The Fallon Range Training Complex (FRTC) is a

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military area with four separate training ranges lusan integrated air defense system consisting of thirty-seven real or simulated radars throughout the

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area of Nevada. The entire FRTC is also instrumented with a Tactical Aircrew Combat Training System (TACTS).

Naval Air Station Fallon Naval Air Station Fallon or NAS Fallon is the United States Navy's premier air-to-air and air-to-ground training facility. It is located southeast of the city of Fallon, east of Reno in western Nevada. Since 1996, it has been home to the U.S. Na ...

is the nearby

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supporting the FRTC, and the FRTC comes under the cognizance of the

Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center The Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center (NAWDC, pronounced NAW-DIK) was formerly known as the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC, pronounced "EN-SOCK") at Naval Air Station Fallon located in the city of Fallon in western Neva ...

(NSAWC) at Fallon for conducting Carrier Air Wing Training, Advanced Instructor Training, Fleet Replacement Squadron Detachment Training, integrated air-to-air and air-to-ground unit level training, joint exercises, and tactics development.

Geography

The FRTC is the land area of six (6) target and instrumented areas of used by aircraft operating in airspace which overlays : a Supersonic Operating Area, the Austin MOA/AATCAA (Military Operating Area/Air Traffic Control Assigned Airspace), Gabbs MOA/ATCAA, Ranch MOA, Carson MOA, and Bengus ATCAA. In addition to the ranges, additional land closed to the public "in the event of an off-range ordnance delivery was part of "640 acres east of B-16, 33,400 acres primarily south of B-17, and north and east of B-19", while FRTC federal land open for public use includes "9,760 acres north and southeast of B-16, 5,960 east and west of B-19, 2,765 acres at the Department of Energy Shoal Site, east of B-17, and 68,600 acres north of B-17."

Bravo 16

Target Bravo 16 (B-16) is on located in Restricted Area 4803 (R-4803) southwest of NAS Fallon between the Red Mountain, Dead Camel Mountains, and

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Bravo 17

Target Bravo 17 (B-17) is located in Restricted Area 4804 (R-4804) east-southeast of NAS Fallon between the Sand Spring Mountains and Fairview Peak.

Bravo 19

Target Bravo 19 (B-19) is located in Restricted Area 4810 (R-4810) south-southeast of NAS Fallon between the Desert Mountains and the Sand Spring Mountains.

Bravo 20

Target Bravo 20 (B-20), located in Restricted Area 4802 (R-4802) and Restricted Area 4813 (R-4813), is ~ north-northeast of NAS Fallon "at Lone Rock … in the

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". The 2 ranges total , and B-20 is the only Navy range authorized for use with 2,000 pound laser guided weapons.

Fallon Electronic Warfare Range

The Electronic Warfare Range is located in Restricted Area 4816 (R-4816) and is east of NAS Fallon in the southern

between the Stillwater Mountains and the Clan Alpine Mountains.

History

The Fallon range's "Target Baker (16-21)" was documented in 1957 and in 1958, the "Navy asrelinquishing the air space and target" for Target B-20 "in favor of CAA requirements for airways". Its 1958 replacement "Target B-21" was to require withdrawal of , and a $10.8 million Navy staging base was proposed at "the instrumented AEC range at Tonopah" for 24,000 sorties. Planning to integrate the range with the Nellis and

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/ Dugway ranges to create the Great Basin's " Continental Operations Range" ended in 1975. The 1986 Military Lands Withdrawal Act (Public Laws 99-606) reserved lands for use by the Secretary of the Navy for "testing and training for aerial bombing, missile firing, tactical maneuvering, and air support. Public "hearings on the B-20 renewal were held in July of 1998"; and its "Final Environmental Impact Statement was endorsed by the Nevada State Director of the Bureau of Land Management in March 1999." The Joint Tactical Combat Training System (JTCTS) was installed at FRTC in 2001.

References

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