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<p><b>Targeting pods</b> (<b>TGP</b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) are target designation tools used by <a href="Attack_aircraft" title="Attack aircraft">attack aircraft</a> for identifying targets and guiding <a href="Precision-guided_munition" title="Precision-guided munition">precision-guided munition</a> (PGM) such as <a href="Laser-guided_bomb" title="Laser-guided bomb">laser-guided bombs</a> to those targets. The first targeting pods were developed in conjunction with the earliest generation of PGMs in the mid-1960s.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Laser_designators">Laser designators</h3></div>

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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Laser_designator" title="Laser designator">Laser designator</a></div>

<p>The design of laser-guided bombs requires a "laser spot tracker" that locates reflected pulsed laser light from a designated target. This enables an aircraft's targeting system to home in on that specific target. The simplest spot trackers, such as the <a href="Pave_Penny" title="Pave Penny">Pave Penny</a> pod, have no laser at all, just a laser sensor.

</p><p>Some targeting systems incorporate a <a href="Laser_rangefinder" title="Laser rangefinder">laser rangefinder</a>, a laser beam that can calculate the precise range to a target and communicate that information to the <a href="Nav/attack_system" title="Nav/attack system">nav/attack system</a>. Many targeting pods or installations use the same sensor as the laser spot tracker to receive the reflected rangefinder signal, so they can perform both ranging and tracking. These are called laser ranger and marked target seeker (LRMTS).

</p><p>Some targeting systems have a <a href="Laser_designator" title="Laser designator">laser that can designate a target</a> for laser-guided munitions, enabling the aircraft to designate its own targets or designate for other friendly units. LRMTS installations (particularly fixed internal units) of the 1970s often did not have a laser of sufficient power and slant range to designate targets, although they could provide rangefinding. Such units required targets to be designated by a ground designator or <a href="Forward_air_control" title="Forward air control">forward air controller</a> in another aircraft.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Electro-optics">Electro-optics</h3></div>

<p>The basic <a href="Electro-optics" title="Electro-optics">electro-optical</a> (EO) sensor is essentially a <a href="Video_camera" title="Video camera">video camera</a>, usually with a magnification lens, helping the aircrew to locate and identify targets. For night and adverse weather use, many EO sensors incorporate low-light light-amplification systems. Some pods supplement the basic visual EO with <a href="Forward-looking_infrared" title="Forward-looking infrared">forward-looking infrared</a> (FLIR) to aid in locating and identifying targets in darkness. Such systems are sometimes called <a href="Infrared_search_and_track" title="Infrared search and track">infrared search and track</a> sensors.

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<p>Some pods may contain a small radar set for targeting and navigation, particularly for aircraft that have no search radar. Such a system, for example, was developed for the unsuccessful N/AW (Night/Adverse Weather) version of the <a href="USAF" class="mw-redirect" title="USAF">USAF</a> <a href="A-10_Thunderbolt_II" class="mw-redirect" title="A-10 Thunderbolt II">A-10 Thunderbolt II</a>. Currently, laser and infrared systems are more common than radar because they are less easily detected by adversaries, providing less warning to the target. Lasers can also provide more accurate ranging data for aerial gunnery.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_targeting_pods">List of targeting pods</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Laser_spot_tracker_pods">Laser spot tracker pods</h3></div>

<ul><li>AN/AVQ-11 Pave Sword<sup id="cite_ref-DSN-ATC/AVX_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DSN-ATC/AVX-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li>AN/AVQ-14 Pave Arrow<sup id="cite_ref-DSN-ATC/AVX_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DSN-ATC/AVX-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li><a href="Pave_Penny" title="Pave Penny">AN/AAS-35(V) Pave Penny</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Laser_designator_pods">Laser designator pods</h3></div>

<ul><li>ATLIS</li>

<li><a href="ATLIS_II" title="ATLIS II">ATLIS II</a></li>

<li><a href="FILAT#Loong_Eye_I" title="FILAT">Loong Eye I</a></li>

<li><a href="FILAT#Loong_Eye_II" title="FILAT">Loong Eye II</a></li>

<li><a href="Pave_Knife" title="Pave Knife">AN/AVQ-10 Pave Knife</a></li>

<li>AN/AVQ-23 Pave Spike<sup id="cite_ref-DSN-ATC/AVX_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DSN-ATC/AVX-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li><a href="Pave_Spike" title="Pave Spike">AN/ASQ-153 Pave Spike</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Blue_Sky_navigation_pod" class="mw-redirect" title="Blue Sky navigation pod">Blue Sky navigation pod</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="FLIR_and_laser_designator_pods">FLIR and laser designator pods</h3></div>

<li><a href="AN/ASQ-228_ATFLIR" title="AN/ASQ-228 ATFLIR">AN/ASQ-228 ATFLIR</a></li>

<li><a href="ASELPOD" class="mw-redirect" title="ASELPOD">ASELPOD</a></li>

<li>AUEODS</li>

<li><a href="FILAT" title="FILAT">FILAT</a></li>

<li><a href="LANTIRN" title="LANTIRN">AN/AAQ-14 LANTIRN</a></li>

<li><a href="LITENING_targeting_pod" class="mw-redirect" title="LITENING targeting pod">AN/AAQ-28(V) LITENING</a></li>

<li><a href="Sniper_Advanced_Targeting_Pod" title="Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod">AN/AAQ-33 Sniper XR</a></li>

<li><a href="PDLCT" title="PDLCT">PDLCT</a></li>

<li><a href="Damocles_(targeting_pod)" title="Damocles (targeting pod)">Thales Damoclès</a></li>

<li>Thales TALIOS</li>

<li><a href="TIALD" title="TIALD">TIALD</a></li>

<li>UOMZ Sapsan-E</li>

<li>YINGS-III</li>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radar_homing_pods">Radar homing pods</h3></div>

<ul><li><a href="Guidance_system" title="Guidance system">Guidance system</a></li>

<li><a href="Laser_sight_(firearms)" class="mw-redirect" title="Laser sight (firearms)">Laser sight (firearms)</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_laser_articles" title="List of laser articles">List of laser articles</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_military_electronics_of_the_United_States" title="List of military electronics of the United States">List of military electronics of the United States</a></li>

<li><a href="AN/PEQ-1_SOFLAM" title="AN/PEQ-1 SOFLAM">AN/PEQ-1 SOFLAM</a></li></ul>

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</style><cite id="CITEREFPikeSherman1999" class="citation web cs1">Pike, John; Sherman, Robert (28 October 1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/litening.htm">"LITENING Advanced Airborne Targeting and Navigation Pod"</a>. <i>Federation of American Scientists</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 January</span> 2021</span>.</cite></span>

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