International Special Training Facility

SECURE SITE

OUR SECURE SITE IS ACCESSIBLE ONLY TO THOSE WHO WORK AND OPERATE WITHIN
PROFESSINAL REMITS, IT IS NOT ACCESSIBLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

ABOUT

WE ENHANCE SMALL TEAM CAPABILITIES

Since 2011, The International Special Training Facility has provided covert tactical and technical training, products and design to Special Forces, Law Enforcement CT-TSU and Government Security Services & Agencies.

ISTF is an independent organisation, with no affiliation, partnership, or ownership ties to any related entities, by policy ISTF does not provide its services to the private sector.

Our expertise has ‘silently’ enhanced the effectiveness of small teams operating in complex Rural and Urban environments, ensuring their success when executing covert manoeuvres.

TRAINING

ISTF training courses are developed and delivered by operationally proven subject matter specialists who possess real-time knowledge and experience of working in complex environments.

Our courses cover a wide spectrum of special reconnaissance, covert surveillance procedures, methodology, tactics and tradecraft, our main pillars include:

Covert Rural Camera Deployments, Mimicry, Concealment & Fabrication, Non-Attributable Technical Solutions and Reconnaissance Action with Tactical Imagery.

Our mobile educational training teams [METTS] can deliver select courses at your location if requested.

FACILITY

The International Special Training Facility offers a safe & secure learning environment, discreetly located in Hereford in the UK, situated in a rural setting, not overlooked and away from public view.

To support our rural training courses, we host an impressive 1,500 acres of privately owned and secluded outdoor countryside that enables us to conduct realistic exercises.

RURAL URBAN

PRODUCTS

We are proud of our own intellectual properties. Over the years, we have designed, developed and manufactured numerous products to support covert operations globally. Some enhancing third-party products, but mainly those that are stand-alone and unique to us. We take our time to rigorously test all products to ensure that we only support those that are fit-for-purpose.

MIMICRY

Since 2020 the International Special Training Facility has been perfecting the art of digital mimicry or, as we like to call it, "CAD-CON" - computer aided concealments.

CAD-CON is a dedicated department within the company that's sole purpose is to enhance this capability through training and operational support to our end users.

We have the expertise to create complexed concealment for all operational situations.

HAVE YOU GOT AN OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENT?

// DESIGN

We employ ‘area-specific' engineers who turn ideas into solutions. We have the capability to design and manufacture custom applications such as electronics, software, hardware & protective enclosures using traditional machining techniques and the latest computer-aided design technology.

If you have an idea, or an operational requirement but cannot find the solution, contact us and see if we can turn your idea into a functioning product.

URBAN HIDE CONCEPTS

Urban Hide Concepts are designed as lightweight, rapid deployable, modular solutions offering short to mid-term sustainability and concealment within semi-permissive urban environments.