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The Nellis Air Force Base Complex [1] (Nellis AFB complex, [2] [3] NAFB Complex [1]) is the southern Nevada military region of federal facilities and lands, e.g., currently and formerly used for military and associated testing and training such as Atomic Energy Commission atmospheric nuclear detonations of the Cold War.
Nellis Air Force Base ("Nellis" colloq.) is a United States Air Force installation in southern Nevada. Nellis hosts air combat exercises such as Exercise Red Flag and close air support exercises such as Green Flag-West flown in " Military Operations Area (MOA) airspace ", [ 3 ] associated with the nearby Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR).
In addition to Nellis AFB, areas outside of the current NTTR land area are used for related activities, e.g., about 1,107 sq mi (2,870 km 2) of the former military range land (relinquished 1942, e.g. ranges 46–56, [10] and c. 1953) is under the Nellis "Area A" airspace that is a Military Operations Area (MOA). [11]
A List of landforms of the Nellis & Wildlife 5 Ranges region. The following ranges are: Desert National Wildlife Range; National Wildhorse Management Area; Air Force Test Flight Center – (Area 51 – Groom Lake, Nevada) Nellis Air Force Range; Nevada Test Site; The five contiguous regions are located north and northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.
A flight of Aggressor F-15 Eagles and F-16 Fighting Falcons fly in formation over the Nevada Test and Training Range The first F-22A assigned to the USAFWC USAF Thunderbirds, part of the United States Air Force Warfare Center An HH-60G Pave Hawk retrieves a pararescueman as an A-10 Thunderbolt II provides cover fire during a firepower demonstration on the Nellis bombing range.
64-0799 – Peterson Air and Space Museum, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado. (marked as 63-7589 of the 57th FIS circa 1978) [59] 64-0806 – Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. [citation needed] 64-0813 – Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. [60] 64-0815 – Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, Pooler, Georgia. [61]
The 57th moved to Nevada and replaced the 4525th Fighter Weapons Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, in October 1969. At Nellis, it trained tactical fighter aircrews, conducted operational tests and evaluations, demonstrated tactical fighter weapon systems, and developed fighter tactics and from February 1970 to October 1979 and operated Nellis AFB ...
Nellis Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in North Las Vegas, Nevada. It is seven nautical miles (13 km) northeast of the central business district of Las Vegas. It was named in honor of P-47 pilot 1st Lieutenant William Harrell Nellis, who was killed in WWII during the Battle of the Bulge.