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Emerging Immersion Regular readers of MS&T will know that one of the identifiable themes of the magazine has been to caution that technology is actually not the big issue, rather it is how and what you want trainees to learn. Having said that, we can’t train in the modern environment without technology, and that technology is now advancing at a seeming exponential rate, particularly in the last five years. Perhaps the technology-intensive flight simulation and visual simulation world is the most obvious example of the benefits of these advances. And as the “Yearbook” issue of MS&T, this edition focuses on military flight simulation, including a comprehensive global simulator census. The past half decade has seen enormous advances in vision system technologies - some of it driven by the civil gaming industry - offering the promise of near perfection in replicating the visual environment. We are actually on the cusp of what has been referred to as “full immersion”: a 20/20 visual acuity environment, with not only networked simulators in multiple locations (and even live assets) participating in the battlespace, but hundreds of tracked and datalinked targets observable simultaneously by pilots and ground troops in all sensor spectrums. In other words, “full immersion.” The latest high end image generators (IGs) incorporate near eye-limiting technology, giving sub-meter “out of the window” and sensor imagery over enormous geographic areas. Advanced hardware, open architectures, software programmability and new development tools means that the inevitable continuous upgrades can be accomplished mostly through software enhancements. But it’s not just the advances in image generators, projectors, and displays (the latter now almost entirely LCoS technologies from the consumer market) that is underpinning this brave new world; it’s the unrelenting demand for higher scene density and richer content as driven by current military operations. The need for better urban environment simulation is one driver - we now have scene density right down to disturbed soil that may indicate a buried IED, or very specific battle damage on vehicles. And injecting over 100,000 distinct entities - including aircraft, vehicles, and people - into a real time scene is now possible, a number inconceivable just a few short years ago. As one would expect, databases are getting very large, and issues surrounding their management, updating and commonality are becoming more acute. In the US, the different services have their own common databases and this aspect has prevented optimum inter-service efficiencies. Industry has been responding to this challenge and there are commercial solutions available that address the need for rapid database changes and content management. For those databases used in deployable training aids, rapid and reliable updating is obviously critical, right down to the soldier using a laptop interface in the field. In the quest for full immersion in the flight simulation context, it is interesting to consider the motion parameters and the debate that never seems to end on the value of this training cue. Arguably, the civil community may be starting to accept the fact that the many studies undertaken over the years indicate that motion is not as important as once thought, especially in routine recurrent training for qualified pilots. For the military community, motion may make great sense in primary training and perhaps type qualification, but for mission-specific training, many see the focus necessarily on the visual and weapons simulation. The new Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) training system discussed in this issue of MS&T includes a containerized, deployable Mission Rehearsal Trainer (MRT) which, like many advanced simulators, uses much of the same software as the actual aircraft, helping to ensure seamless training. And this issue’s feature on the UK’s Air Battlespace Training Centre (ABTC) is a rare look at state of the art pre-deployment (PDT) and Mission-Specific Training (MST), and what current simulation technologies are actually delivering. One of the founding and oft-stated goals of Training Transformation is to achieve a state where no mission was undertaken without complete and seamless readiness training. It is interesting to see how advancing technology is acting as both enabler and accelerator of this important policy. Chris Lehman • MS&T Editor-in-Chief MS&T MAGAZINE • ISSUE 4/2010

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Transformation

08 Transformation Revolutionary Aircraft; Revolution in Training. The Joint Strike Fighter training system is about to fly. Chuck Weirauch describes some of the ‘firsts’.

14 Technology Application Training for Success. The ABTC (Air Battlespace Training Centre) provides a synthetic environment for training critical skills. Dim Jones observed two different exercises and reports.

Technology Application

18 Acquisition Not All Bad. MS&T examines upcoming contracting opportunities in the US and in Europe. Walter F. Ullrich and Chuck Weirauch report.

24 Human Performance Fatigue and Maintenance Performance. Fatigue is a real threat to maintenance operations. Major Sylvain Giguère explains.

26 Show Report Eurosatory 2010. Bigger than ever. Walter F. Ullrich gives his impressions of this year’s show.

28 Show News Farnborough International Airshow 2010. A venue for news of all sorts – Fiona Greenyer has selected a few items of special interest.

Acquisition

30 Training Technology Integrated Architecture – An LVC Milestone. The goal of a persistent LVC environment at Home Stations is getting closer. Chuck Weirauch writes about an important contract award.

32 NEWS Seen and Heard. A round up of developments in simulation and training. Compiled and edited by Chuck Weirauch.

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20/20 Vision and Totally Immersed. Editor-in-Chief Chris Lehman marvels as technology moves towards a truly immersive training space.

Military Flight Simulator Census. MS&T's comprehensive simulator census offering a global tally of flight simulators for all current military aircraft.

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Joint Through and Through JSF F-35 training begins this September, setting the training template for a generation. Chuck Weirauch highlights the program and the players.

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Opposite Page The F-35 Full Mission Simulator with 360º display. Below The JITC is expected to be fully operational by 2015. All images: Lockheed Martin.

he first elements of the Joint Strike fighter (JSF) training system are in place at the 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base near Pensacola, FL. As of June, the initial cadre of Air Force and Marine Corps F-35 Lightning II flight instructors is honing the initial JSF training syllabus; the first course for new F-35 instructor pilots will begin this September and the first nine-month course for pilots not transitioning from other aircraft will begin in the spring of 2012 in the Wing’s new Academic Training Center. Along with the first JSF training, Eglin is and will be the site of several other jet fighter training “firsts,” namely: • The first Joint Integrated Training Center for jet fighters; • The first Air Force and Marine JSF training squadrons, with the Navy’s up next; and • The first fielding of a jet fighter training system before the arrival of the new aircraft.

The 33rd The 33rd Fighter Wing was stood up at Eglin October 1, 2009 for the specific mission of training JSF pilots and maintainers for the three US services flying the aircraft and the eight JSF partner countries that will also fly the Lightning II. All aircraft customers will train together in the first of its kind Joint Integrated Training Center (JITC). In July, the Government of Canada announced plans to acquire 65 F-35s to replace its current fleet of CF-18 Hornets. The US is expected to purchase more than 2,400 Lightning IIs to replace F-16, A-10, early model F/A-18 and AV-8B Harrier aircraft. Other original international

JSF partner and co-developer countries include Australia, the UK, Italy, Turkey, the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark. The 33rd currently has a permanent staff of 200, which is expected to increase to 1500 by 2015. When the Center is in full operation in the 2014-2015 timeframe, it is anticipated that a throughput of approximately 2,000 pilots and maintainers will earn their respective F-35 mission qualification certifications each year. The central element of the JITC is the Academic Training Center that will feature the training facilities, dormitories, dining and exercise centers and other elements one would expect on a small college campus, spread out over an area more than six American football fields in size. Across the road from the Center will be the flight line, hangars and maintenance areas for the fifth-generation fighter aircraft. Now nearing its final construction phase, the Academic Training Center is scheduled for a “soft” opening of its doors by the end of January 2011. The Air Force’s 58th Fighter Squad-

ron was also stood at Eglin up in October 2009. The 58th will fly the F-35A Conventional take Off & Landing (CTOL) variant. The Marine Corps Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron (VMFAT-501), which will fly the F35B Short Take Off/Vertical Landing (STOVL) variant, began operations at Eglin in April 2010. The Navy JSF training squadron, to fly the F-35C Carrier Variant (CV), is now scheduled to be stood up by October 2011. The 33rd Fighter Wing will also have three JSF maintenance squadrons. Current plans call for a total of 59 JSF aircraft to be deployed to the 33rd.

