Message posted by Peter Merlin on July 10, 2006 at 8:46:55 PST:
Area 51 is used for all manner of clasified testing involving aircraft and weapon systems (jets, solar-powered aircraft, missiles, manned, unmmanned, etc.). It is not limited to fixed-wing aircraft. Tonopah Test Range was originally built to test weapon shapes (bombs, missiles, etc.). It was later built up primarily as an operational base for the F-117A when it was still classified, but also for test and evaluation of Soviet-type aircraft and other things.
In Reply to: Other bases posted by Viking05 on July 10, 2006 at 1:43:39 PST:
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