[Milsurplus] Re: Aerospace hardware

[J. Forster]

BOEING377 at aol.com wrote:

> snip..

> . I did see REAL (not dummy) Sidewinder IR seeker heads there on one occasion. I knew what they looked like cause my employer made them. Back then (1980s) we werent thinking in 9-11 mode. The good old days.

Either Meshna or B&F in the Boston area sold them. The detector was a lens and detector about 1.5" diameter with a BSM connector, as I remember, and was used in a conical scan bird. They were common for $5 to $10 years ago.

-John