air traffic control and landing system

air traffic control and landing system
Department of Defense facilities, personnel, and equipment (fixed, mobile, and seaborne) with associated avionics to provide safe, orderly, and expeditious aerospace vehicle movements worldwide. Also called ATCALS.

Military dictionary. 2000.

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