The FIBUA village on Sennybridge Range Wales.
Visited summer of last year ….
This is one of the British Armies special training areas up in the Welsh Mountains. ..It’s used for practising combat techniques…building infiltration / hostage rescue / urban assaults / house to house fighting etc…. built during the Cold War period to resemble as closely as possible a village such as may be fought in or through somewhere in Germany or Poland etc……………….
(this isn’t the only one , there are a few other ‘FIBUAs’ around the country )
…Around the ‘village’ are a lot of shot up vehicles and bucket loads of spent ammo lying everywhere on the floor ….. The village includes a church , a cemetery , a sports field , houses and farmyards….there’s even a ‘half finished’ house the builders have ‘legged’ it from cos of the fighting heh heh ! ..
The vehicles (as far as I can work out) include: a few T55 50s/60s era Soviet Main Battle Tanks (also used by many satellite commie countries ) an early model Chieftain Battle Tank , quite a number of FV432 Armoured Infantry Carriers , an old Humber ‘Pig’ Armoured Car , more than a few Bedford Trucks and a brace or so of dead Landrovers , also civilian type cars and pick up trucks are scattered around….
To the back of the village is open country with a few more dead vehicles including a Pucaro (?) Argentine Ground Attack Aircraft of Falklands War era and more tanks and trucks etc……….All the vehicles with the exception of one of the T55 tanks are really shot up and battle knackered…A ‘civilian’ pickup truck (that I somehow didn’t photograph sorry!) looked more like a giant pepper pot where it had been well and truly ‘hosed down’ so many times with automatic fire….
All in all a great mooch and access is ok and ‘sort of semi-legal’ just as long as the Army ain’t there on exercise…If they are , you’ll know about it long before you get anywhere near this place anyways !!!!
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The Drovers Arms Inn. Closed by the War Dept when they took over the Sennybridge Range area in approx 1942
Visited summer of last year ….
This is one of the British Armies special training areas up in the Welsh Mountains. ..It’s used for practising combat techniques…building infiltration / hostage rescue / urban assaults / house to house fighting etc…. built during the Cold War period to resemble as closely as possible a village such as may be fought in or through somewhere in Germany or Poland etc……………….
(this isn’t the only one , there are a few other ‘FIBUAs’ around the country )
…Around the ‘village’ are a lot of shot up vehicles and bucket loads of spent ammo lying everywhere on the floor ….. The village includes a church , a cemetery , a sports field , houses and farmyards….there’s even a ‘half finished’ house the builders have ‘legged’ it from cos of the fighting heh heh ! ..
The vehicles (as far as I can work out) include: a few T55 50s/60s era Soviet Main Battle Tanks (also used by many satellite commie countries ) an early model Chieftain Battle Tank , quite a number of FV432 Armoured Infantry Carriers , an old Humber ‘Pig’ Armoured Car , more than a few Bedford Trucks and a brace or so of dead Landrovers , also civilian type cars and pick up trucks are scattered around….
To the back of the village is open country with a few more dead vehicles including a Pucaro (?) Argentine Ground Attack Aircraft of Falklands War era and more tanks and trucks etc……….All the vehicles with the exception of one of the T55 tanks are really shot up and battle knackered…A ‘civilian’ pickup truck (that I somehow didn’t photograph sorry!) looked more like a giant pepper pot where it had been well and truly ‘hosed down’ so many times with automatic fire….
All in all a great mooch and access is ok and ‘sort of semi-legal’ just as long as the Army ain’t there on exercise…If they are , you’ll know about it long before you get anywhere near this place anyways !!!!
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The Drovers Arms Inn. Closed by the War Dept when they took over the Sennybridge Range area in approx 1942
