[Milsurplus] Navigation System

[Mike Hanz]

Gasp!!!  Could it be.......an actual collaborative acquisition? 

Naw...hard to break tradition.  Prolly just independent buys using the 
same specs...  :-)

There are some interesting wartime acquisition agency decisions for 
unlikely proponents - like the Norden bomb sight acquisition agent 
authority given to the Navy, who used it in the fleet far less than the 
USAAF - but the reasons associated with these decisions seem to be 
political and thus lost in time.

Mike Morrow wrote:

>Mike wrote:
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>>Funny, I've never seen a USAAF or USAF ARN-6, so I was thinking it was 
>>more of a Navy set.  All three examples here have Navy contract 
>>numbers.  It's curious what impressions we get from our environment. <g>
>>
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>That's odd...I'm just the opposite.  I've never actually seen one with a USN contract number, though I've flown in USN aircraft that I know used the AN/ARN-6.  
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>Over the years I've acquired more or less unintentionally an R-101, R101A, and a R-101B/ARN-6, and they all have those funky uninformative "AF (33)..." contract numbers on them that only tell you obviously that they are USAF acquisitions.
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