Ramgarh Test Range is an out-door testing and evaluating facility of
Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory
Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL) is a laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) which comes under Ministry of Defence. Located in Chandigarh, the laboratory has become one of the major DRDO labs in the f ...
(TBRL).
It is spread over an area of 5500 acre of land and is located at village Ramgarh, District
Panchkula
Panchkula (PKL) is a planned city and district headquarter in the Panchkula district, part of the Ambala division in Haryana, India. The origin of the name Panchkula came from the place where five irrigation canals meet. Panchkula establis ...
,
Haryana
Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ...
, 22 km away from
Chandigarh
Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which ...
.
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Ramgarh Test Range is divided into a number of technical zones/trial areas. Each zone takes up specific types of firing trials.
[http://drdo.gov.in/drdo/pub/techfocus/feb98/range.htm#Pashan Ranges]
Zones have been so designed and spaced as to allow the conduct of experimental trials independent of each other.
The facilities established at this range provide high-speed photography, flash radiography, blast and pressure parameters, lethality and fragmentation studies, impact phenomenon studies, etc.
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The salient facilities at the Ramgarh test range include:
* Rail Track Rocket Sled (3800 mtrs) .]
See also
* Pashan Test Range Pashan Test Range is an out-door testing and evaluating facility of Armament Research and Development Establishment for armament stores.
It is located in outskirt of Pune near Pashan village and is spread over 150 acres of land surrounded by h ...
* Chitradurga Aeronautical Test Range Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga is an out-door testing and evaluation facility set up by DRDO exclusively for unmanned and manned aircraft. The ATR is under the command of the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE).
ATR, Chitradurg ...
References
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Ministry of Defence (India)
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Military installations of India
Panchkula district
Weapons test sites