US army builds fake city to shoot at during training

The 300 acre 'town' includes a five story embassy, a bank, a school, an underground subway and train stationThe Telegraph – by Lucy Kinder

The US army has built a fake city designed to be used during combat training exercises.

The 300 acre ‘town’ includes a five story embassy, a bank, a school, an underground subway and train station, a mosque, a football stadium, and a helicopter landing zone.

Located in Virginia, the realistic subway station comes complete with subway carriages and the train station has real train carriages.  

The subway carriages even carry the same logo as the carriages in Washington DC

There are also bridges and several other structures which can be transformed into different scenarios.

The $96 million is designed to meticulously “replicate complex operational environments and develop solutions”.

The U.S. army’s Army Asymmetric Warfare Group opened the training centre last month.

The unit was created in 2004 to help combat terrorism and reduce the vulnerabilities of the army to emerging threats.

Colonel John P. Petkosek, the commander of the group said of the new training city :

“This is the place where we can be creative, where we can come up with solutions for problems that we don’t even know we have yet,”

“This is where we’ll look at solutions for the future–material solutions and non-material solutions…anything from how you’re going to operate in a subterranean environment to how you dismount a Humvee to avoid an IED strike.

“The things that we do here at this facility will have a direct and lasting impact on our entire army.”

It has taken six years for the site to be developed, including two years of construction.

The 300 acre 'town' includes a five story embassy, a bank, a school, an underground subway and train station

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10634411/US-army-builds-fake-city-to-shoot-at-during-training.html

36 thoughts on “US army builds fake city to shoot at during training

  1. These new MOUT sites are nothing more than training to fight HERE! All of the MOUT sites that I trained at in the Army were oriented towards an over seas fight. We never had sites that even remotely looked like an American town. Look at the types of buildings that they have in these new sites. Go get more guns and ammo!

      1. Gun Show here tomorrow. We are planning a family outing. I am lucky, both my wife and my daughter love the gun shows!!! 🙂

        1. I heard they took the gun show away in Austin due to permit and gun right issues. Not sure if they settled it yet. So far we still have them in the Dallas area, but the bastards are trying to find excuses to take them away.

          1. they made ours go to a private venue. It used to be at the dome in Lafayette. It is always packed here. I plan to hand out trenched flyers.

  2. If they just had to build this so called training center on american grounds then just why couldn`t they have built it along the american mexican boarder and kill two birds with one stone?

  3. A subway system for a fake town? Seriously? What a complete waste of taxpayer’s money. Not like that matters to the psychopaths in charge.

  4. Really, only $96 million ? Imagine how much suffering you could eliminate here or elsewhere in the world. A mosque ? Looks like a Christian church to me.

    1. Hello Paul
      If its not too much trouble could you use a different handle? The one you are using now is mine. No offense, but this could end up being confusing. Thanks.

          1. 96 million to make it. What a waste. It would cost even less for Bulldog to mow it down with a tank. Especially if some foreign insurgents were camping out there 😀

          2. NC the guy that posted the 96 mil is not me. its someone else using my name. have asked him to change it. hopefully he will.

      1. All Pauls are welcome, but don’t sweat it. We have put the other Paul, the Paul 2, not to be confused with the original Paul, into pending. We will make sure he can be distinguished from you if he wants to come back up.

    2. Yes Paul. Paul is tellin` ya right. you need to change your screen name. No offense but Paul was here first ya know. wWe need to distinguish between the two of ya.

  5. FAKE TOWN USA..OH MY IMAGINARY GOD..ITS PRICELESS..AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE JEW TEMPLE?..BET THE ZIONISTS COULD CARE LESS WHEN THEY MADE THEIR GELT FROM THIS 96 MILLION FAKE CITY..FAKE LIFE..FAKE GOVERNMENT..FAKE CREATURES IN DC..SOONER OR LATER PEOPLE LIKE ME ARE GOING TO COME AFTER YOU..IT WONT BE PRETTY..

  6. The sad realization is, they have everyone in law enforcement and military fearing for their pensions and benefits because of the economy, which will cause them to follow MOST, IF NOT ALL orders given, regardless of oath or constituionality. Couple that with a 14 year war that is still ongoing, which is battle hardening our military and desensitizing them to killing, and BY THE TIME THE SMOKE CLEARS, A LOT OF INNOCENT MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN WILL HAVE DIED. On both sides.

    1. Sadly, If any ‘Law Enforcement’ or military personnel participate in attacking American people / American towns then they will not be innocent. They will be guilty of treason and if they survive, they will be lawfully dealt with.

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