The Thermal Imaging Airborne Laser Designator 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
TIALD pod at The Royal Air Force Museum London
Targeting pods are target designation tools used by attack aircraft for identifying targets and guiding precision-guided munition such as laser-guided bombs to those targets. The first targeting pods
TIALD
…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…
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.