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Desert Proving Ground Yuma is a facility co-built and leased by General Motors located within the US Army's
proving ground
A proving ground (US) is an installation or reservation in which technology such as weapons, military tactics and automobile prototypes are experimented with or tested. Proving grounds can be operated by government bodies or civilian industries. ...
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North America
Desert Proving Ground Yuma
Desert Proving Ground Yuma is a facility co-built and leased by General Motors located within the US Army's Yuma Proving Ground
Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) is a United States Army series of environmentally specific test centers with its Yuma Test Center being one of the largest military installations in the world. It is subordinate to the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation C ...
, near Yuma, Arizona
Yuma ( coc, Yuum) is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The city's population was 93,064 at the 2010 census, up from the 2000 census population of 77,515.
Yuma is the principal city of the Yuma, Arizona, M ...
. The facility came fully online as of July 2009. The site contains an inner facility sitting on with a campus containing of building area and also has of roadway. One of the main reasons that this site was chosen was the already imposed no fly zone
A no-fly zone, also known as a no-flight zone (NFZ), or air exclusion zone (AEZ), is a territory or area established by a military power over which certain aircraft are not permitted to fly. Such zones are usually set up in an enemy power's te ...
which helps prevent unwanted photography of pre-production prototypes undergoing testing. The facility is also used by the US Army for their own testing requirements.
Other such features are:
* circle track (3 lanes)
* straight track (2–3 lanes)
* Ride Road (2–4 lanes)
* Dynamics Pad
* Interior Noise Road
* Noise Pass-by Facility
* Misc. grades
* main building
* Garage (40 hoists)
* Office (120 residents/visitors)
* Product Electronics/Instrumentation Lab
* Alignment/Tire facilities
* Transmission Build Room
* Machine/Fab shop
* Parts Crib
* Warehouse
* Sundrella (40 hoists)
* Covered parking
* Fuel facility
* Car wash
* Scale House / Ballast Station
Milford Proving Ground