MIL-HDBK-162A
Volume 1
15 December 1965
Section 1
DATE: 15 April 1964
ITEM NAME: RADAR IDENTIFICATION SET
COGNIZANT SERVICE: USAF
TYPE: AN/MPX-7A
FEDERAL STOCK NUMBER: 5895-574-0388-EG
USA
USN
USAF
USMC
STATUS OR TYPE CLASSIFICATION
TS
Ultrasonics Corporation and Advance Industries
Mfg(s) Name or Code Number:
(Bell Aircraft Corporation OA-1267/MPX-7A ONLY
are received by an airborne transponder set, a coded
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
reply is transmitted back. The coded reply is received
by the receiver portion of the AN/UPX-6, with the mode
Radar Identification Set AN/MPX-7A provides Mark X
and code requirements and, if correct, it is decoded.
IFF and IM99 response for Close Support Control Set
The decoded signal is then displayed on PPI of the
AN/MSQ-IA. The AN/MPX-7A generates paired-pulse
associated radar as a target IFF response.
coded interrogations. When these coded interrogations
AN/MPX-7A: 1