Training Technology The establishment of the JITC at Eglin has been a goal of the JSF Training Integrated Product Team ever since its inception in 2001. The IPT is led by training systems integrator Lockheed Martin Simulation, Training and Support. The first element of the JSF training system to become operational at the 33rd is the containerized deployable Mission MS&T MAGAZINE • ISSUE 4/2010

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Rehearsal Trainer (MRT), which, like all of the JSF training devices, employs the same operational software as the aircraft. The MRT has a full-up cockpit, but with a smaller display than the 360-degree display of the Full Mission Simulator (FMS). Also in place are the Desktop Pilot Training Aids, which feature a stick and throttle and can be employed to display the JSF all-glass cockpit touch screen control panel in the classroom. The latter training device is a systems familiarization and procedures trainer based on a laptop computer that will be issued to all student pilots. All JSF unclassified training courseware and systems information will be provided on the laptop. According to Lockheed Martin JSF Training Integrated Product Team (IPT) lead JoAnne Puglisi, the first of the JSF high-fidelity FMSs will be delivered to the 33rd in the November-December 2010 timeframe. The plan is to have four FMSs at the Academic Training Center for four-ship distributed mission training. Once fully operational, the Academic Training Center will feature electronic classrooms employing interactive courseware for student pilots and maintainers, as well as the pilot and maintainer training devices. A Training Management System will be used to establish student training schedules, while a learning management system (LMS) will track and assess their performance in individual training jackets. The Training System Support Center (TSSC) will be used to manage and distribute training device baselines, update courseware and diagnose both student

Above 2,000 pilots and maintainers will earn their F-35 qualification certifications each year. Image credit: Lockheed Martin.

and system performance. The TSSC will also work to keep the training system current with the aircraft. Maintenance training devices include the Aircraft System Maintenance Trainer (ASMT), Weapons Loading Trainer (WLT) and Ejection Systems Maintenance Trainer (ESMT). According to Puglisi, the ASMT and ESMT will be delivered during the first part of next year, with the WLT following a few months later. The first maintenance training class at the Academic Training Center is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2011.

Development & Deployment A JSF Training IPT primary goal was the development and deployment of the training system before the arrival of the

aircraft. According to Puglisi, the program is well on track to meet that goal. Currently the first Air Force F-35A is scheduled to arrive at the 33rd no earlier than November of this year. “Having the training system in place before the aircraft has given the instructor pilots the opportunity to go through the training curriculum and learning system,” Puglisi said. “They will also have lots of opportunities to fly the simulator and really understand the aircraft and its capabilities well in advance of the aircraft. This can only be a good thing, and it is also helping us develop the training system together.” According to 33rd Fighter Wing Commander Air Force Colonel David Hlatky, having the JSF training system in place before the aircraft is not just a nicety. In his mind, it is a requirement, even if revolutionary. Hlatky points out the F-35 is a system of systems supported by its Autonomic Logistic Information System (ALIS), which supports the Training Management System, and associated with that is all the courseware, all the technical data, all the syllabi and flying gear. Because both the JSF aircraft and training system are new and different, with much to be understood, learned, and applied as well as tested, the 33rd needed to get all of this material and data before the airplane. Otherwise, he feels that pilots would be unable to fly the aircraft. “This program is 30 years of wish lists, and part of that wish list includes some appropriate concurrency of the training system with the airplane,” Hlatky said.

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“The acquisition of the F-35 is extremely elegant, and it has gotten us all the training pieces to match the airplane. And for the first time in history, when we upgrade an airplane, the upgrade to the training software comes with each upgrade of the aircraft. Not only is this a fantasy, this is the first time that we have ever done this. We have never fielded an airplane with the training system at the same time, and this one is revolutionary.”

Training Template Since the 33rd is the first military command to establish a JSF training center, the training model being developed at Eglin is expected to be employed at other F-35 bases once those are designated. However, Eglin will remain the primary Lightning II training center, and may maintain the only JITC for the program. The multi-service and multi-role aircraft will be the primary jet fighter for the US and other countries for at least the next 20 to 30 years. “There is a lot of joint and integrated training going on, and we have been looking at that for the past 9 to 10 months to gather the best practices to employ for the Joint Integrated Training Center,” said the 33rd’s Vice Commander Marine Colonel Arthur Tomassetti. “However, there is no model and no place quite like what we are doing here all at one zip code. I don’t think that there will be anything like it. We are forming a template, and others can duplicate parts of it since there will be other places that will train F-35s. We hope that people will be able to pull our template off the shelf when they are looking to do this.”

Establishing such a training model for what will be the nation’s primary jet fighter is one of the reasons why the US services have deployed some of their best jet fighter “Top Gun” flight instructors and test pilots to the 33rd to form the initial flight training cadre, said Navy Captain Mike Saunders, 33rd Operations Group Deputy Commander and that service’s JSF training squadron commander at the 33rd. All instructor pilots from the different communities were board-certified and approved at the highest level based on their high level of experience, backgrounds and tactics development skills, he pointed out.

Curriculum Development The flight instructors and test pilots are working with the Training IPT courseware developers, aircraft developer and training system integrator Lockheed Martin and the rest of 33rd Wing’s staff to analyze and finalize the curriculum for the initial version of the F-35. As the aircraft and its progressive blocks of software that expand its capabilities are delivered, the training system developers will employ the aircraft software to expand the system to match those new aircraft mission capabilities and upgrades. “We’re going to learn our own way through the syllabus, evaluate it and make changes on what we have learned,” Hlatky explained. “That’s why we picked the best of the best of the aviators. We got those people to mitigate the risk.” While the ratio of simulator time to flight time has yet to be nailed down to

the exact numbers, according to Tomassetti the overall general plan for the initial training curriculum calls for an even 50-50 split between simulator and flight events. The final numbers will be also based on flight test experiences with the aircraft now underway, test pilot and instructor input and other factors. “If anything, we are leaning more towards the simulation events, which is no different from where the rest of the aviation community is going,” Tomassetti said. “As our simulation capability gets better and is more accurately able to emulate and simulate the aircraft, we can push into the training device a lot of things that normally we would have to do in the aircraft because there really wasn’t any other place to do them. We will be adding tweaks to the syllabus as we learn not only more about the capabilities of the airplane but also of the training devices as well.” Because the three JSF variants have different performance capabilities, there will be variations in the training curriculum for each one. However, Tomasetti does not feel that these capabilities will be the elements that drive the differences in training for the different variants of the aircraft. Instead, it will come down to the mission sets and the particular focus that different operators will want to employ for them, he said. “The technology is fabulous,” Hlatky summed up. “It brings us to a revolutionary new capability that’s going to define the free world’s fighter for the next 35 to 50 years. There are some leaps in technology in both the aircraft and in the ways we are going to teach.” ms&t

Training System Template Ian Reason, Business Development Director for BAE Systems Military Air Sector Training, explains that BAE will use the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) training system template in the JSF training centers in the UK and Australia. BAE Systems is a key member of the JSF Training Systems Integrated Product Team (IPT), now establishing the first F-35 Lighting II Joint Integrated Training Center. “The key to the JSF program is not just in training but in all elements of the whole support solution,” Reason said. “It’s a single design that can then grow and replicate according to all JSF customers’ needs. So what happens at Eglin, and how that solution matures and proves the overall training system, will have value and lessons learned that we will build on as they stand up the UK JSF Integrated Training Center. There is

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a template that is being generated at Eglin, and the overall aim there is to have a training solution that can then be replicated as required. “ Reason noted that BAE intends to flow the JSF template into its Hawk advanced jet trainer aircraft program, which will be used for initial pilot training before crews transition to the JSF. BAE leads the JSF training Instructional Systems Development Engineering effort at Eglin and is also supporting training in its System Design Responsibility (SDR) areas of fuel systems and crew escape. In the UK, the company is developing SCORM 2004 compliant Pilot and Maintenance instructor led Electronic Mediated Learning (EML) and self-paced Interactive Courseware (ICW) for the program.

