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STANAG 4357
STANAG 4357 allied vehicle testing publications
Manufacturers and suppliers of military vehicles, and the national procurement and test authorities that specify and verify vehicle testing programmes.
STANAG 4357 is the NATO agreement covering AVTP-01, the allied publications that set out how military vehicles are tested before they enter service. NATO has not released it publicly; this page describes it from the Czech defence standard that implements it.
- Edition
- 1
- Published
- 1991-08-06
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 4357 is the NATO Standardization Agreement covering AVTP-01, Allied Vehicle Testing Publications. Edition 1, promulgated in August 1991, sponsored by NATO's land armaments group (CNAD, AC/225 NAAG, LCGLE). Its stated goal is to bring the provisions of AVTP-1 into national use so that vehicle testing and verification conditions are compatible between nations, test results can be mutually recognised among NATO armies, and the process of bringing a new military vehicle into service is more efficient.
NATO has not released STANAG 4357 or AVTP-01 publicly. This page describes them from a public national implementation, the Czech defence standard ČOS 051628 (1st edition, Prague 2019), which states that it introduces STANAG 4357 edition 1 and AVTP-01 edition 1 into Czech use for testing military vehicles. 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
ČOS 051628 sets out the review a military vehicle must pass before it can be introduced into service with the Czech Armed Forces. A vehicle may be introduced only once it has been reviewed against the standard's provisions, with the scope of testing set out in a test programme per AVTP-1-00-04. Manufacturers and suppliers of military vehicles, and the finalists of applications built on their chassis, must submit proof of that review, carried out by an independent, authorised and appointed test facility. Where a manufacturer instead offers results from another nation's national vehicle test and evaluation centre, the Czech standard allows those to be accepted, in line with ČOS 999901, if an independent authorised test facility performs the overall evaluation and verifies the test procedures against AVTP-1, test series 00, test 11.
The test areas AVTP-01 sets out
An annex to ČOS 051628 lists the individual AVTP-1 test methodologies and recommends the requirement wording to cite for each. Between them they cover: vehicle dimensions, weight distribution and centre of gravity; mobility performance such as speed and acceleration, gradient climbing, traction, soft-terrain mobility, fording and amphibious capability; standard obstacle crossing, steering and manoeuvrability; braking; engine cold-start and cooling; external and interior noise; shock, vibration and ride effects on the crew; toxic hazards, air conditioning and workplace lighting for the crew; electrical power systems and electromagnetic compatibility; climatic environment testing; reliability, availability, maintainability and durability (RAM-D) testing; and transportability by road, sea and air, together with ancillary equipment such as winches, cranes and stowage. The annex marks some of these as applying to all vehicles and others as conditional, for example acoustic detection testing for combat and special military vehicles, or air and sea transportability testing only where that mode of transport is a firm requirement.
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