Nevada Test and Training Range

The Nellis Range ( also Nellis Range Complex ( NRC), Nellis Air Force Range ( Nafr ) ) is a closed military zone in southern Nevada between the city of Las Vegas as well as the place Tonopah, which is great about 31,000 square kilometers. It is connected to the Nellis AFB and the scene of several times the annual " Red Flag " maneuver. The restricted area was named after William Harrell Nellis.

It is the site of several known about the state and provincial boundary military installations:

  • Nevada Test Site in the South West, the site of countless over - and underground nuclear tests
  • Tonopah Test Range Tonopah Test Range Airport and to the northwest, home base of the 4450th Tactical Fighter Group, with its F -117A Stealth fighters during the confidentiality period
  • Area 51 and Groom Lake Air Force Base, one of the most secret places in the Western world and therefore a source of numerous myths as tales of secret aircraft, UFOs and extraterrestrial life forms.

There are different levels of access within the Nellis Range. The eastern part is only limited to civil aviation. The western part, which houses all the installations listed above and about west of U.S. Highway 93 and the Highway 375 begins and extends to the west almost to the U.S. Highway 95 Reno -Las Vegas, is a closed military zone. The area around the Groom Lake (also known as Area 51 ) is self- locked for pending military flights, especially for participants in the Red Flag maneuver.

The partial absence of fences should not obscure the importance of these systems. There are at critical points numerous electronic monitoring systems and sensors of the latest design and private security guards services, the American Atomic Energy Agency and the military. Intruders are detected from afar by the dust clouds of their vehicles and pedestrians hardly find protection from discovery in the barren desert landscape. Apprehended Trespassers will be handed over to the local sheriff office and have to pay a fine of at least $ 1,000. Additional protection represent the vast distances and the remoteness dar. From the turn of the mailbox Road from Highway 375 to the Groom Lake base are there alone in a straight line for another 40 kilometers.

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