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93.01 - Military weapons, other than revolvers, pistols and the arms of heading 93.07. 9301.10 - Artillery weapons (for example, guns, howitzers and mortars) 930 1.20 - Rocket launchers; flame-throwers; grenade launchers; torpedo tubes and similar projectors 9301.90 - Other This heading covers all military weapons other than the revolvers and pistols of heading 93.02 and the arms of heading 93.07. The heading includes separately presented weapons and firearms designed to form part of the armament of vessels, armoured trahs, aircraft, tanks or armoured cars. The heading includes : (1) Artillery weapons and infant sup ort wea ons, i.e., all types of cannon and ordnance (fixed or on wheels, tracks, e t z , as fielcf medium, heavy and super-heavy artillery, long-range guns, anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank guns, howitzers and mortars. suet Long-range guns mounted on railway wagons also fall in this headin (and not in Chapter 86). Mobile and self- ropelled guns, which should be distinguished om tanks and other armoured fighting vehic es of heading 87.10, are also classified here. L (2) Arms capable of continuous and very rapid fire; some are suitable for handling by one man. This group includes machine-guns, sub-machine-guns (machine-pistols) and other continuous-fire weapons. (3) Military firearms such as rifles and carbines. (4) Other speciaIised military rojectors, for example, launchers, other than those of eading 93.03; apparatus for the torpedo tubes; flarne-throwers (apparatus for enemy) other than flame guns spec~alisedfor R -
1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Goods of Chapter 36 (for example, percussion caps, detonators, signalling flares); (b) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39); (c) Armoured fighting vehicles (heading 87.10); (d) Telescopic sights or other optical devices suitable for use with arms, unless mounted on a firearm or presented with the firearm on which they are designed to be mounted (Chapter 90); (e) Bows, arrows, fencing foils or toys (Chapter 95); or (f) Collectors' pieces or antiques (heading 97.05 or 97.06). 2.- In heading 93.06, the reference to “parts thereof” does not include radio or radar apparatus of heading 85.26.