PN, sorry if I confused you, I might have been reading between the lines a little from the other thread that's running with this too, the bonkers harrier thread, and thought that the Tornado GR4s were laser designating for the Typhoon bombs.
Thanks for your suggestion of split designating bombing. If the designator is low level, would this not put him in the high threat area and, additionally, would it be a problem with a bomb coming through his height/exploding on the target with the laser designating aircraft getting close to the target? Just some quick thoughts. Is co-operative designation bombing what PN wrote about? I assume it also increases the comms and timing workload between the aircraft and potentially cause more errors? It seems it would be wiser for the Typhoons to self designate their own bombs