[ARC5] Vietnam US Army Aircraft Radio Gear

[J. Forster]

Couldn't much of the list be for communication with just about anything
and anybody on the ground?

-John

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> Jeep wrote:
>
>> The "High Bird" concept for air-to-air and air-to-ground relay and
>> command/control was very active in VN...
>> ...FAC aircraft had VHF-FM and UHF. The twin Cessna 337s (O-2s) and
>> O-1Es had UHF and FM (typically an ARC-44).  Most O-1s had ARC Type 12
>> equipment as well.
>
> One tends to think of the UH-1 helicopters that came to visually define
> the Vietnam war in TV news reports as being plentiful in numbers and used
> as a general use-for-everything aircraft.  It amazes me the amount of
> radio
> equipment that was standard on most of these.  Perhaps the best example
> are the UH-1D/H models in the late 1960s, which typically carried:
>
> AN/ARC-51BX             UHF-AM command (Collins)
> AN/ARC-102, CU-991/AR   MF/HF SSB (Collins) (only on some C&C aircraft)
> AN/ARC-131              VHF-FM tactical (Magnavox)
> AN/ARC-134              VHF-AM command (Wilcox)
> AN/ARN-82               VHF VOR (Collins)
> AN/ARN-83               LF/MF ADF (Collins)
> AN/APX-72               IFF Mark XII (Admiral and others)
> C-1611*/AIC             Interphone (RCA and others)
>
> That is a tremendous amount of sophisticated top-grade avionics in a small
> and numerous utility aircraft...equipment that could well serve any large
> military aircraft capable of intercontinental navigation.
>
> Mike / KK5F
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