Officials Adapt Sniper Pod for B-1Bs

[unhappycamper]

Officials Adapt Sniper Pod for B-1Bs
September 22, 2008
Air Force Print News|by Danielle Gregory

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. - The B-1B Lancer maintainers here adapted a video targeting pod normally employed on F-15 Eagles and F-16 Fighting Falcons to B-1Bs in response to an urgent request from U.S. Air Forces Central officials.

The sniper pod enables aircrews to positively identify and engage enemy targets, significantly shortening the time it would take to kill a target.

The B-1B community at Tinker Air Force Base used the B-1B Laptop Controlled Targeting Pod program, adapting the sniper pod to the B-1B by installing an external pylon and using an existing on-board laptop computer to control the pod and provide video image to the crew on board.

The new system allows aircrews to look ahead with long-range video and see what is happening on the ground. It is a stabilized image and allows them to use a laser beam to target and engage in real time. It also allows aircrews to give their own bomb damage assessment and report back immediately on whether they hit their target or not.

The pod shortens the kill chain from several minutes to almost instantly, said 2nd Lt. Douglas Richardson, a B-1B avionics engineer with the 427th Aircraft Sustainment Group.


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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. oh good. we can bomb afghan wedding parties even faster.

we seem to be so good at killing. At living as a civilized people, not so good.

[Dhalgren]

2. The "kill chain"? I swear to several of the gods that

these fuckers must pay someone to sit around and come up with these meaty little phrases. Kill chain...what pathological a-holes...

[wtmusic]

4. That got me too.

But they used the word "kill", when I was just getting used to "engage".

[Crowman1979]

3. Why does this remind me of a movie.

One called "Real Genius" for instance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2rtmoSuoL4