What is pod？Popularization of pods

A pod is a short, streamlined nacelle section in which a piece of airborne equipment or a weapon is mounted and suspended from the fuselage or under the wing. They can be fixed (e.g. engine pods) or detachable (e.g. weapon pods). The addition of a pod can provide an aircraft with a function that it does not have on its own, and the addition of a pod usually requires the support of on-board electronics and consideration of the overall aerodynamics of the aircraft.

With the development of aviation technology, airborne pod technology has also made great progress. Generally speaking, airborne pods can be divided into: weapons pods (including gun pods and arrow pods), reconnaissance pods, fire control pods and logistic support pods (refueling pods).Our company's main business is photoelectric pods.

Airborne optoelectronic pods are usually equipped with forward-looking infrared cameras, television cameras and laser pointers/rangefinders and other optoelectronic sensors. According to the function of the main airborne navigation pods and targeting pods two types. With the continuous development of precision-guided weapons technology, aviation optoelectronic pods have become an important part of the precision strike system. It isolates the influence of attitude change and mechanical vibration of the carrier aircraft on the pointing of photoelectric sensors, and at the same time, it utilizes the photoelectric sensors to complete the search, localization, and tracking of the target. Aviation optoelectronic pod is a system with large time delay, nonlinearity and yet requires high tracking and stabilization accuracy, which requires high controller design.