Lantirn Area track over water

[WelshZeCorgi]

So my understanding WAS that the lantirn has its own internal navigation system separate from the 14 and uses it for stuff like area track. But when trying to use it over water, I can't seem to get it out of rates and into area track mode unless something is near the crosshairs like a ship. In open water, it will not area track a spot in the ocean with no contrasting features around it, and makes me think it does not use the inertial system to keep the crosshairs on a point in space in area track.

 

So is that right? Area track uses imaging contrast in order to keep the crosshaired centered on a point in space? 

[Naquaii]

That is correct. Area track uses the whole of the image to try and track an area unlike point track where it uses a single point in the center of the image to track.

For a INS guided positional track you need to have a designated target or track a waypoint, rates track in the LANTIRN is a bit unreliable.

 

The area track and scene track in the LITENING and AT-FLIR work the same.