MIL-HDBK-162A
Volume 1
15 December 1965
Section 3
DATE: 1 July 1964
ITEM NAME: INTERROGATOR RESPONSOR
COGNIZANT SERVICE: USN
TYPE: *BN, BN-1, BN-2
FEDERAL STOCK NUMBER:
*5895-665-3591
*5895-644-3384 W/S
USA
USN
USAF
USMC
STATUS OR TYPE CLASSIFICATION
Mfg(s) Name or Code Number: Farnsworth Television and Radio Corp., Fort Wayne, Indiana
transponder in a challenged craft, and in turn receives
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
an appropriately coded reply from the transponder. The
equipment then properly forms the reply for display on
The BN, BN-i and BN-2 IFF Interrogator Responsors
the associated radar indicator, thus establishing tile
are challenging and identifying units of the Mark Ill IFF
craft's friendly identity.
The BN is designed for
System. Operation involves a signal emitted from the
operation
interrogator-responsor which serves to trigger a
BN: 1