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Missile Testing: "The Mission of Point Mugu - Weapons That Work" 1967 US Navy; Glenn Ford
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STORY OF THE TEST AND EVALUATION OF NAVY TACTICAL MISSILE SYSTEMS AT THE NAVYS PACIFIC MISSILE COMPLEX.
US Navy film MP-12978
Originally a public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Missile_Test_Center
Wikipedia license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Pacific Missile Test Center (PMTC) is the former name of the current Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division. The name of the center was the Naval Air Missile Test Center prior to PMTC. It is located at Naval Base Ventura County/Naval Air Station Point Mugu in Ventura County, California. The nearest city to the installation is Oxnard.
The Naval Air Warfare Center consists of both the NAS Point Mugu airfield and a rocket launching site for the U.S. Navy. The center has been an active development and test facility for the Navy since the late 1940s. Among the missiles developed and tested there include the Sparrow family and the Phoenix, and AMRAAM air-to-air missiles and the Regulus surface-to-surface missile in addition to numerous prototypes of military rockets and sounding rockets...
It was originally built for anti-aircraft training during World War II. The base later shifted from traditional anti-aircraft munitions training to become a test center for anti-aircraft missiles. Most of the missiles developed during the 1950s and 1960s were designed and tested at the base. This includes the Aim-7 Sparrow, Aim 54 Phoenix, Regulus Surface to the surface and the AGM-12 Bullpup.
Facilities
Naval Air Station Point Mugu
This base is where most of the aircraft are launched for testing on the range. It is home to the test squadron and also other groups including the Air National Guard. This was also the airfield that US President Ronald Reagan flew into when he came to visit his ranch in Santa Barbara.
Naval Base Ventura County
NBVC supports approximately 80 tenant commands with a base population of more than 19,000 personnel. Tenant commands encompass an extremely diverse set of specialties that support both Fleet and Fighter, including three warfare centers: Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division and Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center. NBVC is also home to deployable units, including the Pacific Seabees and the West Coast E-2C Hawkeyes. Additionally, the base is home to the construction battalions that are used to create targets and facilities for the range. The Island of San Nicolas was transferred from the Naval Air Warfare Center to the base in 2004.
Weapons tested
Air to ground
Walleye, SLAM-ER, standoff land-attack missile, laser-guided bombs, Joint Stand-Off Weapon, Hellfire, Maverick, low-collateral-damage bomb, AGM-84A, High-Speed Antiradiation Missile, general-purpose bombs, Advanced Anti Radiation Guided Missile
Air to air
Sidewinder, Sparrow, Phoenix, Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile
High-energy weapons
The range is used to test and develop high energy weapons used to destroy Land and Air targets. The range is permitted to use up to 1 Megawatt weapons. The Range has tested and evaluated high energy weapons on both land and sea targets. They have tested high energy lasers to disable small boats. The laser was located on another ship.
Sea to air
Standard Missile, Rolling Airframe Missile, RGM-84A surface-launched, Evolved SeaSparrow MissileTitanic
Sea to ground
ICBMs, Tomahawk, Vertical Launch Asroc, Trident
Aircraft used for testing
AH-1, AV-8B, EA-6B, EA-18G, E-2C, F/A-18, EP-3E, JSF, MH-60, UAS, F-22, A-4, A-6, A-7, F-4, F-8, OV-10, S-2
Launch vehicles
Pogo Hi, Asp, Loki Dart, Coyote, Nike Cajun, Nike Asp, R-17, Polaris TV, Aerobee 100, Arcas, Loki, Nike Zeus, Kiva/Hopi, Sparoair II, Clean Sweep III, Tomahawk, Sparrow Arcas, Judi-Dart, Sparoair III, Rocketsonde, Terrier LEAP, SR19 1999 Sparo Air I...
