[Milsurplus] Another try for info on the T-96 jammer

[Rick Larson]

Hi all,

I took some photos of the T-96 with some links below to help everyone figure out what I'm talking about.

This item is definitely dropped from a bomb rack like a piece of ordnance. It is 7" in diameter and 42" long. There is a parachute in the tail that deploys when the tail fin retarder pulls off the back and opens it up. When the chute opens, the nose sleeve drops off the front of the device and pays out the antenna wire.

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While looking it over for photos (the first time in 20+ years), I noted the identification decal on the underside of the body. It refers to it as a transmitter T-96/CRT-2. With that additional bit of info, I checked Fred Chesson's list where it was described as an expendable parachute-dropped jammer operating on 2000-2500 KC. He also references TM 11-512, 1944 as a source of information. Anyone have a copy of that manual?

I'm still interesting in knowing more about this piece and if anybody else has one in their radio collection. How were they employed, assuming they ever were? These used to be fairly common in surplus stores here in the Portland, OR area when I was a kid, but haven't seen many elsewhere. Thanks!

Rick