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While principally a data network, Link 16 radios can provide high quality voice channels and navigation services as accurate as any in the inventory.

Every Link 16 user can identify itself to other similarly equipped platforms at ranges well beyond what Mark XII IFF systems can provide.

Additionally, Link 16-equipped platforms capable of identification through other means ( such as radar and TENCAP Blue Force Tracking ) can pass that " indirect " identification data as part of its SA exchange.

The capabilities of Link 16 are best represented by the JTIDS or its follow-on Multifunctional Information Distribution System ( MIDS ) terminals.

The TADIL-J message format forms the basis for the mandates in the DoD Tactical Data Link Management Plan.