The Combined Arms Tactical Trainer (CATT) is the British Army's primary tactical battlegroup simulator, consisting of over 150 networked simulators which replicate the interiors of armoured vehicles. [1] It has sites at Warminster in Wiltshire (near Waterloo Lines) and Sennelager in Germany, which can be operated separately or inter-linked. [2]
Built in the 1990s [3] and in use since 2002, the system is a development of the United States Army's Close Combat Tactical Trainer. [4] The simulator can train up to 450 military personnel on a virtual battlefield, [5] and is run jointly by the Ministry of Defence, Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems. [2] In 2005, the total cost of the program was stated to be £238 million, and the Defence Procurement Agency claimed it was the largest and most sophisticated virtual training facility in the world. [6] The interior of the Warminster building was refurbished in 2019. [7]
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