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All the Training Aims – With Bells and Whistles For the past 3 years, the Air Battlespace Training Centre (ABTC) at RAF Waddington has been providing UK Armed Forces personnel with synthetic training tailored to enhance their chances of success and survival on the modern battlefield. Dim Jones observed two recent, and quite different, exercises.

uring the Cold War, Armed Forces personnel could expect a progressive transition to hostilities, and trained for the implementation of a range of contingency plans in the locations in which they expected to operate. Even in the Falklands, the preparation and deployment phases allowed time for planning and practice, and the same held true for both Gulf Wars. However, the nature of modern expeditionary warfare, and the rotation of forces in long-running operations such as Afghanistan, requires newly-arrived personnel to ‘hit the ground running’ in an extremely complex and dangerous environment. A Tornado GR4 crew could be required to deliver a precision-guided munition on to a target in the immediate vicinity of friendly forces during their first sortie in theatre; the same could apply to the Forward Air Controller directing the attack. The need to ‘hit the ground running’ 14

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makes Mission-Specific Training (MST) vitally important. The scarcity of live training assets in UK, and the difficulties of reproducing the operational environment, not least emission security and the ability to employ the latest weapons, means that synthetic training has become a vital part of pre deployment training (PDT). For selected key personnel, this training is provided at the Air Battlespace Training Centre (ABTC). When MS&T last visited the ABTC, located in a hangar at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, the facility was in the middle of a 30-month Capability Concept Demonstrator (CCD) phase that was intended to support the UK’s Mission Training through Distributed Simulation (UK MTDS) programme, and to ‘de-risk the delivery of the programme by defining the UK MTDS user requirements’. It would ‘enable pilots to train in composite air operations and fly with coalition and other Services in a realistic virtual com-

Above The simulator hardware consists of four Typhoon and four Tornado GR4 (above), a single AH-64 Apache, and an E-3D AWACS. Image credit: ABTC.

bat environment’, and involved linking with the Distributed Mission Operations Network (DMON) in the US, with the 3 AH-64 Apache bases in UK – Dishforth, Middle Wallop and Wattisham - and with maritime forces at HMS Dryad. However, before CCD reached a successful conclusion in 2008, a pressing need arose for a different kind of training, which ABTC could provide – Distributed Synthetic Air Land Training, or DSALT, the aim of which is ‘to provide operational training to targeted front-line warfighters’. Among the warfighters targeted are the personnel responsible for the safe and effective employment of disparate indirect fire weapons systems in the

air-land battle, or ‘Joint Fires’; the delivery systems available include artillery, mortars, attack helicopters, and fixedwing manned and unmanned aircraft. The vehicle for this training is Exercise Mountain Dragon, whose objective is ‘to train Combined Force Joint Fires staff in the planning, integration and deconfliction of Joint Fires before and during Combined Force mission execution’. Another group of warfighters is the Air Component staff that directs the air war. Exercise Swift Panther, which is not theatre-specific, uses the DSALT facility to ‘exercise and train personnel in current, and for future, command positions in air warfare command and decision-making’.

Equipment So how is ABTC configured to provide this training? The exercises are sponsored by HQ staff – in the case of Mountain Dragon by the Royal Artillery Gunnery Training Team, and for Swift Panther by No 1 Group, HQ Air Command. The ABTC acts as the training facilitator. The hardware consists of 10 simulators: 4 full-dome and 4 flat-screen, comprising 4 Typhoon and 4 Tornado GR4, a single AH-64 Apache, and an E-3D AWACS. Other assets, such as Harrier GR9, A-10, F-16, C-130, Attack and Support helicopters, and MQ-9 Reaper, can be simulated by ABTC operations staff, augmented as required by front-line aircrew, using 4 generic virtual role-playing desktop simulators, 8 Computer-Generated Force (CGF) workstations, and one TUAV workstation which is a cross between the two. ABTC works on the principle of ‘targeted fidelity’, the aim being to ensure that the environment and information presented to the beneficiaries of the exercise – the ‘training audience’ – are as realistic as possible. Also in the hangar are 3 tents: for Mountain Dragon, these house the Joint Fires Cell and Fire Support Teams and, for Swift Panther, the Combined Air Operations Centre (CAOC). The ABTC can replicate all the information and communications systems which would be present in-theatre, and can also create CGFs to act as additional friendly forces, adversaries or neutrals, using relevant tactics and capabilities to meet the exercise training aims. It is important to note that, although augmentee exercise staffs, such as HQ personnel role-playing higher command, or front-line aircrew

‘flying’ friendly air assets, may benefit hugely from exposure to this training, a clear distinction is made between these and the training audience, and the temptation to try and achieve too much at the risk of diluting the quality of the training, is resisted. The ABTC equipment, procured by Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S)’s Flight Simulation and Synthetic Trainers Project Team, is provided, maintained and supported, under contract, by QinetiQ and their subcontractors Boeing and Plexsys. The operations staff is a mix of RAF and Army personnel, and civilian instructors provided by military aviation consultants Inzpire. All the operations staff members are highly qualified Subject Matter Experts (SME): military members are on normal rotational postings and provide recent experience of operations and the Inzpire staff, all of whom are ex-military and many of whom are qualified weapons instructors, provide the continuity. The relationship between the two is seamless and only the colour of the flying suits enables the casual observer to tell the difference. As the Officer Commanding ABTC, Wing Commander Mike ‘Elvis’ Costello, emphasises, this was always the intention, and it is fundamental to the success of ABTC.

