PAVE#PAVE systems
{{Short description|United States military electronic system program}}
{{About|a military electronic system|other uses|Pave (disambiguation)}}
File:F-4D 13th TFS 432nd TRW with Pave Sword laser 1971.jpg laser pod on a F-4D during the Vietnam War, 1971.]]
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.{{cite report |author=Engineering Panel on the PAVE PAWS Radar System |year=1979 |title=Radiation Intensity of the PAVE PAWS Radar System |url=http://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a088323.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714130334/http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a088323.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |number=ADA 088323 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=2014-06-05 |page= 6}}{{cite web |url= https://fas.org/spp/starwars/program/uewr.htm |title= Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) |website= Federation of American Scientists |access-date= 24 May 2015}} Pave was used as an inconsequential prefix identifier for a wide range of different programs,{{cite report |title=Photographs / Written Historical and Descriptive Data: Cape Cod Air Station Technical Facility/Scanner Building and Power Plant |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ma/ma1600/ma1633/data/ma1633data.pdf |access-date=2014-06-10 |page=2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715034251/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ma/ma1600/ma1633/data/ma1633data.pdf |archive-date=2014-07-15 }} though backronyms and alternative meanings have been used.{{cite web |url= http://www.aerofiles.com/pave.html |title= The Acronym That Wasn't |website= Aerofiles |access-date= 24 May 2015 }} For example, in the helicopters Pave Low and Pave Hawk it was said to mean Precision Avionics Vectoring Equipment, but in PAVE PAWS it was said to mean Precision Acquisition Vehicle Entry.
PAVE systems
- 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.{{cite report |last1=Smith |first1=John Q. |last2=Byrd |first2=David A |year= 1991 |title=Forty Years of Research and Development at Griffis Air Force Base: June 1951 – June 1991 |url=http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA250435 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408131948/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA250435 |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 8, 2013 |number=AD-A250 435 |publisher=Rome Laboratory |access-date=2014-03-10 |page= 130 }}
- 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{{cite report |last1=Winkler |first1=David F |last2=Webster |first2=Julie L |date=June 1997 |title=Searching the Skies: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program |url=http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA331231 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121201202922/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA331231 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 1, 2012 |location=Champaign, IL |lccn=97020912 |publisher=U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories |access-date=2013-04-23}} or Precision Acquisition Vehicle Entry.
- 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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- {{cite web |url= https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/lgb.htm |title= Laser Guided Bombs |website= Federation of American Scientists |access-date= 24 May 2015}} - Contains a list of PAVE program names relating to Laser Guided bombs
- {{citation |title=Nicknames and Practice Terms |date=15 March 1979 |publisher=Department of the Air Force |page=30 |url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112106754044&seq=30 |access-date=31 January 2022}}
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