The Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands (IATA: BKH, ICAO: PHBK, FAA LID: BKH) is a U.S. naval facility and airport located five nautical miles...
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Pacific Missile Range may refer to: Pacific Missile Range, a U.S. Navy controlled range from May 1958 to 1 July 1964 based at Point Mugu, California and...
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to provide missile defense against short and intermediate-range ballistic missiles. The program is part of the United States national missile defense strategy...
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Missile 3 (SM-3) is a ship-based surface-to-air missile used by the United States Navy to intercept short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles as...
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White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a United States Army military testing area and firing range located in the US state of New Mexico. The range was originally...
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Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, commonly referred to as the Reagan Test Site (formerly Kwajalein Missile Range), is a missile test range in Marshall...
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according to their range Missile test range Pacific Missile Range Facility White Sands Missile Range Spaceport Pacific Missile Range This disambiguation...
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RIM-174 Standard ERAM (redirect from RIM-174 Standard Missile 6)
The RIM-174 Standard Extended Range Active Missile (ERAM), or Standard Missile 6 (SM-6), is a missile in current production for the United States Navy...
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The Naval Strike Missile (NSM) is an anti-ship and land-attack missile developed by the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA). The original...
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design of the TBMD system. Successful Linebacker sea trials at the Pacific Missile Range, Kauai, Hawaii took place in the fall of 1998. On 17 December 1999...
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the Pacific Missile Range (PMR) with headquarters at Point Mugu and instrumentation sites along the California coast and downrange in the Pacific Ocean...
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The Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) (pronounced PRI-sim) is a short-range ballistic missile developed by the United States Army to replace the MGM-140...
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Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon all-up round (AUR) and the US Navy's Conventional Prompt Strike. The missile was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility...
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In 1965, the United States Navy began studies for a missile in the 24-nautical-mile (45 km) range class for use against surfaced submarines. The name...
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Europe. EC-26D One range support aircraft operated by the US Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands. RC-26D Two range support aircraft operated...
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Nulka (redirect from Nulka anti-ship missile decoy)
decoy system at the Pacific Missile Range (SoCal OPAREA), circa 2009 Nulka is an Australian-designed and -developed active missile decoy built by an American/Australian...
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SSM-N-8 Regulus (redirect from Regulus guided missile)
Vought Aircraft Company signed a study contract for a 300-mile (480 km) range missile to carry a 4,000-pound (1,800 kg) warhead. The project stalled for four...
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raising cattle. Kauaʻi is home to the U.S. Navy's "Barking Sands" Pacific Missile Range Facility, on the western shore. MF and HF ("shortwave") radio station...
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AIM-120 AMRAAM (redirect from Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile)
AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) (/æmræm/ AM-ram) is an American beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather...
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and secondly in the Pacific, then known as the Pacific Missile Range. The Atlantic Missile Impact Location System and Pacific Missile Impact Location System...
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RIM-162 ESSM (redirect from RIM-162 Evolved SeaSparrow Missile)
capability did not occur until later. In October 2003, at the USN Pacific Missile Range Facility near Hawaii, Australian frigate HMAS Warramunga conducted...
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AN/APS-140/504 surface search radar. Two converted for range surveillance duties at the Pacific Missile Range Facility. Radar later removed and aircraft converted...
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Army Space and Missile Defense Command as part of the Prompt Global Strike program. The missile was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii...
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Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (category Missile Defense Agency)
American anti-ballistic missile defense system designed to shoot down short, medium, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in their terminal phase...
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support for the Pacific Missile Range Facility, the world's largest instrumented, multi-dimensional testing and training missile range in Kekaha, Hawaii...
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The Eastern Range (ER) is an American rocket range (Spaceport) that supports missile and rocket launches from the two major launch heads located at Cape...
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Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (redirect from Ground-Based Missile Defense)
National Missile Defense (NMD), is an anti-ballistic missile system implemented by the United States of America for defense against ballistic missiles, during...
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by the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii Route 50 passes through the community, leading northwest 7 miles (11 km) to its end at the Pacific Missile Range Facility...
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AGM-158 JASSM (redirect from Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile)
of 2014. An extended range version of the missile, the AGM-158B JASSM-ER (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range), entered service in 2014...
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aircraft impacted the ocean within the confines of the Pacific Missile Range Facility test range and was destroyed. Most of the vehicle structure was recovered...
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