FSC 5815

Includes Ticker Tape and Sigtot Equipment.

FSC 5820

Includes Telemetering Equipment.
Excludes Home Type Radio and Television Equipment.

FSC 5821

Includes Telemetering Equipment.

FSC 5825

Includes Loran Equipment; Shoran Equipment; Direction Finding Equipment.

FSC 5826

Includes Loran Equipment; Shoran Equipment; Direction Finding Equipment.

FSC 5830

Includes Wired Audio Systems; Office Type Systems; Shipboard Systems; Tank Systems.

FSC 5835


Excludes Phonographs, Home Type; Dictating Machines.

FSC 5836

Note-This class includes, and is restricted to electronic video equipment such as video monitors, televisions, cameras, printers and recorders/reproducers used with miscellaneous communication equipment. Also included is associated equipment such as cleaners, splicers, rewinders, reels and tapes designed for use with video recording-reproducing equipment. Excluded from the class is photographic type equipment (Group 67), ADP type computer monitors (Group 70), and video equipment which includes radio receivers/transmitters (properly classified in more specific classes in Group 58).


FSC 5840

Note-Radar assemblies and subassemblies designed specifically for use with fire control equipment or guided missiles are excluded from this class and are included in the appropriate classes of Group 12 or Group 14.


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Note-Radar assemblies and subassemblies designed specifically for use with fire control equipment or guided missiles are excluded from this class and are included in the appropriate classes of Group 12 or Group 14.


FSC 5845

Note-This class excludes items specifically designed for fire control sonar systems.

Includes Sonar Equipment; Underwater Listening Equipment; Sonobuoys; Sonobuoy Launchers; Fathometers; Sofar Equipment.

FSC 5850

Note-This class includes only communication types of infrared equipment. Excluded from this class are infrared assemblies, subassemblies, and components designed specifically for use in fire control systems, guided missile systems, test and maintenance specialized equipment, night vision equipment, and other noncommunication types of equipment.

Includes Heliographs.

FSC 5855

Note-This class includes image forming devices and associated aids, their subassemblies and components, utilizing passive and/or active techniques for detection, observation, and identification of terrain and objects at night, while maintaining concealment afforded by darkness. Includes items having multiapplication for purposes of fire control, and/or night observation, and/or detection. Excluded from this class are items for which more specific classifications are suitable as prescribed by the structure and indexes of the FSC.

Includes Sighting and Observation Devices, Target Detectors and Locators, Remote Viewing Systems utilizing heat radiation emitted from object(s), associated Radiation Sources, Image Converters and Image Intensifiers, Optical Cells and other components designed for Night Vision Equipment. Holders and Lens used with Infrared Equipment are also included in this FSC.
Excludes Optical Sighting devices which incorporate both day and night viewing characteristics within an integral unit for fire control purpose, nonnight vision type items designed for use with guided missiles, communications, or laboratory equipment, and Optical Elements, such as Lens, Prisms, Windows.

FSC 5860

Note-This class includes, and is restricted to, devices the operation of which is based on principles involving the stimulated emission of radiation, and to associated components and accessories directly related to stimulated coherent radiation techniques. The methods for producing the radiation are those obtained by LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) and by MASER (Microwave and/or Molecular Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) techniques. Only those items specifically designed for stimulated coherent radiation applications, and having no other application, are to be included in this class. Assemblies or major systems containing such devices are excluded from this class.


FSC 5865

Note-This class includes, and is restricted to, passive and active electronic equipment, systems, and subsystems designed to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of radiated electromagnetic energy or designed to insure our own effective use of radiated electromagnetic energy. Includes Electronic Countermeasures, Electronic Counter-Countermeasures, Electronic Support Measures, and Quick Reaction Capability Equipment and components specially designed therefore which are not classifiable elsewhere in the FSC Structure. Excluded from this class are non-electronic items which are properly classified in more specific classes in accordance with the FSC structure and indexes.


FSC 5895

Note-This class includes miscellaneous communication equipment that is not classified in more specific classes (see the NOTE for FSG 58).

Includes Modems.
Excludes Electronic Countermeasures Equipment.