Range operations rely on land-based radar and electro-optical time-space-position-information systems to monitor and transfer test data to the Central Control Facility on Eglin AFB.

The use of Santa Rosa Island (SRI) is evolving due to changes in threats to national security and the effects of hurricanes over the past decade.

In July 1944, parts of a V-1 salvaged by the Polish underground and recovered from crashed but unexploded bombs, were flown to Wright-Patterson Field and within three weeks America had completed its first copy of a V-1, the Republic-Ford JB-2, the United States’ first operational guided missile and the predecessor of the modern cruise missile.

Two sites are located within a half mile of each other on Santa Rosa Island, on Air Force property.

Access to the sites are restricted by the National Park Service and the United States Air Force.

The targets were buoys placed at measured distances, up to 150 miles, to which the headings and range of the guidance system were adjusted.

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