[cpdiii]

Later, when he was lasing the mortar position that ultimately klilled him from the rooftop at the annex, he was doing so because he fully expected some assett that was in the air to hit that target. You do not lase a target with that equipment unless something is there to take it down. I believe the second Predator UAV was probably armed and could have done so. Probably being flown out of Langley...perhaps elsewhere. Someone had to order that Predator NOT TO FIRE. I believe that order came down from the President.

You are correct. When you lase a target your laser must be encoded with the drone or aircraft that has the munitions. If he lased the target that means his laser was encoded with the firing platform. It would not be encoded with the firing platform unless the aerial vehicle or fighter aircraft had deplopyable munitions on board and ready for use.

[Travis McGee]

I think that it’s going to turn out that Ty Woods had no more than a garden-variety LAD on his personal rifle, something like a PEQ15 etc. Infrared or green laser, but even infrared is “visible” today in a city like Benghazi, where so many jihadists floated back and forth to Iraq and A-stan to fight the Ameriki crusaders.

My conjecture is that a reporter chatted with one of the other (still anonymous) shooters, and heard that Ty was using his laser on the roof. Of course he would be in that situation, along with a NOD, he would be slaughtering terrorists out to about 300+ yards.

The LAD might have even been mounted on the still-unidentified “machine gun on the roof.”

We are taking fragmentary factoidsd jotted down by reporters talkint to whom we don’t know, and spinning entire novels from pure guesswork.

I believe we’ll find out the Predators were unarmed from the get-go, and no other U.S. aircraft were over Benghazi.