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The Thomson-CSF
Thomson-CSF

Thomson-CSF was a major electronics and defense contractor. In December 2000 it was renamed Thales Group....
 ATLIS II (Automatic Tracking and Laser Integration System) is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 laser
Laser

A laser is a device that emits light through a process called stimulated emission. The term laser is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation....
/electro-optical targeting pod for fighter bomber and attack aircraft.

ATLIS was developed starting in 1976
1976 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1976:...
, entering service in 1980
1980 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1980:...
. It was developed for the French Armée de l'Air, initially carried by SEPECAT Jaguar
SEPECAT Jaguar

The SEPECAT Jaguar is an United Kingdom-France jet ground attack aircraft still in service with several export customers, notably the Indian Air Force and the Royal Air Force of Oman....
 and Mirage 2000 aircraft.

ATLIS incorporates a laser designator boresighted with a television camera.






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The Thomson-CSF
Thomson-CSF

Thomson-CSF was a major electronics and defense contractor. In December 2000 it was renamed Thales Group....
 ATLIS II (Automatic Tracking and Laser Integration System) is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 laser
Laser

A laser is a device that emits light through a process called stimulated emission. The term laser is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation....
/electro-optical targeting pod for fighter bomber and attack aircraft.

ATLIS was developed starting in 1976
1976 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1976:...
, entering service in 1980
1980 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1980:...
. It was developed for the French Armée de l'Air, initially carried by SEPECAT Jaguar
SEPECAT Jaguar

The SEPECAT Jaguar is an United Kingdom-France jet ground attack aircraft still in service with several export customers, notably the Indian Air Force and the Royal Air Force of Oman....
 and Mirage 2000 aircraft.

ATLIS incorporates a laser designator boresighted with a television camera. The pilot or weapon systems officer uses the crosshairs to mark a target, which can then be attacked with laser-guided bomb
Laser-guided bomb

A laser-guided bomb is a precision-guided munition that uses semi-active laser homing to strike a designated target with greater accuracy than a free-fall bomb....
s or other guided weapons from the designating aircraft or other, friendly forces. Because it is designed for use by single-seat aircraft, it has a novel automatic lock-on feature, which keeps the laser focused on the target without further operator intervention (using an inertial guidance system, it can generally keep the laser on target even if the beam is temporarily interrupted by clouds).

ATLIS II is used by the SEPECAT Jaguar
SEPECAT Jaguar

The SEPECAT Jaguar is an United Kingdom-France jet ground attack aircraft still in service with several export customers, notably the Indian Air Force and the Royal Air Force of Oman....
, Mirage F1, Mirage 2000, Mirage 2000N, and some Pakistani
Pakistan

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 F-16s. It is compatible with various U.S.
United States

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 and French laser-guided bomb
Laser-guided bomb

A laser-guided bomb is a precision-guided munition that uses semi-active laser homing to strike a designated target with greater accuracy than a free-fall bomb....
s, with the French Aerospatiale AS-30L
AS-30L

The AS-30L is a French short-to-medium range air-to-ground missile stand-off missile laser guided missile, and is a development of the AS-30 missile....
 missile, and even with some Russian
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 bombs and guided weapons.

The pod is limited in being primarily a daylight/clear-weather system, and is being slowly replaced by the more capable Thomson-CSF PDLCT ("Pod de Designation Laser a Camera Thermique" / Laser Designation Pod with Infrared Camera") and Thales Damocles, which has a FLIR.