The United States Navy has released a dramatic video montage showing how it tested weapons in the California desert over a period of months.
The video was produced by the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, the unit responsible for testing capabilities of weapons used on naval aviation aircraft.
The video shows tests of UTAP-22 drones, shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles (MANPADS), guided air-to-ground munitions, bunker-buster bombs, and Tactical Tomahawk cruise missiles, according to The Drive.
The weapons tests, which use targets such as vehicles and structures, are conducted every so often at the Naval Air Weapons Station in China Lake, a dry lake located in the Mojave Desert just outside of Death Valley.
‘Few areas in the world offer such wide variety of geographical features in close proximity…mountains, deserts, canyons, caves and forests,’ the Navy said.
A Tactical Tomahawk missile is fired at an old F-4 aircraft at China Lake in California’s Mojave Desert
The United States Navy released a dramatic video montage showing how it tested weapons in the California desert over a period of months. The above image shows a guided bomb just as it strikes a dummy vehicle
The weapons tests, which use targets such as vehicles and structures, are conducted every so often at the Naval Air Weapons Station in China Lake, a dry lake located in the Mojave Desert just outside of Death Valley
The footage shows massive explosions that are part of the research, development, and evaluation of a litany of weapons systems
The video shows tests of UTAP-22 drones, shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles (MANPADS), guided air-to-ground munitions, bunker-buster bombs, and Tactical Tomahawk cruise missiles
‘The unencroached air and land ranges at China Lake provide unmatched geographic conditions in which to develop and test weapon systems and explore tactics for desert and mountain environments.’
The footage shows massive explosions that are part of the research, development, and evaluation of a litany of weapons systems.