Avon Park Bombing Range

Avon Park, Florida (FL), US

Also a bombed out runway to the NE, probably part of the former Avon Park Air Force Base.

Avon Park Bombing Range

Avon Park, Florida (FL), US

Also a bombed out runway to the NE, probably part of the former Avon Park Air Force Base.

Military - Training
Links: www.globalsecurity.org
By: kjfitz

Nearby:

Aerial targets assembled from shipping containers

Star of David at the bombing range

Simulated SAM battery

Fake town used for aerial target training

Avon Park Correctional Institution

Former Avon Park Air Force Base

Simulated SAM SA3 site

Lake Kissimmee

Seal

Mural

Sebring Amtrak Station

Sebring Regional Airport

Comments

Anonymous

@ 2008-08-07 01:01:56

These are all targets for aerial bombing practice. You will find the old runways etc. from the AAF days just to the SE. You can also see that one of the runways is still in use. What you see to the NE is not an old runway but what is known as a tactical range with what are more real world types of targets like dummy aircraft etc. Notice the star like pattern to the NNE, that is a mock SAM site. Tactical targets are more real world targets while the the concentric circles where hits are scored just like typical rifle range shooting.

I was stationed here many years ago, around 1969.