[Milsurplus] AN/ART-2 thoughts

[Hubert Miller]

Reading about the AN/ART-2 on Mike Hanz's site,
http://aafradio.org/countermeasures/ART-2.html
it was very interesting to me to learn that this was carried by carrier planes and intended against Japan forces 'walkie-talkies'.
What came to mind immediately to me, not that I'm right or the expert, is against artillery spotters. I believe Japan AA
emplacements all relied on field phones rather than the cumbersome 94-6 talkies, so this would not be effective against
AA gunners. Of course I do not know the thinking behind the development of this jammer.

This 94-6 was the  most common of their talkies and it is not one you run thru the jungle carrying, no matter what the TM-E-*
pictures, as the antenna has a ground plane horizontal element also.  It was one you find a position for, set up and operate.
Plus in the battery-saving mode, you needed a second operator to crank the generator.
There was another formatted like our BC-611, but all the Japanese could manage to cram into it was one dual-triode tube, and this
model seems to be much rarer than the aforementioned 94-6.

It would be interesting to hear what the recipients of the jamming actually heard, and how far the jamming was effective. Offhand
I wouldn't think a fighter plane, or any plane actually, was a great platform for a walkie-talkie jammer. IF you have no AA opposition,
"maybe".
-Hue
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