The flying organizations within Tenth Air Force include fighter units equipped with the F-16 ( Fighting Falcon ) and A-10 ( Thunderbolt II ); fighter associate program detachments equipped with the F-15 ( Eagle ) and F-16 ; associate flying training units equipped with the F-22 ( Raptor ); associate units flying Predator, Reaper and Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ; air rescue units equipped with the HC-130 ( Hercules ) and the HH-60 ( Pave Hawk ) helicopter ; a bomb wing equipped with the B-52 ( Stratofortress ); an airborne warning and control associate unit equipped with the E-3 ( Sentry ); and a special operations unit equipped with the MC-130E ( Combat Talon ).

The Laser Target Designator retrieved in the contact showed that the Royal Marines were seeking to destroy the Argentine bunkers on Mount Harriet with 1, 000-pound Pave Way Laser Guided Bombs.

Dingo also went on tour with Pave Maijanen on the keyboards.

The group left Capitol and signed with the then-NY-based indie label of John Szuch's ( now based in Charlotte, NC ) Deep Elm Records ( Nada Surf, Brandtson, Pave the Rocket and Camber ) to release the critically acclaimed " Cattlemen Don't ".

These notably included the BLU-31 / B and Mk 36 air-dropped mines, BLU-43 / B and BLU-44 / B landmine system ( Dragontooth ), the BLU-72 / B fuel-air explosive ( Pave Pat ), and the BLU-52 / A chemical bomb ( filled with bulk CS-2 powder ).

Pave Tack is a large installation, with the pod alone weighing some 629 kg ( 1, 385 lb ) and measuring 4, 220 mm ( 166 inches ) in length.

A 48th Fighter Wing | 48th TFW General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark | F-111F in 1982, equipped with a Pave Tack and GBU-10 | GBU-10s.

The last USAF Pave Tacks were withdrawn with the retirement of the F-111 in 1996.

The 48th Rescue Squadron served at Holloman AFB on 1 May 1993 with its six Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters.

Aircrews assigned to fly the C-130 train at Little Rock AFB, Arkansas, while aircrews assigned to fly MC-130 Combat Talon I / II, Combat Shadow, and HC-130 aircraft will take initial follow-on training at Little Rock followed by additional follow-on training at a colocated site with UH-1N Twin Huey and HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter crews and CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor crews at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.

This culminated in December 1990, with Operation Night Camel in which air crews of the F-111 evaluated the ability of aircraft to use guided munitions with the LANTIRN and Pave Tack target designation systems from medium altitude.

| hardpoint other = AN / ALQ-101 ECM protection pod, AN / AVQ-23 Pave Spike Laser designator pod, Buddy refuelling pack or Drop tanks for extended range / loitering time

When Pave Knife was sent out for bid by the Air Force, it was for a firm fixed-price type of contract, it involved design, development, and manufacture of one prototype, and also a quick reaction project.

An early Pave Sword laser pod on a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II | F-4D during the Vietnam War, 1971.

* Pave Knife-Ford Aerospace AN / AVQ-10 Pave Knife early laser targeting pod.

* Pave Penny-Lockheed-Martin AN / AAS-35 ( V ) laser spot tracker.

Primarily, this resulted from the upgrade to the Pave Tack, a laser guided weapons delivery system.

The Lockheed Martin AN / AAS-35 ( V ) 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 ( it does not produce a laser beam itself, so the aircraft cannot launch and guide laser-guided bombs against ground targets without additional hardware ).

Pave Penny was developed in the mid-1970s based on the earlier AN / AVQ-11 Pave Sword laser tracker used on a few USAF F-4 Phantom II during the Vietnam War, miniaturized using solid-state electronics.

Unlike the LRMTS ( laser ranger and marked target seeker ) systems common to European aircraft, or the more sophisticated ASQ-228 ATFLIR, TIALD, and LANTIRN designators, Pave Penny does not contain a laser.

Pave Penny can recognize specific laser designation signals based on pre-determined four-digit codes encoded into the laser pulse, allowing it to seek out particular targets and ignore others ( to avoid, for example, several aircraft hitting the same target ).

* Lockheed Martin AN / AAS-35 ( V ) Pave Penny laser tracker.

Pave Knife was a roughly banana-shaped external pod, weighing about 550 kg ( 1, 200 lb ), containing a steerable laser and closed-circuit television camera.

The simplest spot trackers ( like the Pave Penny pod ) have no laser at all, just a laser sensor.

Pave Tack's images are routed to a cockpit display, usually for the weapon systems officer.

The Pave Knife was superseded by the later Pave Spike and Pave Tack systems, and is no longer in service.

* Pave the way for innovative electronic systems that further improve performance, safety and environmental friendliness

The Ford Aerospace AN / AVQ-10 Pave Knife was an early targeting pod developed by the USAF to designate and guide laser-guided bombs.

Tenant military activities include the 129th Rescue Wing of the California Air National Guard, operating the HC-130P Hercules ( Combat King ), MC-130P Combat Shadow and HH-60G Pave Hawk aircraft, as well as the adjacent Headquarters for the 7th Psychological Operations Group of the U. S. Army Reserve.

The USAF Combat Rescue School, established in 1993, provided HH-60 Pave Hawk instructional flying for air rescue missions.

* 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 Pillar-Generic core avionics architecture system for combat aircraft.

* Pave Eagle-Modified Beechcraft Bonanza drone aircraft for low altitude sensor monitoring.

Pave or PAVE is sometimes used as an acronym for precision avionics vectoring equipment ; literally, electronics for controlling the speed and direction of aircraft.

An A-10 Thunderbolt II's Pave Penny pod.

The Pave Penny pod was used by USAF A-7D Corsair II aircraft, fuselage-mounted beneath the engine intake, and the A-10 Thunderbolt II, mounted on an external pylon designed specifically for the pod ( see photo top right ).

* Pave Penny production order.

* Pave Penny page on GlobalSecurity. org

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