Pacific Missile Test Center

The Naval Air Warfare Center consists of both the NAS Point Mugu airfield and a rocket launching site for the U.S. Navy.

NBVC is also home to deployable units, including the Pacific Seabees and the West Coast E-2C Hawkeyes.

The Island of San Nicolas was transferred from the Naval Air Warfare Center to the base in 2004.

Standard Missile, Rolling Airframe Missile, RGM-84A surface-launched, Evolved SeaSparrow MissileTitanic ICBMs, Tomahawk, Vertical Launch Asroc, Trident Pogo Hi, Asp, Loki Dart, Coyote, Nike Cajun, Nike Asp, R-17, Polaris TV, Aerobee 100, Arcas, Loki, Nike Zeus, Kiva/Hopi, Sparoair II, Clean Sweep III, Tomahawk, Sparrow Arcas, Judi-Dart, Sparoair III, Rocketsonde, Terrier LEAP, SR19 1999 Sparo Air I VX-30 uses the aircraft to launch and track munitions for the range.

[4] VX-30 has conducted missions not only in the range but the Reagan Test Site in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, to the waters off the Florida coast, supporting the Missile Defense Agency And the National Aeronautics And Space Administration.

Being unmanned it avoids safety constraints, meaning it can be a weapons test platform for live missiles.

Tested weapons include the MK 57 Sea Sparrow, Rolling Airframe Missile, AN/SLQ-32 ESM and the Phalanx CIWS.

These are used for anti-Aircraft testing and is launched from Naval Air Station Point Mugu and also from San Nicolas Island.

It supplies a realistic marine environment, Remote and Fixed telemetry sites, 50,000 pound missile rail( located at 33.264278,-119.539), target launcher, Inert Missile impact area, 10,000 foot airfield for c-5 and c-17 and dedicated ordnance and range staff.

The range is capable of simulated GPS, radar and Active Denial Systems for weapons-survivability testing.

The US Code of Federal Regulations specifies that amateur radio operators within 322 kilometers of PMTC must not transmit with more than 50 watts of power on the 70-centimeter band.