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From: jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan A Bishop)
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Subject: Re: PAVE xxx?
Keywords: PAVE PAWS LOW SPECTRE
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Date: 1 Nov 90 02:44:32 GMT
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From: jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan A Bishop)
fvance@airgun.wg.waii.com (Frank Vance) writes:

>What are some of the various PAVE programs, and what do they have in
>common, such that they get a PAVE name?

>Apparently, PAVE LOW is the name for a Search and Rescue behind-the-lines
>helicopter, PAVE SPECTRE was the development name for the AC-130 Hercules
>gunship, and somebody just mentioned PAVE PAWS as a radar unit. But I
>thought I had read of PAVE PAWS in the same context as PAVE LOW?

     Yes, Pave Paws is the name of a system of surveillance radars in
Alaska.
     Two others: Pave Tack is a laser target illuminator, while Pave Penny
is an LGB.

[mod.note: LGB, I presume, is "Laser Guided Bomb."  Anyway, all this leaves
the initial question unanswered:  "What does PAVE mean ?"  Does the Air
Force have an asphalt fetish ?  - Bill ]

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