The Lulworth Ranges are military firing ranges located between Wareham and Lulworth in Dorset, England. They cover an area of more than 2,830 hectares...
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Lulworth Camp is a British Army base that is home to the Armoured Fighting Vehicle Gunnery School and runs the Lulworth Ranges on the southern coast of...
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Bovington Camp (category Military training areas in the United Kingdom)
Bovington Camp (/ˈbɒvɪŋtən/) is a British Army military base in Dorset, South West England. Together with Lulworth Camp it forms part of Bovington Garrison...
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east. Tyneham is only accessible when the Lulworth Ranges are open to the public. The military firing ranges are owned by the Ministry of Defence (MoD)...
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evidence of how animals and plants evolved in this region. The area around Lulworth Cove contains a fossil forest, and 71 different rock strata have been identified...
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CRV7 (category Military equipment introduced in the 1970s)
of National Defence is considering donating the rockets to Ukraine as military aid to defend against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. An estimated 8,000...
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The Telegraph. Retrieved 11 February 2024. "Public access to military areas: Lulworth ranges". Ministry of Defence. 19 November 2014. Retrieved 28 November...
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Flower's Barrow (section Military use and access)
west. Flower’s Barrow is only accessible when the Lulworth Ranges are open to the public. The ranges are owned by the Ministry of Defence and are part...
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Age earthwork enclosing a coastal hill area on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth Cove in Dorset, England, about 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Swanage, about...
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Challenger 2 (category Military vehicles introduced in the 1990s)
fully crewed tanks were tested at the Bovington test tracks and the Lulworth Bindon ranges. The tank exceeded all staff requirements. The Challenger 2 entered...
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Malkara (missile) (category Military equipment introduced in the 1950s)
Woomera Prohibited Area, and approval testing at the tank training range at Lulworth Cove, Dorset. Although testing at Dorset apparently achieved an impressive...
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Sherman Firefly (category Military vehicles introduced from 1940 to 1944)
while he was at the Lulworth Armoured Fighting School in early 1943. Despite the A30 Challenger undergoing initial trials at Lulworth, Brighty was convinced...
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Castlemartin Training Area (category Military installations in Wales)
Castlemartin Training Area is a British Army military training area and armoured fighting vehicle range located in the Welsh county of Pembrokeshire. It...
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Brandy Bay, Dorset (section Military use and access)
Ministry of Defence (MoD). Lulworth Ranges are part of the Armoured Fighting Vehicles Gunnery School at Lulworth Camp. The Range, which is more than 2,830...
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Tyneham House (section Military requisition)
7,500 acre expansion of their Lulworth Ranges associated with the Armoured Fighting Vehicles Gunnery School at Lulworth Camp. Although the requisition...
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7,500 acre expansion of their Lulworth Ranges associated with the Armoured Fighting Vehicles Gunnery School at Lulworth Camp. With the requisition, some...
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Tortoise heavy assault tank (category Abandoned military projects of the United Kingdom)
restoration is unlikely. Another Tortoise was used as a target on Lulworth Ranges, Dorset in the early 1970s. By August 1974 it was little more than...
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July 2020. "The Armour Centre (@thearmourcentre) •". "Army Camp". West Lulworth. Retrieved 5 April 2023. "King's Royal Hussars". Retrieved 1 April 2023...
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Royal Ordnance L30 (category Military equipment introduced in the 1990s)
strength of propelling charge tests completed in February 2013 at the Lulworth ranges. The Challenger 2 live crew clearance firing tests were completed in...
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and palaeontologic significance, and features notable landforms such as Lulworth Cove, the Isle of Portland, Chesil Beach and Durdle Door. The north of...
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List of equipment of the Royal Marines (category Military equipment of the United Kingdom)
the original on 15 August 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2017. "L115A3 Long range 'sniper' rifle". Ministry of Defence. Archived from the original on 29 June...
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Arkell, "the geology of the country around Weymouth,Swanage, Corfe and Lulworth," Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1947, and again, briefly...
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Between Lulworth Cove and Kimmeridge the path passes through the Lulworth Ranges, which are not always open to the public. When the ranges are in use...
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Centurion (tank) (category Military vehicles introduced from 1945 to 1949)
thicker Bazooka plates fitted and extra armour in places. Used on Lulworth Ranges c1972-5 to train guided weapon missile crews using inert missiles....
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minor road connecting Swanage to East Lulworth via Corfe Castle but this passes through a military firing range and is closed during firing exercises...
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Cruiser Mk VIII Challenger (category Military vehicles introduced from 1940 to 1944)
When the second prototype was tested at Lulworth, it was found that although it would be effective at long range against the current best-gunned tank in...
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Apache amongst its operators. British Apaches also served in the NATO 2011 military intervention in Libya operating from Royal Navy ships. The Apache AH1 was...
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Laoghaire to Rosslare Fitties". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2023. "Weymouth to Lulworth". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 31 May 2023. "Kimmeridge to Brownsea Island". bbc...
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Panzer 38(t) (category Military vehicles introduced in the 1930s)
(RAC) had one trial model delivered on 23 March 1939 to Gunnery School at Lulworth. A report stated that "the (bow) gunner could not sit back comfortably...
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had one trial model delivered on 23 March 1939 to the Gunnery School at Lulworth. A report stated, the "(bow) gunner could not sit back comfortably as the...
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