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May 27, 2019 at 11:34 pm #1395675

madman1960

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First question. I read Horse Soldiers about a year ago and the previous post about using a laser pointer to paint a target reminded me of a section in the book. They had Air Force FACs embedded with the Northern Alliance. When they painted targets hot and high they has misses with the LGBs. I don’t remember if it was addressed in the book but thought others would be interested in the solution, if anyone here knows.

In the book they either painted targets using the ground based lasers only to have them falling off target or were using lasers to provide GPS coordinates passed back to the bombers to set the bomb aim points. This was caused by thermal activity in the canyons distorting accurate lines of sight either on the designators themselves or when using laser rangefinders (I assume with directional input as well) to locate a point using GPS to provide feedback to the bombardiers setting the weapon’s aim points.

I can’t remember if they changed the time of day of the strikes, or the line of sight or what.