Need Radio/Telephone ID

Armor/AFV Modern
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Just building another HMMWV kit, this time M998 Stinger Carrier. I wonder what type of RT comes with the Tamiya HMMWV kit.

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That’s a VRC-160, the vehicle adapter mount for a PRC-25/PRC-77. Unless you’re doing a very early or National Guard HMMWV, it should best be replaced by one of the SINCGARS radios.

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Thanks Carlos, then I will stick to a resin SINCGARS. My model will be from 2001 FTX Troop Challenge.

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Sounds good. Save that 160 set up for a M113 or M151 or some other type likely to have dismount troops that need a radio to dismount as well.

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All the tanks and other vehicles I was on up through Desert Storm used those radios. Non-frontline units still had them well into the 90s.
Ken

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SINCGARS was introduced around the time of Desert Storm, but who knows how many units there would have been equipped with the stuff. I know that my Guard unit did not trade in our stuff for SINCGARS until 2004 over a decade later. Who knows when the changeover army wide including all Guard and Reserve units was completed? I suspect that many were like us and it wasn’t until being slated for mobilization and deployment that the exchange occurred.

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We had the singars in Bosnia in ‘97 in our up armored hummers. I was in a Reserve MP unit. But those were not the vehicles from my home station which were the older non armored hummers.

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Yup. In the late 90’s my Guard unit went to Hohenfels a couple of times to augment the OPFOR there. We drew SINCGARS there, and that was my introduction to the type. The big POS PRC-119A. Met the 119E a few years later and was much more impressed by that radio.

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The Singars were definitely better than the older stuff but I don’t recall having many problems with our vehicle radios in the M113s. It was when we dismounted the PRC -77s that we had some issues.

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I just put one of these in an 80s vintage 113 as filler! Yay getting it right!

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I am about to build this.

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Nice SINCGARS set available from the “Shapeways” 3D printing site:

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Here installed in my HEMTT LHS:

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Yes they are, and a bunch of other commo equipment from our own Michael “MikeyBugs95” Goldberg.

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