This was the first device to encode/decode Mk XV IFF. In 1985, the US Department of Defense was pressuring the Joint Combat Identification Program Office, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to accelerate the development timetable and cut the projected cost of a new NATO identification system, the Mk 15, intended to replace the long-used Mk 12 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system.

 

Above and Below: Photos by Ralph Simpson

 

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Credits and Contributors:

1) Ralph Simpson <ralphenator(at)gmail.com>

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