Category:White Sands Missile Range

White Sands Missile Range

military testing area in New Mexico, United States

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Location

Commissioned by

Ordnance Corps

Operator

United States Army

Inception

1948

Area

3,200 mi²

Replaces

Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range

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Map

32° 33′ 47.16″ N, 106° 34′ 12″ W

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Q1694811 Library of Congress authority ID: n82028923 J9U ID: 987007557457505171 LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID: nm0138
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English: White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), formerly the White Sands Proving Grounds — a United States Army research facility−rocket range in Doña Ana County and Otero County, south-central New Mexico.

White Sands Missile Range,
central Tularosa Basin section,
Doña Ana County New Mexico.

It is located primarily within the Tularosa Basin and into the northern Jornada del Muerto, accessed from U.S. 70 near White Sands, between Alamogordo and Las Cruces.
WSMR covers 3,200 mi² (8 287 km²), 3 times the size of Rhode Island, making it the largest military installation within the United States.

See also categories: White Sands National Park and White Sands, New Mexico.

Subcategories

This category has the following 22 subcategories, out of 22 total.

A

Aircraft at White Sands Missile Range (10 F)

B

Bataan Memorial Death March, White Sands Missile Range (7 C, 2 F)

C

Commandants of the White Sands Missile Range (1 C, 29 F)

G

Green River Launch Complex (1 F)

H

High Resolution Coronal Imager (7 F)

L

Launch Complex 33 (14 C, 1 F)

M

McDonald-Schmidt Ranch House (1 C, 15 F)
Minor Scale (2 F)
Missiles at White Sands Missile Range (4 C, 27 F)

N

NARA images of White Sands Missile Range (1 C)

O

Oscura Range (9 F)

P

PGM-11 Redstone CC-1013 (8 F)

S

John G. Shinkle (3 F)
Spacecraft at White Sands Missile Range (11 C, 2 F)

T

Trinity Site (4 C, 23 F)
Trinity test (3 C, 2 P, 119 F)
Trinity test site (10 F)

V

Victorio Peak (1 C, 6 F)

W

White Sands Missile Range (HAER images) (3 C)
White Sands Missile Range Museum (2 C, 1 P, 140 F)
White Sands Missile Range plans (5 F)
White Sands Test Facility (1 C, 11 F)

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The following 96 files are in this category, out of 96 total.

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A-3 Skywarrior used for Patriot missle tests at White Sands.jpg 2,122 × 1,648; 410 KB
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Army Sgt. Dallas Keck, a team chief with Bravo Battery, 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, exits from the back of a CH43 Chinook helicopter, during 121031-A-SG598-119.jpg 4,288 × 2,848; 894 KB
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CNO Adm. John Richardson reviews new technologies in directed-energy weaponry at WSMR.jpg 1,280 × 854; 426 KB
Corporal guidance equipment at White Sands Proving Ground 293 1766A.jpg 1,280 × 979; 171 KB
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Four men at White Sands in 1946 with a WAC Corporal booster rocket 293-417.jpg 640 × 490; 199 KB
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