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From: tobin@eklektix.com (Mike Tobin)
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Subject: Re: PAVE xxx?
Keywords: PAVE PAWS LOW SPECTRE
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Date: 6 Nov 90 04:49:30 GMT
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From: tobin@eklektix.com (Mike Tobin)
In article <1990Nov1.024432.11384@cbnews.att.com> jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan A Bishop) writes:
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>From: jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan A Bishop)
>fvance@airgun.wg.waii.com (Frank Vance) writes:
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>>What are some of the various PAVE programs, and what do they have in
>>common, such that they get a PAVE name?

The Air Force has a series of nicknames they use for electronic systems
(HAVE, PAVE, CONSTANT and SENTINEL are ones I can think of).  Can't find
my list of how they're passed out, but the HAVEs tend to be
communications systems, the PAVEs tend to be sensors, the CONSTANTs are
command post data systems and the SENTINELs tend to intelligence data
systems. I say "tend" because there seem to be a lot of contradictions.

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>     Yes, Pave Paws is the name of a system of surveillance radars in
>Alaska.

PAVES PAWS is a phased array radar for detection of SLBMs.  There's
three of them: Cape Cod AFS, Mass; Robins AFB, Georgia; and Beale AFB,
Calif.  BMEWS the ICBM warning site is in Alaska.  COBRA DANE (add COBRA
to the list) is at the end of the Alleutians (sp?), but it's for
watching SoviEt test launches.

mike Tobin
planck!hercules!tobin@acsu.buffalo.edu