The START Simulation Program

Physical live-fire structures are the foundation of realistic training, but not every scenario can or should be run with live ammunition every time. Amidon’s START program — Simulated Tactical Arms Readiness Training — adds a simulation layer on top of the physical facility, rather than treating simulation and live fire as separate, disconnected tools.

View through a doorway into an Amidon ballistic concrete shoot house training bay — START is built to run inside the same physical structure a unit already trains in.

Simulation Built Around the Real Structure

START is designed to work within Amidon’s actual training facilities rather than as a standalone simulator room, so the simulated scenario and the physical space a unit trains in are the same environment, not two different ones.

Repetition Without the Cost of Every Rep Being Live

Simulation lets a unit run a scenario more times, with more variation, than would be practical with live ammunition for every repetition — while the physical structure itself stays available for the live-fire training it’s built for.

One More Piece of the System

Like the rest of Amidon’s product line, START isn’t a separate business — it’s an extension of the same training-facility approach, delivered through our 3D modeling & simulation services, adding a capability that complements the physical ABC structures rather than replacing them.

Add simulation to your training facility.

Talk with us about layering the START program onto a new or existing Amidon training structure.