Combat Readiness
Photograph
Combat Readiness
ca. 1980
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 7/8 × 11 7/8 in. (25.1 × 30.2 cm)
Gift of Jonathan Levine, 2024
2024.0041.0035
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on paper taped to verso and folded to recto BC: COMBAT READINESS for a wide range of U.S. Army vehicles is assured by the use of \ simplified test equipment (STE) built by RCA Automated Systems in Burlington, Mass. \ In this latest, expanded version of testing and diagnostic equipment already in use, \ an RCA filed mechanic uses a hand-held communicator attached to a portable STE unit \ to check one of the Army's new Bradley Fighting Vehicles. The tests and diagnoses \ cover the engine, stabilization system, gun system, TOW missile system and electrical \ power distribution systems. At right is and M-1 tank. It is also maintained with STE. \ -0-
Stamped in black ink on verso C: BASIL C. LEVINE \ CRAFTSMEN PHOTO COMPANY \ 250 WEST 40TH STREET \ NEW YORK, N.Y. 10018 \ 212 398-1260
Printed on verso OA: THIS PAPER \ MANUFACTURED \ BY KODAK
Stamped in black ink on verso C: BASIL C. LEVINE \ CRAFTSMEN PHOTO COMPANY \ 250 WEST 40TH STREET \ NEW YORK, N.Y. 10018 \ 212 398-1260
Printed on verso OA: THIS PAPER \ MANUFACTURED \ BY KODAK
