FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California ~ 28 MAY 2024

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Road Trip: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California

Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake is a large military installation whose mission is to support the research, testing and evaluation programs of the U.S. Navy. It is part of Navy Region Southwest under Commander, Navy Installations Command. It was originally known as Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS).

The installation is located in the Western Mojave Desert region of California, approximately 150 miles north of Los Angeles. Occupying land in three counties – Kern, San Bernardino, and Inyo – the installation's closest neighbors are the city of Ridgecrest and the communities of Inyokern, Trona, and Darwin.

China Lake is the United States Navy's largest single landholding, representing 85% of the Navy's land for weapons and armaments research, development, acquisition, testing and evaluation (RDAT&E) use and 38% of the Navy's land holdings worldwide.

In total, its two ranges and main site cover more than 1,100,000 acres, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. As of 2010, at least 95% of that land has been left undeveloped. The roughly $3 billion infrastructure of the installation consists of 2,132 buildings and facilities, 329 miles of paved roads, and 1,801 miles of unpaved roads.

The 19,600 square miles of restricted and controlled airspace at China Lake makes up 12% of California's total airspace. Jointly controlled by NAWS China Lake, Edwards Air Force Base and Fort Irwin, this airspace is known as the R-2508 Special Use Airspace Complex.

All aircraft operations at NAWS China Lake are conducted at Armitage Field, which has three runways with more than 26,000 feet of taxiway. More than 20,000 manned and un-manned military sorties are conducted out of Armitage by U.S. Armed Forces each year.

Foreign military personnel also use the airfield and range to conduct more than 1,000 test and evaluation operations each year.

The area was once home to the Native American Coso People, whose presence here is marked by thousands of archaeological sites; the Coso traded with other tribes as far away as San Luis Obispo County, California. This locale was also a site used by European miners and settlers whose cabins and mining structures are extant throughout the Station.

The Coso Range Canyons are home to the Coso Rock Art District, an area of some 99 square miles which contains more than 50,000 documented petroglyphs, the highest concentration of rock art in the Northern Hemisphere.

Learn More About Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake HERE!!

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[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[lightman]

A blessed and somber Memorial Day to all!

[null and void]

I’d heard the ‘quake they had in 2019 pretty much shut it down.

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening left that other site!

FIRST!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California ~

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[laurenmarlowe]

Thanks for being here lightman!

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[laurenmarlowe]

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[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening Kathy!

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

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[wjcsux]

TEN!

[CottonBall]

I worked at China Lake, so I had to click on this thread.

What is the road trip about?

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy radu!

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[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you wjcsux!

ELEVEN!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...hope you and Blue got out and about.

Did you and Tippy see the sunrise?

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening CottonBall!

Thanks for stopping in.

Every Monday in the Canteen we have a virtual Road Trip to bases all over the Country. Right now we are visiting California!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lauren, and thank you for today's Road Trip: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California.

[sasquatch]

I worked on a pressure test facility at the Navel Postgraduate School in Monterey while employed by MBARI in the ‘90s. They had a shell from a 16 inch gun (USS Iowa type) It had ‘China Lake’ stenciled on the side. The pointy end had been replaced with a plug. Curt Collins ran Oceanography at NPS and was on the board at MBARI and said that if I refurbished the equipment, we could use it. We both won. The chamber was about 9 1/2” in dia and about 4 feet long. Got it up to around 4000 psi. The PhD candidates I mentored also got privileges on the golf course. The end.

[radu]

Howdy, lauren! *HUGZ*
Are you as ready as I am for the upcoming break in wild weather? Man, May has been a rough month.

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening sasquatch, great story thank you!