Talk:List of military electronics of the United States

List of radars
When I find the time, I plan to add the US JETDS radars from List of radars to this article. 70.251.32.227 (talk) 20:22, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Bogus links
A lot of (supposed) equipment links were actually pointing to various aircraft and ship pages. (For example, the AN/ALQ-213 link was pointing at F-16 Fighting Falcon variants.) I'm guessing that a bot came through here at some and tried to deal with red links (or something)... I dunno. [shrug]
 * Bot, no. That was me!  ;)  It's more the other way around though; was trying to unify many of the disparate mentions of electronic systems by their designation codes, and to standarize the layout of this page.  I knew many of the links weren't ideal, but they were what existed at the time; it was all about bang for the buck.  If they now have pages in their own right, then I have been somewhat successful!  70.250.179.149 (talk) 01:19, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

I changed the links so they now point at the appropriate equipment pages (and created some new red links in the process, in keeping with the rest of the page). -- Eriksiers (talk) 15:32, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * the cross connect problem with this page is just one of many. ultimatly this page could wind up being a mile long. the infanite number of types and versions (number) is mind boggling. whenever someone writes up a piece of equipment, half the time thay dont use the proper JTEDS nominclature, and then thay dont bother to catagorize it. I did a AN/ search once and tried to get everything cated. and listed. but it probably needs done again. and for some reason I get the feeling Im the only one who understands that if theres a 150 of somthing, than thers a 1-149 of somthing. Brian in denver (talk) 16:36, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, I did the same thing. Unfortunately, not everything can be found by searching for the AN/, as common convention is to drop it, and many article names don't specify the designation at all.  My goal is not to catalog everything, but I would like to get a better appreciation of what the bounds really are: what information is available, and from where?  Is there a government document that enumerates these somewhere?  If that info is available, I definitely feel it's relevant to the article here.

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 * ✅ - I removed the 2 reported dead links after verifying they were indeed dead. TadgStirkland401 (TadgTalk) 04:44, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Criteria to be On the List
I'd like to recommend this list be pared down quite a bit. There are far too many systems named on this list that will NEVER have an article written, yet there are links to that equipment here without any sort of description. I was about to add tons more information on systems not mentioned here from the website for Designations Of U.S. Military Electronic And Communications Equipment by Andreas Parch. Then I realized that I'd be wasting my time if the articles for all that equipment could never be written.

Wouldn't it be better to remove any links from this article that do not have even a description? Having only the AN designation with no description certainly does not help any researcher, so I'm not sure what good they do on this list... Thoughts from anyone? TadgStirkland401 (TadgTalk) 19:58, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Aye. Remove red links but save the text for the generations to come. A splendid idea. The only good is that they could shed some light upon a function of yet another AN/ if the last three letters do match and the numerals are somewhere not too far (if we know for sure that AN/ARC-27 and the rest ARCs are aircraft radio communication systems, then we can assume with a considerable amount of accuracy that ARC-1 to -10 also belong to that kind of stuff). ВоенТех (talk) 18:58, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I will work on it starting from the top of the list. But this is a huge endeavor. Would you be able to start at the bottom of the list and we meet somewhere in the middle? Looking at the much more exhaustive listing here (JETDS AN/ Listings), there are tons of equipment designations that never made it to this list. Not sure it would be helpful to scour and scrub the entire list adding things that will never have articles. Thoughts? Am I wasting my time here? TadgStirkland401 (TadgTalk) 21:49, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Its bottom is not yet reached (because it is bottomless). I'm thinking about to turn the list into a table:
 * something like that. ВоенТех (talk) 10:57, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I really like the idea of a table, I was thinking the same thing. But it would take a hurculean amount of work to accomplish it... This single page could take us weeks to get finished. I'm willing to go through and remove the red-links, if you want to work on the table. Is that a fair deal? I'd recommend a different table for each letter of the alphabet to make it easier later for updating. TadgStirkland401 (TadgTalk) 16:51, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
 * So be it. ВоенТех (talk) 10:50, 18 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Okay, I've stopped completely here. I want to say "Houston, we have a problem". I've discovered this list is badly out of alphabetical order. I don't know of an easy way to fix it. If I export the entire list in the "A" listing to a spreadsheet for editing and reordering, I will probably lose many of the "links" to articles. Can you think of an easy way around this problem? --TadgStirkland401 (TadgTalk) 05:08, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
 * There are several things which come to mind
 * The first one is to split the list into subpages (List of military electronics of the United States/A, List of military electronics of the United States/B, and so on,) leaving this one as a rootpage with a navigation header. Then we would deal with each letter separately, which I think is more convenient.
 * Another way to remedy the problem is to add sorting options to the table. We would not be bothered by the fact that some entries, which are already there, or new entries are out of alphabetical order, because the table itself would sort them automatically upon a click.
 * ВоенТех (talk) 10:07, 20 August 2018 (UTC)