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Scenario Development In Exercise Mountain Dragon, ABTC creates a synthetic Afghanistan scenario, using a highly detailed and capable database. Joint Fires Cell and Fire Support Teams have already completed preliminary training packages at the ABTC earlier in the MST cycle, and now come together for a 3-day exercise, which comprises 3 one-day missions, in which the participants plan in the morning, and then execute their plan in the afternoon. The exercise sponsors and the ABTC staff will have designed, refined and tested the scenario well before the exercise commenced. At ‘startex’, however, the celebrated adage that ‘no plan survives first contact with the enemy’ applies, and the staff will insert mini-scenarios or ‘vignettes’ to create situations to which the trainees will have to react. Equally, ‘no scenario survives first contact with the trainee’, and the reaction to an ‘inject’ may not be as expected. Either the exercise management staff will provide advice or direction to correct the situation or, just

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as likely, will play along to see how the situation develops. This requires a great deal of flexibility and knowledge of their own systems, which is just what they are best at. As important as practising correct procedures and executing a good plan effectively is to experience things going wrong, without the pain of missed targets or, worse, ‘blue-on-blue’ or civilian casualties, or unintended collateral damage. I observed one incident where a Tornado was ordered to engage an ‘enemy’ compound. Thanks to modern technology, the Joint Fires Cell and the FST were able to see both the FST’s view of the target and that of the Litening target designator pod on the Tornado. All eyes were on the target, waiting for the weapons strike, when a similar compound, one kilometre to the north, disappeared in a cloud of smoke. This turned out to be the consequence of a simple error in the passing and acknowledgement of target coordinates due to following incorrect procedures. A well-reported friendly fire incident involving British ground forces and a US fighter in Afghanistan in 2007 occurred in similar circumstances; since then, the opportunity to experience, and learn from, similar mistakes in the ABTC environment has reduced the chances of recurrence in real life. In the Exercise Swift Panther, Group Captain ‘Rocky’ Rochelle and his team from RAF Marham were the Deployed Force Air Component Commander and his staff, ‘parachuted in’ to man a CAOC, and to execute a plan devised partly prior to deployment and partly in-theatre. In this case, the ‘battlespace’ was the south-western US, and the task at hand to protect part of a UK dependency from threatened annexation by a neighbouring country. Higher Command was represented by Air Command staff, and there was liaison with both Land Component and Special Forces. Tactical execution of the Commander’s plan was the responsibility of the Mission Director in the AWACS (a member of the ABTC staff). In addition to Operations and Intelligence staff, the CAOC team included both Political and Legal Advisors, reflecting the critical importance of adhering to complex Rules of Engagement, an issue which affects all decision-making from the highest to the lowest level. In this scenario, the vignettes included the threatened use of Weapons of Mass Effect (WME), 16

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with simultaneous unconnected injects designed to take the eyes of DFACC and his team off the WME ball. Needless to say, the Deployed Force Commander, in another location, provided only limited guidance, and eventually delegated authority to the DFACC – the ‘for future command positions’ element of the exercise aims. The CAOC staff also included a Media and Communications Officer (MCO) and, immediately following the exercise, Gp Capt Rochelle was subjected to media interviews of varying degrees of hostility – another reflection of the realities of modern operations.

Realism It may be hard to credit that a tent in a hangar – through the windows of which the outside world can clearly be seen – could come close to replicating the real thing, the ‘fog of war’. Trust me when I tell you that it does so to an alarming degree, and that it is quite possible to immerse oneself in the scenario to the exclusion of almost all else. The plethora of communications and information inputs is such that, although they provide the players with an amazing amount of data from which to develop situational awareness and on which to base decisions, it is all too easy to suffer from ‘information overload’. Furthermore, the need to feed the product of multiple external communications channels to those who need to know, while maintaining internal command and information dialogue within the team can, if not properly handled, result in swift degeneration into chaos, and lead to serious ‘dropped balls’. Lastly,

Above Exercise Mountain Dragon – briefing in the Joint Fires Cell. Image credit: ABTC.

and particularly relevant to the DFACC operational level of command, the capability of directing operations at the tactical level could result in temptation to do so – the ‘long screwdriver’. Final proof of the realism lies in the comments of those who have transitioned from exercise hangar to battlefield. One battery commander remarked that he had experienced in Afghanistan “a 3-day fight (which was) exactly the same as being at Mountain Dragon”, and another that “the early stages of the operation [Panther’s Claw] had prolonged Mountain Dragon moments”. No exercise is complete without the debrief. In contrast to real ops, in which detailed debriefing is frequently rendered impossible by ongoing action, where the participants rarely meet faceto-face, and the value of which is limited by lack of access to hard evidence, the ABTC debrief is fundamental to the overall training value. All parts of the briefs and debriefs are led by the Exercise Director. In both the exercises which I observed, this was Richard ‘Tats’ Tattersall, an ex-RN Lt Cdr, Sea King pilot, Sea Harrier Weapons Instructor, F/A 18 pilot and JSF SME, now part of the Inzpire team. The first stage of the debrief process is the ‘White Force’ (ABTC Ops staff and augmenting personnel) ‘hot washup’, in which the ABTC team bring out

the major learning points, both for the training audience and for themselves. This preparation allows a blow-by-blow reconstruction of who did or said what to whom, and when – which is then distilled into salient points for the main debrief. The main debrief takes place, assisted by full video depiction of both air and land pictures, and associated communications, to ‘return’ the trainees to the execution phase. It is conducted in an entirely non-adversarial atmosphere. The staff are generous with their praise where things went well, and constructive in their criticism where they did not; indeed, when errors become apparent, the training audience are quite capable of ‘beating themselves up’ over it without outside assistance. Lastly, the White Force meet to discuss all the points raised, address technical problems and consider how the provision of the exercise could be improved.

Looking Ahead So what of the future for ABTC? The DSALT contract is due to end in 2013, at which point it is envisaged that the requirement for Air Land Training will be delivered by UK MTDS. Elvis Costello

sees this happening in a new facility, rather than the current one; DE&S concur, and add that they are currently analysing acquisition options. The ABTC staff is constantly working to identify UK training capability gaps and find ways to plug them, thereby enhancing the operational capability of the front line. Even during DSALT, 12 of the 44 weeks available for training each year have been devoted to air-centric training, which includes: aircraft-type specific Team Training; Collective Training, such as the Combined Qualified Weapons Instructor Course (CQWIC) and Tactical Leadership Training (TLT); Joint Training, such as Close Air Support; and Coalition Training, such as Exercise Virtual Flag (CVF). One CVF exercise in 2009 involved links with 17 elements in the US (including Hawaii and Alaska), and with Canada, Australia and Germany; 13 types of aircraft were represented, plus UAV and SAM. A further 6 weeks are spent on research projects, and there is an ongoing programme of improvements to equipment – the Tornado GR4 simulators are currently being upgraded to reflect the latest capability in Afghanistan.

ABTC have also carried out, or are planning, ‘firsts’ in their field, notably the first Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Qualified Weapons Instructor (ISR QWI) course, and the first exercise involving CG, virtual and live players. Network links are continually being expanded, and the inevitable compatibility and security issues are being addressed. Paradoxically, while ABTC can communicate with live Typhoon aircraft and stimulate their sensors, the configuration of the Typhoon FMS, set in concrete many years ago, is not compatible. Finding a fix for this will take time and money, not least because of the 4-nation dimension, but it needs to be done. Nothing comes for free (lunches or synthetic training) and, with the Defence Review in full swing, there will be intense pressure on funding; however, on this evidence, the training provided by ABTC is not only essential, but represents outstanding value for money and could not be provided elsewhere. To quote Rocky Rochelle in the immediate aftermath of Exercise Swift Panther “It met the all the training aims, with bells and whistles”. ms&t

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Coming Down From a High Financial crises, drawdowns and public perceptions are shaping military budgets, but there are bright spots. Chuck Weirauch and Walter F Ullrich report.

n both the United States and Europe, militaries are facing the realities of changing military and economic environments. Operational deployments are scheduled for drawdown, and national budgets are continuing to react to financial crises. While there is some encouraging news for the industry in North America, the forecast is not so fair in Europe

