News, US army builds fake city to shoot at during training.

[my54ford]

What's fun is playing OPFOR!!!We go to Ft McCoy and dress up like Hadji's! love to screw with the GI's.....

[katzpaw]

Originally Posted by John1960

The American army has built an entire fake city including a school, a mosque and a football stadium.

US army builds fake city to shoot at during training - Telegraph

OMG. The photos also show a Christian church - proof that 'Bama is coming for your bibles!.

[Bamford]

Lots of countries have mock towns in which they train military units, emergency service personnel and carry out specialist police training. The US is not unique in this respect, although 300 acres is a substantial size.

[MissTerri]

I'm wondering if the size and scope of this "fake town" is unique?

[Bamford]

Originally Posted by MissTerri

I'm wondering if the size and scope of this "fake town" is unique?

There's some big ones in Europe, most notably CENZUB in France, the Altmark training grounds in Germany

Lieutenant Colonel Peter Makowski confirmed the construction of 180 buildings at Atlmark along with corresponding infrastructure and even an Autobahn section to be completed until 2016. In the end - the date of completiom 520 buildings which supposed to resemble an entire town. "We're going to built a cultural center, a political center and even an industrial park - none of the chimneys there will actually be smoking, though", Makowski said.

In Britain, we have Copehill Down, Sennybridge, Eastmere Stanford Training Area, Whinny Hill at Catterick