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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 (9 km) northwest of the central business district of Kekaha, in Kauai County, Hawaii, United States. [1] PMRF is the world's largest instrumented, multi-dimensional testing and training missile ...
Assigned to the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai, Hawaii. [87] She was replaced there in 2014 by MPC-2, a 97' range training support vessel. [88] This boat was acquired by Paramount Builders of American Samoa and renamed M/V Pago Pago. [89] It was, in turn, acquired by the government of American Samoa for $1.2 million in 2020. [90]
The island is used as live munitions testing range. It supplies a realistic marine environment, Remote and Fixed telemetry sites, 50,000 pound missile rail( located at 33.264278,-119.539), target launcher, Inert Missile impact area, 10,000 foot airfield for c-5 and c-17 and dedicated ordnance and range staff. [8]
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Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii 1963– Used for testing of antiballistic missile and missile tracking by the US Navy. ...
White Sands Missile Range covers more than 3,000 square miles across five counties. ... Strategically located at the midway point between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, Fort Bliss is ...
Pacific Missile Range, a U.S. Navy controlled range from May 1958 to 1 July 1964 based at Point Mugu, California and downrange sites in the central Pacific. Transferred to the U.S.A.F. and renamed Air Force Western Test Range shortened in 1979 to Western Test Range; The Western Range (USSF), a currently active space range supporting launches ...
The commander of Navy Region Hawaii is also responsible to Commander, United States Third Fleet (operationally) and Commander, Naval Surface Forces Pacific (administratively) as the Commander, Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific, a command that is responsible for the maintenance and training of all surface ships homeported in Hawaii.