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From: scott%sting.Berkeley.EDU@ (Scott Silvey)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Multiple weapons delivery...
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Date: 18 Jul 90 04:09:13 GMT
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From: scott%sting.Berkeley.EDU@ (Scott Silvey)

Is it possible for a 2-crew bomber with an advanced "360 degree"
  laser designator to guide an in-flight weapon while 
  simultaneously dropping unguided ordinace ballistically on 
  another target?  If this is not possible, is it because of 
  either (1) avioncs/weapon systems limitations or (2) the fact 
  that this is way too complicated for an air crew to perform 
  under fire?

This sounds sort of crazy to me but what I envision is for
  something like an F-111 with PAVETACK in a (common?) situation 
  where it needs to release a lot of ordinance on several targets
  in a short period of time.  Since you want to minimize the 
  time near the target, you only want to make one fly-by per 
  aircraft.  The bombardier could control in flight laser-guided 
  weapons while the pilot lines up another target for some sort
  of "laydown" attack (releasing a lot of bombs in a line to
  increase the hit probability of a ballistic drop).

Would an A-6F be capable of something like this?  Are there any
  other aircraft that could do something similar?

Finally, if this IS possible, is it a technique that is used?

In the Lybia raid I remember seeing press-release videos from
  the F-111 with a PAVETACK system that was attacking some 
  grounded Lybian transports.  However, these aircraft seemed to 
  be controlling only one weapon drop each.

Scott