Overview Contacts Related products. Download brochure. Look for contacts nearest to you. Email: landandnaval leonardocompany. Upon release, the laser-guided munitions follows this aim point, effectively homing in on the beam's reflection. The laser beam is 'coded' which means it shines in specific patterns of pulses. This coding enables the air assets to ensure they are being guided by the correct designator. LTDs can effectively be used to paint targets for aircraft operating at medium to low level altitudes.
With the increasing accuracy of air power demonstrated in Gulf War I, many commentators speculated if the role of 'boots on the ground' would become much less important. The reality is that a partnership between special forces ground units and attack aircraft was soon forged. It was soon realized that, for certain missions, a pair of eyes on the ground would significantly enhance the precision and lethality of the air strikes.
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There are invalid fields in your form, please try again. First Name. Last Name. Work Email Address. Click here to try again. The US Armed Forces has soldiers with a similar skillset included in almost every platoon. Thanks to the above, the Americans may provide CAS Close Air Support for the frontline units, similarly as it happens in case of artillery. In Poland, usage of PGMs will be treated as a luxury for a long time, as it seems. Even though a decision to deploy land forces may take up to several days, deployment of combat aircraft from Germany, France, Belgium or the Netherlands may be taken immediately.
Nonetheless, they would need targeting data and indication of targets, which may be done by the JFOs, using proper equipment in the frontline sector. Place taken by the laser target designator in the fire control structure. The JFOs would be even more useful if the Polish Army had artillery units commonly using the laser guided rounds.
Then the joint strikes could involve more assets than just missiles and aviation. Both such rounds, as well as laser target designators, are being developed in Poland, and there will be a chance for them to be manufactured by the Polish industry.
In case of the aircraft, such system may be fitted onboard, e. Front view of the LPC-1 laser target designator. It remains much safer to place the laser target designators on drones, which has been made possible only thanks to widely introduced miniaturization of such systems - device may weigh less than a kilogram. However, to a large extent this is still a futuristic vision. The entity has created and prepared the LPC-1 device for production there, with dimensions as follows: height: mm; width: mm; depth: mm; its own weight is 9.
It is a kit that remains easy to transport and use, even by an individual soldier. The designation system uses an Nd:YAG laser, utilizing a wavelength of 1. Only such form of a signal may be decoded by the PGM seeker. This may be done remotely, with proper data automatically provided by the fire control centre, or manually by the operator, with the use of digital knobs on the rear plate of the device, on the basis of the radio-transferred information.
Rear part of the LPC-1 laser target designator. Besides target designation, LPC-1 also allows for:. Measuring the distance to the target thanks to an embedded laser rangefinder, operable at distances of up to 20 kilometres ;. Indicating own position on the basis of GPS signal ;. Bilateral data exchange with the command centre and the fire control system, with an ability to transfer device status data and the target coordinates, as well as allowing for remote control of the system from the command centre, allowing for remote setting of the impulse sequence, programming of the firing delay and laser time of operation thanks to the embedded firing sync module and communications module ;.
Defining the target azimuth and elevation thanks to joint operation with a goniometer. The whole kit may be used at night and during the day, as the external STANAG compliant Picatinny rails allow for usage of replaceable targeting systems, ranging from a scope, daytime camera, with night- or thermal-vision cameras to finish with. The most important thing is the easiness and simplicity of use, also making it easier to train the operators.
The status control is carried out solely with the use of the OLED display embedded within the system. The status display also informs the operator on operation mode remote or manual and visualizes the measurement data. The laser-guided tube artillery rounds enhance the effectiveness of artillery fire, thus more and more countries introduce such rounds into their inventories.
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