Interesting link in post #25 that is referred to in post #28...
By this time it was clear that the weapon-carrying capability of the Buccaneers was being under-utilised and that mixed Buccaneer and Tornado formations raised some inevitable coordination problems. Thus, in the last ten days of the war, Buccaneers using Pave Spike and Tornados using the newly arrived thermal imaging airborne laser designators (TIALD) increasingly carried out self-designating attacks. A brand new system, TIALD offered important advantages over the day-only, manually controlled Pave Spike laser designator used by the Buccaneers. TIALD was more reliable, fully integrated into the Tornado's navigation and bombing system and could be used at night. As a result of this newly acquired night/LGB capability, the Tornados were tasked to help the US F-117A Stealth fighter with its attacks on Iraqi HASs, and thus for the next two weeks Tornado packages hit Iraqi HASs by night and bridges by day. At this stage of the war over 60% of Tornado sorties were using laser-guided bombs.
My bold above; I'm not sure about more reliable but then PaveSpike may have been quite unreliable??? but to claim that the 2 TIALD pods in GW1 were integrated into the nav & bombing system is a bit of a stretch. It was only after GW1, during the work-up and deployment for the return to the Gulf in 92 that they started to become integrated.
Still, let's not have a pi$$ing contest over who a few %age points....both systems did incredibly well.