US Military As the drawdown of forces from Iraq continues, the military is taking a hard look at ways to reduce operating costs and the military acquisition process is being subjected to increasing scrutiny. Training equipment and services vendors attending the 2010 Training & Simulation Industry Symposium (TSIS) in Orlando June 9-10, however, did receive some encouragement from US military training organizations about future business prospects in spite of the anticipated Department of Defense (DoD) budget 18

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cuts. As well, agencies discussed their immediate procurement plans; selected opportunities presented at TSIS are shown in the accompanying table. The Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) projected an upward trend in funded annual contract dollars over the next few years from over $3.5 billion in fiscal year 2011 to just shy of $6 billion in FY 2017. New Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) Commander Captain Bill “Roto” Reuter pointed out that the Chief of Naval Operations Vision 2010 considers simulation as the key to energy strategy, cost reduction and environmental focus. Stephen Cricchi, Director of the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Integrated Systems Evaluation, Experimentation and Test Department (ISEET) noted that in the face of increasing operational costs, the Navy will be decreasing actual flight training time and maximiz-

Above The PEO STRI Medical Simulation Training Centers (MSTCs) contract, with total funding of $215m, calls for 17 more MSTCs. Image credit: US ARmy/Ft. Carson MSTC.

ing the use of simulation training. “What this means”, he pointed out, “is that simulation requirements are changing for training and readiness requirements, which puts your industry in an exciting position from a training systems and acquisition perspective.” Several presenters, including keynote speaker Major General Mark Graham, Deputy Chief of Staff for the Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) drew attention to the force drawdown that will double the number of units that will be back in the US by 2012. That will increase the need for expanded Home Station training and improved training capabilities at Combat Training Centers (CTCs), they explained.

Graham cited the use of LVC gaming in the Integrated training Environment as one solution to the need for more Home Station training. Gregg Knapp, Executive Director for the US Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM)’s Joint Warfighting Center and Joint Training Directorate told the TSIS audience to expect a shift from more of the “big systems-type trainers’’ to more of the “mental stimulation’’ type that will allow military leaders to become more adaptable. This shift will call for changes in the acquisition process, he noted.

NAWCTSD According to Captain Reuter, NAWCTSD had 325 projects in hand in FY 2010, with a total of $863 million in FY 2010 contractual funding. Robert Seltzer, Deputy Director of the NAWCTSD Research and Technology Program Office, outlined the five key focus areas of NAWCTSD R&D contractual work: human performance modeling and assessment; distributed LVC synthetic training; virtual environments and training technologies; tactical decision support for command and control and (new) human social, cultural and behavioral modeling. John Freeman, Director of NAWCTSD Surface and Expeditionary Warfare Programs, told the audience that NAWCTSD has just been named as the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Training System Executive Agent by the Navy. The LCS work will involve the development of curricula, courseware, interactive multimedia instruction, trainers and simulators and an immersive virtual operations and maintenance training capability. NAWCTSD announced $10.3 million in LCS training support contracts at the TSIS. The Orlando Navy training command has also been tasked to develop a Full Mission Bridge (FMB) trainer for the next generation DDG 1000 Zumwalt class advanced destroyer.

PEO STRI In a recorded message, PEO STRI Program Executive Officer James Blake told TSIS attendees to expect “some decrease”’ in agency supplemental funds for the acquisition of training products, but that it is “not all gloom and doom, however.” He said that PEO STRI expects to see some non-traditional sources of funds coming from the organization’s customers, particularly from the system program managers. Simulation and training remain a priority for the Army, he emphasized, and that his agency is the service’s lead for such products. The expectation of non-traditional funding would seem to be the key element in PEO STRI’s projected continual growth during the next few years. PEO STRI Strategic Integrator Scott Pulford provided an overview of the organization’s forecast for 2015 and its updated Vision and Strategic Objectives. He reported that the agency foresees the expanded use of gaming technologies, a greater demand for joint, intergovernmental and multinational training to support full spectrum operations and more training content with less emphasis on major platforms. These solutions will perform in the new Integrated Training Environment (ITE), he added. Part of the 2015 goals are to become the preferred material developer and sustainer for all Army TADSS (training aids, devices, simulators and simulations) and to be recognized as the material developer of and the Center of Excellence for Joint Medical Simulation. “There is a tremendous amount of emphasis and expectation on how gaming is going to replace a large chunk of the

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curriculum in the institutional Army,” Pulford said. “The LVC Integrated Architecture is about to be awarded - a program of record that is our first effort to integrate across these three training domains. Becoming a Joint Center of Excellence for Medical Simulation, with ties to the University of Central Florida’s Medical School, is a great opportunity to expand our Medical Simulation Training Centers to include training for doctors and nurses at the hospital level. Overall, there is a tremendous amount of growth that we see on the horizon in terms of doing training enablers and systems support for our sister PMs and PEOs.” The PEO STRI Medical Simulation Training Centers (MSTCs) contract announced at the 2010 TSIS is a major one, with total funding of $215 million. The contract calls for 17 more MSTCs in addition to the 17 already established and the potential for foreign military sales of the systems. The draft RFP is scheduled to be released in the first quarter of fiscal year 2011, with a contract award in August 2011. Rob Miller, Associate Chief Systems engineer for Constructive Simulations provided the TSIS audience with a list of what PEO STRI considers to be some of its technology challenges and asked for industry support in helping in to resolve them. Included on his list were improved visualization strategies; human intelligence collection operations modeling; automated feature extraction from satellite and lidar imagery, intelligent role player and operator assistant technologies; avatar support for human intelligence interrogation; processing unstructured human language in a tactical environment; immersive technologies and adaptive behavior targets.

Air Force According to Pasquale Gambatese, Deputy Director of the Air Force Training Systems Product Group, the Air Force’s Distributed Mission Operation (DMO) network training capability is now required to be incorporated into all aircraft training system upgrades and recompete contracts. This includes the C-17, C-5 and KC-135 training systems. Such further development and expansion of the DMO system is a critical opportunity for the Warfighter, he said. While several of the major Air Force contracts are for continuations of training pro20

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grams for older aircraft platforms, the impact of the new Global Hawk Weapon System Trainer contract “will be huge,” Gambatese said. This training system will also have to be DMO capable as well. But the biggest Air Force news is the announcement of a new ten-year Training System Acquisition & Support (TSAS) with a ceiling of $15 billion to replace the current one. The TSAS will be the contract vehicle of choice for the Training System Product Group. An RFI was released in January of this year, with the acquisition strategy due in April 2011. An RFP is scheduled to be released in September 2011, with a contract award in August 2012. The primary contact for the new TSAS contract is Kristi Forino (kristi. forino@wpafb.af.mil).

