The Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Pod System was a large and sophisticated camera pod carried by the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. It contains three camera bays with different type cameras which are pointed
F-14 with a TARPS pod mounted
TARPS drawing.
At 17 feet (5.2 m) and weighing 1,850 lb (840 kg), the TARPS is the largest device hung on a Tomcat.
TARPS intelligence specialist uses a light table to analyze film from KS-87 camera.
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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
Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Pod System
…TARPS was used routinely in Operation Southern Watch over Iraq and called upon in Bosnia in 1995 and then again over Kosovo in 1999. The advent of LANTIRN into Tomcat operations provided a useful complement to TARPS. Since both systems need the same real estate in the rear cockpit for sensor operation…
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