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Pacific Missile Test Center

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Pacific Missile Test Center Point Mugu missile range map 1957
Pacific Missile Test Center Point Mugu missile range map 1957

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.

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Pacific Missile Test Center
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N 34.115 ° E -119.107 °
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Pacific Missile Test Center Point Mugu missile range map 1957
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