Pacific Missile Test Center
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The former name of Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division. The name of the center was the Naval Air Missile Test Center prior to PMTC. It is located at Point Mugu, Ventura County, California. The nearest city to the center is Oxnard.
At Naval Air Warfare Center there is an airfield and a rocket launching site for the US Navy. The center has been an active development and test facility for the U. S. Navy since the late 1940s. Among the missiles developed and tested there include the Sparrow family and Phoenix air-to-air missiles and the Regulus surface-to-surface missile in addition to numerous prototypes of military rockets and sounding rockets.
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