PAVE
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PAVE is a United States Air Force program identifier relating to electronic systems. Prior to 1979, Pave was said to be a code word for the Air Force unit responsible for the project.<ref name=ADA088323>Template:Cite report</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Pave was used as an inconsequential prefix identifier for a wide range of different programs,<ref name=HAER>Template:Cite report</ref> though backronyms and alternative meanings have been used.<ref name="Aerofiles">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> For example, in the helicopters Pave Low and Pave Hawk it was said to mean Precision Avionics Vectoring Equipment,<ref name="Aerofiles" /> but in PAVE PAWS it was said to mean Precision Acquisition Vehicle Entry.<ref name=HAER />
PAVE systemsEdit
- Pave Eagle – Modified Beechcraft Bonanza drone aircraft for low altitude sensor monitoring.
- Pave Hawk – Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk special operations and combat search and rescue helicopter.
- Pave Nail - OV-10 Bronco with Pave Spot target laser designator pod.
- Pave Knife – Ford Aerospace AN/AVQ-10 Pave Knife early laser targeting pod.
- Pave Low – Sikorsky MH-53 Pave Low special ops and combat search and rescue helicopter.
- Pave Mint – Upgrade of the AN/ALQ-117 electronic warfare system to the AN/ALQ-172.
- Pave Mover – Demonstration program to develop the AN/APY-7 radar wide-area surveillance, ground moving target indicator (GMTI), fixed target indicator (FTI) target classification, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR), for the E-8 Joint STARS.
- Pave Onyx – Vietnam era Advanced Location Strike System c.1973.<ref name=SmithByrd>Template:Cite report</ref>
- Pave Pace – A fully integrated avionics architecture featuring functional resource allocation.
- PAVE PAWS – The Phased-Array Warning System which replaced the three BMEWS radars. Pave in this case is a backronym for Perimeter<ref name=Winkler>Template:Cite report</ref> or Precision Acquisition Vehicle Entry.<ref name=HAER />
- Pave Penny – Lockheed-Martin AN/AAS-35(V) laser spot tracker.
- Pave Pillar – Generic core avionics architecture system for combat aircraft.
- Pave Pronto – Lockheed AC-130 Spectre gunship program.
- Pave Spectre – Lockheed AC-130E gunships.
- Pave Spike – Westinghouse AN/ASQ-153\AN/AVQ-23 electro-optical laser designator pod.
- Pave Sword – AN/AVQ-11 Pave Sword laser tracker.
- Pave Tack – Ford Aerospace AN/AVQ-26 electro-optical targeting pod. Used first on F-4 and then later on F-111F model aircraft.
- Paveway – A family of laser-guided bomb conversion kits, to be fitted to standard unguided bombs.
- Pave COIN/Project Little Brother - A USAF program evaluating counter insurgency aircraft during the early 1970s.
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|CitationClass=web }} - Contains a list of PAVE program names relating to Laser Guided bombs