Talk:Tactical air navigation system

message: I'm certain TACAN is used by most NATO countries, but I'm not sure about other countries. From a quick google search I've found some pages that indicate some former Soviet Union ships had systems either identical or similar to TACAN. These systems were code named 'Cake Stand' and 'Round House' by NATO. Nothing really suitable for a reference though. Anyone out there have a link to something comparing TACAN with Round House and Cake Stand? --Dual Freq 00:54, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Based on google searches, RSBN appears to be a system that is similar to TACAN as well. --Dual Freq 15:12, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: From RANTEC sales page, "Antennas built by Rantec are currently in use by the U.S. military, by most free-world military forces, by the FAA and by many other civilian aviation authorities worldwide."  That seems to indicate more than US usage. I added NATO to try to indicate this was not a US only system, maybe the intro para should say something like most military and worldwide civil aviation. I think these were in former Soviet states as well as East Germany, so this doesn't seem like a US only system. Any opinions? --Dual Freq 12:17, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

text: I guess I should have elaborated, the Round House and Cake Stand are shipboard systems normally found in pairs on Soviet / Russian ships. This link has pictures and describes Round House as TACAN, but I was looking for more info than where the antennas are located. I was wondering if they are the same as TACAN or if they simply do the same thing, provide range bearing, but are incompatible with TACAN. This 4 MB image is a US DOD image of an Udaloy cruiser, the "Round House" antennas are the white antennas in the top-middle of the image. I guess it's a mute point as the article now says used by military aircraft. Maybe the next question should be can you buy a civil tacan receiver that displays range and bearing? If so maybe the military part can be removed. --Dual Freq 00:33, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Russian / Non-NATO TACAN systems

message: I'm converting the current references to the new format.  The current references both have the name to relate to the second reference (systems pdf), so I'm linking both of them to that and leaving the other reference with no links to it.  If this is wrong please fix it or let me know.--Small black sun 21:36, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: > Like all other forms of ground-based aircraft radio navigation currently used, it is likely that TACAN will be replaced by some form of space based navigational system such as GPS.
This is one very unlikely auguration in the article, because ground-based GPS jammer emitters, space warfare anti-satellite missiles or cyber-hacking attacks against GPS satellite control centers could create a single point of failure. (Not to mention the possibility of the Sun suddenly ejecting a few tens of billion metric tons of corona some day, complete with an EMP that fries sats faster than KFC fries chickens.)
As long as every major airport has its own radio-based landing aid system on its own soil, it is much more difficult for the chinese/russians/iranians/sun-worshippers to achieve an "all imperialist airplanes fall out of the sky" day.
Major airport operators of all countries would have to be exceptionally stupid or dazzled by cost-saving / profit-maximizing promises to make radio landing aids located on their own grass redundant. 91.82.38.209 (talk) 21:21, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Will happen on the 30th of February. 

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message: I removed this section completely because it was based on a 2001 reference that no longer conveyed any useful information about the future. I would welcome a new Future section from a subject-matter expert. 67.188.1.213 (talk) 19:52, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
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