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The Tonopah Test Range (TTR, also designated as Area 52) is a highly classified, restricted military installation of the United States Department of Defense, and United States Department of Energy (nuclear stockpile stewardship) located about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Tonopah, Nevada.
An F-117 based at Tonopah Test Range and piloted by Maj. Ross Mulhare crashed on July 11, 1986 near Bakersfield, California. Another F-117 piloted by Michael C. Stewart was lost on October 14, 1987 on the range about 30 miles east of the TTR Airfield, and it took the Air Force nearly a day to find the wreckage [ 28 ] In both crashes the pilot ...
Operation Roller Coaster [1] was a series of four nuclear tests conducted jointly by the United States and the United Kingdom in 1963, at the Nevada Test Site. [2] The tests did not involve the detonation of any nuclear weapons.
Nevada Test and Training Range—shares ~1,276 sq mi (3,300 km 2) of the Southern Range with the DNWR Northern Range: Southern Range: southern Tikaboo Valley, Dogbone Dry Lake in Range 62, [15] Northern: Tolich Peak ECR, Tonopah ECR Southern: Point Bravo ECR, Dogbone Lake G&BR, [15] Groom Lake Field in Area 51: USAF: 1942–present
Tonopah Airport covers an area of 3,820 acres (1,550 ha) at an elevation of 5,430 feet (1,655 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways : 15/33 is 7,160 by 80 feet (2,182 x 23 m) and 11/29 is 5,660 by 50 feet (1,725 x 15 m).
Tonopah Bombing and Gunnery Range, the 1947 designation prior to the 1949 merger of the 2 areas (cf. Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range) Tonopah Air Force Base, the name of the range's main base after c. 1947 transfer to the USAF; Tonopah Test Range, a 1956 area established for nuclear testing (cf. the "instrumented AEC range at Tonopah" used ...
Tonopah Basin, Central Basin and Range ecoregions around the Tonopah Playas; Tonopah Bombing Range, the 1940 World War II designation of the military region Tonopah Test Range, a nuclear test area SW of the Tonopah Bombing Range; Tonopah Air Force Base, the 1949 main base for the bombing range; Tonopah Army Air Field, the main base's name in ...
The 30th Reconnaissance Squadron (30 RS) is a reconnaissance test squadron [2] assigned to the 432nd Operations Group, 432nd Wing at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. The 30 RS flies the RQ-170 Sentinel UAV out of the Tonopah Test Range Airport in Tonopah .