- Defence Research Establishment Suffield
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Coordinates: 50°16′16.8306″N 111°10′23.3934″W / 50.271341833°N 111.173164833°W The military research facility located 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Suffield, Alberta, operated under the name of the Defence Research Establishment Suffield from 1967 to its renaming to DRDC Suffield in 2000.
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History
After being renamed from the Suffield Experimental Station in July 1967, the Defence Research Establishment Suffield (DRES) continued to operate under the Defence Research Board. Four years later, on August 25, 1971, the Canadian Government ratified a ten-year agreement[1] with the British Government that allowed the United Kingdom Forces to use the Military Training Area (MTA) on the Suffield Block. The MTA occupies the northern three quarters of the military reserve and the remaining area was named the Experimental Proving Grounds (EPG).
On December 1, 1971, the Canadian Forces Base Suffield (CFB Suffield) was officially created and allocated to Mobile Command[2]. A number of personnel and support functions were transferred from DRES to CFB Suffield and CFB Suffield was co-located with the Research Establishment.
In 1974, the Defence Research Board evolved into the Research and Development Branch which was administered under the Assistant Deputy Minister Materiel of the Canadian Department of National Defence. Another reorganization followed on April 1, 2000 when the Research and Development Branch was placed under the Assistant Deputy Minister Science & Technology and renamed to Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC).
Chief DRES Tenure R.M. Hegge[3] ? to 1979 Dr. J.C. Moldon[3] Aug 1990 to ? Large Explosive Events
- Distant Plain 6 was a 100 ton detonation (spherical form) in 1967[4]
- The Prairie Flat 500 ton detonation (spherical form) on 9th August 1968[4] at the Watching Hill test site formed a 64 meter diameter crater[5]
- The Dialpack 500 ton detonation[6] on 23 July 1970.
References
- ^ Overseas Training Areas British Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) - House of Commons, 3 Aug 1971
- ^ Backgrounder - Canadian Forces Base Suffield
- ^ a b Canadian Archival Information Network
- ^ a b G.H.S. Jones, Crater and Ejecta Study, Defence Research Establishment Suffield, 1970
- ^ Neville J. Price, Major impacts and plate tectonics, University College London, 2000
- ^ G.H.S. Jones, Complex Craters in Alluvium, Defence Research Board, 1977
External links
Categories:- Military of Canada
- Science and technology in Canada
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