File:RAF Armourers Fitting Paveway Bomb to Tornado GR4 in Afghanistan MOD 45156836.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionRAF Armourers Fitting Paveway Bomb to Tornado GR4 in Afghanistan MOD 45156836.jpg |
English: Royal Air Force armourers working on a Paveway guided bomb fitted to a Tornado GR4 from 2 (Army Cooperation)Squadron at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. Dual Mode Brimstone missiles can be seen fitted in the foreground. The Squadron is part of the RAF 904 Expeditionary Air Wing based at Kandahar.
The original version of the Paveway II laser-guided bomb entered service with the RAF in the 1970s and is composed of a standard UK 450kg bomb with a computer control group fitted to the nose, supporting a laser seeker head and steerable fins. A tail unit is fitted with fins that deploy after launch from the aircraft. Laser designation of targets can be provided by the Thermal Imaging Airborne Laser Designation (TIALD) pod, or from troops on the ground using a laser target designator. The bomb's guidance package takes over on release from the aircraft and steers the bomb on to the source of reflected laser energy. The bomb can be dropped from low or medium level. During the Gulf War of 1991, Tornado aircraft dropped weapons on targets designated by Tornados carrying TIALD pods and by Buccaneers carrying the Pave Spike pod. Paveway II equips Tornado GR4 and Typhoon aircraft.
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