Special Features:

Items are being coded as critical to insure source inspection will be performed at the point of manufacture, prior to material receipt by the us navy or other dod components. These items are piece parts or end items in support of vital military hardware necessary to sustain the successful mission of the ships, submarines, and shore stations of the us navy. Critical features including, but not limited to, dimensions, tolerances/clearances, electronic characteristics, and metallurgical properties will bespecified for government q ar (quality assurance representatives) to insure the highest possible degree of quality and reliability of these parts being delivered under navicp contracts

Properties:

An item consisting of electrical conductors separated from each other by a continuous homogeneous dielectric (including porous types and touching and/or interlocking beads or spacers), and designed primarily for the conduction of radio frequency energy. Includes a single conductor inclosed in an outer concentric conductor (coaxial) with or without a protective sheath; two or more coaxial cables laid parallel with an outer electrical shield and/or common sheath; two or more parallel conductors with an outer electrical shield and/or a common sheath; two or more individually insulated twisted conductors with or without an electrical shield and/or protective covering. All types have low-loss or special characteristics at high frequencies. Refers to bulk quantities only; for items of definite length with processed ends or terminated in fittings, see cable assembly, radio frequency. See also line, radio frequency transmission.