[Milsurplus] BC-348 comment

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Actually, if you date them from when the Army first asked for them and 
assigned the original system nomenclature (AN/VRC-12) it's even longer.  At a 
guess, around 1949.  It took nearly two decades for technology to advance to 
the point where something meeting the design requirements could be built.

Robert Downs - Houston
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In a message dated 08/11/2016 15:22:41 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kk5f at earthlink.net writes: 
> 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
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