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STANAG 2829
STANAG 2829 materials handling equipment
Makers and buyers of military materials handling equipment - forklifts, mobile cranes, container handlers and vehicles fitted with loading equipment - for NATO armed forces.
STANAG 2829 is the NATO agreement on materials handling equipment - forklifts, mobile cranes, container handlers and loading-crane vehicles. NATO has not released it publicly; this page describes it from the Czech defence standard that implements it.
- Edition
- 6
- Published
- 2024-03-21
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 2829 is the NATO Standardization Agreement on materials handling equipment. Edition 6, promulgated 21 March 2024 under NATO's MC, MCLSB, CSS and SP committees, covers the publication APP-23 (Edition B). Its purpose is equipment that armed forces can use interchangeably in peacetime, crisis and conflict: lifting trucks, mobile cranes, vehicles fitted with loading equipment, and the conveyors that move material between them.
NATO has not released STANAG 2829 or APP-23 publicly. This page describes them from a public national implementation, the Czech defence standard ČOS 399004 (3rd edition, amendment 3), which states that it introduces STANAG 2829 edition 6 and APP-23 edition B into Czech use. The Czech accession carries one reservation, on the maximum overall width of mobile cranes, reflected in the standard's Annex F. 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 covers
ČOS 399004 groups materials handling equipment into five kinds: lifting trucks (pallet trucks and forklifts), mobile cranes, equipment for handling ISO series 1 containers, vehicles fitted with a loading crane or a self-loading forklift, and conveyors, mobile or stationary. Except for pallet trucks and conveyors, equipment splits into category A, for paved or partly paved ground, and category B, for rough terrain and for loading and unloading military vehicles.
For pallet trucks, the standard sets the fork dimensions that let a truck take a standard four-way pallet: an outer fork width of at most 570 mm or 690 mm depending on the pallet's entry width, an inner fork spacing of at least 180 mm, and fork heights of at least 30 mm lowered and at least 185 mm raised.
The dimensional and performance requirements
Category A forklifts up to 2,000 kg capacity need a maximum overall height of 2,125 mm, a free lift of at least 600 mm and a lift height of at least 3,660 mm; those from 2,000 kg to 5,000 kg need a maximum height of 2,600 mm and the same 3,660 mm lift height. Category B forklifts add ground clearance of 250 mm or 300 mm depending on capacity, gradeability of up to 24.2 degrees climbing, fording depths of at least 750 mm, and a start-and-run range of -32°C to +49°C (or at minimum -19°C to +44°C).
Category A mobile cranes must meet ČSN EN 13000 and carry a load diagram. Category B mobile cranes add dimensional limits: a minimum ground clearance of 380 mm and a maximum transport height of 4,000 mm. NATO's transport-width limit is 2,500 mm up to 10,000 kg capacity and 2,750 mm from 10,000 kg to 20,000 kg; the Czech reservation caps both bands at 2,550 mm, while cranes from 20,000 kg to 30,000 kg keep the 3,250 mm NATO limit. The standard also sets longitudinal and lateral stability tests and recommends fording depths of up to 1,500 mm for beach landing operations.
Vehicles fitted with a loading crane need at least 1,200 kg of lifting capacity at 3,500 mm outreach. Mobile cranes and category B trucks must also carry a standard 24V NATO socket. An interoperability annex sets out how nations compare their equipment's dimensions against these limits during NATO exercises, and a table in the standard lists which category of equipment each NATO nation fields.
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