The Thermal Imaging Airborne Laser Designator (TIALD) was a targeting pod manufactured by Ferranti/GEC Marconi in the late 1980s and 1990s, and was the UK's primary laser designator for its Paveway series of laser-guided bombs (LGBs).
TIALD pod at The Royal Air Force Museum London
Targeting pods (TGP) are target designation tools used by attack aircraft for identifying targets and guiding precision-guided munition (PGM) such as laser-guided bombs to those targets. The first targeting pods were developed in conjunction with the earliest generation of PGMs in the mid-1960s.
A Thales Damocles target designation pod combined with a NAVFLIR imager
F-15E heads-up display of infrared image from LANTIRN.
An early Pave Sword laser pod on a F-4D during the Vietnam War, 1971.
AN/ASQ-153 Pave Spike