Ron Mahoney packs up his satnav and
heads off to Area 51 in Cheshire, to uncover
the secrets of SWAT Urban airsoft…
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ou know how some sites can
be difficult to find? You do
your homework, check the
maps on Google Earth, enter
the address into your satnav
and visualise a mental path to the site. But
when you’ve driven past the same empty
dirt track a dozen times without seeing
any sign of activity, that nagging feeling of
being in the wrong place inevitably starts
to grow.
Well forget all that when you visit
SWAT Urban near Deeside, Cheshire –
there’s a huge sign pointing you in the
right direction. Admittedly the sign
doesn’t actually say ‘Airsofters This
Way!’ – it is big, blue, and says TATA
Steel. It points the way to some of
the best CQB gaming around.
The guys behind SWAT Urban have
been involved in team combat sports for
over 25 years and have a decade of airsoft
experience. They started offering paintball
experiences at a woodland site (and still
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