Denel Overberg Test Range

[1] Facilities at the site include missile launch pads, tracking radar, optical missile tracking systems, cinetheodolites as well as the use of Overberg Air Force Base, home of the South African Air Force Test Flight and Development Centre.

The layout appears to mirror the testing site at Palmachim, suggesting Israeli input in the design process.

Testing for the South African civil space programme continued at the site for another year before also being cancelled in 1993.

Since then the facility has served a number of foreign clients, including: Testing at the site focuses predominantly on flight performance rather than the destructive capability of weapon systems.

Consequently missile test flights are typically conducted with dummy warheads or instrument packs rather than live weapons.