Jefferson Impact Range, Indiana

The Jefferson Impact Range is a 1,000 acre air-to-ground training range in southeastern Indiana, with a few small circular targets, and around a dozen vehicle and shipping container type targets that are electronically scored, as is typical at such sites. There are also strafing targets, and a small rocket target. This is the only “high-impact” military use left at what used to be the Jefferson Proving Grounds, a 55,000 acre weapons testing facility, which closed in 1995, moving most of its operations to Yuma Proving Grounds, in Arizona. Most of the land is now known as the Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge, and the old firing ranges to the south are abandoned and overgrown.