[Milsurplus] ARC-58 (was B25 Aircraft Maintenance Manual - Radio System)

jhhaynes at earthlink.net jhhaynes at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 3 19:38:16 EST 2006


On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Mike Morrow wrote:

>
> BTW, the Collins AN/ARC-58 HF SSB set that was the mainstay of long
  range communications for USAF SAC aircraft through much of the Cold
  War after 1958 had a system cost of about $100,000 in today's dollars,
  so maybe Walt's price quote is not that unrealistic.

So which airplanes got ARC-58s and which got ARC-65s?  I would assume
the ARC-58s were superior to the ARC-65s, but there must have been
a lot of the latter around.


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