[Milsurplus] Comparison of Navy vs Army Air Corps equipment

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That's true, but there are other reasons for the difference in availability 
between Navy and Signal Corps gear.  First, there was a roughly 20:1 difference 
in the acquisition rate.  Second, except for Naval Air, when the Navy 
decommissioned a ship, more often than not it went to the mothball fleet with most 
gear still aboard.  When the Army retired a vehicle, more often than not they 
scrapped or surplused out everything in it.  So a lot of the Navy stuff (except 
for aircraft) filtered out slowly over the years, as the ships in the reserve 
fleet were finally scrapped.

In a message dated 7/2/2006 7:09:00 PM Central Daylight Time, w8au at sssnet.com 
writes: 
> Fair Radio sold them (as I remember) but their cost was far higher 
> than the ARC-5 stuff.  Navy gear, being bigger and heavier, never 
> became popular until about 20 years ago..

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