Talk:Pave Knife

MIA-POWs
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)

Capitalization
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)

PAVE NAIL ?
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)