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  2. Direct Air Support Center - Wikipedia

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    The DASC is responsible for processing immediate air support requests; coordinates aircraft employment with other supporting arms; manages terminal control assets supporting GCE and combat service support element forces; and controls assigned aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and itinerant aircraft transiting through DASC controlled airspace.

  3. Marine Tactical Data System - Wikipedia

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    The system was developed in the late 1950s/early 1960s when it was recognized that due to the speed, range and complexity of fighter aircraft operations effective air control and air defense demanded enhanced situational awareness. [2] MTDS was a spiral development of the United States Navy's Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS).

  4. Tactical Air Control Party - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Canadian Air Force TACP is the principal air liaison and control element aligned with land force manoeuvre units from battlegroup to corps. The primary mission of a TACP is to advise the respective ground commanders on the capabilities and limitations of air power and to assist the ground commander in planning, requesting, coordinating and controlling air effects. [2]

  5. Marine Air Support Squadron 1 - Wikipedia

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    It provides this through the DASC, whether ground or airborne based. The DASC is the principal Marine air command and control system agency, responsible for the direction of air operations directly supporting ground forces. It functions in a decentralized mode of operation, but is directly supervised by the Marine or Navy Tactical Air Command ...

  6. Tactical air navigation system - Wikipedia

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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 landing platforms (i.e., ships) and later expanded for use by other military aircraft. It provides the user with bearing and distance (slant-range or hypotenuse) to a ground or ship-borne ...

  7. Aegis Combat System - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of the Aegis Combat System (Baseline 2-6). The Aegis Combat System (ACS) implements advanced command and control (command and decision, or C&D, in Aegis parlance). It is composed of the Aegis Weapon System (AWS), the fast-reaction component of the Aegis Anti-Aircraft Warfare (AAW) capability, along with the Phalanx Close In Weapon System (CIWS), and the Mark 41 Vertical Launch System

  8. Tactical Air Operations Center - Wikipedia

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    The Tactical Air Operations Center (TAOC) is the principal air defense agency of the United States Marine Corps' Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF). The TAOC provides real time aerial surveillance of assigned airspace, and its personnel identify, and control the intercept of hostile aircraft and missiles.

  9. List of military electronics of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Computerized air defense command and control system; Combat Direction Central: IBM: AN/FSQ-8: Air defense command and control system; Combat Control Central: IBM: AN/FSQ-27: RW-400 real-time data processing computer: TRW Inc. [121] AN/FSQ-31: Command, control, and coordination system (CCCS), part of the Strategic Automated Command and Control ...