[Milsurplus] Help with equipment identification

Mike Morrow kk5f at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 11 00:57:27 EDT 2013


Robert wrote:

> From 1966 on, LPH's carried about a dozen of them configured as AN/VRC-46 
> to talk to the Grunts on the beach.  Some with TSEC/KY-8's.

And LPDs and LSTs carried them as well.

I also forgot to mention that an AN/VRC-46 was on the port side of every LVTP-5
amphibious tractor from the mid-1960s to the 1980s.  No NESTOR KY-8 gear though,
that I ever saw.  Also no NESTOR on the riverine PBRs and PCFs.

Mike / KK5F

 


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