china lake ca map Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/china-lake-ca-map Fri, 17 Aug 2018 14:12:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 China Lake Naval Weapons Center, China Lake http://travelsfinders.com/china-lake-naval-weapons-center-china-lake.html http://travelsfinders.com/china-lake-naval-weapons-center-china-lake.html#respond Fri, 26 May 2017 18:18:27 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=240391 Covering over 1700 square miles yes, Top Secret America site #2 is larger than Rhode Island! this is where the Navy tests and develops secret airborne weapons systems. In 1943, the Navy needed lots of land to test its new carrier-based airplanes and the bombs they carry. They found it about 120 miles northeast of Los Angeles, in a section of the Mojave Desert sandwiched between the Sierra Nevada mountains and Death Valley. The facility gets its name from the dry bed of China Lake, and encompasses most of the Coso Range, a group of volcanic mountains and cinder cones

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