People have long heard about Area-51, top secret US facility in the Nevada Desert.The facilities were recognized after so long seems to be a myth and conversation. And now, in the Nevada Desert, which was also the Area-51 built, re-emerged a secret facility which is then referred to as Area-6.
Little is known about this secret location. Satellite imagery from Google Earth shows three separate hangars, as well as four small buildings sera runway 5,000 feet long.
"I've never heard of it," said John Pike, director of a defense news site based in Virginia, as quoted by the Las Vegas Review.
Pike refers to Area 6, as a secret military base in Yucca. Located about 12 miles southwest of the famous Area 51, the site had been a testing ground for the US nuclear weapons program. Base operated by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), used in conjunction with the US Department of Defense and Homeland Security.
"They come here to test their sensors," said NNSA spokesman Darwin Morgan told the Las Vegas Review.
"We have controlled airspace and gave them the opportunity to test various types of platforms," he added. "We do a variety of jobs for others to support people with sensor development activities. It evolved from the nuclear testing program. We should have a very good sensor to collect data in a matter of seconds before they will be destroyed. "
"The purpose of this facility is to build, operate, and test a variety of unmanned aerial vehicles," the license application for the Area 6 in 2008, one of the public record of the existence of this installation.
Defense industry experts estimate that the main purpose of the Area 6 is to test the Predator and Reaper drones and UAVs are currently in development.
Imagery Analyst Tim Brown and GlobalSecurity.org told the Las Vegas Review largest hangar sites that could house about 15 MQ-9 Reaper.
Area 6 could also be a testing ground for a smaller version of the RQ-170 Sentinel, a jet-powered UAV.
Location of the site in the mountains indicate that the Pentagon uses to calibrate Area 6 reconnaissance technology for use in the Middle East. "There are well-founded fears that the perpetrators of the crime lurking around there - ISIS and al-Qaeda," Pike said, referring to Libya.
"It should be a very high priority is not limited by funding. I can not think of a better place to do it where you will not find civilians meliihat on what you're doing. "
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