Welcome to Radnor Range – developing sovereign UK capability
First firing of the General Dynamics AJAX 40mm Case Telescopic Ammunition (CTA) cannon system
ISO 17025 accredited armoured vehicle blast trials using Anthropomorphic Test Devices (ATDs), or “Dummies”
Multiple target array throughout the length of the valley
Fragment and Bullet Attack (STANAGS 4241 and 4496)
Access for LARGE vehicles and cranes. AJAX on a low loader!
Laboratory for R&D trials
Explosive manufacture with a planetary mixer
Pearson Engineering mine clearance vehicle tested in live explosive trials
Safety Drop Test to STANAG 4375 with 12m tower and also the new 25m Drop Test
Pearson Engineering mine clearance vehicle Designed to deflect the effect of blast
Looking down the barrel inside the Indoor Range
Ammunition is safely broken down, hand loaded and prepared for repeatable and accurate velocity-recorded ballistic trials
Proofing rockets and missiles for the Defence Prime contractors and SMEs
Blast testing of infrastructure panels in an arena blast trial with 75kg PE (~100kg TNT charge)
Cannon firing and Doppler Radar measurement
PAS 300 and similar testing of Civilian Armoured Vehicles (CAV)
The Indoor Range for ballistic trials from 2 grain (0.13 g) to 20mm FSP and 9mm to 14.5mm
Vehicles tested inside the Indoor Range include STANAG 4569, PAS 300, VSAG and VPAM
Indoor Range includes facilities for climatic testing of rounds and targets
50mm test barrel uses bespoke designed sabots to launch fragments at 2600m/s
Cannon round testing of armoured vehicles
Part of the access road to the main arena
Testing of rifles, sighting systems, laser aiming and other weapon systems
Representative armoured vehicle ready for testing
50mm bespoke test barrel and 30mm Rarden Cannon
Armoured vehicle ready for steel pot or gravel pit under belly mine blast test
Planetary mixer in operation. Radnor is HSE Licensed Explosive Manufacturing and Storage Site
Free flight and static testing of RPGs and their effect on armoured targets
