| Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake | | | | IATA: NID - ICAO: KNID | | Summary | | Controlled By | United States Navy | | Facility Type | Naval Air Weapons Station | | Location | China Lake, California | | Date Commissioned | December 12, 1943 | | Current Status | Active | | Commanding Officer | Captain Mark G. Storch | | Elevation AMSL | 2,283 ft (695.9 m) | | Coordinates | 35°41′08″N, 117°41′31″W | | Runways | | Direction | Length | Surface | | ft | m | | 3/21 | 9,991 | 3,045 | PEM | | 8/26 | 7,701 | 2,347 | PEM | | 14/32 | 9,011 | 2,747 | PEM |
 NASA satellite photo showing the main runways at NAWS China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake or NAWS China Lake (IATA: NID, ICAO: KNID, FAA LID: NID) is an airborne weapons testing and training range operated by the United States Navy and its contractors. An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter alphabetic code designating many airports around the world. ...
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A foot (plural: feet) is any of several old units of distance or length, measuring around a quarter to a third of a meter. ...
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An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter alphabetic code designating many airports around the world. ...
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A Location Identifier takes the place of the name and the location of an airport, navigation aid, weather station, and manned air traffic control facility in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services. ...
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It is located in the northeast of California's Mojave Desert. The main airfield, Armitage Field, is situated several miles southeast of China Lake itself, a playa lake from which the range takes its name. It is the home base of several tenant commands, including the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD). NAWS China Lake is the US Navy's largest single holding of land, comprised of 1.1 million acres (4500 km²), approximately one-third (1/3) of the US Navy's total land holdings in the world, and the airspace controlled jointly by the NAWS, Edwards Air Force Base and Fort Irwin is the largest in the Department of Defense known as the R-2508 Special Use Airspace Complex. According to the California State Military Museum Web site [1],the land, ranging in altitude from 2,100 to 8,900 feet (640 to 2700 m), varies from flat dry lake beds to rugged piñon pine covered mountains. The majority of the land is undeveloped and provides habitat for more than 340 species of wildlife and 650 plant types. The area was once also home to Native Americans, whose presence here is marked by thousands of archaeological sites, and to early miners and settlers whose cabins and mining structures are still found scattered throughout the Station. This article is becoming very long. ...
Looking across from Emigrant Pass towards the Kingston Range in the eastern Mojave. ...
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Edwards Air Force Base is a USAF airbase located on the border of Kern County and Los Angeles County, California in the Antelope Valley, 7 miles (11 km) due East of Rosamond, USA at 34°57′ N 117°52′ W. An airbase since 1933, Edwards has long been a home...
The entrance to the NTC. Fort Irwin Military Reservation, located in Fort Irwin, California, U.S., this military facility is used for live-fire training of brigade-sized forces. ...
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The R-2508 Complex includes all the airspace and associated land presently used and managed by the three principal military activities in the Upper Mojave Desert region: Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC), Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) National Training Center, Fort Irwin Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWPNS...
Historically rich, NAWS traces its heritage to the Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS) established at nearby Inyokern in 1943. Since then it has been one of the US Navy's premier weapons development facilities and continues to support the US fleet. Inyokern is a census-designated place located in Kern County, California. ...
Inventions tested and refined at China Lake include the Sidewinder missile and the continuous-rod warhead. Sidewinder Missile The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a heat-seeking, short-range, air-to-air missile carried by fighter aircraft and recently, certain gunship helicopters. ...
A continuous-rod warhead is a specialized munition used as part of an anti-aircraft missile. ...
References
- FAA Airport Master Record (Form 5010) for NID, also available as a printable form (PDF)
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