Naval Aviation Warfare Development Center (NAWDC)
The Naval Aviation Warfare Development Center (NAWDC), pronounced "NAW-dick," is the US Navy's Center of Excellence for Air Combat Training and Development, based in Fallon, Nevada. Established in 1996, NAWDC consolidated the Naval Strike Warfare Center, the famous Navy Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun), and the Carrier Airborne Early Warning Weapons School (Top Dome). NAWDC trains naval aviation in advanced tactics, techniques, and procedures across assigned combat mission areas, provides service to air crews, squadrons, and air wings through flight training and academic instruction, and delivers direct operational and intelligence support.
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Key Departments and Facilities
One of NAWDC's most active departments is Naval Intelligence. NAWDC serves as the primary authority on training and tactics development across integrated strike warfare, maritime and overland air superiority, strike fighter deployment, airborne battle management, combat search and rescue, close air support, and associated planning support systems.
NAWDC also operates the Fallon Range and Training Complex (FTRC), an enormous training range located just north of the Nevada Test Site and Nevada Test and Training Range — the range used extensively by Groom Lake (Area 51), a detachment of the 412th Test Wing at Edwards Air Force Base.
UAP and ARV Connections
NAWDC's proximity to Area 51 and the Nevada Test and Training Range, combined with its own large aerial training complex, places it within a corridor of facilities that UAP Gerb has linked to alien reproduction vehicle operations. Edgar Fouche, who disclosed details of the TR-3B, claimed that military pilots for the craft were elite aviators from both the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards and the Navy's Top Gun school — the latter housed within NAWDC.
During the 1997 Hunter Warrior Advanced Warfighting Experiment, NAWDC (then still known as the Naval Strike Air Warfare Center) assembled air crews alongside Naval Air Station Lemoore as a naval adjunct "bolted on late in the planning stage." UAP Gerb theorizes this late addition provided cover for clandestine ARV and special mission unit operations alongside blue (friendly) assets.
NAWDC's vicinity has also produced triangle sightings. In 2002, a witness in Fallon, Nevada reported a very large triangular craft at 11:13 PM with 7-9 dimly lit nodes, flying at approximately 20 mph with no noise, described as astonishingly close and enormous.