Loran-C and Omega: A Study of the Military Importance of Radio Navigation AIDS

by Owen Wilkes, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Ingvar Botnen

Historically-oriented studies of the arms race tend to focus on major weapons and ignore the associated subsystems. In this book, the authors consider one subsystem--the navigation instruments and land-based transmitters--of the submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) system. Paying
particular attention to the Loran-C and Omega navigational units, the authors are able to draw conclusions on the accuracy of submarine-launched missiles and the reliability of America's sea-based nuclear deterrent.

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Published January 7, 1988