[az_gila]

FOX News is reporting that there was GLD in Benghazi. These machine gun lasers are just being thrown out so the Democrats can say,”Well, you can’t guide bombs in with those lasers.” But you can with a GLD. The GLD shows Panetta is telling a lie when he says they couldn’t send aircraft to bomb the attackers because they were afraid of “collateral damage” (bombs killing innocent civilians or damaging their property). With a GLD they could have dropped laser-guided bombs within a few feet of the attackers that the GLD was pointed at. They could have sent jets to help save the 30 Americans under attack in Benghazi. There is no other excuse but that our President Obama didn’t want to send military rescue. Why?

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Even if the laser was a “dumb” laser it could be used for targeting a Predator.

The GLD is a designator and would guide a missile/bomb to a target. The Predator has enough sensors on it -

http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=122

- that it could pick up where the dumb laser was pointing and use it to target it's weapons. When a target is identified, the Predator can use it's own designator to guide the Hellfire missiles.

A GLD would be nice, but probably not essential, to getting a pinpoint attack.

[fudimo]

Here is an updated timeline of the events in Benghazi.

http://wecheck.org/wiki/Benghazi_Attack_Timeline

[blueunicorn6]

Yep. Good point. I never worked with drones. I was always taught “to keep eyes on the target”. I guess what I’m trying to get across is that Panetta is telling a lie. We obviously had intell on what was happening and could have put a lot of steel where the enemy was located with a minimal chance of harming non-combatants. They are really trying to cover this up and what I didn’t want was Panetta saying tomorrow that, “Gee, those lasers were just to help aim the machine guns on the ground.”

[TigersEye]

See the video linked in post #21. Predators don’t need to have a target lazed. Neither do AC-130s or Apache helicopters.