. 2001. Web site: www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/~eicb/