[Milsurplus] BC-348 comment

[Mike Morrow]

Hue wrote:

> I think i read that the USSR used the BC-348 derivative US-9 until,
> what, early 1980s?  That is a very long lifetime for a design that
> originated with the 1936  BC-224-A.  I cannot offhand think of
> another military communications design line that had a greater
> longevity.

I can.  

It's the AN/VRC-12 series (RT-246*/VRC, RT-524*/VRC, R-442*/VRC), first deployed in the early 1960s (first manuals dated 1969), and finally phased out of service in the US Army Reserves in 2008 after about 45 years of service.

And that's only the service with US forces.  The AN/VRC-12 series will likely continue to be used by small-country military forces the world over for many more years.

Mike / KK5F