Military and government
Germany
*South Korea
* Anheung Proving Ground,Russia/former Soviet Union
In Russia, a designated area is usually called a "polygon" (:ru:Полигон, Полигон). * Kapustin Yar, aerial weapons and rocket test range used by the North Caucasus Military District * Totskoye nuclear exercise, Totskoye range, test range in the Urals where nuclear tests were carried out in 1954 * YakutiaChallenge, winter test proving ground in Yakutia, Eastern SiberiaNorth America
United States
In the United States, there are several military facilities that have been explicitly designated as proving grounds. *Aberdeen Proving Ground, a United States Army facility in Aberdeen, Maryland. It 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 Weapon, ordnance materiel could be carried out in proximity to the nation's industrial and shipping centers at the time. *Dugway Proving Ground, an active facility operated by the United States Army Test and Evaluation Command in the Great Salt Lake Desert of Dugway, Utah, Utah. Dugway's mission is to test U.S. and Allies of World War II, Allied biological and chemical weapon defense systems. *Fort Belvoir, Fort Belvoir Proving Ground, in Fairfax County, Virginia *Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center, located in Indian Head, Maryland and at one time called the Indian Head Proving Ground *Jefferson Proving Ground, in Madison, Indiana. It was principally a munitions testing facility of United States Army Test and Evaluation Command, 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. *Pacific Proving Grounds, an inactive United States Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy area in the Marshall Islands that were established by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1946 for nuclear weapons testing. It mainly consists of Bikini Atoll, Enewetak Atoll & the surrounding area, and was deactivated in 1963. *Sandy Hook Proving Ground, in 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. *Scituate Proving Ground, a former proving ground in Scituate, Massachusetts, operational from 1918 to 1921 *Yuma Proving Ground, a United States Army facility situated in southwestern La Paz County, Arizona, La Paz County and western Yuma County, Arizona, Yuma County in southwestern Arizona, approximately northeast of the city of Yuma, Arizona, Yuma. The proving ground is used for testing military equipment and encompasses 1,307.8 square miles (3,387.2 km²) in the Sonoran Desert.Automotive
Automotive proving grounds or automotive test tracks serve the automotive industry for Vehicle, road vehicle testing. In the automotive development process, vehicle manufacturers typically test the behaviour of vehicles in various environments and traffic situations. Conventional vehicle testing usually focuses on the dynamic properties of vehicles. Test tracks generally encompass the engineering tasks of vehicle testing and validation. With the advent of Self-driving car, self-driving cars, new proving grounds specially dedicated for them have appeared, and existing conventional proving grounds have been retooled for the testing of Vehicular automation, highly automated or fully autonomous vehicles.Automaker-owned
* Chrysler Proving Grounds * Ford Proving Grounds * General Motors Proving Grounds * ((Hyundai Ulsan proving ground)) *((Hyundai Hwaseong proving ground 현대,기아 화성주행시험장 )) * Mazda Proving Grounds * Nissan Proving Grounds * Nardò Ring (Porsche) * Ehra-Lessien test track (Volkswagen Group, Volkswagen)Independent
Source: * Applus+ IDIADA proving ground, SpainFootnotes
Further reading
* Edwin A. Martini (ed.), ''Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of US Bases.'' Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2015.External links