Combined Arms Tactical Trainer

{{Short description|Simulator for military training}}

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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.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=15 May 2018|title=Lockheed Martin Receives Two-Year Combined Arms Tactical Trainer Interim Support Contract|url=https://lockheedmartinuk.mediaroom.com/2018-05-15-Lockheed-Martin-Receives-Two-Year-Combined-Arms-Tactical-Trainer|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412225358/https://lockheedmartinuk.mediaroom.com/2018-05-15-Lockheed-Martin-Receives-Two-Year-Combined-Arms-Tactical-Trainer |archive-date=12 April 2021 |access-date=2020-10-13|website=Lockheed Martin}} It has sites at Warminster in Wiltshire (near Waterloo Lines) and Sennelager in Germany, which can be operated separately or inter-linked.{{cite web|url=http://www.lockheedmartin.co.uk/uk/what-we-do/products/UKCombinedArmsTacticalTrainer.html|title=UK Combined Arms Tactical Trainer (UK CATT)|publisher=Lockheed Martin|accessdate=11 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317175552/http://www.lockheedmartin.co.uk/uk/what-we-do/products/UKCombinedArmsTacticalTrainer.html|archive-date=17 March 2015|url-status=dead}}

Built in the 1990s{{Cite web|last=Army Welfare Service|date=January 2011|title=Service Community Official Guide: Warminster|url=http://www.methodpublishing.co.uk/publications/scogs/warminster/pages/download/lores.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111109105006/http://www.methodpublishing.co.uk/publications/scogs/warminster/pages/download/lores.pdf|archive-date=9 November 2011|access-date=|website=|publisher=Method Publishing|page=79}} and in use since 2002, the system is a development of the United States Army's Close Combat Tactical Trainer.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=16 December 2005|title=Combined Arms Tactical Trainer (CATT)|url=http://www.mod.uk/dpa/projects/catt.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060201140140/http://www.mod.uk/dpa/projects/catt.htm|archive-date=1 February 2006|access-date=|website=Ministry of Defence|publisher=Defence Procurement Agency}} The simulator can train up to 450 military personnel on a virtual battlefield,{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=20 September 2015|title=Lockheed to continue support for UK Army's combined arms tactical trainer|url=https://www.army-technology.com/news/newslockheed-to-continue-support-for-uk-armys-combined-arms-tactical-trainer-4673818|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001021809/http://www.army-technology.com/news/newslockheed-to-continue-support-for-uk-armys-combined-arms-tactical-trainer-4673818 |archive-date=1 October 2015 |access-date=2020-10-13|website=Army Technology}} and is run jointly by the Ministry of Defence, Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems. 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.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=16 September 2005|title=Combined Arms Tactical Trainer - Further info|url=http://www.mod.uk/dpa/projects/catt_further_info.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060201200032/http://www.mod.uk/dpa/projects/catt_further_info.htm|archive-date=1 February 2006|access-date=|website=Ministry of Defence|publisher=Defence Procurement Agency}} The interior of the Warminster building was refurbished in 2019.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=20 March 2019|title=Completion of CATT Building|url=https://www.jordanandfaber.co.uk/2019/03/20/completion-of-catt-building/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922095146/https://www.jordanandfaber.co.uk/2019/03/20/completion-of-catt-building/ |archive-date=22 September 2020 |access-date=2020-10-13|website=Jordan & Faber|language=en-US}}