At IT²EC 2024, MS&T’s Andy Fawkes and Dim Jones interview BISim's Rahul C. Thakkar and Pete Morrison about BISim’s latest products and the future of simulation and training.
The annual Defence iQ Military Flight Training Conference took place at The Millenium Gloucester Hotel in London between 26th and 28th March 2024. MS&T’s Andy Fawkes and Dim Jones were in attendance.
The capability of conducting Multi-Domain Operations is currently an aspiration of both NATO and some member nations. However, this is easy to say, more difficult to define, and harder still to do. MS&T’s UK-based special correspondent Dim Jones explores how far down this road the UK is and, crucially, what plans it has for training to achieve its objective.
The 8th iteration of the Defence Simulation Education & Training (DSET) conference and exhibition took place at the Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol UK between 5-8 June. Representing the event’s Media Partner, Halldale / MS&T’s Andy Fawkes and Dim Jones attended.
MS&T’s Andy Fawkes and Dim Jones had the opportunity to chat with Daniel Robinson, Co-Founder and CEO of augmented-reality company Red 6, a former RAF Tornado F3 pilot and the first non-US pilot to fly the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor operationally.
The 8th iteration of the Defence Simulation, Education and Training (DSET) conference and exhibition will take place 5-8 June 2023, live at the Ashton Gate stadium in Bristol and also online.MS&T Magazine is the Lead Media Sponsor. Dim Jones previews the event.
Young people who have chosen to join the Army straight from school receive their initial training at the British Army Foundation College, some 3 miles west of the spa town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire. MS&T’s Dim Jones visited to observe what goes on there.
The parlous state of the UK’s military pilot training system has been much in the news of late. Although the RAF and the MoD have been at pains to downplay any suggestion of a crisis, there is little doubt that the situation is serious, and that the problems are both chronic and acute.
Outsourcing of aircrew training within the UK Armed Forces has been a long-running saga. The concept of what eventually became the Military Flight Training System (MFTS) was widely discussed in the MoD during the 1990s, but it was not until 2008 that the first contract was signed between the MoD and Ascent Flight Training. MS&T’s Dim Jones visited Ascent in their Bristol HQ to get their take on past achievements and future plans.
It is some 50 years since the UK aerospace industry produced a new training aircraft. All that may be about to change with the development of a new family of modular aircraft by a company called Aeralis.