CHINA LAKE MUSEUM NAMED.When the Secretary of the Navy signed SECNAVNOTE 5755 on 12 May 2000, the U.S. Naval Museum of Armament and Technology was officially established at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake For other uses, see China Lake (disambiguation). Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake or NAWS China Lake (ICAO: KNID, FAA LID: NID) is an airborne weapons testing and training range operated by the United States Navy and its contractors. , Calif., culminating a 10-year effort. The existing Weapons Exhibit Center assumed its new name following a ribbon-cutting ceremony on 28 July. The museum is testimony to the highly successful research, development, test and evaluation conducted at China Lake for the Navy since 1943. Its collection of tactical air weaponry and technology ranges from WW II rockets to cutting-edge guided missiles. Familiar items like the Sidewinder, Shrike shrike or butcher bird, predatory songbird found in most parts of the world except Australia and South America. The plumage of the European and North American species is mostly gray, black, and white; the tail is long and rounded, and the wings and Tomahawk missiles appear alongside weapon systems that can be seen nowhere else, such as Agile, an advanced, short-range air-to-air missile; Bulldog, the first successful laser-guided missile; and the Advanced Bomb Family of developmental free-fall weapons. The collection also boasts a variety of aircraft, including the NTA-4F Skyhawk, A-7E Corsair II, QF-86 drone, DF-8L Crusader, RA-5C Vigilante vigilante n. someone who takes the law into his/her own hands by trying and/or punishing another person without any legal authority. In the 1800s groups of vigilantes dispensed "frontier justice" by holding trials of accused horse-thieves, rustlers and shooters, and , AV-8A Harrier, A-6E Intruder and F/A-18A Hornet; several significant range instrumentation and target items; and a tribute to the Naval Air Warfare Center The Naval Air Warfare Center was a former U.S. Navy military installation located in Warminster, Pennsylvania and Ivyland, Pennsylvania. The U.S. Navy purchased the grounds to establish this facility from the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation following its bankruptcy in the Weapons Division's search-and-rescue (SAR (Segmentation And Reassembly) The protocol that converts data to cells for transmission over an ATM network. It is the lower part of the ATM Adaption Layer (AAL), which is responsible for the entire operation. See AAL. SAR - segmentation and reassembly ) team, including a UH-l "Huey" SAR helo. |
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