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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 established in 1941 as the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, where the Trinity test site lay at the northern end of the Range, in Socorro County near the towns of Carrizozo and San Antonio.
White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico United States 216,000 1 TNT, Composition B. Airburst/Tower 20 Calibration test preceding the first nuclear explosion Dahlgren NOL 22 Sept-18 Nov 1952 Dahlgren, Virginia United States 4,200 28 TNT Mk 7 Depth charge Underwater -2.3 to -5.4
The White Sands V-2 Launching Site, also known as Launch Complex 33 and originally as Army Launch Area Number 1, is an historic rocket launch complex at White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. It was here that the United States first performed test launches of German V-2 rockets captured toward the end of World War II. These tests ...
Meet the man who will lead the installation for the next two years, and hear from the brigadier general who commanded for the last two.
A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed at White Sands National Park about 11:50 a.m. April 30, officials with the 49th Wing at Holloman Air Force Base said. White Sands National Park is ...
The next major track extension occurred in 1974 when the rails from the Edwards Air Force Base test track were shipped to Holloman and added to the existing tracks to give a new total length of 50,771 ft (15,475 m). During this upgrade, a third rail, approximately 15,000 ft (4,600 m), was added for high-speed, narrow-gauge sleds.
The Utah Launch Complex was a Cold War military subinstallation of White Sands Missile Range for USAF and US Army rocket launches. In addition to firing Pershing missiles, the complex launched Athena RTV missiles with subscale (test) warheads of the Advanced Ballistic Re-entry System to reentry speeds and impact at the New Mexico range.
A fighter jet from Holloman Air Force Base crashed into White Sands National Park on Tuesday, April 30. Officials reported that the F-16 Fighting Falcon had crashed 11:50 a.m., at a location in ...