Question about aircraft range finders

[Suhiir]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

The other ones are fighter-bombers, and do find range finders rather useful for firing their direct-fire weapons, such as cannons, missiles, rockets etc. Just like they find thier thermal vision useful for actually seeing thier direct fire targets.

Andy

I'm wondering, do laser guided munitions (Paveway, Maverick, JDAM, APKWS) count as direct-fire weapons for purposes of range finders on aircraft?

Would HARM type weapons benefit from a range finder?

If this is the case perhaps some aircraft that don't currently have a range finder rating (for example the AV-8 Harrier) might rate one.