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TIRA

The Tracking & Imaging Radar (TIRA) system serves as the central experimental facility for the development and investigation of radar techniques for the detection and reconnaissance of objects in space, and of air targets.

TIRA
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The place

The Tracking & Imaging Radar (TIRA) system serves as the central experimental facility for the development and investigation of radar techniques for the detection and reconnaissance of objects in space, and of air targets.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to TIRA

Airports
Cologne Bonn (CGN), 27 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 75 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 79 km
  • Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → TIRA
    2936 km · quickest by air, 9h 31m · €520–810
  • Düsseldorf → TIRA
    3115 km · quickest by air, 9h 31m · €530–830
  • Dortmund → TIRA
    3093 km · quickest by air, 11h 18m · €530–830
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for TIRA

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for TIRA. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBy boat, you can reach Bad Honnef with the tourist boats on the Rhine and by ferry from Rolandseck, but this is not useful only if you live in Bonn.

From Wikivoyage: Bad Honnef, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    330 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    514 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    594 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    707 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    748 km

If you know how people move in TIRA – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to TIRA

TIRA is 13 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Wachtbergmunicipality in Rhein-Sieg District, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany500 m
  • Villiphuman settlement in Germany3.1 km