The Sniper is a family of targeting pods for military aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Martin providing positive target identification, autonomous tracking, GPS coordinate generation, and precise mun
Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod on B-1B Lancer hardpoint mount
Sniper pod on F-16 Fighting Falcon
F-15E Strike Eagle with Sniper pod under engine intake
B-1B Lancer with Sniper pod (front section)
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LANTIRN is a combined navigation and targeting pod system for use on the United States Air Force fighter aircraft—the F-15E Strike Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon manufactured by Martin Marietta. LANTI
Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod
…also supports urban engagements beyond jet noise range for counter-insurgency operations. It offers a 3-5X increase in detection range over the older LANTIRN system, and is employed on a wide assortment of U.S. Air Force and multinational aircraft. The pod incorporates a high definition mid-wave FLIR, dual-mode…
Artist's concept of a Low Altitude Navigation Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) scenario for attacking an armored column, 1982
Mounted underneath an F-15E Strike Eagle, the AN/AAQ-13 navigation pod to the left with the AN/AAQ-14 targeting pod to the right. This particular F-15 was assigned to the 366th Fighter Wing (Note the emblem on the intake.)
AN/AAQ-13 LANTIRN navigation pod aboard an F-15E
F-15E Head-up display of infrared image from the AN/AAQ-13 LANTIRN navigation pod