[Poohbah]

You need to squeeze the trigger on an F-16 to fire the laser on the targeting pod. You squeeze it to the first detent for the laser, all the way for the gun. Hit some turbulance and there isn't much difference between the two.

Perhaps I'm just really slow to "get it," but it seems to me that putting the laser illuminate function on the gun trigger was not the best idea anyone's had lately...

[Rokke]

You'd think, but it has worked pretty well for more than 10 years. Remember, in the old days the first detent turned the camera on in many aircraft. That almost always worked too.