PAVE
United States military electronic system program
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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.[1][2] Pave was used as an inconsequential prefix identifier for a wide range of different programs,[3] though backronyms and alternative meanings have been used.[4] For example, in the helicopters Pave Low and Pave Hawk it was said to mean Precision Avionics Vectoring Equipment,[4] but in PAVE PAWS it was said to mean Precision Acquisition Vehicle Entry.[3]
PAVE systems
- Pave Aegis – Refit of AC-130 gunships with a 105mm cannon[5]
- Pave Arrow – Development of AN/AVQ-14 laser tracking pod for use with AN/AVQ-12 Pave Spot laser designator on C-123K Provider and O-2A Skymaster forward air control aircraft[6]
- Pave Buff – Pathfinder bombing operation using two LORAN-C/D AN/ARN-92 receiver equipped B-52D Stratofortress bombers to lead a three-aircraft cell of B-52s to a target in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War[7][8]
- Pave Deuce - Program which converted the F-102 into the PQM-102 and QF-102 Full-scale Aerial Targets.
- Pave COIN/Project Little Brother - A USAF program evaluating counter insurgency aircraft during the early 1970s.
- Pave Cricket – Boeing CEM-138 electronic countermeasures mini drone, a CQM-121A Pave Tiger equipped with a jamming system. Program cancelled.[9]
- Pave Hun - Program which converted the F-100 into the QF-100 Full-scale Aerial Target.
- Pave Eagle – Modified Beechcraft Bonanza drone aircraft for low altitude sensor monitoring.
- Pave Fire – Targeting system for "dumb bomb" delivery installed on a single F-4D Phantom II during the Vietnam War[10]
- Pave Gat – Program to develop a laser rangefinder for the B-52G Stratofortress[6]
- Pave Hawk – Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk special operations and combat search and rescue helicopter.
- Pave Knife – Ford Aerospace AN/AVQ-10 early laser targeting pod.
- Pave Lance – Program to replace the Pave Knife AN/AVQ-10 adding forward looking infrared (FLIR) capability in place of low light level television (LLLTV), but Pave Tack development of AN/AVQ-26 took priority[6]
- Pave Light – Development of a stabilized laser designator, the AN/AVQ-9, for F-4 Phantom II aircraft[6]
- Pave Low – Sikorsky MH-53 Pave Low special ops and combat search and rescue helicopter.
- Pave Mack – Laser seeker head development program for air-to-surface missiles, also referred to as LARS (Laser Aided Rocket System) for use with the AN/AVQ-12 Pave Spot laser designator[6]
- 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.[11]
- Pave Nail - AN/AVQ-13 stabilized periscopic laser designator aboard North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco with AN/AVQ-12 Pave Spot target laser designator pod.
- Pave Onyx – Vietnam era Advanced Location Strike System c.1973.[12]
- 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[13] or Precision Acquisition Vehicle Entry.[3]
- Pave Penny – Lockheed-Martin AN/AAS-35(V) laser spot tracker.
- Pave Pepper – An Air Force Space and Missile Systems Organization project to decrease the size of the Minuteman III warheads allowing more to be launched by one missile.
- Pave Phantom – Long Range Navigation (LORAN-D) AN/ARN-92 and computer added to F-4D Phantom II storing information for 8 different targets designated by the OV-10 Bronco with the Pave Nail AN/AVQ-13 designator[6]
- Pave Pillar – Generic core avionics architecture system for combat aircraft.
- Pave Pointer – C-123K Provider palletized laser designator/rangefinder/low light level television system used as a Gun Direction Platform[6]
- Pave Prism – Infrared and active laser seekers development for use on the AIM-132 air-to-air missile[6]
- Pave Pronto – Lockheed AC-130 Spectre gunship program adding a night observation camera, AN/AAD-4 or AN/AAD-6 FLIR, and AN/AVQ-17 illuminator.[6]
- Pave Scope – Development of target acquisition aids like TISEO and the Honeywell AN/AVG-8 Eagle Eye Visual Target Acquistion Set (VTAS) helmet sighting system[6][14]
- Pave Spectre – Lockheed AC-130E gunships.[5]
- Pave Spike – Westinghouse AN/ASQ-153, AN/AVQ-23 electro-optical laser designator pod.
- Pave Spot – AN/AVQ-12 stabilized periscopic night vision sight laser designator pod developed for use on the O-2A Skymaster[6]
- Pave Sword – AN/AVQ-11 laser tracker for F-4 Phantom II aircraft.[6]
- Pave Tack – Ford Aerospace AN/AVQ-26 electro-optical targeting pod, first used on F-4 Phantom II and later on F-111F Aardvark aircraft.
- Pave Tiger – Boeing designed drone (CQM-121A) for Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses. CGM-121B was code named Seek Spinner.[15]
- Pave Way – Project to develop a series of laser-guided bombs developed by Texas Instruments