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. It has sites at

Warminster Warminster () is an ancient market town with a nearby garrison, and civil parish in south west Wiltshire, England, on the western edge of Salisbury Plain. The parish had a population of about 17,000 in 2011. The 11th-century Minster Church of S ...

in Wiltshire (near

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in Germany, which can be operated separately or inter-linked. Built in the 1990s and in use since 2002, the system is a development of the United States Army's Close Combat Tactical Trainer. The simulator can train up to 450 military personnel on a virtual battlefield, and is run jointly by the

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. 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. The interior of the Warminster building was refurbished in 2019.

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Training establishments of the British Army Military history of Wiltshire Warminster {{UK-mil-stub

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