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PACIFIC Missle Range Facility Barking Sands

PMRF Barking Sands

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Welcome to Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands

Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands (PMRF) is the world's largest instrumented multi-environmental range capable of supported surface, subsurface, air, and space operations simultaneously. There are over 1,100 square miles of instrumented underwater range and over 42,000 square miles of controlled airspace.

Installation Information

Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands a premier facility for supporting operations which vary from small, single-unit exercises up to largescale, multiple-unit battle group scenarios.

A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1B interceptor missile is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the mid-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo)

Welcome Aboard Guide link for newcomers

Frequently Called Phone Numbers

MWR Guest Pass Program 335-7936

Visitor Center Pass & ID 335-4221

MWR Beach Cottages/NGIS 335-4752

MWR Outdoor Adventure 335-4379

Shenanigans Restaurant 335-4707

Range Ops Access Schedule 335-4229

News from around PMRF Barking Sands

Feature Story: This Girl is On Fire
Mar 17, 2023

KEKAHA, Hawaii – “I’m going to be a firefighter, grandma!” Janis Kimata, Assistant Chief of Prevention for Barking Sands Fire and Emergency Services, recounts the day she told her grandmother the news of her new job. “She said ‘no you cannot be a firefighter!’ so I said, ‘No, I'm telling you, I’m going to be a firefighter.’”
SPECIAL FEATURE: TRAFFIC UP HERE IS THICK
Jan 17, 2023

KEKAHA, Hawaii – This hazard between birds and aircraft is one that the Navy is trying to prevent through the Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH) program.
Dark Skies: Steps Toward Another Season Without Fallout
Sep 19, 2022

KEKAHA, Hawaii - Kaua`i is home to a wide variety of bird species. Of these species there are a few that rely on natural light to guide them to sea.
Pacific Dragon 2022 Concludes
Aug 15, 2022

Forces from the Royal Australian Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Republic of Korea Navy, U.S Missile Defense Agency, and U.S Navy successfully conducted Pacific Dragon 2022 (PD22), a recurring biennial multinational air and missile defense exercise, from August 5-15, 2022, in Hawaii at Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands (PMRF) and off the coast of Kauai.
Pacific Missile Range Facility holds change of command
Jun 09, 2022

KAUAI, Hawaii - Capt. Brett Stevenson relieved Capt. Timothy Young as the commander of the world’s largest instrumented multi-environment range, Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands (PMRF), during a ceremony held on PMRF, June 9, 2022.