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{{Short description|US strategic communications system}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{distinguish|TACAM (disambiguation){{!}}TACAM}} {{Refimprove|date=December 2016}} [[File:E-6B Mercury - RIAT 2018 (43308247084).jpg|thumb|right|A [[Boeing E-6B Mercury]] airborne, painted [[anti-flash white]]]] '''TACAMO''' (Take Charge And Move Out) is a [[United States military]] system of survivable communications links designed to be used in [[nuclear warfare]] to maintain communications between the decision-makers (the [[National Command Authority (United States)|National Command Authority]]) and the [[Nuclear triad|triad]] of [[strategic nuclear weapon]] [[nuclear weapons delivery|delivery]] systems. Its primary mission is serving as a signals relay, where it receives orders from a command plane such as [[Operation Looking Glass]], and verifies and retransmits their [[Emergency Action Message]]s (EAMs) to US strategic forces. As it is a dedicated communications post, it features the ability to communicate on virtually every radio frequency band from [[very low frequency]] (VLF) up through [[super high frequency]] (SHF) using a variety of modulations, [[encryption]]s and networks, minimizing the likelihood an emergency message will be jammed by an enemy. This airborne communications capability largely replaced the land-based [[extremely low frequency]] (ELF) broadcast sites which became vulnerable to nuclear strike.
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