Operation Shed Light
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Operation Shed Light was a crash development project in aerial warfare, initiated in 1966 by the United States Air Force to increase the ability to accurately strike at night or in adverse weather. Du
Tropic Moon III B-57G aircraft with FLIR and LLLTV in nose
Artist's interpretation of an A-1E aircraft with podded LLLTV
Tropic Moon I Officers and Airmen, NKP Thailand, showing LLLTV pod on A-1E wing 1968
Tropic Moon I A-IE in flight with LLLTV pod on left wing
Paveway
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Paveway is a series of laser-guided bombs.
Operation Shed Light
…of the aircraft experienced major delays during which it was equipped with a laser target designated to be used with the then new first-generation Pave Way laser-guided bombs. In the end the Tropic Moon III proved to be a capable system, both with conventional ordnance and laser guided weapons, day and…
A Paveway III seeker head, at the Royal Air Force Museum London in Hendon, London.
Paveway III at ILA airshow 2006
Top to bottom: A Paveway II computer control group, an Enhanced GBU-12, and a Laser-Guided Training Round, at the Paris Air Show 2007
US Navy 030129 N 5362F 001 Aviation Ordnanceman assembles a 500 pound GBU 12 bomb