Britain’s most elite fighting force, the SAS, is being equipped with a futuristic new £10million training base – beneath its Herefordshire HQ. Hundreds of troopers will carry out exercises in bunkers complete with custom-made ‘killing rooms’ – designed to mimic the kind of buildings they might one day have to fight in. And the soldiers will also use firing ranges up to 200 yards long dug hundreds of feet into a densely wooded hillside. The state-of-the-art complex will be constructed below ground to reduce the threat of an Al Qaeda attack and also to cut the noise currently caused by explosions and constant rifle fire during exercises. Residents living near the base have described the exercises as sounding ‘like an earthquake’.
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