[Milsurplus] Cable Connectors

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Also:
TA-12
RAX
AN/ARC-5 remote spot tuner
TCS
ATC
TCZ
ARB
ATB
ATD
RL-5,6,7

And probably a few more.  But arguably all Navy.

The AN series seem to have been most common on airborne radar and 
countermeasures sets, and therefore might be expected most likely on gun systems.  
Excluding audio (and telephone), coaxial, twinaxial, Spiral Four, and AC and 
DC power distribution type connectors, there were as best I can figure seven 
basic common connector families used with US military electronic equipment 
during WW-II:

AN
"K"
"P"
Large banana pin
Mini banana pin
Jones
Multi Pin Rack and Panel (of the general type used on AN/ARR-15, BC-603, 
604, etc., and a few others)

Of these, only one, the AN, included what might be described as a flange 
mounted cable connector.  I.e., designed to terminate a jacketed cable at a 
bulkhead.  

In a message dated 4/5/2010 9:31:15 PM Central Daylight Time, jfor at quik.com 
writes: 
> I don't think the Cannons were used on that much. I can only think of:
> 
> MN-26
> RA-10
> ART-13
> 
> FWIW,
> -John
> 
> ===================
> 
> 
> >I was going to say that it was probably either AN Series or Cannon
> >K-Series.  (AN didn't become MS until early in the Korean War).  If you
> >have a
> >photograph of the connector on either side of the interface, that would
> >probably
> >answer half of the question.  The main difference between the two series
> >(at
> >least to the layman) was that the AN-series had a relatively fine pitch
> >V-form thread whereas the K-series used Acme threads.
> >
> 

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