[Milsurplus] Naval Aviation Navigation

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At 08:00 PM 3/13/06, D C (Mac) Macdonald wrote:
>TACAN = TACtical Aid to Navigation

Back on my DDR, (Destroyer/Radar Picket) our TACAN
was always referred to as:

Tactical Air Control And Navigation.

The "air" part of it was usually demonstrated
when a "Panther" or an A-4 would come screaming
in right over us after "homing in."

Neato...

Perry   w8au