This subclass covers the defensive aspects such as protection gear camouflage and personal, vehicle and stationary armour (passive and active).

It includes armed and armoured vehicles.

It further includes offensive and defensive systems using flames, gas or smoke.

It also includes passive and active tactical defence installations, including laying or removing land mines and other obstacles.

It includes means of attack other than conventional weaponry, e.g. electical stunning means, directed energy weapons, EMP generators.

Protective gear worn by a person against ballistic aggression. It might also include protection against malevolent knife or needle aggression (professional cut/puncture resistant garments, see limiting reference).

Includes means for strapping said gear to the body.

Plastics is to be construed as including all the fibre reinforced multilayer helmets

Includes passive camouflage, i.e. covers, nets, garments , as well as active, electronic camouflage and shielding.

Includes camouflage in the visible and in the infrared spectrum.

Includes camouflage patterns.

This main group includes the aspects of composition, configuration and the mounting of the armour elements.

It further includes the aspects of application/use of armours, e.g. as shields, turrets, manhole covers or windows

Includes armour using liquid and the blast or shockwave mitigation effects of a fluid e.g. by rheological properties

Includes armour using electrical fields for the incapacitation of warheads

Includes armour with dilatant, materials or other chemically reactive substances in layers.

Includes pyrotechnically reactive substances.

Includes dynamic armour, i.e. elastically reacting armour.

Includes systems for intercepting incoming projectiles or missiles, i.e. active armour.

Also includes slat armour and nets for protection against hollow charge projectiles such as rocket propelled grenades (RPG).

Layered armour where the armour effect is enhanced by the mechanical impedance discontinuities between the layers.

The ceramic being the main armour component, meaning the stopping action of the projectile is mainly performed by the ceramic layer(s).

Includes surface mounted interlocking or abutting ceramic tiles.

Also includes glass ceramics.

The metal being the main armour component, meaning the stopping action of the projectile is mainly performed by the metal layer(s)

The fibrous layer(s) or tapes being the main armour component, meaning the stopping action of the projectile is mainly performed by the fibrous layer(s) or tapes.

The layer with the plurality of hard elements, possibly within a matrix, being the main projectile stopping layer.

Also includes chain mail type armour with linked or engaging rings or platelets

This group is restricted to the aspect of a plurality of hard elements acting together to stop a projectile.

Documents classified in this group should also have a material specific class attributed in F41H 5/0414 or F41H 5/0442

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Includes locking systems for doors on armoured vehicles.

Includes observation means incl. camera's and periscopes on vehicles

Includes locking systems for AFV doors

mounting armoured transparent panels in vehicle body or doors frames to protect interface gaps

gunports not being/having ball or swivel mounts

Includes in principle all tactical military, para-military or police vehicles, i.e. the ones being armoured against aggression and the ones serving as a mobile weapon platform.

Vehicles which are nor armoured but only armed should be classified in the main group F41H 7/00, if applicable with a double classification in the group pertinent to the weapon mounted on the vehicle.

Gratings or similar covers for air inlet, respectively air outlet, openings on an armoured vehicle, the covers offering protection against ballistic threats while still permitting air to flow into and out of the vehicle.

Specially formed or reinforced outer bottom walls of a vehicle body, e.g. V-shaped for blast deflection;

Special assemblies located on the inside of the outer bottom wall of the vehicle body for mitigating the blast wave, resulting from a mine or IED explosion, e.g. deformable assemblies such as honeycomb structures.

Floor plates for the passenger cell not connected to the outer bottom wall or blast wave mitigating assemblies.

Offensive and defensive equipment using dispersion of gas, smoke, fog, aerosols including the projection of flames by sustained fuelling of a burning directional flame.

Stationary or vehicle borne apparatus generating a sustained flow of fog or smoke, the apparatus containing large quantities of smoke-generating agent, which generally would inhibit it being carried around by an individual.

Portable device used by an individual for self-defence dispensing an aerosol, or a cloud of repellant gases or chemicals, such as pepper spray (OC), malodorant chemicals, chemicals inducing nausea, colouring agents (markers), diluted acids, etc.

Such a hand-held device may be in the form of a pressurised spraying can or it might be integral or attached to a weapon, an accessory or a personal shield.

A body-worn device may be in the form of an arm band, a bracelet or a ring, or eventually integrated in a back pack, a body armour, a piece of protective clothing or similar.

Self defence spraying devices integrated into weapons, accessories or protective shields must be double classified in the respective groups.

Active and passive defensive installations except conventional shields, armours and shelters.

Includes areal barrages, harbour nets, obstacles and minefields.

Includes demining methods and devices.

Active systems or installation capable of destroying, neutralising or deviating incoming missiles.

Hard-kill methods includes the physical destruction of the incoming missile with perforating, fragmenting or high explosive projectiles.

Soft-kill methods include missile neutralisation by influencing the missile's electronic homing and initiation systems (jamming, blinding, altering) or to mislead the incoming missile's sensory system with decoys so as to avoid it's impact with the object to be protected.

Barriers prohibiting the passage of aircraft and missiles.

The might be configured as:

rigid ground fixed structures,

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nets supported by floating balloons or airships and tethered to the ground,

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nets towed by or jettisoned from aircraft.

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May include magnets for picking up ferro magnetic items and gripping means for picking up or handling items.

Includes magnetic means for creating a magnetic field "lure/decoy" for triggering mines or other non-contact devices for remotely exploding mines or unexploded ordnance (UXO).

Includes sound wave devices, IR-lures, water jets or other devices for triggering potential contact or proximity sensors in a mine.

Includes ballistically deployed restraining systems, directed energy weapons and electro-shock weapons.

Includes acoustic weapons.

Including ballistically deployed nets for restraining surface vessels.

Including ballistically deployed nets for catching aerial vehicles.

Including documents concerning remote discharge via ionised beams.

Including devices for administering an electrical shock to the wearer of the device.

Weapons which use an energy beam for achieving an effect on the target, as opposed to physical projectiles impacting the target.

Also includes documents concerning laser as enabling technology.

Devices and methods for producing focused acoustical beams or fan shaped diverging beams. Not omni-directional sound producing devices.