An L-UMTAS Laser Guided Long-Range Anti-Tank Missile manufactured by Roketsan is displayed at the Eurosatory international defense and security trade fair in Villepinte, near Paris, France June 13, 2022. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier 

An Israeli boy, dressed as a Palestinian militant for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, walks in the southern Israeli town of Sderot March 19, 2008. Purim is a celebration of the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL) 

A destroyed target by Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter aircrafts is seen during the IAF fire power demonstration at Pokhran in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan December 8, 2007. IAF air warriors pounded and blasted away an array of assorted targets with impunity that included mock enemy radar sites, troops, ammunition dumps, convoys, petrol, oil and lubricant (POL) dumps with rockets, laser-guided bombs, missiles and front guns at the fire point demonstration held at the air-to-ground weapons firing range at Pokhran on Saturday. REUTERS/Vijay Mathur (INDIA) 

Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 medium-lift tactical transport aircraft releases rockets during the IAF fire power demonstration 2007 at Pokhran in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan December 8, 2007. IAF pounded and blasted an array of assorted targets with impunity that included mock enemy radar sites, troops, ammunition dumps, convoys, petrol, oil and lubricant (POL) dumps with rockets, laser-guided bombs, missiles and front guns at the fire point demonstration held at the air-to-ground weapons firing range at Pokhran on Saturday. REUTERS/Vijay Mathur (INDIA) 

Cows pass in front of a target destroyed by Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter aircrafts during the IAF fire power demonstration 2007 at Pokhran in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan December 8, 2007. IAF air warriors pounded and blasted an array of assorted targets with impunity that included mock enemy radar sites, troops, ammunition dumps, convoys, petrol, oil and lubricant (POL) dumps with rockets, laser-guided bombs, missiles and front guns at the fire point demonstration held at the air-to-ground weapons firing range at Pokhran on Saturday. REUTERS/Vijay Mathur (INDIA) 

A destroyed target by Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter aircrafts is seen during the IAF fire power demonstration 2007 at Pokhran in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan December 8, 2007. IAF air warriors pounded and blasted away an array of assorted targets with impunity that included mock enemy radar sites, troops, ammunition dumps, convoys, petrol, oil and lubricant (POL) dumps with rockets, laser-guided bombs, missiles and front guns at the fire point demonstration held at the air-to-ground weapons firing range at Pokhran on Saturday. REUTERS/Vijay Mathur (INDIA) 

Dan Springer, a staff member of Senator Bob Corker (R -TN), inspects a "Man-Portable Laser Beam Guided Surface to air Missile Training Unit" during U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training & Instrumentation (PEO STRI) Technology Fair on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 8, 2007. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang (UNITED STATES) 

British Royal Air Force Harrier GR7 pilots Squadron Leader Jim Provost
and Flt Lt Ben Murphy (R) walk away from their aircraft at their base
in Kuwait after their mission over Iraq April 5, 2003. Former Red Arrow
pilot, Provost, destroyed a number of Armoured Personnel carrier with a
laser guided Paveway II missile during his mission tonight.
REUTERS/Russell Boyce

RUS 

A BRITISH ROYAL AIR FORCE HARRIER WEAPONS TECHNICIAN PUSHES A TROLLEY
OF MAVERICK LASER GUIDED MISSILES PAST A BOMB-TROLLEY OF CLUSTER BOMBS
IN KUWAIT. 

British Royal Air Force Harrier GR7 pilot Flt Lt Pete Keenlyside checks
his watch during a debrief on his base in Kuwait April 1, 2003.
Keenlyside destroyed an Iraqi armoured vehicle using a Maverick laser
guided missile duirng his mission over Iraq. REUTERS/Russell Boyce

RUS 

British Royal Air Force Harrier GR7 pilot Flt Lt Pete Keenlyside (R)
smiles during a debrief with wing-man Flt Lt Ian Townsend on their base
in Kuwait April 1, 2003. Keenlyside destroyed an Iraqi armoured vehicle
using a Maverick laser guided missile duirng his mission over Iraq.
REUTERS/Russell Boyce

RUS 

A member of the British Royal Air Force Harrier GR7 ground crew pulls
the chocs away from the wheels of a Harrier GR7 past a pavewat laser
guided missile on their airbase in Kuwait prior to the start of a
mission over Iraq March 28, 2003. A U.S. general said on Friday Iraq
may have prepared its forces to use chemical weapons if invaders push
beyond a certain line, although he had seen no signs the final order to
use poison gas had been given.

