FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii ~ 17 MAY 2016

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Pacific Missile Range Facility
Barking Sands, Hawaii

Pacific Missile Range Facility is the world's largest instrumented multi-environment range capable of supporting surface, subsurface, air, and space operations simultaneously.

There are over 1,100 square miles of instrumented underwater range and over 42,000 square miles of controlled airspace. This makes PMRF a premier facility for supporting operations which vary from small, single-unit exercises up to large scale, multiple-unit battle group scenarios.

The mission of the Pacific Missile Range Facility is to facilitate Training, Tactics Development, and Test & Evaluations for air, surface, and sub-surface weapons systems and Advanced Technology Systems.

PMRF provides the full spectrum of instrument range support, including; radar, underwater instrumentation, telemetry, electronic warfare, target remote command & control, communications, target launching facilities, data display, data processing and target/weapon launching and recovery facilities.

The headquarters and primary operation center of PMRF occupies approximately 1800 acres and is located on the western shore of the island of Kauai. The nearest town, Kekaha, is eight miles to the south and east. Supporting instrumentation sites at Makaha Ridge and Kokee Park overlook the vast ocean range areas to the west and north Kauai.

The range encompasses 42,000 sq. miles of sea and air space and has minimal encroachments. The underwater tracking range extends over a 1000 sq. miles areas. PMRF features a state of the art instrumentation suite & communication network.

Lead range in the Pacific for Aegis Combat System Ship Qualification Training, PMRF puts new Aegis platforms through extensive testing & training prior to initial deployment. Collocated with the Sandia National Laboratory Kauai Test Facility, PMRF is the lead range for launching the Strategic Target System. No other range has the unencroached geographic expanse necessary to support wide area defense sensor and cooperative engagement capability testing.

The Navy is currently using PMRF to test hit to kill technology using direct collision of the anti-ballistic missile with its target. This destroys the target by using only kinetic energy from the force of the collision. The two Missile Defense Agency programs that currently utilize the range at PMRF are the Navy's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System and the Army's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System, or THAAD. The THAAD program relocated their testing operations from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and conducted its first demonstration at PMRF on 26 January 2007.

On 27 April 2007, the U.S. military's sea-based missile defense system, the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, showed it could intercept two targets simultaneously when it destroyed a cruise missile and a short-range ballistic missile during a test off the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The test marked eight out of ten times the Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy's Aegis missile defense system successfully intercepted its target, but was the first time the system knocked out two targets at the same time.

Learn More About Barking Sands HERE!

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[luvie]

I’m looking forward to doing just that! How are you and your mom doing? Did y’all have a nice weekend?

[luvie]

Very cute, Sandy! :)

Whooooo..who..who!

[ExTexasRedhead]

Awesome WWII Story:

http://welcomehomeblog.com/2016/05/16/wwii-death-camp-prisoner-reunited-with-vet-who-saved-him/

[radu]

No diet ANYTHING for me! LOL! Artificial sweeteners give me a headache and upset my stomach. And they taste terrible.

I was fortunate to be blessed with a high metabolism and burn calories like crazy. It’s nice to be able to eat what I want and not have to worry about it.

And fortunate that carbonation doesn’t bother me. I sip on Cokes all day to wash my throat from all the “ick” from hayfever. Constant drainage. I guess the downside is being addicted to caffeine after all these years. :-)

[radu]

Hey, whatever works! LOL!

[radu]

Awesome indeed!

It went out in an email to friends. :-)

Thanks for posting the link!

[The Mayor]

Hi Kathy, Thank you!

[radu]

Goin’ for the gusto.

[radu]

Goin’ for the gusto.

[radu]

Goin’ for the gusto.

[AlaskaErik]

My wife used to have a time share in Kauai and we would always go to the beach at Barking Sands. That side of the island was always sunny, even when it was raining on the east side. No crowds and no crime. I look forward to going back there and staying at the beach cottages.

[luvie]

Good job! I forgot to check! :)

WOOHOO!!

[radu]

I waited to see if there might be a race for it. :-)

[PROCON]

OK, you know of my laziness, see y'all later!

[radu]

LOL! It is getting close to your bedtime, isn’t it?

Good night and sleep well. Have a good day tomorrow!

[Kathy in Alaska]

One day at a time.....I’m getting much better at biting my tongue, just listening to what is often not making any sense, and then walking away. Hallucinations are getting worse. I have an intercom in the living room locked open so I can hear if she needs help.

She just started talking to me now....out I go to the living room. “Did you see that on TV?” This is ongoing. She assumes I am always watching what she is watching. No matter how many times I explain, she doesn’t remember.

Her good run with her knees is over for now. Any walking is really difficult. I’m hoping that they will get some better. It’s happened before. These are the times when she talks about being with my Dad.

The weekend wasn’t bad, but it was constant up and down when she calls.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

"I'm off"

There you go admitting it again!

[luvie]

(((hugs)))

Would it be a good idea..with your knees kind of bad, too...to try to make her a room on the ground level? All those stairs!

Yep...one day at a time....

[luvie]

[Kathy in Alaska]

She and her chair are upstairs with living room, bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen, and access to the deck and her petunias. And my sister and I moved her office upstairs.

Thursday after work I take her for a haircut. She rides down the stair lift, walks to the other stair lift, and rides to the bottom of the stairs.

I meet her at the bottom with the push wheelchair and out to the car. Reverse when we get back.