Military Simulation and Training

Issue 4/2021

Volume: 38

In this issue:

EDITORIAL COMMENT: Let's Try This Again
CAE-Link Redux
2021 I/ITSEC, Reboot to Live
US Navy Training: LVC, RRL, NSST, MRT
Europe's Template for MilSim Success
"Crazy Spinning Ball"
Rethinking Technician Training
Heavy Metal Meets Simulation and Training - DSEI
EW Operational Support Key to Dominating the EM Environment
After Helmand: Air-Land Integration
5 Qs: RSi's New Visual Displays are Epic

Let’s Try This Again

EDITORIAL COMMENT

November 18, 2021

Rick Adams

A generation ago, in 1988, Canadian company CAE acquired the Link military training business... the first time around.

US Navy Training: LVC, RRL, NSST, MRT

November 2, 2021

Chuck Weirauch

The US Navy’s increased emphasis on simulation technologies to enhance its training capabilities is beginning to provide significant benefits.

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Europe’s Template for MilSim Success

October 27, 2021

Marty Kauchak

Group Editor Marty Kauchak surveys developments in the European region’s defense S&T market.

“Crazy Spinning Ball”

November 18, 2021

Rick Adams

New Zealand start-up Eight360 is looking to flip the simulator motion world upside-down with its radically simple “rollerball” design.

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Rethinking Technician Training

December 13, 2021

Marty Kauchak

From classroom to the flight line, the military aviation maintenance sector is reexamining everything from the classroom to virtual environments.

EW Operational Support Key to Dominating the EM Environment

November 17, 2021

Atul Chandra

Modern military systems today often have to operate in a threat environment that has become significantly more complext, congested and contested.

RSi’s New Visual Displays Are Epic

5 Qs

October 11, 2021

Marty Kauchak

Tai Duong, President, RSi Visuals, responds to five questions posed by Marty Kauchak, Halldale Media Group Editor.

CAE-Link Redux

November 15, 2021

Rick Adams

CAE has been on a buying binge, including a major rival in defense training.

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2021 I/ITSEC, Reboot to Live

November 9, 2021

Marty Kauchak

The military S&T community is ready for the event’s return to in-person engagement after two years.

Heavy Metal Meets Simulation and Training

October 20, 2021

Andy Fawkes

The focus of the biennial defence and security trade exhibition, DSEI, has traditionally been on equipment and systems with real ships, tanks and aircraft, but there was also much to see this year for the military simulation and training community.

After Helmand: Air-Land Integration

September 7, 2021

Dim Jones

Dim Jones reports on the inaugural Omega Air-Land Integration Conference.

Pilot Mental Health Conversations Need to Go Further

Captain Helen Heenan, MSc FRAeS, sits down with Captain Jacques Drappier to discuss mental health in aviation. Helen explains why conversations about mental health in aviation need to go further, with some pilots afraid to disclose issues for fear of losing their jobs.

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Data On The Analytics Frontline

Al Roan, Managing Director of Cervus, a business that provides data insights for defence and security, is this week's guest on The Warfighter Podcast. Al gives us an introduction of how data analytics is used to deliver deep insights for the military and dispels some myths using his experience with data.

Standardisation, Sustainability and Pilot Wellbeing

ATPG Chair Andy Mitchell sat down with EATS 2022 Conference Chair Jacques Drappier to discuss what went on at our exclusive Heads of Training discussion in Berlin. The duo go through instructor standardisation, sustainability and pilot well being.