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STANAG 2413
STANAG 2413 demountable load carrying platforms (flatracks)
Makers of flatracks, miniflatracks and the vehicle hook loading systems that carry them, and the buyers who specify them.
STANAG 2413 sets NATO requirements for demountable load platforms (flatracks) so vehicles from different NATO states can load, carry and unload each other's. NATO has not released it publicly; this page describes it from the Czech implementation, ČOS 392001.
- Edition
- 5
- Published
- 2020-07-07
NATO has not released this STANAG publicly. It is NATO UNCLASSIFIED, and organisations that need it obtain it through their national standardization authority.
What it is
STANAG 2413 is the NATO Standardization Agreement on demountable load carrying platforms, known as flatracks. Edition 5, promulgated in July 2020 under NATO's MC, MCLSB, CSS and SP committees, covers the publication APP-27(A). Its purpose is interchangeability: a vehicle from one NATO member state, fitted with a hook loading system, can load, carry and unload another member state's flatrack.
NATO has not released STANAG 2413 or APP-27(A) publicly. This page describes them from a public national implementation, the Czech defence standard ČOS 392001 (3rd edition, 2024), which states that it introduces STANAG 2413 edition 5 and APP-27(A), version 1, into Czech use. A national implementation can add national requirements and reservations, so treat what follows as the Czech implementation's content, not as NATO's own text.
What the Czech implementation requires of a flatrack
ČOS 392001 sets basic technical requirements for flatracks and miniflatracks, built on the German standards DIN 30722-2 and DIN 30722-3. A flatrack, with any cargo, must not weigh more than 16.5 tonnes, and the load must be distributed evenly. It must carry a manufacturer's plate giving total weight, payload weight, tare weight, serial number, manufacturer's name or trademark, and year of manufacture, plus a marking such as "Flatrack STANAG 2413 L 2400-W 2000" stating its length and width in millimetres. Where the contract requires them, a flatrack may have bottom ISO corner fittings built to ČSN ISO 1161 and a rope lifting device built to DIN 30722; its construction must otherwise meet ČSN ISO 668 and ČSN 26 9344/ISO 1161. Every point used to secure or sling the flatrack for transport must comply with ČOS 259004. The standard also sets out a functional test that checks whether a vehicle's hook loading system can load, transport, unload and correctly re-lock a flatrack, run unloaded and then loaded with material, with a wheeled vehicle and with a tracked vehicle, up to the weight limit.
The dimensions that make flatracks interchangeable
The Czech text calls this interoperability requirement zaměnitelnost, interchangeability: the ability of a NATO member state's vehicle, under normal operating conditions, to safely load, carry and unload another member state's flatrack or miniflatrack. Unless the contract sets a different length, a flatrack must be 5,900 mm to 6,650 mm long, per DIN 30722-2 and DIN 30722-3. Annex A gives normative dimensions for the hook hitch that connects the flatrack to a vehicle's handling system - its height, radius, diameter, and angle from the vertical and horizontal planes - and for the flatrack itself: the inner and outer width of its guide rails, a tunnel height of at least 150 mm clear of rollers and crossbars, and the shape and position of the locks that secure it to the vehicle's frame. A miniflatrack, no more than 2,500 mm long and 2,000 mm wide, uses lifting openings in its end members instead of a hook hitch; Annex B gives their spacing, length, height and width.
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