![]() ![]() The USS Desert Ship is also designated LLS-1, for 'Land Locked Ship' number one.īuilt in the 1950s to functionally duplicate the fire control requirements of a surface ship, the Desert Ship was originally used to test the Talos missile, and is now is primarily used for live fire testing of the Navy´s STANDARD Missile. ![]() Its ongoing mission includes land-based testing of naval weapon systems missiles such as the electromagnetic railgun at its iconic USS Desert Ship that sits in a sea of sand. The Navy has been part of the test community at White Sands Missile Range since 1946 when it arrived to participate in research and testing of captured German V-2 rockets.ĭuring the 1940s and 1950s, the Navy continued to launch rockets for atmospheric research, and in the 1950s its responsibilities expanded from rocketry into the testing of surface-to-air missile defense systems. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division, What Sands Detachment ![]() But our longest continuous partnership has been with a Sister Service one might least expect to find here in the desert. White Sands Missile Range is a Team of Teams, home to elements from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Space Force with each service having Command, Control and Communication nodes on-site.Īdditionally, other organizations at White Sands Missile Range include NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, The Research Analysis Center, and the Center for Countermeasures and Combat Capabilities Development Command (Data and Analysis Center and Army Research Laboratory). sister services, as well as the less familiar from France, Germany, Japan, Korea or Poland here to participate in or to observe a test. Navy and Air Force Test Detachment Commanders are dual-hatted as deputies to the CG, but on any given day, a visitor could look around and think we also belong to a Combined Command, seeing the familiar uniforms from fellow U.S. White Sands Missile Range is an integral part of the Army Test and Evaluation Command tasked directly in supporting Army Futures Command, but in essence it is a de facto Joint Range. ![]()
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