The Royal Australian Navy has completed Exercise Cuttlefish 2020, which provided participating Minehunters HMAS Gascoyne, Huon and Yarra, with realistic mine clearance training.
The Hong Kong Garrison of the Chinese People's Liberation Army recently undertook joint air-sea patrol exercises in the waters and airspace near Hong Kong.
In the second of three articles on UK Armed Forces Officer Training, MS&T’s Dim Jones visited the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, located in the town of Camberley on the Berkshire-Surrey border some thirty miles south-west of London.
After covering Gladiator in Issue 3/2020, the Royal Air Force’s synthetic training initiative, MS&T Europe Editor Dim Jones explores the Royal Navy’s equivalent programme.
MS&T readers will be aware of the plans for the future of synthetic training in the Royal Air Force under the Defence Operational Training Capability (Air) (DOTC(A)), also known as Gladiator. Similarly, the Royal Navy is looking to transform the way it trains its people and also the way in which it mans and deploys its forces. The Defence Operational Training Capability (Maritime) (DOTC(M)) is key to this transformation. I visited the home of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth to learn more from the RN and industry about plans for the maritime equivalent.
Bagira's newly introduced Joint Fire Training and Exercise System was successfully operated in the large-scale Bison Strike exercise conducted by The Royal Netherlands Army.
Saab has signed a supply contract with the US Defence Forces for deliveries of additional training systems to the US Army Europe 7th Army Training Command.