Talk:LANTIRN

HJ is udating the F-14 LANTRIN section and will cite references once complete HJ 23:06, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

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APN-237

APN-237 redirects here, but I don't see any clarification in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.251.32.227 (talk) 21:45, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Cruise Missile Inclusion.

LANTIRN was also used on Cruise Missiles during the first Gulf War.

The problem is, I have no direct sources, and I have no way of finding any. So if someone could, that would be nice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.160.197.141 (talk) 00:34, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Manufacturer

The lead is a little misworded making it difficult to understand who manufactures LANTIRN. Can someone clarify the statement a bit? — TadgStirkland⁴⁰¹ (Tadg^Talk) 15:17, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Regarding Incorrect F-14 LANTIRN claims.

Claim 1:

the Tomcat was so expensive (and lacked proper defensive electronic countermeasures (DECM) and radar homing and warning (RHAW) for overland operations) that the Navy did not want to risk it in the air-to-ground role.

Tomcat did not lack DECM or RHAW gear for overland operations. In fact the ALR-45/50 RWR was shared by the Navy's other principle strike aircraft, the A-6 and the A-7. The SACs for both aircraft show this. (NAVAIR 00-110AA6-5, 00-110AF14-1)

I removed this because the claims that it did not have ample ECM or DECM is generally not true. The Tomcat had the same DECM as an A-6A when it was introduced in 1974, and while it lagged behind the A-6E, Es would not replace the entire A-6A fleet until 1977-1978.

Claim 2:

... Software that included air-to-ground options as well as rudimentary software in the AWG-9

The Tomcat's bombing capacity was not rudimentary. The 2-2-14.1 General Principles of Operation AWG-9 WCS Air To Ground describes the capacity & modes as ;

(C) AIR-TO-GROUND MODES. (See figure 1.) There are five air-to-ground modes of operation: computer-target, computer-identification point, computer-pilot, d/l bombing, and manual. These modes use radar data, data-link information, navigational data, and other system inputs to ensure that weapons are released at the proper time. In the computer-target and computer-identification point modes, the computer subsystem (part 6) supplies steering information to the HUD and automatically releases the weapon at the proper time. In the computer-pilot mode, computer steering information is provided, but the pilot manually releases the weapon. In the d/l bombing mode, data-link steering data are provided on the HUD and VDI, and a data-link drop command is sent directly to the armament system; the computer subsystem does not perform calculations in this mode. In the manual mode, no information is provided, and the pilot manually releases the weapons.

I would not define hard-programed capabilities which provide functions like CCIP/CCRP, and datalink guidance via NAVGRID, as rudimentary, especially not the DATALINK mode which is described as:

The aircraft is then tracked by land-based radar, and its location, along with the target location, is inserted into a Marine Tactical Data System (MTDS) computer. The weapon type is manually inserted into the MTDS computer, which solves the equations necessary to vector the aircraft to the weapon release point. This information( time-to-go, lateral glideslope error, vertical glideslope error, and drop) is transmitted via data link to the aircraft and displayed on VDI.

Vesole878 (talk) 07:52, 26 February 2026 (UTC)