After local residents complained about the noise of explosions and gunshots, the British army has cut the training of Ukrainian troops at one military base by a third, The Times reported on Sept. 11.

After local residents complained about the noise of explosions and gunshots, the British army has cut the training of Ukrainian troops at one military base by a third, The Times reported on Sept. 11.

    • tal@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Arguably it would have been a better idea to ship people over to the US – we’ve got plenty of lightly-populated areas – or if Canada wanted, there. Or at least rural Scotland or something, if you’re going to do it in the UK.

      googles

      It looks like the UK already has a training area in Canada:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army_Training_Unit_Suffield

      The British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) is a British Army unit located at the vast training area of Canadian Forces Base Suffield near Suffield, Alberta, Canada. BATUS is the British Army’s largest armoured training facility, and it can accommodate live-firing and tactical effect simulation (TES) exercises up to battle group level. CFB Suffield is seven times the size of Salisbury Plain Training Area and 19% the size of Northern Ireland, offering the British Army the ability to conduct large exercises that UK military bases cannot accommodate.

      It does look like the UK has other training areas in the British Isles, so they may have just moved some of their training activity there. It maybe makes sense to train near London if you’re training British forces who might live there, but Ukrainians won’t have pre-existing residences in southeastern England.