Weapon technology organizations

thumbnail|Former Heereswaffenamt, Jebensstraße corner Hertz Avenue, Berlin thumbnail|Former Army Ordnance Department (courtyard), Jebensstraße corner Hertz Avenue ' (WaA) was the German Army Weapons Agency. It was the centre for research and development of the Weimar Republic and later the Third Reich for weapons, ammunition and equipment to the Army branch of the Reichswehr and then Wehrmacht. It was founded 8 November 1919 as (RWA), and 5 May 1922 the name was changed to ' (HWA).

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Terra-3 (Russian: терра–3) was a Soviet laser testing centre, located on the Sary Shagan anti-ballistic missile (ABM) testing range in the Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan. It was originally built to test missile defence concepts, but these attempts were dropped after the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was signed. The site later hosted two modest devices used primarily for experiments in space tracking. Several other laser test sites were also active during this period. During the 1980s, officials within the United States Department of Defense (DoD) suggested it was the site of a prototypical ant

German material research institute