Talk:Pave Knife

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MIA-POWs[edit]

Someone should make reference to this:

On November 11, 1992, Dolores Alfond, sister of missing airman Capt. Victor Apodaca and chair of the National Alliance of Families, an organization of relatives of POW/MIAs, testified at one of the Senate committee's public hearings. She asked for information about data the government had gathered from electronic devices used in a classified program known as PAVE SPIKE.

The devices were primarily motion sensors, dropped by air, designed to pick up enemy troop movements. But they also had rescue capabilities. Someone on the ground--a downed airman or a prisoner on a labor gang--could manually enter data into the sensor, which were regularly collected electronically by US planes flying overhead. Alfond stated, without any challenge from the committee, that in 1974, a year after the supposedly complete return of prisoners, the gathered data showed that a person or people had manually entered into the sensors--as US pilots had been trained to do--"no less than 20 authenticator numbers that corresponded exactly to the classified authenticator numbers of 20 US POW/MIAs who were lost in Laos." Alfond added, says the transcript: "This PAVE SPIKE intelligence is seamless, but the committee has not discussed it or released what it knows about PAVE SPIKE." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.218.232.71 (talk) 13:53, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalization[edit]

PAVE KNIFE (capitals) is the official name. Can we please migrate this article to that name with a redirect? I would like to standardize this within Wikipedia, but I don't know where to have the discussion. 70.251.32.227 (talk) 19:19, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

PAVE NAIL ?[edit]

In a TV episode of Air Warriors, the PAVE NAIL system was mentioned as the original laser-designation system intended to pinpoint downed airmen, in response to the BAT-21 incident; and that it was instantly re-purposed as a munitions targeting system. Can anyone confirm or refute? Steve8394 (talk) 04:44, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]