8.Design and Test Equipment and Technologies Related to Ballistic Missiles and Rockets

(1) Specially designed software, or analogue and digital computers thereof, for modeling, simulation, or design integration of the systems;

(2) Vibration test systems capable of providing a force of 100kN or more and incorporating a digital controller, as well as specially designed vibration test auxiliaries and software;

(3) Wind-tunnel for supersonic (Mach 1.4 to 5) or hypersonic (Mach 5 to 15) speeds except those specially designed for teaching and those with the test area dimensions smaller than 25 cm (measured internally);

(4) Test benches which have the capacity to handle solid or liquid propellant rocket motors of more than 90 kN of thrust, or which are capable of simultaneously measuring the three axial thrust components.

9.Production Equipment and Production Technology

(1) Equipment for production of solid propellants listed in Item 4 of Part II:

(a) Batch mixers having:

① A total volumetric capacity of 110 litres or more; and

② At least one mixing/kneading shaft mounted off centre.

(b) Continuous mixers having:

① Two or more mixing/kneading shafts; and

② Capability to open the mixing chamber.

(c) Equipment for the production of atomized or spherical metallic powder in a controlled environment;

(d) Fluid energy mills;

(e) Handling equipment for production of solid propellant;

(f) Curing equipment for production of solid propellant;

(g) Casting equipment for production of solid propellant;

(h) Pressing equipment for production of solid propellant;

(i) Acceptance testing equipment for production of solid propellant;

(j) Machining equipment for production of solid propellant;

(k) Extruding equipment for production of solid propellant.

(2) Equipment for producing liquid propellant in Item 3 of Part II:

(a) Handling equipment for production of liquid propellant;

(b) Production equipment for liquid propellant;

(c) Acceptance testing equipment for production of liquid propellant.

(3) Pyrolytic deposition and densification equipment and technology

(a) Technology for producing pyrolytically derived materials formed on a mould, mandrel or other substrate from precursor gases which decompose at temperatures from 1,300 °C to 2,900 °C and at pressures of 130 Pa to 20 kPa, including technology for the composition of precursor gases, flow-rates and process control schedules and parameters;

(b) Specially designed nozzles for the above processes;

(c) Isostatic presses having all of the following characteristics:

① Maximum working pressure of 69 MPa or greater;

②Designed to achieve and maintain a controlled thermal environment of 600 °C or greater, and

③ Possessing a chamber cavity with an inside diameter of 254 mm or greater.

(d) Chemical vapor deposition furnaces for the densification of carbon-carbon composites;

(e) Pyrolytic deposition and densification process controls equipment and specially designed software therefor.

(4) Equipment and technology for production of composite component:

(a) Filament winding machines coordinated and programmed in three or more axes, and specially designed computers and software thereof;

(b) Tape-laying machines coordinated and programmed in two or more axes, and specially designed software thereof;

(c) Adapters and modification kits of weaving machines for fibre structure composites;

(d) Technical data and procedures for the regulation of temperature, pressures or atmosphere in autoclaves or hydroclaves;

(e) Equipment for converting polymeric fibres (such as polyacrylonitrile, rayon or polycarbosilane) including special provision to strain the fibre during heating;

(f) Equipment for the vapor deposition of elements or compounds on heated filament substrates;

(g) Equipment for the wet-spinning of refractory ceramics (such as aluminium oxide);

(h) Equipment for special fibre surface treatment;

(i) Equipment for producing prepregs and preforms;

(j) Moulds, mandrels, dies, fixtures and tooling for the preform pressing, curing, casting, sintering or bonding of composite structures, laminates and manufactures thereof.

The English translation is for reference only and if there is any discrepancy, the Chinese version shall prevail.