Editing Magnavox (section)

==Defense Electronics==

The defense electronics group, centered in [[Fort Wayne, Indiana]], remained independent under the '''Magnavox Electronic Systems''' name, first under Philips and later in the [[Carlyle Group]], until it was acquired by [[Hughes Electronics]] in 1995.<ref name="washtech_magnavox">{{cite web |url=http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/11_1/news/10284-1.html |title=17 |website=www.washingtontechnology.com |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050226123115/http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/11_1/news/10284-1.html |archive-date=26 February 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The three areas of business of the MESC operation during the late 1980s and early 1990s were C-Cubed ([[Command, Control, and Communication]]), [[Electronic Warfare]], and [[sonobuoy]]s. When Hughes Electronics sold its aerospace and defense operations to [[Raytheon]], the former Magnavox defense operations were transferred as well.{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}} Shortly thereafter, Raytheon spun off the sonobuoy operation to form Under Sea Systems Inc (USSI), in [[Columbia City, Indiana]]. In 1998, Raytheon sold USSI to a British defense consortium named Ultra Electronics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whitleyedc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/WhitleyCoEDC_CaseStudies-USSI.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://whitleyedc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/WhitleyCoEDC_CaseStudies-USSI.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Ultra Electronics - USSI |website=Whitleyedc.com |access-date=2016-08-19}}</ref> The company is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Ultra, manufacturing water and acoustic sensing and communications devices for military and civil defense.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ultra-ussi.com/|title=Ultra Electronics&nbsp;— USSI, Innovation Through Experience|author=Nathan Schueth|website=Ultra-ussi.com|access-date=25 October 2014}}</ref>

Among the defense products Magnavox manufactured were the [[AN/ARC-164|AN/ARC-164 UHF radio]], AN/SSQ-53 series sonobuoys, AN/ALQ-128 EW equipment, AN/SSQ-62 series sonobuoys, and the [[Project Manager Battle Command#Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS)|Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System]] ([[Project Manager Battle Command#Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS)|AFATDS]]).<ref name="Forecast International">{{cite web |url=http://www.forecastinternational.com/archive/dc/dc1879.htm |title=Archived copy |website=www.forecastinternational.com |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080117130241/http://www.forecastinternational.com/archive/dc/dc1879.htm |archive-date=17 January 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>