The us military in the ghost town simulated the air strike target.

In the Arizona desert on the US-Mexico border, there is an empty "ghost town"-about the town of Darville. This mysterious town was founded in 1999. All buildings are piled up by sea containers, and the streets and houses inside are completely modeled after the urban layout of Afghanistan, Iraq and other Middle East regions. Surprisingly, the U.S. military built this uninhabited town only to bomb it. The mysterious "Ghost Town" is officially called "Urban Target Complex" and its military code is "R-20 13-West", but its more widely known alias is about Darville Town.

It is located deep in the desert in southern Arizona, about 5 miles (about 9 kilometers) north of the US-Mexico border. This place is full of yellow sand, uninhabited, and it is by no means a livable place. However, if this "place where birds don't lay eggs" is taken as the air strike bombing target of the US Air Force, it will be an ideal "land of geomantic omen".

The construction of this "ghost town" was first proposed by Major Yousley, a famous military commander of the US Department of Defense. Since he called it "About Darville" on the radio, the name of this town has spread like this. Darville Town was founded in 1999. Its original purpose was to use it as a "bombing target" for bombs, rockets and missiles in the simulation training of the US Air Force! In other words, huge manpower and material resources were invested to build it, just to blow it up!

The border of "ghost town" is about 500 meters long and 500 meters wide, with a total area of about 0.25 square kilometers. There are no residents in such a big town, and the nearest town is 20 miles away. It is not an exaggeration to call it a "ghost town".

Since the town was built in 12, after numerous bombings, Darville Town has become "the most bombed place on earth"! Deploy detector groups in every corner of the town, measure the impact point (the first intersection point between the projectile and the ground, water or target surface) and shooting accuracy, collect data, summarize the bombing results, and evaluate the combat damage. Incredibly, this "ghost town" located in an uninhabited desert actually has 178 "buildings". They are all piled up by shipping containers of different sizes, painted red, gray, brown and olive respectively, and some buildings are even as high as 4 floors!

The reason why containers are used as building materials is that containers are more vulnerable to simulated attacks and the maintenance cost is relatively low. Naturally, the number of residents in a "ghost town" is "zero". And in order to ensure safety, there is no one within dozens of kilometers of Fiona Fang, Fiona Fang!

About Darville Town is the first "simulation town" established by the US military for air force training. Here, all types of military aircraft and related military personnel can use rockets, bombs, shells, practice bombs, firearms and laser-guided weapons for various trainings at will, regard the buildings in ghost towns as "bombing targets" and bomb these shooting ranges with live ammunition! A newly exposed top secret photo shows that after a simulated air raid, this mysterious military base once welcomed a group of students from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It turned out that these students, wearing gas masks, camouflage uniforms and chemical boots, came to the scene to study the "investigation course after the explosion of large vehicles".

American Airlines &; Dalac, a reporter from Space magazine, vividly described the tragic scene of Darville town being baptized by artillery shells in a simulated air raid: "Artillery and mortars were fired in turn, (ground troops) rushed to the target complex, and various planes (unmanned aerial vehicles) took off and bombed one after another under the strict control of the students at the top of the mountain. The whole town was shaking, as if it could no longer stand. After a while, the sky in front of us was suddenly covered with thick smoke and dust, and we could no longer see the target clearly. And this is exactly what these students must solve in the real battlefield in the future. " In addition to buildings, ghost towns have also placed a large number of vehicles as "bombing targets", including not only civilian cars, old jeeps and trucks, but also military armored tanks, and even installed telephone poles, street lamps and more than 100 mannequins to create a more realistic "urban street fighting" environment. According to a US military commander, the scene in Ghost Town is completely modeled after the urban layout of Afghanistan, Iraq and other Middle East regions, so as to provide pilots with a real target environment for training and improve their more accurate "close air support" skills.

In fact, the structure of ghost towns is very similar to many villages in Iraq and Afghanistan. The' close air support' training we have here can give all pilots and ground controllers the greatest sense of reality! "