FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii ~ 06 MAR 2012

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

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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[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Nana Hope, for today's Pledge…((HUGS)). Thanks, AfghanMan and Penguin Girl, for your service to America.

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Kathy, Hugs.

Greetings from the night shift.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and thanks for today’s sustenance for body and soul. ((HUGS))

[Kathy in Alaska]

And greetings to the night shift. Good morning, Taz...((HUGS))

[Kathy in Alaska]

Cool bedtime story, Hawaii. Barking sand....hmmmm.

[TASMANIANRED]

That sure looks mighty tasty.

After Friday’s Tornado situation, we had snow last night.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, lauren, for our National Anthem...singing along.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Sand...((HUGS))...Nate making any progress with cereal?

[Kathy in Alaska]

I thought about you all weekend...hoping you and your area were all safe.

And now you have snow?? Is it sticking? Did you have to shovel? Do the girls like it?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Mac, for the Missing Man Setting as we remember those who have given their all that we may gather safe and secure.

[Kathy in Alaska]

G’Day, Janey...((HUGS))...stay safe and above flood level. Be safe in your travels.

What cuties those little koalas are....and good caregivers.
Anywhere near you?

[TASMANIANRED]

The images and stories coming out of the path of the tornado’s are breaking my heart.

Girls got to slip and slide in the snow last night...Sun took care of most of it today. Just a tad too warm for any serious snow.

[TASMANIANRED]

So sweet..

[Kathy in Alaska]

Our Virginia friend lost a grand aunt and uncle (only met once) in a mobile home in West Liberty...in their 80s she thinks. Something about a tornado coming over the mountain.

From WFPL News......

There have been twenty-one confirmed deaths in Kentucky after tornadoes tore through the state on Friday. Seven of those deaths were in Morgan County, where the county seat, West Liberty, was leveled by the storms.

Louisville resident Alex Wright is a doctor with Norton Healthcare Systems. West Liberty is his hometown, and his extended family still lives there. He headed to the town Saturday morning to see how he could help, and described the scene he saw driving through downtown.

“I think heartbreaking is just too light of a word,” Wright said. “It was just devastating to see all of these things that you grew up seeing and playing around as a kid just completely leveled and flattened.”

Most of West Liberty’s downtown is gone, including the two banks, nearly all of the pharmacies and a World War One statue that was outside the courthouse. After going down Main Street, the tornado turned, headed up the hill, took the roof off the hospital and damaged the town’s only low-income housing complex. That meant there were many people who were homeless and injured, with no one to go.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Linda Frances. Your hubby has had some interesting experiences.

We thank him for his service to our country.

[TASMANIANRED]

I’m so very sorry.

I talk to West Liberty hospital frequently.

Prayers lifted .

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks...I will pass them on.

And I am just about out for the night.

Safe journey, Taz, when you got to go home. ((HUGS))

[TASMANIANRED]

Better shift tonight than my night shift last week.

One more to go.

[TASMANIANRED]

Night Kathy...rest well.