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A dramatic training video giving a first-person insight into what Britain's Armed Forces could experience on the front line has been released by the Ministry of Defence .

The footage shows Bravo Company, 40 Command Royal Marines, trying out a new "kill house' at New Zealand Farm camp on Salisbury Plain.

The facility has been designed to give soldiers realistic experience of modern warfare situations, and features a viewing platform with which soldiers not taking part in the exercise can observe and make notes.

The clip shows fighters carrying out a room clearance drill - just as they might in Iraq or Syria.

(Image: Youtube/Ministry of Defence)

The training facility is the single biggest single investment in Salisbury Plain since the 1980s, has been designed to meet the current and future training needs of our Armed Forces.

It features tunnels, overhead gantries, sniper locations, hidden rooms, subterranean arms caches, zoned electricity and a PA system.

Cpl Mitchell, of Bravo Company, said: "The camp can be used to simulate several different scenarios, including prisoner of war camps, insurgent compounds, battle group headquarters and small urban environments.

"The facility can play into a whole host of scenarios and training benefits.

"What's particularly useful is the viewing platform which overlooks the kill house which allows us to analyse our performance post attack and come up with any areas of weakness we may have and anything we need to develop and look at."

(Image: Youtube/Ministry of Defence)

Salisbury Plane training camp comprises of is 38,000 hectares, of which more than 12, 000 is used as a live firing and 'impact area' - where shells and mortars are detonated.

Cpl Micthell said the base was an ideal training facility in terms of terrain, as it offered both a rural and urban landscape much like the ones Armed Forces are facing in the Middle East.

"With New Zealand Farm we can focus on our movement from a rural environment through the interface into the urban environment," he said.

Any kind of urban environment is going to be quite complex in its make up so again with things liek tunnels and hidden platforms that the enemy can use means we have to be more thorough in the way we clear compounds such as this."