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    A tactical air navigation system, commonly referred to by the acronym TACAN, is a navigation system initially designed for naval aircraft to acquire moving...
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    visual range (BVR) employment. Yardstick Directive to use air-to-air tactical air navigation (A/A TACAN) for ranging. List of established military terms...
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    low-frequency radio range, VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) and tactical air navigation system (TACAN). NDB signals follow the curvature of the Earth,...
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    The distance measuring equipment did not lock onto the McMurdo Tactical Air Navigation System (TACAN) for any useful period.: 7  Cockpit voice recorder...
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    SCR-277 Tactical air navigation (TACAN) Transponder Landing System (TLS) Transit (satellite) VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) X-ray pulsar-based navigation Wide...
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    effort to better direct air strikes, the U. S. Air Force installed four tactical air navigation systems in Laos to guide U. S. air strikes. One of these...
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    The Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) aimed to replace existing radios in the American military with a single set of software-defined radios that could...
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    search, air search, and weather radar systems, radar video switchboards, synchros, Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) equipment, tactical air navigation equipment...
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    Tactical Air Command (TAC) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. It was a Major Command of the United States Air Force, established on...
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    VHF omnidirectional range (category Aeronautical navigation systems)
    a radio-based navigational aid for aircraft pilots consisting of a co-located VHF omnidirectional range and a tactical air navigation system (TACAN)...
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    frequency (VHF) radio communication systems are present, along with a Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) and automatic direction finder (ADF). An instrument landing...
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  • Acceptance TAC – Tactical Air Command (disestablished MAJCOM) TAC-P – Tactical Air Control Party TACAN – Tactical Air Navigation TACON – Tactical Control TAFCSD...
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    Flight operations were assisted by the distinctive new "Cake Stand" tactical air navigation system. Baku was used for trials of the Yak-141 Freestyle supersonic...
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    Non-Directional Beacon (NDB) Racon Radio navigation Range light Sea mark Signal station Submarine signals Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) VHF Omni-directional Range...
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    able to perform 3D combat operations on both the surface, underwater and air. It was commissioned on January 7, 2019, with the original name as HTMS Tha...
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    MIRADOR electro-optical observation and fire control system and LINK 11/16 tactical data link system. On 2 July 2015 ORP Ślązak was christened during official...
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    which has a bar-shaped dome that houses the antennas for tactical data link, Tactical Air Navigation System (TACAN), and communications. According to ATLA...
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  • able to provide precision calibration/test flights of civil and tactical air navigation systems both in Hungary and abroad. The first "Turbolet" aircraft...
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  • components group. Moog Navigation and Surveillance Systems (NaSS) was established in 1955 and registered its first Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) patents in...
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    its effort to better direct air strikes, the USAF installed four tactical air navigation systems in Laos to guide US air strikes. One of these was emplaced...
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    the signal and trace it back to its source. The existing system, tactical air navigation (TACAN), is not encrypted or concealed in any way, which can reveal...
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    LVT(2), LVT(3), or JTRS Terminals Signal Message Processor (SMP) Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) Voice Tailored Processor (TP)/Avionic MUX (1553B/3910)...
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    Navy. It is able to perform 3D combat operations on surface, underwater and air. The lead ship of the class, named HTMS Bhumibol Adulyadej, was constructed...
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    range (VOR) and tactical air navigation system (TACAN) avionics systems; a long range navigation system (LORAN-C); an inertial navigation system (INS);...
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    friend or foe (IFF) transponders, airborne radars, weather radars, tactical air navigation (TACAN) transponders, distance measurement equipment (DME) beacons...
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    omnidirectional range and instrument landing system (VOR-ILS), a tactical air navigation system (TACAN) and identification friend or foe (IFF) transponder...
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    general purpose computers, improved inertial measurement units and tactical air navigation systems, enhanced master events controllers and multiplexer-demultiplexers...
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    Instrument Landing System (ILS), radar altimeter, UHF/VHF radio sets, Tactical Air Navigation system (TACAN) and a ground data link. Other avionics include an...
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    communications, and tactical air navigation system and instrument landing system receivers. It also has an internally mounted, tactical electronic warfare...
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    A United States Air Force Tactical Air Control Party, commonly abbreviated TACP, is an individual or team of United States Air Force Special Warfare Airmen...
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