[ARC5] Bare Aluminum USN sets.

[Francesco Ledda]

The Russians have been masters of high volume / lower quality. Lenin himself
used to say that "quantity is a quality of its own".  

Now, I am sure that there is a balance between this two things; Is it better
to have 20 B2 bombers at a tag of $2B/each or having 80 B1Bs at a tag of
$500M/each? Is it better to have an F-35 at $120M/each or 3 F-15E at about
$50M?  

We won WW2 thanks to our superior numbers; the German, very likely, had the
best tanks and probably the best airplanes but did not have enough.  Are we
making the same mistakes that the Germans made 60 years ago? Probably so!  

FL
KF5RXV

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From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Mike Hanz
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 9:49 AM
To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Bare Aluminum USN sets.

Possibly - it's an approach that is often used in today's world, otherwise
known as risk management. Basically it's a value judgement, sometimes based
on statistics on how likely damage might be to occur, versus the cost of
simply being reactive to such damage - if and when it occurs - and paying
the price.  The problem with using that technique on military gear is that
the price may not be so easily quantifiable when you are talking about
preserving the life of a highly trained airman.  
It also then brings up the question of why 99% of the other Navy radio
equipment was specified with black wrinkle paint, with a salt spray
sub-specification?  That sounds relatively proactive to me. :-\

  - Mike

On 10/19/2012 9:49 AM, J. Forster wrote:
> Maybe because they figured the plane would crash or be shot down, long 
> before the radio could corrode?  :)
>
> -John
>> Mike wrote:
>>
>> "It makes one wonder why the WECO AN/ARR-2 wasn't also produced in 
>> bare aluminum."
>>
>> That's an easy one, and the answer is because they were purchased 
>> under a Navy contract to Navy specifications.
>> The real question is: Why did the Navy put up with un-painted VHF ARC-5s?
>> Materials shortage maybe??
>> Or maybe because many Tx's were converted from the SCR-274N  flavor 
>> of VHF equipment??
>> J. Horn KA7GKP

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