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Lommel Proving Grounds

The Lommel Proving Ground also known as the Ford LPG, is an automotive proving ground, constructed by Ford of Europe on ground rented from the city of Lommel, located south of the Belgian hamlet of Kattenbos.


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11824 Alpaidze

Its name honors Galaktion Alpaidze, a Soviet military leader and chief of the Plesetsk rocket proving ground.

Aisin Seiki Co.

Officially named FT Techno of America (FTTA), but known as Aisin’s Fowlerville Proving Ground, the new venture is a member of the Aisin Group, a Tier One worldwide automotive components supplier with global sales of more than $15 billion in 2004.

Bryantsburg, Indiana

The town existed on both sides of the Michigan Road (U.S. 421), but the west portion, which was the larger section, became part of the former Jefferson Proving Ground in 1941, leaving a handful of houses on the east side.

Chrysler Proving Grounds

The Arizona Proving Ground is a vehicle test facility established in 1955 in Yucca, Arizona.

Geoffrey D. Stephenson

They were at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, home of the Air Proving Ground Center, on an exchange tour.

Great Green Fleet

The Great Green Fleet is the popular nickname of the carrier strike group serving as the US Navy's proving ground for the strategic and tactical viability of biofuels.

Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg

Heisterman was executed on 2 February 1945 by a Wehrmacht firing squad at a proving ground near Olympic Stadium in the Charlottenburg (present-day Westend) district of Berlin.

Langley Field

In 1917, the new proving ground was designated Langley Field for one of America's early air pioneers, Samuel Pierpont Langley.

Levin H. Campbell, Jr.

After the war Campbell continued his service, including assignments at: the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, Washington, D.C.; Stockton Ordnance Depot, Stockton, California; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; and Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois.

LGF

the FAA location identifier for Laguna Army Airfield, a military airport located at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, United States

MAAF

Michael Army Airfield at Dugway Proving Ground, abbreviated as Michael AAF or MAAF

ORDVAC

J. P. Nash of the University of Illinois was a developer of both the ORDVAC and of the university's own identical copy, the ILLIAC, which was later renamed the ILLIAC I. Donald B. Gillies assisted in the checkout of ORDVAC at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

T-26 variants

In August–October 1933 this armoured personnel carrier has passed extensive tests at Kubinka proving ground.

This ST-26 prototype was also tested at the Kubinka Tank Proving Ground, and participated in military exercises of the Leningrad Military District in 1938.

Trials performed in October 1940 in Kubinka proving ground demonstrated that the design needed improvement.

The single vehicle was built by the Military Supply Depot No. 37 in Moscow in 1937 and tested at the Kubinka Tank Proving Ground in January–February 1938.