High attendance and a focus on future technology marked this year’s event. MS&T’s Chuck Weirauch reports.

Bohemia 2D Software to Manage VBS3 Units Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) has introduced VBS Tactics, an intuitive 2D interface for control of virtual units in VBS3 at the tactical level. VBS Tactics lets users conduct real-time tactical maneuver exercises by controlling fire team to company-size AI entity groups in a...

Group editor Marty Kauchak reports that special operations forces (SOF) in the US and other nations are investing in ever more capable technology to train, rehearse and maintain proficiency for their missions.

In Issue 3, MS&T looked at the progress of the F-35 programme, with specific focus on aircrew training, and the plans of the partner nations. Depending on their level of partnership in the programme, these nations are also very much involved from an industrial perspective, not least the UK. Europe Editor Dim Jones reports.

South Africa’s TSFA provides a valuable service to nations requiring flight test qualified personnel. MS&T’s Europe Editor Dim Jones visited the academy.

Set up to promote research, collaboration, and the European defence industrial base, the EDA recently celebrated its first decade. Walter F. Ullrich writes.

This October Boeing announced it completed its upgrade of all US Air Force F-22 Raptor Mission Training Centers with its high fidelity Constant Resolution Visual System (CRVS). The system up enhancement will permit Raptor pilots to more realistically train and rehearse for missions, and help the fifth-generation aircraft training system...

In the margins of my recent foray to the Deep South (Portsmouth, that is, not New Orleans), I took the opportunity to visit two of the smaller companies with close ties to the S&T industry.

The symposium addressed current modelling and simulation issues. Walter F. Ullrich reports.