Search Results: Testing and Training Range
The Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) is a vast military area in northern Utah, the nation's largest combined restricted land and closed "special use" airspace area. It consists of over 19,000 square miles of restricted airspace with 2,675 miles of ground space. On...
The Tonopah Test Range is a 525 square mile test facility on the north end of the Air Force's 4,000 square mile Nellis Range Complex in Nevada, and is the principal weapons field test site for Sandia Labs, based in New Mexico. There are major facilities here, including...
The Desert Test Range is a restricted area used for target practice by the Marine Corps and the Navy. It is administered by the Yuma Marine Corps Air Station in Arizona. Several targets are located within the restricted area, which is on the west side of the Imperial...
The Nellis Range is a 4,700 square-mile restricted zone in southern Nevada, and one of the largest and busiest military ranges in the country. Much of the land in the range is used for combat training by the Air Force, which conducts large-scale war games over the...
Saylor Creek is a 100,000 acre bombing and training range in southern Idaho. It is associated with Mountain Home Air Force Base, located 25 miles north of the range, but is used by aircrews from other bases as well. The range is primarily used by flying forces,...
White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) at nearly 4,000 square miles, is one of the largest military facilities in the country. It is primarily a test range with the main function of supporting missile development and test programs for the Army, Navy, Air Force, National...
Vermont has one full-fledged military range, the Ethan Allan Firing Range, near Underhill Center. Owned by the Army, the 11,000 acre range was first established in the 1920s, and was developed as a major gun testing range by General Electric in the 1950s. It is now...
A 500 square mile training and firing range in eastern Washington state, near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, used by soldiers from Fort Lewis (located south of Tacoma) and all other branches of the armed services. The largest military landspace in Washington State....
This range, located at the southern end of China Lake Naval Weapons Station, is used by the military for target practice. It is instrumented with radar, and electronic targeting systems, and has a tracking control tower and twoobservation towers. Other features include...
This is an electronic warfare range used by military aviators, primarily from Fallon Naval Air Station. Technical management is controlled by the Naval Warfare Assesment Center at Fallon, which is linked up to this range through real-time electronics. One of five...
One of five training ranges used by Fallon Naval Air Station, and a few other Naval aviation installations. There is a three-quarter size industrial area with numerous buildings, and other target and training material on the range.
The southeastern New Mexican town of Artesia is the location for one of the principal campuses of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). The FLETC, headquartered in Glynco, Georgia, serves as a law enforcement training organization for more than 80...
One of five training ranges used by Fallon Naval Air Station, along with a few other Naval aviation installations. There are vehicles and other target material on the range.
One of five training ranges used by Fallon Naval Air Station, along with a few other Naval aviation installations. There are vehicles and other target material on the range.
One of five training ranges used by Fallon Naval Air Station, along with a few other Naval aviation installations. There are vehicles and other target material on the range.
A large military training area in the middle of Hawaii's Big Island, located adjacent to the Mauna Kea Observatory. 109,000 acres used as an impact area, firing range, airfield, and maneuver area. The largest military groundspace in Hawaii.
The largest US Navy training center, with a population of over 30,000. All Navy recruits go through boot camp here, and more than three million sailors have been trained here since 1911. The base covers 1,628 acres on the shore of Lake Michigan, north of Chicago. Has a...
The uninhabited ten mile long island of Kahoolawe, off the southwest shore of Maui, was used as a bombing range for the Navy until the late 1990's and is now undergoing a $280 million clean-up.
A 47,000-acre live bombing range, with stationary and mobile targets. Used by the Navy, flying out of Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, 345 miles away, north of Seattle. Undergoing remediation.
Camp Billy Machen is a new Navy SEAL desert warfare training facility, located on the edge of the Chocolate Mountains, next to Slab City, itself a former military base.