How i can read the "NATO SERIAL NUMBER"??

[moretz]

A simply question...

How i can read the nato serial number??

ex. from a desert S95 british combat shirt:

CG 8415-99-978-6903

How i can "read" this series of number?

thanks to all.

[Moddy]

A simply question...

How i can read the nato serial number??

ex. from a desert S95 british combat shirt:

CG 8415-99-978-6903

How i can "read" this series of number?

thanks to all.

If I understand your question correctly, and you want to know how you could work out what the serial number means without actually having the item infront of you? If so, then this puzzles me aswell!

I've searched the internet for information on NATO Serial Numbers before, and I can never find anything on them.

I think its more todo with Logistics. i.e A soldier asks for a specific bit of kit, the quarter-master looks that up on a database and finds the number then orders the kit off of the supplier using the number. I'd love to have access to that database though, just to see all the different bits of kit that have NATO SN's.

[fc12]

hello guys,
sorry, this link isnt specific to the item you were interested in moretz, but it does explain what the general breakdown of the NSN number represents. Moddy, you are absolutely right, the number itself is pretty meaningless to the user of the kit, it is purely a standard Nato logistical coding system, hence the acronym..

http://www.ncb.mod.uk/nsn.htm

[moretz]

Thanks to all..

i'm agree with fc12 that every number identify a piece of item..
and thanks for the help moddy, the problem is to find the "database"..
You understand my question correctly..

I have a us bdu jacket....the "8415" is the same for the british jackets and for a US BDU Jacket..so the jackets are "8415", same code in a italian bdu jacket..

Other ideas are wellcome..!!

[seventy6er]

A simply question...

How i can read the nato serial number??

CG 8415-99-978-6903

How i can "read" this series of number?




material group
materical class
country code
counting-number without special meanin (to catalogize)


material code 5120 for example consists of ther material group 51 (tools) and material class 20 (non-cutting)

country code: 99 Great-Britain, 00/01 USA, 12 Germany, 14 France etc.

http://www.logabw.de/portal/PA_1_0_LT/PortalFiles/02DB040000000001/W26FAGQN036INFODE/Versorgungsnummer-420x104.jpg?yw_repository=youatweb

[moretz]

Thanks a lot..!

[Thunder]

country code: 99 Great-Britain, 00/01 USA, 12 Germany, 14 France etc.
National Code Listing

Code Country Name Source
00 USA E, N
01 USA E, N
02 USA E, N
03 USA
09 NAMSA N
11 NATO E, N
12 Germany, FRG E, N
13 Belgium E, N
14 France E, N
15 Italy E, N
16 Czech Rep. N
17 Netherlands E, N
20 Canada E, N
21 Canada N
22 Denmark E, N
23 Greece E,N,B
24 Iceland E, N
25 Norway E, N
26 Portugal E, N
27 Turkey E,B
28 Luxembourg E
29 Argentina E
30 Japan E,B
31 Israel E,B
32 Singapore E
33 Spain N
34 Malaysia B
35 Thailand E,B
43 Poland N
50 Bulgaria B
51 Hungary N
66 Australia E,N,B
71 ? B
98 New Zealand E,B
99 Great Britain E,N

[EsoognomEhT]

I worked in the stores for two weeks last year, entering NSN's into UNICOM (piece of ****!)...worst time of my life! Was slightly funny if I entered a number in wrong and ended up putting down something like a bog brush on someone's kit issue list he he he