Sentence examples for laser designator from inspiring English sources

Often, the vehicles also carried a laser designator for homing munitions.

The missiles worked, and new Predators will have points on the wings for carrying light missiles and a laser designator built into the nose.

The aircraft in question had been fitted with a laser designator, which illuminates a target and enables a missile (usually launched from another aircraft) to home in.

The modern command helicopter is an OH-58 Kiowa, which can carry Stinger or even Hellfire missiles, and is equipped with a television camera, thermal sensor and laser designator to pinpoint targets.

Initially a surveillance drone, the Predator was given a laser designator to enable it to guide precision-guided weapons from other aircraft, and then acquired its own weapons in the form of Hellfire missiles.

The pod also has a laser designator to guide precision bombing, and a laser spot tracker.

But if government troops advance into or near cities in along the country's eastern coast, which so far have been off-limits to coalition aircraft for fear of causing civilian casualties, General Deptula said that ground operatives would be particularly helpful in providing target coordinates or pointing them out to pilots with hand-held laser designators.

The company is now testing its batteries on laser designators used by the U.S. military during combat operations to help laser-guided missiles find their targets.

Blackburn Buccaneers were dispatched in January 1991 to act as laser designators for the ground strike aircraft.

From 1978 onwards, the Pave Penny laser receiver pod was adopted, which receives reflected laser radiation from laser designators for faster and more accurate target identification.

The plane is equipped with a suite of sensors and communication gear, as well as a laser target designator, and is used to "find, fix, and finish" bad guys on the ground.