The codeword PAVE is a U.S. Air Force program identifier relating to electronic systems. Use of the prefix identifier is sometimes thought to be an acronym, but the various acronyms proposed do not fit with the wide range of programs it is used to identify. The original system, used in helicopters (The PAVE Low and PAVE Hawk), stood for Precision Avionics Vectoring Equipment.

PAVE systems

• Pave Hawk - Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk special ops and combat search and rescue helicopter.
• Pave Knife
  Pave Knife
  The Ford Aerospace AN/AVQ-10 Pave Knife was an early targeting pod developed by the USAF to designate and guide laser-guided bombs.Pave Knife was developed in 1969 to replace the original, essentially improvised Airborne Laser Designator . ALD was not a pod, but a hand-held laser operated by the...
  
   - 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 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
  E-8 Joint STARS
  The Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System is a battle management and command and control aircraft of the United States Air Force...
  
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• Pave Pace - A fully integrated avionics architecture featuring functional resource allocation.
• PAVE PAWS
  PAVE PAWS
  PAVE PAWS is a United States Air Force Space Command radar system operated by three 21st Space Wing squadrons for missile warning and space surveillance. Operational PAVE PAWS radars are located at:...
  
   - The Phased-Array Warning System which replaced the three BMEWS radars.
• Pave Penny
  Pave Penny
  The Lockheed Martin AN/AAS-35 Pave Penny is a laser spot tracker carried by US Air Force attack aircraft and fighter-bombers to enable them to track a laser spot on the ground...
  
   - 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 “Pave Spectre” gunships.
• Pave Eagle - QU-22B modified Beechcraft Bonanza drone aircraft for low altitude monitoring (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Bonanza#QU-22_Pave_Eagle).
• Pave Spike
  Pave Spike
  The Westinghouse AN/ASQ-153\AN/AVQ-23 Pave Spike is an electro-optical laser designator pod used to direct laser-guided bombs to target in daylight, visual conditions...
  
   - Westinghouse AN/ASQ-153\AN/AVQ-23 Pave Spike is an electro-optical laser designator pod.
• Pave Sword - AN AVQ-11 Pave Sword laser tracker.
• Pave Tack
  Pave Tack
  The Ford Aerospace AN/AVQ-26 Pave Tack is an electro-optical targeting pod developed by the United States Air Force for military attack aircraft. It uses a laser and a forward-looking infrared to find and designate targets for laser-guided bombs and other precision-guided weapons...
  
   - Ford Aerospace AN/AVQ-26 Pave Tack electro-optical targeting pod.
• Paveway
  Paveway
  Paveway is a generic term for Laser Guided Bombs .Pave or PAVE is sometimes used as an acronym for precision avionics vectoring equipment; literally, electronics for controlling the speed and direction of aircraft...
  
  - A family of laser guided bomb conversion kits, to be fitted to standard unguided bombs.