Originally Posted by
L J R
With the Litening pod, the GR-4 will finally be at least as good as most other strike aircraft of the '90s in its ability to actually see a target, pity it is 15 years too late. Why, oh why has TIALD allowed to continue to be used with its marginal picture, and overly complicated switchology and functionality?
So very true, even the 500 series pods are pretty useless. Litening is supposed to be 10x better. There's no datalink facility on TIALD as you stated Spectre.
RAPTOR has datalink facilities, but can't 'paint' targets. And unfortunately they are fitted to the same station on the aircraft, so you can't carry both.