Europe The outlook for Europe’s defence industries does not appear overly promising these days. Although the defence sector emerged from the global economic crisis last year relatively unscathed, the unprecedented cuts European governments are all planning in order to evade the consequences of the 2010 Euro crisis will severely affect the sector. Defence, which isn’t exactly popular in Europe, is seen to provide considerable savings potential. Across the board, national MoDs are calling for a shifting, stretching, reduction or cancelling of programmes. These cuts will not be limited to the major programmes such as Eurofighter or naval frigates. Everything is under review. What is the way out for industry? At the Eurosatory defence fair the French Defence Minister Hervé Morin suggested

Above The platform of Finmeccanica’s and EADS Defence & Security’s joint proposal for AEJPT will be the Aermacchi M-346. Image credit: Aermacchi.

that to survive the budget cuts, the European industry should step up its pursuit of collective research and development and create industrial consortia across Europe. That is exactly what EDA, the European Defence Agency, has done. Since July 2004, EDA has been preparing the field for more European collaboration. EDA thus provides opportunities for industrial restructuring and progress towards the continental-scale demand and market which industry needs. Various EDA activities involve training and education. The continued pressure on defence budgets is accentuating the need to find more efficient ways of providing capability to the forces. EDA has recognised that defence co-operation is a highly complex and challenging business that cannot happen effectively without a large population of key actors with the skills, common understanding and values to work in co-operative programmes. Back in 2007 the National Armaments Directors therefore directed the Agency to focus in particular on education in European armaments acquisitions. The result is the European Armaments Cooperation (EAC) Framework, a set of skills, understanding and values across eight defined knowledge areas. Against this backdrop, the EDA is establishing

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with the participating Member States a database of training and education currently available for international students and is developing options for an internetbased distance-learning package. This intelligent approach will then result in a Europe-wide common understanding of and approach to armaments co-operation that will benefit all, including industry. There are two significant projects that are leveraging this strategy of cooperation: AEJPT and UCATT.

AEJPT The aim of the Advanced European Jet Pilot Training System (AEJPT) project is to develop a common Integrated Training System (ITS) to train future fighter pilots. Current programme participants include Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Sweden; Germany and Switzerland are observers. For many years the programme was simply plodding along. In February 2009, the AEJPT was adopted by EDA; it is currently in a pre-contract phase. In May 2010, the AEJPT Policy Group (PG) decided, amongst other things, that the AEJPT will be based on

a mix of jet and turbo prop aeroplanes, with two bases in the south of Europe and one deployment base in the north. The business model calls for medium- to high-level outsourcing. The competition model provides for EU-limited distribution with a maximum of five competitors. EDA has released a Request for Information (RFI) to the industry on behalf of the contributing Member States. This information will be used as the basis for a Request for Proposals scheduled for October 2011 that will cover development and production. Bidders’ selection is scheduled for July 2012; the contract will be awarded in 2014. The initial operational capability is scheduled for 2017, and, finally, the AEJPT should achieve full operational capability in 2020.

UCATT In September 2010, under the mandate of the NATO Modelling and Simulation Group (NMSG), the UCATT Task Group will conduct a technical interoperability demonstration that has all the potential to redefine live training in built-up areas. UCATT stands for Urban Com-

bat Advanced Training Technology. The event will show live training systems interoperability between various technologies and vendors. It will include small arms, combat vehicles, anti-tank weapons, indoor and outdoor tracking, shoot through walls, exercise conduct and evaluation. Soldiers from the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland will participate on behalf of NATO and PfP Nations. First technical implementations of the UCATT concept will be provided by UCATT’s industry partners Cubic, NSC, RDE, RUAG, SAAB and Tenetec. If UCATT’s vision of unclassified, interoperable, multi-national, industryindependent urban training technology architecture becomes a reality, armies from different countries could more easily train together. When obstacles set by proprietary hardware and interfaces disappear, industry can compete on a much larger scale. Markets that were completely closed will be open to any company, because purchasers are no longer married for life to their original providers. And that will make it a win-win situation for all parties. ms&t

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PEO STRI Medical Simulation Training Centers Games for Training Increment II Flagship Mi-17 FTD/G222FTD AH-2F Cobra, Bell 412 Full Mission Sims SLAMRAAM Suite of TADSS Common Driver Trainer (CDT) Desktop Maintenance Trainer MH-47/MH-60 Special Operations Upgrade Call for Fire Trainer II (CFFT) Joint Land Component Constructive Training Joint & Coalition Simulation Systems Royal Saudi Land Forces CTC Saudi Arabia National Guard CACTF Taiwan Military MILES CTC Modernization Instrumentation Systems Interim Range Systems (IRS) Digital Ranges Training (DRTS) Shoulder Launched Munitions Recompete Individual Weapons Systems Recompete Combat Vehicle System (CVS) Recompete Range Radar Replacement Program Joint Urban Test Capability Rotary Wing Targets Mobile Ground Targets

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Left With an increasing number of operations, personnel resources are being stretched. Image credit: Canadian DND/Isabel Lavallee-Raby.

Fatigue: A Technician’s Breaking Point Major Sylvain Giguère, Directorate of Flight Safety, explains the negative impact of fatigue on maintenance operations. This article first appeared in Issue 1, 2010 of Flight Comment, the flight safety magazine of the Canadian Forces. Reprinted with permission.

n aircraft maintenance, fatigue refers to “the tendency of metals to break under repeated cyclic loading at a stress considerably less than the tensile strength in a static test”. The traditional definition of fatigue, i.e., tiredness, is still to this day taboo. To a certain extent, the maintenance culture regards fatigue as a weakness rather than an inevitable outcome of intense and prolonged work periods. This might explain why, if you were to review Canadian Forces (CF) flight safety occurrences, you would find that fatigue is not cited as a cause; however, there is evidence that fatigue may be a contributor. Fatigue is a real threat to effective operations. For example, in 2009, there 24

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was fuel spill experienced by a CC130 Hercules deployed at Kandahar Airfield (KAF). It occurred during a fuel transfer from external to internal fuel tanks. The maintenance personnel planned to use the dump valves to speed up the fuel transfer process. For the majority of CC130 fleet, the switches for these valves are covered and witness wired closed. The configuration of the occurrence aircraft is slightly different as it is an “H” model with air-to-air refueling capability. Thus, the maintenance technicians broke the witness wire and opened the valve while operating the fuel dump pump. These actions resulted in a fuel spill. The investigation report identifies the cause as a skill-based error by the technician due to not recognizing

the difference in aircraft configuration. Interestingly, the investigation report also indicates that the technicians’ mental state (“reduced attention-stress”) was a factor in the occurrence. The crew had just arrived in theatre, been immediately sent to KAF, and reported to be fatigued due to local conditions and limited acclimatization period. Most will agree that, with the increasing number of operations, our personnel resources are being stretched. To produce the required air assets to support operations, maintenance personnel either work longer hours or alternatively may be tempted to omit checklists and use shortcuts in order to hasten the completion of the task. From a flight safety perspective, both situations are worrisome. Working longer hours will sooner or later lead to fatigue with its accompanying degradation of alertness and performance. Using unapproved shortcuts versus following accepted procedures is a greater concern because it compromises safety and may degrade the component’s life and aircraft performance. It is clear that adequate manning is the solution to the shortage of personnel; however, when faced with a shortage, we have to manage the situation. This requires an understanding of what fatigue is and how to deal with it. The primary sources of fatigue are insufficient sleep (significantly less than the optimal quota of sleep over an extended period), extended wakefulness (long duty days, sustained operations), and changing schedules. The effects of fatigue are similar to those of alcohol. Go without sleep for 17 hours and your performance will mirror someone with 0.05 blood alcohol content (BAC). Stay awake for 24 hours and you can expect to perform at a level similar to a 0.10 BAC. It is said that generally, we are lousy judges of our own fatigue levels. Thus, we must actively look for and recognize the objective indicators of fatigue in ourselves and other team members. If you recognize the effects of

