Ordnance facilities in FL
4 facilities
Air Defense Artillery (ADA) Targets
Orlando, FL
Crew-gunnery and live-fire training is conducted using various unmanned aerial targets. The targets are threat representatives of cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and low-flying, fixed-wing aircraft. These targets must be capable of simulating threat target characteristics and require the ADA weapon system crew to utilize and understand its maximum capability. Numerous types of aerial targets, operated by troop units or furnished and operated by contract personnel, are available for ADA service practice. Training programs must result in demonstrated tactical and technical competence, weapon system confidence, and initiative and abilities of our Warfighters. The most commonly used targets and support devices used for this training are:
High Explosives Research and Development (HERD) Facility
Eglin AFB, FL
The purpose is to provide high explosive formulation, chemical analysis, safety and performance testing, processing, X-ray, quality control and loading support for Air Force nonnuclear weapons development programs and other agency requirements.
Prototype Munitions Fabrication Lab
Eglin AFB, FL
Areas of responsibility include air-to-air and air-to-ground weapon fabrication, aeromechanic shapes for wind tunnel investigations, flight test models, modular weapon interface units, and suspension and release prototype hardware. These models consist of full-scale and reduced-scale sizes. The Munitions Fabrication Facility can perform extremely accurate work in machining, sheet metal work, welding, fiberglass/plastic work, numerical control machining, and quality control/measuring.
Very Shallow Water Mine Countermeasures Test Area
Panama City, FL
This unique, man-made Test Area was constructed to evaluate new systems and their components in a representative surf zone environment (i.e., water depths of 0 to 10 feet). Specifically, the requirement to develop systems for the neutralization of shallow water mines and obstacles generated the need for a test facility to support underwater explosives testing. The Test Area, with up to 20 feet of earth covering a buried polyethylene liner, is designed to accept up to 3,700 pounds of explosives. Other Test Area applications include testing the vulnerability of equipment, vehicles, and personnel to explosive effects; testing new acoustic and navigational technologies; investigating explosive ordnance disposal techniques; and facilitating electro-optics projects.