Search Results: Weapons
Port Chicago is the name associated with the tidal portion of the 13,000 acre Concord Naval Weapons Station, the largest coastal munitions storage facility in the West. The site is in transition, with portions being transferred from the Navy to the Army, and Navy...
Fallbrook, located on the eastern edge of the Marine Corps' Camp Pendleton, is a navy base used for storing loading Navy vessels operating on the Pacific. Administratively, Fallbrook is a detachment of Seal Beach Naval Weapons station in Orange County, the largest...
A vast weapons development facility and testing range. Almost every munition in the US arsenal has been tested within this 1,723 square mile (more than a million acre) facility. Numerous laboratories and test ranges, located mostly in the north area of China Lake,...
With the official closure of Concord Naval Weapons Center in northern California, Seal Beach is now the Navy's primary munitions storage and loading facility on the West Coast (with the exception of submarine activities, which take place in Washington State). About 100...
The Naval Air Warfare Weapons Station at Point Mugu is a 4,490 acre, heavily developed site, on the coast of Southern California, near Ventura. It is a weapons research and development, test and evaluation center for the Navy, and has been developing missiles, drones...
A vast weapons development facility and testing range. Almost every munition in the US arsenal has been tested within this 1,723 square mile (more than a million acre) facility. Numerous laboratories and test ranges, located mostly in the north area of China Lake,...
Weapons manufacture, storage, service, and supply station for the Atlantic Fleet, located on the York River, a few miles from Colonial Williamsburg, and adjacent to Busch Gardens amusement park. It occupies 11,433 acres, with four miles of waterfront, loading ships off...
Until recently, when the corporate HQ was moved to Virginia, ATK was headquartered in this building in the suburbs of Minneapolis. ATK is a military products company that specializes in the full range of projectiles, from bullets to ballistic missiles. Also known as...
Kirtland Air Force Base is one of the most vital and active military facilities in the country, with over 20,000 people working within its secured perimeter, at the south end of Albuquerque. The heavily built up part of the base, generally north and east of the runways...
The nation's primary chemical and biological weapons testing and training site, Dugway Proving Ground is a unique defense site that combines the microscopic world of its chemical and biological laboratories with large-scale testing and training. The land within Dugway'...
Rocket motors were produced in this now abandoned industrial complex during World War II and into the 1950's. In the production buildings, heavy walls of cement separated the assembly alcoves from one another, with a shared glass wall to permit an explosion to escape...
27 square miles of what has been called by many "the most toxic land in America." The only mission at the site now is clean-up. The sprawling plant was established in WWII to manufacture chemical weapons such as mustard gas and napalm. It was later taken over by...
A nonprofit R&D lab, specializing in weapons for the Navy, operated by Johns Hopkins University. Similar in some respects to MIT's Draper Lab, this lab was formed by the Department of Defense in WWII, as a weapons research and development lab and think tank....
Located on a peninsula on Chesapeake Bay, Patuxent River Naval Air Station is one of the nation's premier facilities for the test and evaluation of advanced weapons systems, with emphasis on those used in Naval aviation applications. Site of the Naval Air Test Center,...
The largest government-owned weapons manufacturing plant in the country. It is operated by the Army's Industrial Operations Command, and staffed mostly by civilians. Producing weapons on this 946 acre island in the Mississippi River since 1862, it currently...
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...
The legendary Canadian weapons engineer Gerald Bull operated a test site that straddled the international border, near Jay, Vermont. First known as Highwater Station (the name coming from the closest town on the Canadian side) the location was created on land Bull...
Los Alamos National Lab is one of the three principal diversified Department of Energy nuclear research and development labs, along with Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National Labs. It employs around 12,000 people, occupies 43 square miles and consumes over two...
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...
Newport is home of the headquarters of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC), one of four Navy centers engaged in research, development, testing, and evaluation of weapons and other systems related to naval warfare. Most of NUWC's work is related to submarine-based...