US Military Project Code Names and Descriptions Charts

 

"HAVE" Series Designations Project Description Information Source
HAVE BAIT Czech MiG-17. Crashed in West Germany in August 1968. West German government insisted on returning wreckage, but "some vital systems retained by West German Air Force." Moon Dust documents
HAVE BLUE Lockheed low-observables (stealth) demonstrator. First flight 1977 Open
HAVE BOAT Chinese-built export F-6 (MiG-19). [Pakistan source?] "Engine, metal, paint samples gun, camera and IFF systems analysis." c. 1978 Moon Dust documents
HAVE CHARCOAL AN/ALQ-204 IR Countermesures System "Matador" (for large transports); manufactured by Lockheed-Martin; used in VC-25A http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/jetds/analq2aly.html
HAVE DART "A study of the overall defensive environment of North Vietnam." c. 1968 Moon Dust documents
HAVE DESK "Publishing of a foreign materiel exploitation report in May on the analyses of Soviet scrap metals in Battelle Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio." 1978 Moon Dust documents
HAVE DOUGHNUT Iraqi MiG-21 acquired by Israel in intelligence operation. 1967 Peebles, "Dark Eagles"
HAVE DRILL Test and training flights, simulated combat against MiG-17 at Groom Lake. Late 1960s Peebles, "Dark Eagles"
HAVE EXIT AN/ALQ-117 "PAVE MINT"/"HAVE EXIT" Active Countermeasures Set; manufactured by ITT; used in B-52G/H, C-130, E-3A, E-4A http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/jetds/analq2aly.html
HAVE FLASH Unknown, apparently stealth-related USAF special access program, c. 1980s James P. Stevenson, The $5 Billion Misunderstanding: The Collapse of the Navy's A-12 Stealth Bomber Program
HAVE FOAM "Testing of the Soviet Radar Search Bomb Navigation (RSBN) weapon system [of a Soviet-bloc warplane] in Berlin, Germany, during May-June." 1978 Moon Dust documents
HAVE GARDEN MiG-21 project. "Publishing of a foreign materiel exploitation report in April based on Pratt and Whitney's reports on the Soviet R-13-300 turbojet engine blade profiling and compressor maps." 1978 Moon Dust documents
HAVE GLASS "A modification of the F-16." Possibly a stealth-related SAP. Early 1980s James P. Stevenson, The $5 Billion Misunderstanding: The Collapse of the Navy's A-12 Stealth Bomber Program
HAVE GOLD 7-year, $140 million contract to provide NAIC with complete ballistic missile flight test data collection/analysis support. Current 2002 WPAFB contract website
HAVE JEEP Inflatable ICBM decoy deployment experiments FAS website
HAVE KEY A USAF-sponsored SAP, possibly a fighter, that was "part of the direct lineage of the design work that led to the [Navy/General Dynamics] A-12 [Avenger II stealthy attack bomber]." Early 1980s James P. Stevenson, The $5 Billion Misunderstanding: The Collapse of the Navy's A-12 Stealth Bomber Program
HAVE LANCE "A very sensitive operation." c 1978 Moon Dust documents
HAVE LITE Israeli-designed Popeye II missile (see HAVE NAP) FAS website
HAVE NAP Israeli-designed Popeye missile (see HAVE LITE) FAS website
HAVE NOSE Iraqi MiG-29 Fulcrum A nose section obtained by NAIC Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Center in Iraq. March 1991 NAIC website
HAVE ORATOR Unknown. c 1978 Moon Dust documents
HAVE OUT Pedestal dynamics testing of unknown system requiring "data reduction and target and missile receiver rechecking." 1978 Moon Dust documents
HAVE PAD "A very sensitive operation." c 1978 Moon Dust documents
HAVE QUICK II AN/ARC-164 UHF-AM air-air/air-ground radios "deployed on all Army rotarywing aircraft. These provide anti-jam secure communications for joint task forces." 1990s? FAS website
HAVE REGION "Prototype lightweight structures fabricated with 1970s materials, primarily exotic metals, to evaluate near-term flight readiness" of structures for hypersonic National Aerospace Plane (NASP). Related to SCIENCE REALM Aviation Week and Space Technology, Oct 11 1993
HAVE STAR "Program covers highly specialized intelligence analysis required by NAIC. Supports NAIC in the evaluation and analysis of intelligence data on foreign developments in future weapon systems, subsystems and technologies impacting on the USAF threat issues." Missile defense orientation. 1999 FAS website
HAVE STARE 200 kw X-band tracking radar for AFSPC space surveillance/NMD test demonstration support. IOC 1995 FAS website
HAVE STORK Foreign science and technology analysis support for ATIC/FTD by Battelle Memorial Laboratories, Columbus, OH and possibly other contractors such as McGraw-Hill. UFO statistical analysis as sub-project c 1952-4. Previously Project Stork, White Stork. 1950s, 60s? Project Blue Book documents, Ruppelt, NAIC website