In the civilian realm, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has shown concerns about the effects of fatigue. In 1990, it included the reduction of accidents and incidents caused by human fatigue in the Aviation Industry to their “Most Wanted List”. In response, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) completed a number of studies into the maintenance working environment, fatigue, and maintenance error/accidents. The FAA studies confirmed that fatigue was affecting the maintenance community. To alleviate the impact, the FAA implemented education and training sessions on fatigue management for aircraft maintenance personnel. A similar initiative was undertaken by the Canadian Forces with the implementation of Human Performance in Military Aviation (HPMA) training. This is a worthwhile initiative that provides the maintenance community with knowledge and countermeasures specifically intended to deal with fatigue in the aircraft maintenance environment. Below are some possible preventive measures: • Avoid sleep debt; if you did not get the appropriate amount of sleep during the night, make this a priority over other activities. Try to maintain the same sleep schedule and try to get an average of 8 hours (or as necessary) per night. • Carefully plan your work activities; proper timing of work activities can be of paramount importance to decreasing the effects of fatigue. • Optimize sleeping quarters; sleep mask and ear plugs can improve conditions if suitable accommodations are unavailable. • Avoid alcohol and caffeine before bed; they may disrupt sleep. • Assign an adequate number of qualified maintenance personnel to tasks; avoid disruption of on-going tasks. • Recognize when personnel are fatigued; transfer some tasks to a more alert crew member. The FAA is currently not considering the establishment of duty time limits for aircraft maintenance personnel, despite NTSB seeking a regulation to this effect. There are also no duty-time limits for CF aircraft maintenance personnel. Notwithstanding the lack of duty-time limits, all of us have a duty to preserve airworthiness and ensure safety. Thus, all of us individually have a responsibility to plan and use rest periods properly in order to minimize incurring fatigue. We also have a duty of not letting ourselves go beyond safe practices and set aside our values as professionals in this very specialized field of aircraft maintenance. Remember: Safety is no Accident! ms&t

Further Reading: • A-PD-050-HPM/PT-001, Human Performance in Military Aviation Handbook http://winnipeg.mil.ca/cfs/HPMA/Handbook/HPMA Handbook - English - Sep 2005.pdf • Lasswell, J., “Fatigue: What you don’t know can hurt you!”, Aviation Safety Spotlight, Defence Publishing Service, pp. 18-21 (December 04). • NTSB. Most Wanted Transportation Safety Improvements: Federal Issues, Aviation, Reduce Accidents and Incidents Caused by Human Fatigue. http://www.ntsb.gov/Recs/mostwanted/aviation_reduce_acc_ inc_humanfatig.htm • U.K. CAA. Human Factors in Aircraft Maintenance and Inspection, CAP 718, 24 Jan 2002. http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP718.pdf • Baron, R., “Fatigue Risk Management in Aircraft Maintenance”, Aviation Maintenance, 1 May 2009. http://www.aviationtoday.com/am/categories/bga/FatigueRisk-Management-in-Aircraft-Maintenance_31474.html • Goglia, J., “Maintenance Shifts: Can we mitigate the impact of fatigue?”, Aircraft Engineers International Newsletter, Issue 1 Volume 1, pg. 1, 2009. http://www.airengineers.org/docs/news/mx_fatigue_ newsletter.pdf • Werfelman, L., “Working to the Limit”, AeroSafety World, Flight Safety Foundation, pp. 14-18, April 2008 http://www.flightsafety.org/asw/apr08/asw_apr08_p14-18.pdf

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fatigue in yourself or others, don’t keep it a secret. Assertiveness is safety and peace of mind. Keep your eyes open for: • Impaired judgment. If you begin to notice faulty judgment and stupid mistakes popping up more than once, fatigue may be a player. • Delayed decisions. Fatigue greatly impacts cognitive and decision-making abilities. Decisions may be delayed and reactions slowed. • Loss of short-term memory and recall. Fatigue impacts shortterm memory more than long-term memory. • Shortened attention span. Difficulty experienced with activity requiring concentration. • Shortcuts and procedure deviations. Quick solutions may be counterproductive and downright dangerous.

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Bigger than Ever Eurosatory 2010. MS&T’s Walter F. Ullrich attended this year’s exhibition.

ather than shrinking or at best stagnating, Eurosatory is strengthening its position as an international leader in the land, air-land and security domains. Despite the current economic climate, the 10th Eurosatory Exhibition, 14 to 18 June, at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre, has expanded in every sector: the 1330 exhibitors reflected 10% more stand numbers and exhibition surface area, there was an increase in the total number of visitors and there was a significant increase in civilian and military decision-makers. The range of products presented at the bi-annual trade fair is wide: it includes armaments, pyrotechnics, electronics, information technology, power supply, tests - controls - instrumentation, logistics, materials, mechanical engineering, optics - optronics, robotics, platforms - propulsion, health and hygiene, critical infrastructure security, services, telecommunications and homeland defence equipment. 128 companies, almost 10% of this year’s exhibitors, claimed they had something to do with training or simulation, a third more 26

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than at the 2006 Eurosatory, when the organisers first took note of S&T. Since 2008, a Simulation & Training Cluster has brought together in one dedicated area companies that have training, modelling and simulation related activities in their portfolio. This year, the S&T Cluster was placed in a privileged location, giving maximum visibility to the specialist firms that might otherwise have got lost in the accumulation of armoury materiel. Real S&T experts would not have found anything particularly new in this technology showcase; however, this S&T stage did address the many interested generalists who were looking for answers to their pressing training needs. And visitors did come; S&T exhibitors later unanimously praised the quantity and quality of visitors at their booths. A small but fine three-day free conference right in the heart of the S&T Cluster accompanied the exhibition. Under the proven guidance of Dr. Emmanuel Chiva from HPC PROJECT experts shared their vision of simulation’s potential and where it interacts with other disciplines, for instance Simulation & Intelligence/

C4ISR. But more down-to-earth topics were also on the agenda, such as S&T in urban terrain. Participants noted as positive that the conference was not overloaded – people first and foremost come for the exhibition itself. Not all S&T providers had gathered in and around the dedicated cluster. Some preferred to stay in or close to their national pavilion, or were integrated more or less visibly into their parent group’s stand – for many of the big arms manufacturers S&T plays no more than a limited role in both the portfolio and the exhibition – a fact that becomes clearly visible at events like Eurosatory. Hidden attractions were often discovered by chance. Yet the displays of Eurosatory hide many treasures for the attentive observer. Where else could you stop and check out training features integrated into the digital turret system of a main battle tank and compare it with reality, just a few metres away right inside the fighting compartment of a genuine Leopard MBT? But you could at Rheinmetall’s outdoor static display. Certainly there was more than this to be seen at Eurosatory – but we couldn’t find it. Never have there been more S&T companies at Eurosatory than this year. One doesn’t have to be a prophet to forecast that this trend will continue - for the big players it is just too enticing to go to one event with the complete range of equipment. So, will these armoury trade shows cut the ground from under the traditional S&T events? Not in the near future. General military trade fairs are just too big and complex. Smaller exhibitors risk being missed unless they manage to make their way onto the island of a technology cluster. And visitors should know that Eurosatory (and similar events) address the generalist not the specialist. S&T experts are more likely to find what they are looking for at ITEC or I/ITSEC than at Eurosatory. Companies in and around the Training & Simulation Cluster included AEROPHILE SA, Antycip Simulation, Circle Twelve Inc, Comcat Training Systems, CS Communication & Systemès, Diginext, GAVAP, HPC Project, i3M Aerospace Multimedia, Immersion SAS, MASA Group, NTSA, Parallel Geometry, Presagis, Sekvenca Inc, SimplySim, Sterela, Wils Systems, Zenvia, and SIMBIOSYS (the French Simulation Alliance). ms&t

