Graveyard of Empires

Last Thursday, we closed the Paveway II instructional series with November’s "masterclass", a comprehensive walkthrough of the weapon’s behaviour, employment logic, and practical delivery techniques. I hope that with final session you now have a very good understanding of how to use the Paveway II f

After several months of work, the full 25-article Paveway II series is now complete. We’ve covered every self- and buddy-lasing profiles, from fuze settings to intervisibility calculations, cockpit actions, geometry, and all the small details that make the difference between “oh, it worked” and “yes

As usual now, you can find attached the kneeboard page to help you keep track of the limitations associated to ground lasing procedures, as we've discussed them on the previous post.

In our previous discussions on Paveway II employment, we explored all the self-lasing delivery profiles (level, dive, pop-up, loft, and toss). These methods have all in common that they require precise aircraft handling and sensor management to acquire target and guide the bomb, in a potentially hig