MIL-HDBK-162A
Volume 1
15 December 1965
Section 1
DATE: 1 July 1964
ITEM NAME: RADAR BEACON
COGNIZANT SERVICE: USN
TYPE: *AN/MPN-2
*F5825-642-7895 W/S
**AN/MPN-8
*F5825-665-3688
FEDERAL STOCK NUMBER
**F5825-694-2748
USA
USN
USAF
USMC
STATUS OH TYPE CLASSIFICATION
Mfg(s) Name or Code Number. Meissner Manufacturing Co., Mount Carmel, Illinois
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
spare parts and instruction books for the major
equipments are stored in the beacon van together with
The AN/MPN-2 and AN/MPN-B are mobile Radar
all required test equipment. The AN/MPN-B is a
Beacons which provide navigational aid and homing
modified version of the AN/MPN-2 which provides a "H"
facilities for aircraft. The major equipments of which
facility
each of these beacons is composed are permanently)
mounted in a beacon trailer or van which is provided
AN/MPN-2: 1