The Paveway I laser-guided bomb was first used in combat by the US during the Vietnam War. Paveway is derived from the term 'precision avionics vectoring equipment' (PAVE) the name used for systems that control the speed and direction of an aircraft. PAVE was adopted by the US Air Force as an identifier of various weapon systems including, what is probably, the most familiar name ever given to a type of bomb.
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