Urban / City Warfare (merged thread)

**Tom Odom** · 09-21-2006

Fort Polk only has about 40 buildings and I’m researching facilities that can simulate a small city or town.

Not true. The number of towns and villages in the box is much greater. Shughart-Gordon remains the main MOUT site due to instrumentation.

Not sure what size you are going for with "small city or town". The CTCs look at the brigade fight; the MOUT sites meet those needs.

Tom

**selil** · 09-21-2006

400 to 500 building 10 to 15 square miles, something that a system comparable and substantially better than DIT's would support.

**max161** · 09-22-2006

Recommend you check out the Rand web site and look for a book by Dr. Russ Glenn. In the last year or so he did a very comprehensive study on urban training facilities. I think his list of facilities is probably the most detailed.

**jcustis** · 09-22-2006

Originally Posted by selil

400 to 500 building 10 to 15 square miles, something that a system comparable and substantially better than DIT's would support.

I recommend that you Google Alan Brosnan and the Olive Security Training Center. Brosnan is in the midst of expanding his facilities to include a large MOUT-type complex. There are already evasive driving tracks, shoot houses, sniper ranges, and explosive breaching structures, so live-fire can be integrated pretty seamlessly with blanks/simunitions. And considering that his is a commercial enterprise, he is looking for most bang for the least buck...