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'Proving Ground' is a term for a military installation or reservation where weapons or other military technology are experimented or tested, or where military tactics are tested.

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Canada

United States

Europe

Australia

External links

Canada

★ CFB Suffield

United States

In the United States, there are several military facilities that are designated as Proving Grounds.

★ Aberdeen Proving Ground is a United States Army facility located at Aberdeen, Maryland, and is the Army's oldest active proving ground, established on October 20, 1917, six months after the United States entered World War I. It was created so that design and testing of ordnance materiel could be carried out in proximity to the nation's industrial and shipping centers at the time.

★ Jefferson Proving Ground located in Madison, Indiana, was principally a munitions testing facility of Test and Evaluation Command of the United States Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command. The facility was ordered closed in 1989 as part of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process.

★ Sandy Hook Proving Ground, at Sandy Hook, New Jersey was the nation's first such facility. It was created in 1874 and was used as a proving ground until 1919.

Europe

★ Salisbury Plain, United Kingdom (380 km²)

★ Bergen-Hohne, Germany, largest continental training area (284 km²), NATO facility

★ Hammelburg, Germany, Hammelburg features a complete artificial village for training puposes of the German Army

★ Hohenfels, Germany (160km²)

★ Grafenwöhr, Germany, an US facility

★ Finland - The Artillery Brigade in Niinisalo, currently houses the Finnish ordnance R&D center (established 1921).

★ United Kingdom - Stanford Battle Area, County Norfolk

Australia

★ Shoalwater Bay, Queensland

External links

★ Finnish ordnance center at mil.fi (in Finnish)