REUTERS/Russell Boyce 

British Royal Air Force pilot Flt Lt Mike Rutland checks a Maverick
laser guided missile on his Harrier GR7 on its base in Kuwait before
his mission over Iraq March 27, 2003. Britain said on Thursday is was
almost certain that two dead soldiers whose bodies were shown on
Qatar-based al-Jazeera television were indeed British, as the station
claimed. REUTERS/Russell Boyce

RUS/CRB 

An F/A-18C Hornet, loaded with a 500-pound GBU-12 laser-guided missile, moves into position while another launches from one of four steam powered catapults aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom March 20, 2003. U.S.-led allied troops moved swiftly on Friday to secure Iraq's vital oil facilities and snuff out oilfield fires on day two of a war Washington says is not about capturing the country's vast petroleum wealth. (Credit : U.S. Navy/Todd Frantom)
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Aviation ordinance personnel make a final check on an AGM-54 laser
guided air to ground anti-tank missile (L) next to a fuel tank after
loading it onto the wing of an F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet on the flight
deck of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier in the northern Gulf March
21, 2003. Fighter squadrons with F-14 Tomcats and F/A-18Hornets
launched sorties from the Kitty Hawk which included missions supporting
U.S. ground troops advancing into Iraq. REUTERS/Paul Hanna

PH/JV 

An aviation ordinanceman makes a final check on an AGM-54 laser guided
air to ground anti-tank after loading it onto the wing of an F/A-18
Hornet fighter jet on the flight deck of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft
carrier in the northern Gulf March 21, 2003. Fighter squadrons with
F-14 Tomcats and F/A-18Hornets launched some 90 sorties from the Kitty
Hawk yesterday which included missions supporting U.S. ground troops
advancing into Iraq. REUTERS/Paul Hanna

PH 

The Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command's National Automotive Center unveiled SmarTruck II, a versatile, prototype, multi-purpose vehicle capable of both counter-terrorism support and domestic security, on January 7, 2003, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The heavily armed SmarTruck II's cockpit and its fighting compartment - that would be the back-seat area in a civilian sport-ute - are jammed with high-tech systems. It carries a POINTER unmanned air vehicle, a SPIKE pinpoint laser-guided missile. It's built on a Chevrolet Silverado platform. 

The Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command's National Automotive Center unveiled SmarTruck II, a versatile, prototype, multi-purpose vehicle capable of both counter-terrorism support and domestic security, on January 7, 2003, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The heavily armed SmarTruck II's cockpit and its fighting compartment - that would be the back-seat area in a civilian sport-ute - are jammed with high-tech systems. It carries a POINTER unmanned air vehicle, and a SPIKE pinpoint laser-guided missile. It's built on a Chevrolet Silverado platform. 

The Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command's National Automotive Center
unveiled SmarTruck II, a versatile, prototype, multi-purpose vehicle capable
of both counter-terrorism support and domestic security, on January 7, 2003,
at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The heavily armed
SmarTruck II's cockpit and its fighting compartment - that would be the
back-seat area in a civilian sport-ute - are jammed with high-tech systems.
It carries a POINTER unmanned air vehicle, a SPIKE pinpoint laser-guided
missile. It's built on a Chevrolet Silverado platform, REUTERS/Tracy Baker

TCB 

The Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command's National Automotive Center
unveiled SmarTruck II, a versatile, prototype, multi-purpose vehicle capable
of both counter-terrorism support and domestic security, on January 7, 2003,
at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The heavily armed
SmarTruck II's cockpit and its fighting compartment - that would be the
back-seat area in a civilian sport-ute - are jammed with high-tech systems.
It carries a POINTER unmanned air vehicle, and a SPIKE pinpoint laser-guided
missile. It's built on a Chevrolet Silverado platform, REUTERS/Tracy Baker

TCB 

U.S. Navy ordnance handlers remove an AMRAAM missile from an F/A-18C Hornet on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt on station in the Arabian Sea, November 26, 2001. The ordnance handlers replaced the missile with 500 pound laser guided bombs. 

