page_title: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake
section_title: Weapons developed at China Lake
hierarchical_section_title: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake / Weapons developed at China Lake
caption_attribution_description: A U.S. Navy Grumman F9F-8 Cougar (BuNo 131072) during a test flight at Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS) China Lake, California (USA), 26 November 1956. It is armed with AIM-9B Sidewinder missiles.
context_page_description: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake is a large military installation in California that supports the research, testing and evaluation programs of the U.S. Navy. It is part of Navy Region Southwest under Commander, Navy Installations Command. It was originally known as Naval Ordnance Test Station.
  The installation is located in the Western Mojave Desert region of California, approximately 150 miles north of Los Angeles. Occupying land in three counties – Kern, San Bernardino, and Inyo – the installation's closest neighbors are the city of Ridgecrest and the communities of Inyokern, Trona, and Darwin.
  China Lake is the United States Navy's largest single landholding, representing 85% of the Navy's land for weapons and armaments research, development, acquisition, testing and evaluation use and 38% of the Navy's land holdings worldwide. In total, its two ranges and main site cover more than 1,100,000 acres, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. As of 2010, at least 95% of that land has been left undeveloped. The roughly $3 billion infrastructure of the installation consists of 2,132 buildings and facilities, 329 miles of paved roads, and 1,801 miles of unpaved roads.
context_section_description: AAM-N-5 Meteor
  AIM-9 Sidewinder
  AGM-62 Walleye
  AGM-45 Shrike
  BOAR (rocket)
  China Lake Grenade Launcher
  Gimlet (rocket)
  Holy Moses (rocket)
  Hopi (missile)
  LTV-N-4
  Ram (rocket)
  RUR-4 Weapon Alpha
  Terasca
  Tiny Tim (rocket)
  Tomahawk missile
  SLAM-ER
  CL-20
caption: A U.S. Navy F9F-8 Cougar armed with AIM-9B Sidewinder missiles. Photo taken in November 1956.
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