Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod
Military aircraft targeting pod
Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod
The Sniper is a family of targeting pods for military aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Martin providing positive target identification, autonomous tracking, GPS coordinate generation, and precise munition guidance from extended standoff ranges. The system has been designated AN/AAQ-33 in U.S. military service as the Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP). Further variants are the Sniper Extended Range (XR), as well as the PANTERA export derivative of the Sniper XR. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is built with the equivalent of the Sniper XR in its onboard sensors called the AN/AAQ-40 Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS). The most modern version is the Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod - Sensor Enhancement (ATP-SE). In accordance with the Joint Electronics Type Designation System (JETDS), the AN/AAQ-33 and AN/AAQ-40 designations represent the 33rd and 40th designs of an Army-Navy electronic device for an airborne infrared special-purpose/combination system. The JETDS system also now...
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