U.S. Navy ordnance handlers remove an AMRAAM missile from an F/A-18C
Hornet on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt on
station in the Arabian Sea, November 26, 2001. The ordnance handlers
replaced the missile with 500 pound laser guided bombs.
REUTERS/POOL/Dave Martin

DM/JP 

A U.S. Navy F/A-18C Hornet attack fighter makes its approach to the
deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt after completing a
strike mission on Afghanistan November 23, 2001. The Afghan Islamic
Press (AIP) news agency said,quoting a Taliban spokesman in Kunduz,
U.S. warplanes pounded eastern and northeastern parts of the city,
killing and wounding dozens of people. The report could not be
independently verified. At left is a Sidewinder missile and a 500lb
laser guided bomb attached to the wing of another F/A-18C Hornet on the
deck of the carrier. REUTERS/POOL/Dave Martin

AT/DPW/DFM/JDP 

The sun rises behind a U.S. Navy F-18 Hornet jet fighter on the deck of
the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson somewhere in the Arabian Sea
November 12, 2001. The jet is armed with Sidewinder air-to-air missiles
on it's folded wings, and has several laser-guided bombs (right) and an
extra gas tank under the wing (L). REUTERS/Jim Hollander

JWH/JDP 

Two 500 pound Laser Guided Bomb Units (GBU-12) (L) and an AIM-9 "Sidewinder" short-range air-to-air missile are visible on the wing of an F/A-18 "Hornet" from the "Mighty Shrikes" of Strike Fighter Squadron Nine Four (VFA-94), October 31, 2001. VFA-94 is assigned to Carrier Airwing Eleven aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and is conducting missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (CREDIT REUTERS/U.S. Navy/Steve Lightstone) 

An unidentified pilot of a US Navy F-18 Hornet jet fighter touches one
of his laser-guided bombs as he goes through the pre-flight check
before flying a mission off the USS Carl Vinson against the Taliban
forces in Afghanistan, October 23, 2001. The USS Carl Vinson is one of
several US Naval battle groups in the Arabian Sea flying
around-the-clock bombing missions on Afghanistan. REUTERS/Jim
Hollander

CRB 

U.S. Navy Aviation Ordnancemen move 1000-pound laser-guided bomb units and "Maverick" missiles for loading on to F/A-18 "Hornet" strike fighters and F-14 "Tomcat" fighter aircraft, aboard the USS Carl Vinson, October 17, 2001. The Vinson is taking part in strikes against Afghanistan. (Credit : Reuters/U.S. Navy/Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Saul Ingle) 

Final attachments are made to a 1,000 pound laser-guided missile as it
is fastened underneath a US Navy F-18 jet fighter onboard the USS Carl
Vinson, one of at least three US aircraft carrier battle groups in the
Arabian Gulf, October 18, 2001 as the sun sets. Jets flying from this
aircraft carrier have dropped some 300,000 pounds of bombs on
Afghanistan since the war began October 7. Picture taken October 18,
2001. REUTERS/Jim Hollander

JMH/WS 

Pakistani soldiers take positions behind an RSB70 laser-guided missile launcher August 11 at the site where a naval plane crashed after it was hit by an Indian missile on Tuesday, killling all 16 aboard. Pakisatan has placed about 200 soldiers, some armed with missiles, around the crash site.

ZH/DL/KM 

Pakistani soldiers take positions behind a RSB70 laser-guided missile launcher August 11 at the site where a Pakistani naval plane crashed after it was hit by an Indian missile on Tuesday, killling all 16 aboard. 

Aviation Ordinance crew members load a Phoenix laser guided missile onto an F-14 Tomcat fighter plane aboard the USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier prior to a mission over Yugoslavia April 10. U.S. President Bill Clinton vowed that NATO will "persist and prevail" in Yugoslavia as the Pentagon said they would soon be sending dozens more U.S. warplanes to join nearly 300 American attack and support aircraft already in the region.

PH/JDP 

Aviation Ordinance crew members load a Phoenix laser-guided missile onto an F-14 Tomcat fighter aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier prior to a mission over Yugoslavia April 10. U.S. President Bill Clinton vowed that NATO will "persist and prevail" in Yugoslavia as the Pentagon said they would soon be sending dozens more U.S. warplanes to join nearly 300 American attack and support aircraft already in the region.

PH/ELD 

An Arizona Army National Guard helicopter crew hovers their Apache AH-64A attack helicopter before taking off on a test flight at the Silver Bell Army Heliport April 6. Apaches from outside Arizona are being deployed to the war in Yugoslavia. Each Apache is designed to carry 38, two and three quarter inch rockets and eight Hellfire laser guided missiles. The range of the Apache is approximately 300 miles. The 14.5 million dollar aircraft was originally designed for Cold War defense.

