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Some facilities, such as the Environmental Test Facility, can be used across multiple domains, to test anything from trucks to trains. These facilities, combined with the expertise of our people, provide an unrivalled service for our customers.

Facilities

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5m Wind Tunnel

Our high Reynolds number facility for investigating flow physics and predicting full-scale performance

 
Anechoic Test Facility

The Anechoic Test Facility is a versatile test environment offering research & development opportunities for a range of aircraft, vehicles and systems.

 
Compass Test Centre

The Compass Test Centre is located within the Magnetic Assessment Services at MOD Portland Bill, Dorset.

 
Diving and Hyperbaric Test Centre

The Diving and Hyperbaric Test Centre (DHTC) offers a unique range of specialist facilities and capabilities for research, testing and evaluation of diving, submarine escape and other hyperbaric systems.

 
Environmental Test Centre

Throughout their life span, all Ordnance, Munitions and Explosive (OME) assets will be subjected to many and varied environmental conditions, but must still perform as intended when functioned.

 
Environmental Test Facility

The Environmental Test Facility is widely used by a variety of military and commercial organisations to simulate the extreme conditions that equipment must be able to operationally withstand.

 
Hurn Proving Ground

When realistic and challenging on and off-road trials are required, QinetiQ’s Hurn Proving Ground has it all.

 
Hypobaric Facility

The Hypobaric Facility, also known as the altitude chamber, is one of the largest and most capable in Europe.

 
Land Magnetic Range

Magnetic Assessment Services are on the magnetically clean site at MOD Portland Bill, Dorset. Facilities include a Land Magnetic Range, which simulates the magnetic field at any point on the earth’s surface, to measure the effect on equipment.

 
Marine Towing Tank

The Towing Tank at our marine technology facility at Haslar, near Portsmouth in the UK, offers our global customers a service to deliver constrained hydrodynamic model tests of surface ships, submarines, offshore structures, and renewable energy devi

 
Night Vision Systems Test House

The Night Vision Systems Test House provides a safe and controlled, spectrally correct environment for electro-optic assessments of systems in a variety of aircraft.

 
Ocean Basin & Rotating Arm

One of the largest hydrodynamic facilities in the world with uniquely qualified specialist support using CFD and basin services to optimise your vessel design.

 
Radio Frequency Environment Generator

The Radio Frequency Environment Generator is an open area test site capable of high power radiated susceptibility testing over a wide frequency range, able to accommodate large systems, such as civil airliners and large transport aircraft.

 
Radio Trials Centre

The Radio Trials Centre (RADEX) offers a wide range of measurement capabilities supported by onsite expertise in radio systems to meet test requirement’s, de-risk projects, and offer cost saving benefits.

 
Shock Testing Facility

It is imperative that equipment and systems within an operational warship have a proven reliability to operate during hostile engagements, and that any installation is fit for purpose and does not compromise other systems or endanger the crew.