Sponsored Content Less than four weeks to go until SMi’s 8th Annual Military Flight Training Conference in London this October The highly anticipated Military Flight Training Conference, taking place from the 9th-10th October 2019, in London, will allow delegates to take part in front-line discussions with a view to...
The 6th User Group training event is to be hosted by BAE Systems, Park Centre, Farnborough Aerospace Centre, Aerospace Boulevard, Farnborough, Hampshire, UK from 27-31 January 2020. It follows in the wake of the USER GROUP conference/training event held at The German Air Force Officer Academy, Munich, earlier this...
NSC is to support the UK Government’s research of next-generation Simulation and Synthetic Environments (SSE) for the British military. The simulation specialist will create and lead a community of suppliers to identify and exploit emerging and over-the-horizon technologies in support of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and cross-governmental departments. ...
The Air Education and Training Command Women’s Fly-In event in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area Sept. 18-21 will bring rated officers and career enlisted aviators together to network, mentor and inspire others to “Fly Like a Girl.” As part of the Fly-In, Air Force women pilots and static display aircraft...
The European Defence Agency will open a Multinational Helicopter Training Centre (MHTC) in Sintra, Portugal by the end of 2022. The EDA and 18 of its member states will now develop the technical arrangement (TA) for the MHTC. The concept development phase concluded in January and has gained ministerial...
QinetiQ has announced the launch of the Next-Generation Banshee, “Banshee NG”, the target that replicates fast flying jets and missiles, enabling test and evaluation and live fire training exercises. The unveiling of the Banshee NG will take place September 11, 2019, at Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI), at...
Thales has signed a contract with the Finnish Defence Forces to upgrade its Leopard 2A6FIN main battle tank simulators. This is Thales’s first training & simulation contract for Finland’s land forces. With the upgraded systems, the Finnish Army will have a state-of-the-art training solution incorporating the latest virtual and...
Three of UK’s maritime defence companies – Babcock, QinetiQ and Thales – along with academic and industry partners – have joined forces to create Team iMAST: intelligent Maritime Adaptive Synthetics and Training to bid to support the modernisation of the UK Royal Navy’s individual maritime training. Down selected to...
The British Army’s 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (1 Mercian), the Salisbury-based unit specialised in urban warfare, has taken delivery of a Inflatable Walls Training System (IWTS). It is the first ever UK reference for the technology developed to create temporary urban structures for use in combat training exercises.
Cubic Corporation announced its Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS) business division appointed retired Rear Adm. Brian LaRoche as vice president and chief operating officer (COO). In this role, he will oversee the daily operations of the CMS business to ensure effective execution performance. This includes implementation of business strategies, plans...