[ARC5] anyone know what it is?

[J. Forster]

NOT a sonobuoy. It's a PPN-7.

Think the Rebecca-Eureka system....  used by the Pathfinders of WWII para
drops.

The PPN-1s were in the very first para drops, before the soldiers started
being air dropped into occupied europe. They are RADAR transponders. Those
worked w/ the APN-2 and BC-929-A.

The PPN-1s are among the rarest of WW II kit, and a clean one will fetch
>$10,000; the later version, the PPN-2, are almost as rare.

The one on eBay is a much later version.

-John

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> Looks like a sonobouy but it's rf not sonic I think.
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> http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/130892126425
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>
> Thanks,
>              Jay KE6PPF
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