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The facilities at CAAA include more than 200 production buildings, a 72,000-square-foot (6,700 m 2) machine shop, roughly 1,800 storage buildings for both explosive and inert ammunition with a total capacity of 4,800,000 square feet (450,000 m 2), an 80-acre (320,000 m 2) demolition range and 40 acres (160,000 m 2) of ammunition burning grounds.
Location Founded Products Output & Production Numbers Alexander, John & Co Charleston, South Carolina: Lightfoot Arms, Atlanta Georgia Athens Steam Company Athens, Georgia: experimental Double-barreled cannon: Atlanta Machine Works: Atlanta, Georgia: 1848 Ordnance, rifled cannons Augusta Machine Works Augusta, Georgia: Revolvers Leech & Rigdon ...
In 1998, a 1,033-acre (4.18 km 2) parcel of land north of the firing line within the former range is operated as an air-to-surface gunnery/bombing range by the Indiana Air National Guard. [5] [6] As of 2014, Jefferson Range is used for UAV training, including tests of air-to-ground strikes. [6]
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The Indiana State Police used the airfield following the war and purchased more land in order to build extensions to the runways. [4] The site proved inadequate for landing the new class of military jets and much of the land was sold in 1953.
The German V-3 cannon program, during World War II was an attempt to build something approaching a space gun. Based in the Pas-de-Calais area of France it was planned to be more devastating than the other Nazi 'Vengeance weapons'. The cannon was capable of launching 140 kg (310 lb), 15 cm (5.9 in) diameter shells over a distance of 88 km (55 mi).
The new facilities will be build in St Joseph County in north-central Indiana and house computer equipment used to power cloud computing and generative artificial intelligence. Amazon did not ...
The NHLs in Indiana comprise approximately 2% of the 1,656 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana as of December 2009. The landmarks are among the most important nationally recognized historic sites in the state; the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park is one other site that has high ...