Military Communication Equipment

The military area of this web site is sparse, although most of the Collins manufactured equipment in this site have been used for Military applications. One of the interesting stores that came out of the "Desert Storm" war with Iraq was the reapplication of the tube type Collins communication equipment (S-Line). The story told was, "the new solid-state equipment would fail because of the high electrostatic conditions that are prevalent in the desert (sand, dry, windy)". These conditions deposit high electrostatic charges on the antennas that connected to solid-state receiver RF amplifiers. Everyone knows an electrical storm will do the same thing causing us to immediately disconnect the antennas on our solid-state equipment.