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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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    Augmentation System (WAAS) is an air navigation aid developed by the Federal Aviation Administration to augment the Global Positioning System (GPS), with...
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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, so they...
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    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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    wireless, and jam-resistant digital information system currently providing Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN), Link-16, and J-Voice to airborne, ground...
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    VHF omnidirectional range (category Aeronautical navigation systems)
    radio-based navigational aid for aircraft pilots consisting of a co-located VHF omnidirectional range and a tactical air navigation system (TACAN) beacon...
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    An inertial navigation system (INS; also inertial guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers)...
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    probe was also fitted. Other optional equipment included a tactical air navigation system (TACAN) receiver and a drogue parachute, the latter of which...
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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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    existing systems must be in doubt. Local area augmentation system (LAAS) Tactical air navigation system (TACAN) Transponder landing system (TLS) ICAO...
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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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    range/Tactical air navigation system (VORTAC) (Navaid: LFV) and radar site, part of the Joint Surveillance System (JSS), designated by NORAD as Eastern Air...
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    briefing, compared the coordinates of the McMurdo tactical air navigation system (TACAN) navigation beacon (about 5 km or 3 mi east of McMurdo NDB), and...
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    program offices: PMA-207: Tactical Airlift Program PMA-261: H-53 Helicopters Program PMA-264: Air Anti-Submarine Warfare Systems Program PMA-271: Airborne...
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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 AN/SPS-67 search radar. The new mast also incorporates a Tactical Air Navigation System (TACAN) antenna. The aft mast was changed to be placed in front...
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    guidance system, flight instruments, ultra high frequency communications, and tactical air navigation system and instrument landing system receivers...
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    The Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) is an L band Distributed Time Division Multiple Access (DTDMA) network radio system used by the...
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    Ferranti Blue Vixen all-weather airborne radar BAE Systems AD2770 Tactical Air Navigation System Thales MADGE Microwave Airborne Digital Guidance Equipment...
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    (UNICORN) NORA-50 integration mast and Tactical Air Navigation System (TACAN), the former of which has tactical data antennas contained in its bar-shaped...
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    furnished with an Instrument Landing System (ILS), radar altimeter, UHF/VHF radio sets, Tactical Air Navigation system (TACAN) and a ground data link. Other...
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  • creating an icy runway under a 500-foot cloud ceiling. Dow's tactical air navigation system glide slope function was temporarily disabled after the first...
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    (VOR) and tactical air navigation system (TACAN) avionics systems; a long range navigation system (LORAN-C); an inertial navigation system (INS); radar...
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  • information manual : (TC AIM). Transport Canada. OCLC 1083332661. "CNS/ATM Systems" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. "FAR/AIM Series". Aviation...
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  • including a Pave Penny laser seeker, an Inertial navigation system (INS), a Tactical air navigation system (TACAN), fore & aft Radar warning receivers (RWR)...
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    has a bar-shaped dome that houses the antennas for tactical data link, Tactical Air Navigation System (TACAN), and communications. According to the Acquisition...
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    of Air Navigation, commonly known as Eurocontrol (stylised EUROCONTROL), is an international organisation working to achieve safe and seamless air traffic...
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    Aircrew (redirect from Tactical crew)
    radio navigation aids were not originally available. As sophisticated electronic air navigation aids and universal space-based GPS navigation systems came...
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    AN/ASG-14T1 ranging radar, tactical air navigation system (TACAN), and an AN/ARC-34 UHF radio. The AN/ASG-14 fire control system used a 24-inch (610 mm)...
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    the Hollandse Signaal Mk 22 Weapon Control System for its missiles, and a tactical air navigation system (TACAN). The CCS 280 by Litton, which was a...
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