CAE USA has been awarded a US Army contract to provide comprehensive initial and recurrent training for more than 600 US Army and US Air Force fixed-wing pilots annually. CAE USA will provide turnkey training services in a new company-owned, company-operated training center to be built at Dothan Regional Airport...

Acceptance Tests Passed Within 15 months after contract award, Rheinmetall produced a driving simulator and a gunnery simulator for training Indonesian Leopard 2 personnel and both passed factory acceptance tests (FAT) conducted by an Indonesian delegation. The Leopard gunnery skills trainer (LGST) and driver training simulator (DTS) will primarily be...

Retired US Navy Vice Admiral David Buss has been named as vice president and deputy to the president of Cubic Global Defense (CGD). Buss will lead the business strategy for Cubic’s live, virtual and constructive (LVC) training for combined air, land and naval forces in addition to his duties as...

The South African Navy has taken into service a new state-of-art simulation centre at SAS Simonsberg, the Navy's maritime warfare training centre. The centre is the result of a joint venture with industry to enhance naval training using the latest technology. The centre has four sections: a naval bridge simulator...

Engineering and Computer Simulations (ECS) has integrated technologies from two major US tech firms to create a total virtual training world game for training - one in which the player is fully integrated into the game action. ECS has integrated Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect 2 hardware into the Oculus Rift headset...

RTDynamics has released the first version of its physics based real-time electronic warfare, RADAR and missile simulation C++ library, named EWAWS. It allows developers to model air-to-air, air-to-ground and surface-to-air missile engagements and countermeasures in real-time in engineering and training simulations. EWAWS includes mathematical models for RADAR, IR, LASER, jammer,...

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.