Urban / City Warfare (merged thread)

[sgmgrumpy]

Alot of information Some sites have already been updated.

MOUT Training Facilities:

The Urban Target Complex (UTC) - "Yodaville" (Major Floyd Usry - "Yoda")
Yodaville - Urban Close Air Support (CAS) Bombing Range (Marine Corps Gazette)
Yodaville - USMC Urban Bombing Range at Yuma (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Yodaville - Urban Bombing Range at Yuma (The Arizona New Republic)
Camp Lejuene MOUT Facility Familiarization (Images)
JRTC MOUT Facility (Fort Polk, LA)
Shughart-Gordon (Article)
Fort Pickett MOUT Assault Course
Combat Maneuver Training Center (MOUT facility at Hohenfels, Germany)
Urban Training Complex at the RCTA (MOUT City)
Camp Ripley (Minnesota)
McKenna MOUT Site (Fort Benning, GA)
McKenna MOUT Facility Flythrough (3D Visualization - STRICOM)
McKenna MOUT Site (VRSG overhead image, commercial site)
Mounted Urban Combat Training Site (Fort Knox)
It Takes a Village for Urban Combat.....and Fort Knox is Getting One (Armor)
F/X for Urban Warfare (Soldiers - special effects at Fort Knox)
Copehill Down - UK FIBUA Training Facility (NATO Instructors' FIBUA Course)
Reconfigurable MOUT Training Site
Ft. Leonard Wood Maneuver Support Center Briefing Slides (U.S. Army Engineer Center - future home of the MP and Chemical Schools)]

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/64...tsimagesa.html

[Tom Odom]

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]

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

[max161]

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]

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...

[davidbfpo]

Rediscovered this October 2019 article a few days ago. The authors are Professor David Betz, Kings War Studies and Hugo Stanford-Tuck, a British Army (Gurkha) officer. It has numerous examples cited and footnotes. In places it challenges traditional thinking, certainly a good read.

One example cited I can expand upon, thanks to a WW2 history site and The Battle of Medicina, which is Endnote 60 and Betz and Stanford-Tuck write:

Finally, also in April 1945, a battalion of the 6th Gurkha Rifles, supported by tanks of the King’s Hussars, defeated a large, well-equipped, well-led, and highly experienced force from the German 9th Parachute Division that was holding the small northern Italian town of Medicina. The German unit also had tank and artillery support. In a short, decisive battle lasting a few hours, much of it hand-to-hand, in which tanks blasted holes through the walls of structures through which the Gurkhas advanced, 100 Germans were killed, while the British lost only seven men.

Extra links: http://http://www.krh.org.uk/uploads..._extract_2.pdf and http://www.6thgurkhas.org/website/regiment-battles/battle-of-medicina

Link:https://tnsr.org/2019/10/the-city-is-neutral-on-urban-warfare-in-the-21st-century/

[davidbfpo]

A new report:

How does political violence originate, and how is it amplified in cities affected by conflict? This IISS report, based on field research, identifies urban drivers of political violence in four cities located in fragile states – Mogadishu, Nairobi, Kabul and Karachi.

The link is to the Executive Summary and has a link to the full (unread) report:https://www.iiss.org/blogs/research-...tical-violence