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The organization was officially recognized as the U.S. Naval Museum of Armament & Technology in May 2000. [1] However, in Fall 2011, the museum announced it would no longer be part of the Navy museum system and would change its name to the China Lake Museum .
The National Museum of the United States Navy, or U.S. Navy Museum for short, is the flagship museum of the United States Navy and is located in the former Breech Mechanism Shop of the old Naval Gun Factory on the grounds of the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., United States. The U.S. Navy Museum is one of ten official Navy museums, [1 ...
These institutions vary in their scope and focus, with some museums dedicated to a specific national or regional context and chronicling the military history of a particular country or region, while other museums may concentrate on a particular conflict, era, service, technology (like an artillery museum), or unit (like a regimental museum).
Argentine Navy A-4Q 0655/3-A-202, preserved at the Argentine Naval Aviation Museum, in 2007. The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is an American single-engine carrier-capable lightweight attack aircraft designed for the United States Navy. Still in active service in a few countries, it has been retired by most operators.
151473 - Gate guardian at Naval Museum of Armament & Technology, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Ridgecrest, California. [ citation needed ] 151497 - Pima Air & Space Museum (adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base ), Tucson, Arizona .
"Naval and Maritime Museums List United States of America" Saini, Vik. "Maritime and naval museum links" Smith, Robert. "Smith's Master Index to Maritime Museum Websites" Smith, Robert H. (2005). Smith's guide to maritime museums of North America. Del Mar, California: C Books Publisher.
Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake [2] is a large military installation in California that supports the research, testing and evaluation programs of the United States Navy. It is part of Navy Region Southwest [ 3 ] under Commander, Navy Installations Command , and was originally known as Naval Ordnance Test Station ( NOTS ).
156797 – United States Naval Museum of Armament and Technology, Ridgecrest, California. [citation needed] TA-7C A TA-7C trainer on display at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History. 154407 – National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Albuquerque, New Mexico [22] 156751 – Russell Military Museum, Russell, Illinois [23]