The paper proposes ways to reduce the time and improve the quality of development of electronic equipment using computer simulation. The paper considers an example of the development and debugging of a radio-electronic module, which has found its direct application in a local navigation system that operates on the basis of the method of point landmarks. The paper considers a hardware-software complex for the implementation of the study of the health of both individual functional units and radio rangefinder equipment as a whole, as well as for the modernization of the radio-electronic module of the navigation system. The various computer simulation environments available today allow the development and design of electronic equipment at various levels. In the proposed work, computer simulation was carried out in MATLAB / Simulink, LabVIEW, Multisim and MicroCap. The work also provided for the possibility of using data collection and processing modules, which provides the opportunity in one software development and modeling environment to compare the results obtained using simulation modeling and physical research of the object. The result of the work is a hardwaresoftware kit of the radio-electronic module of the navigation system through which it is possible to evaluate the influence of various external influences on the accuracy of determining the range from the interrogator (moving object) to the transponder (stationary beacon).