The UK's Defence Minister has reiterated his "absolute confidence" in Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent following a second successive failed missile test from a Royal Navy submarine.
One of the indelible impressions of the simulation and training (S&T) community this author gained during 2023 was the quickening pace of lines being blurred between the military learning (training and education) enterprise and its counterpart organizations in adjacent safety critical training (SCT) sectors.
Inzpire’s scenario has been designed to support varying levels of complexity for different training audiences in several locations: from patrol vessels through to aircraft carriers.
Connecting into the three platforms simultaneously via satellite communications, the QinetiQ, Inzpire and BAE Systems team enabled the delivery of the synthetic collective training environment to the Royal Navy.
By focusing on targeted learning, the Skills Academy will accelerate time to competence, in some cases by as much as 67%, compared to traditional training methods.
U.S. naval forces completed participation in a weeklong Oman-led naval exercise in and off the coast of Oman, 11 May, with forces from France and the United Kingdom.