[Milsurplus] Long-lived (on active duty) US Radio Sets

[John Vendely]

On 2/15/2013 2:23 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
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> The AN/ARC-27/55 is one of the most important command sets in US military history,
> starting at least in 1952 and maybe a little earlier.  Some were still in service
> in the 1970s, after more than 25 years of service.
At NAS Pensacola in 1986, I saw an operational C-130 which had the 
ARC-27, ARN-6, and ARN-21D TACAN.  Probably one of the "last of the 
Mohicans"...
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> But forget all of those.  *None* of these meet the service duration of the AN/VRC-12
> series.  These FM tactical radios were first deployed around 1961, and were finally
> phased out of US service in 2008.
In 1992, there were still two U.S. manufacturers producing modest 
quantities of VRC-12 family radios (including the PRC-77). Incredible...

John K9WT
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