JT/JP 

A pilot and co-pilot with the Arizona Army National Guard ready an Apache AH-64A attack helicopter for a test flight at the Silver Bell Army Heliport April 6. Apaches from outside Arizona are being deployed to the war in Yugoslavia. Each Apache is designed to carry 38, two and three quarter inch rockets and eight Hellfire laser guided missiles. The range of the Apache is approximately 300 miles. The 14.5 million dollar aircraft was originally designed for Cold War defense.

JT/JP 

An Arizona Army National Guard helicopter crew hovers their Apache AH-64A attack helicopter before taking off on a test flight at the Silver Bell Army Heliport April 6. Apaches from outside Arizona are being deployed to the war in Yugoslavia. Each Apache is designed to carry 38, two and three quarter inch rockets and eight Hellfire laser guided missiles. The range of the Apache is approximately 300 miles. The 14.5 million dollar aircraft was originally designed for Cold War defense. 

A pilot and co-pilot with the Arizona Army National Guard ready an Apache AH-64A attack helicopter for a test flight at the Silver Bell Army Heliport April 6. Apaches from outside Arizona are being deployed to the war in Yugoslavia. Each Apache is designed to carry 38, two and three quarter inch rockets and eight Hellfire laser guided missiles. The range of the Apache is approximately 300 miles. The 14.5 million dollar aircraft was originally designed for Cold War defense. 

British senior aircraftman Anthony Nutter examines two 1,000lb Paveway laser guided bombs of a British Harrier GR7 at the Gioia del Colle airbase in southern Italy March 27. NATO said March 27 that all its warplanes had returned safely from a third night of bombing raids on Yugoslavia, but fears grew that the air strikes had provoked a fresh Serb bloodbath gainst Kosovo.

PC/JDP 

A British ground crewman checks a fitted 1000lb Paveway laser guided bomb to a British Harrier GR7 at the Gioia del Colle airbase in southern Italy March 27. NATO said that all its warplanes had returned safely from a third night of bombing raids on Yugoslavia, but fears grew that the air strikes had provoked a fresh Serb bloodbath gainst Kosovo.

PC/JRE 

British senior aircraftman Anthony Nutter checks two 1000lb Paveway laser guided bombs of a British Harrier GR7 at the Gioia del Colle airbase in southern Italy March 27. NATO said that all its warplanes had returned safely from a third night of bombing raids on Yugoslavia, but fears grew that the air strikes had provoked a fresh Serb bloodbath gainst Kosovo.

PC/JRE 

- UNDATED FILE PHOTO - An F-117 stealth jet drops a laser-guided "paveway" bomb during training. After the opening missile barrage on Yugoslav targets, witnesses said about 80 warplanes including radar-immune Stealth bombers had taken off from the NATO airbase in Aviano, Italy. 

A Tomahawk missile is launched during the second night of cruise
missile strikes at Yugoslavia from the USS Philippine Sea guided
missile cruiser March 25, 1999. REUTERS/Paul Hanna

CLH/ 

An F/A-18 Hornet from Strike Fighter Squadron Nine Four (VFA-94) conducts a mission over the Persian Gulf on March 9 in support of the United Nations no-fly zone over southern Iraq. The aircraft is armed with AIM-9 short-range air-to-air missiles, AIM-7 medium-range air-to-air missiles, and one laser guided bomb. VFA-94 is currently operating from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, on a regularly scheduled deployment in the region. 

U.S. Army SPC Rene Segura from Torrance, Cal., walks past a Patriot missiles battery at Incirlik airbase, near the southern Turkish city of Adana February 23. U.S. Patriot missiles were brought to Turkey last month against any Iraqi threat to the base. U.S. airforce officials said "coalition aircraft on routine patrols of the northern no-fly zone were fired upon by anti-aircraft artillery. Three U.S. F-15s responded by firing three GBU-24 laser guided bombs at command and control bunker. Aircraft returned safely.

FS/JDP 

Aviation ordnancemen on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise load a GBU-16 laser guided bomb on an FA/18 "Hornet" fighter-bomber in preparation for a second wave of attacks against Iraq in support of Operation Desert Fox, December 17. For the second night in a row, the U.S. and British military launched heavy and sustained missile and bombing attacks on Iraq following Baghdad's refusal to cooperate fully with United Nations weapons inspectors. 

Royal Air Force ground crew load a Tornado GR1 bomber with laser-guided bombs as it is prepared for action in a photograph released by the Ministry of Defence December 17. British and US forces were tonight involved in a second night of heavy bombing of strategic targets in Iraq, with both aircraft and ship launched cruise missiles landing on the Iraqi capital Baghdad. ??»