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    A laser designator is a laser light source which is used to designate a target. Laser designators provide targeting for laser-guided bombs, missiles,...
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    systems have a laser that can designate a target for laser-guided munitions, enabling the aircraft to designate its own targets or designate for other friendly...
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    TIALD (category Laser ranging)
    was the UK's primary laser designator for its Paveway series of laser-guided bombs (LGBs). The RAF's first laser designators were Westinghouse Electric...
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    Airborne Laser Designator to guide the bombs, but half of the LGBs still hit their targets despite the difficulties inherent in keeping the laser on the...
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    AN/AAS-38 Nite Hawk is a high-resolution FLIR, laser designator, and laser tracker pod system for use with laser-guided munitions. The US Navy used the AAS-38...
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    Operations Forces Laser Acquisition Marker (SOFLAM or SOF-LAM) or the Ground Laser Target Designator (GLTD) is a U.S. military laser designator designed for...
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    Davis had already witnessed a test of the United States Army's new laser target designator made by Martin Marietta, but no seeker existed to make use of the...
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    being achieved via a thermal imaging infrared system and a laser rangefinder/laser designator. It is aerodynamically unstable in all three aircraft principal...
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    OV-10 Bronco with Pave Spot target laser designator pod. Pave Knife – Ford Aerospace AN/AVQ-10 Pave Knife early laser targeting pod. Pave Low – Sikorsky...
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    launcher, and a laser designator mounted on a heavy tripod. The unit is situated on a tripod unit with the missile launcher and laser designator on it. The...
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    pulse-coded laser energy to home on; this can be supplied by the delivery aircraft, another aircraft (Buddy Lasing), or by a Ground Laser Designator. After...
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    munitions strike their designated targets and do not follow other laser beams which may be in use in the area. The laser designator can be shone onto the...
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  • illumination cannot be seen, or where a target designator cannot get near the target. The laser designator sends its beam in a coded series of pulses so...
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    carried by SEPECAT Jaguar and Mirage 2000 aircraft. ATLIS incorporates a laser designator boresighted with a television camera. The pilot or weapon systems officer...
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    to designate and guide laser-guided bombs. Pave Knife was developed in 1969 to replace the original, essentially improvised Airborne Laser Designator (ALD)...
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    aircraft-mounted ATLIS II (Automatic Tracking Laser Illumination System) or with ground-based laser designator targeting pod. The BGL targeting system are...
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    bleed-assisted, semi-automatic laser-guided artillery weapon system. It automatically 'homes' on a point illuminated by a laser designator, typically operated by...
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    a laser designator. Pave Penny does not produce a laser beam and cannot be used to designate targets. It was designed to be used with designators on...
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    obscuring cloud layers, while a forward reconnaissance scout team uses a laser designator to direct it from up to 26 km (16 mi). Nimrod may be installed on a...
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    (BEL) as the lead production agency. A laser designator is used to mark a target. The on-board seeker detects the laser light reflected from the target and...
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    able to designate targets for laser-guided bombs, 10 GR1As and two T2As were upgraded with the capability to carry the TIALD laser designator pod and...
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    Flogger-J2. The MiG-27K was the most advanced Soviet variant, with a laser designator and compatibility with TV-guided electro-optical weapons. It carried...
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    are equipped with a laser warning receiver to give a warning when it's targeted by an enemy laser range-finder or laser designator. The Durjoy tank has...
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    a laser designator that allows the pilot to identify targets for other aircraft and even provide the laser guidance for manned aircraft. This laser is...
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    electro-optical laser designator targeting pod used to direct laser-guided bombs (LGBs) to target in daylight, visual conditions. It contained a laser boresighted...
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    RAF introduced the Thermal Imaging and Laser Designator (TIALD), allowing Tornado GR1s to laser-designate their own targets. The GR1A and GR4A reconnaissance...
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  • known as the "tree of Damocles" Damocles (targeting pod), a French laser designator and forward looking infrared pod used on military aircraft The Damocles...
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    laser rangefinders for military use exceed the laser class 2 energy levels. Geodimeter Laser altimetry Laser designator Laser machine control Laser scanning...
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    current version uses semi-active laser (SAL) guidance, requiring the target to be illuminated by a laser designator either on the launch platform or elsewhere;...
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    (Remotely Piloted Aerial Observer Designator System). PRAIRIE was a Philco Ford UAV with a TV camera and a laser target designator. PRAIRIE was able to target...
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