[Milsurplus] Newly acquired RT-46/TRC-10

[Hubert Miller]

I would confidently wager that no TRC-10 were manufactured postwar. When you consider the low production count,
even if the 155 figure is not absolutely correct, it's unreasonable to think that some production line dribbled these out at
such a slow pace over many months. This is just a semi-educated guess, but I also believe the radio wouldn't be built
much past summer 1945. We know it was too late, and superfluous for Europe, where such task was already ending, and
also well provided for by existing radios there, by late 1944, and by the mid 1945 production date of the TRC-10, the role
for it in Asia was also ending. I still have not concluded for myself, anyway, if the Pilot docs clue that the radio was actually
issued for wartime use or not. The design review conferences, I suppose, could have possibly resulted in an AN/TRC-10-A,
if the changes were adopted and the production continued. I don't know. Maybe I  can sort this out some more.
-Hue
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