Platform Type

A mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive attribute based on size or features of the system on which the Item is installed, mounted or carried. This attribute is standardized across all Market Types.

Platform Type Segment

Artillery	Large caliber crew-served mounted firearms (e.g., guns, howitzers and rockets).
Fixed-wing	Air capable winged vehicles (self-propelled).
General Technology	Not assignable to or supporting, a specific platform category.
Ground Vehicle	Ground vehicles (self-propelled).
Ground/Fixed	Ground-based permanent installations.
Ground/Transportable	Ground-based, mobile but NOT self-propelled.
Helicopter	Air capable rotary wing vehicles (self-propelled).
Lighter than Air Craft	Neutrally buoyant, rigid or non-rigid, self-propelled air vehicles.
Manportable	Equipment designed to be carried by a warrior.
Missile	A flight-capable weapon containing its own propulsion and designed for self and target destruction on impact or by some trigger mechanism.
Multiple	Items having common usage or application for or on, multiple platforms.
Precision Guided Weapon	A category that includes PGMs and PGWs.
Ship	Surface vessels (self-propelled).
Space Launch Vehicle	Vehicles used for the propelling platforms into outer space.
Space Systems	Platforms designed for Space operations or travel.
Submarine	Undersea vessels (self-propelled).
Tilt-Rotor	Take-off and in-flight transitional, air capable vehicles (self-propelled).