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Farnborough International Airshow The 47th Farnborough International Airshow played host to the aerospace community in July. News Editor Fiona Greenyer reports on some of the S&T business headlines.

he Farnborough International Airshow 2010 (FIA), held between 19 and 25 July 2010 played host to 1,450 exhibiting companies and an estimated 120,000 visitors on each trade day. 70 delegations from 44 countries attended the show and by the end of the week orders totalled $47 billion (£31 billion). Here are some selected news items that caught the eye. A broad spectrum of Elbit Systems’ innovative solutions designed for the changing requirements of the defence industry were on display at FIA. The company’s booth focused on advanced training and simulation solutions and showcased an array of next generation avionic systems, advanced electronic warfare, electro-optics and unmanned systems demonstrating its core business areas. CockpitNG™, the next generation cockpit for fighter aircraft, helicopters, trainers and airlifters was launched by Elbit Systems during the show. CockpitNG is based on a smart central large area display (LAD) which includes all avionic components in one suite. The display is fully integrated with the helmet mounted and head-up displays. All of the 28

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Top Elbit Systems’ solutions on display. Above The Beechcraft AT-6 aircraft at FIA. All images: David Malley/Halldale Media.

systems’ components were developed in a multi-touch-screen technology in order to allow the pilot to operate the aircraft in the most smooth and customizable manner. This new modular solution enhances mission excellence and reduced aircrew workload and can be tailored to multiple platforms offering full multi-mission support for attack, emergency services, training and air support. To ensure accurate presentation

of mission data, CockpitNG includes a full suite of next generation avionics applications, simultaneously supporting Windows-based and real-time applications. Advanced data and sensor fusion, a smart electronic flight bag and a 3D vector map including embedded video and highway-in-the-sky (HITS) representation are fully integrated. Embedded virtual avionics (EVA) with full support for virtual radar, EW and targeting pod further extend the solution to provide a cost-effective, virtual advanced fighter for training purposes. Grob Aircraft AG has joined forced with Elbit Systems to partner in the development of a new family of trainer aircraft, the G 120TP. This family is based on a modular aircraft concept. One aircraft in three different configurations, namely as a side-by-side aircraft, a tandem-seat aircraft and a four-seat aircraft, where all three aircraft maintain a maximum of commonality, guaranteeing operating cost effectiveness. The aircraft will feature an Elbit Systems avionic suite which includes a glass cockpit with a high level of mission simulation capability incorporating virtual tactical training.

The glass cockpit features three digital 6”x8” independent smart, multifunctional displays (SMFD), enabling maximum situational awareness and flight safety with a high level of mission simulation and capability for visual tactical training. The new aircraft family will be marketed globally by Grob Aircraft. AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica Company, and Osprey Training of Sweden signed an agreement for the establishment of a fully integrated Search and Rescue Training Centre in Sweden, based on the AW139 medium twin turbine helicopter. Under this agreement, the Centre will provide AgustaWestland accredited training services to pilots, crewmen and maintenance technicians from AW139 operators across the Scandinavian and Baltic regions. The purpose-built training centre will be located in Gothenburg and will become operational by mid-2012. Osprey Training is a newly created company to emerge from Norrlandsflyg A.B., the largest helicopter operator and only SAR operator in Sweden. The creation of the first AgustaWestland accredited training centre in Scandinavia will initially be certified in accordance with Swedish CAA regulations, with the intention of expanding into EASA and FAA regulated training. The training centre will be equipped with a dual-certified AW139 Level 3 flight training device / Level B full flight simulator and further training devices to deliver AW139 pilot and maintenance engineer training alongside SAR mission-specific training. Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) announced at Farnborough 2010 that it has selected CAE USA as its ground-based training systems provider for the Beechcraft AT-6 Light Attack and Armed Reconnaissance (LAAR) aircraft. Under the teaming agreement, CAE USA will support HBC’s global pursuit campaigns of the AT-6 aircraft. CAE USA will provide a comprehensive ground-based training system as part of an expected AT-6 aircraft sale. This will include aircrew and maintenance technician training solutions for the AT-6 platform. CAE’s responsibilities will include training system design and analysis, design and manufacture of synthetic training equipment, courseware development, classroom and simulator instruction, and training support services. CAE will also develop embedded

aircraft simulation solutions for the AT-6 and other T-6 aircraft variants. Hawker Beechcraft also announced that it had delivered the first eight Beechcraft T-6A military trainers ordered by the Iraqi Air Force and is on schedule to deliver seven more of the high performance turboprop aircraft by the end of the year. “The T-6A is playing a significant role in the growth and modernization of the Iraqi Air Force,” said Jim Maslowski, HBC president, US and International Government Business. “As the roles of the Iraqi military forces expand, it is essential that their training and capabilities keep pace with the technology and sophistication of the systems they uti-

lize. The T-6A will prepare Iraqi pilots to transition into 21st century aircraft that are considerably more complex than the equipment they previously employed.” To date, the T-6 has been used to train pilots in approximately 20 different countries. Deliveries of the T-6 began in 2000 after the aircraft was initially selected to fill the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System role for the US Air Force and the US Navy. Since then, additional military programs worldwide, including NATO Flying Training in Canada, the Hellenic Air Force of Greece, the Israeli Air Force, the Iraqi Air Force and the Royal Moroccan Air Force, have chosen the T-6 and its derivatives as their primary trainers. ms&t

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LVC at Home PEO STRI awards LVC-IA contract to Cole Engineering Services marking a major milestone towards a persistent integrated Home Station training capability. Chuck Weirauch reports.

roviding a persistent live, virtual and constructive (LVC) training environment for US Army Brigade Combat Team (BCT) training at Home Stations is a goal of the US Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI). A milestone was marked in July when PEO STRI awarded its Live, Virtual, Constructive Integrating Architecture (LVC-IA) contract to Cole Engineering Services, Inc. (CESI) in Orlando. The contract has an estimated value of $36 million over a five-year period if all options are exercised. CESI, the prime system of systems integrator, leads the team of Accenture, the Camber Corporation, Engineering and Computer Simulations (ECS), Intelligent Decision Systems, Inc. (IDSI) and Wilberforce University. “The mission of LVC-IA is to provide the foundational structure and framework for integrating live, virtual, constructive systems into the integrated Warfighter’s training environment, as well as mitigate many of the current training gaps that currently exist,” said Deven Lyders, the PEO STRI engineer overseeing that agency’s LVC-IA efforts. “It defines ‘how’ information is exchanged among the LVC domains and Battle Command Systems. It also addresses the standards, protocols and required interfaces that support the 30

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interoperability and integration of common LVC components.” LVC-IA is a network-centric linkage that collects, retrieves and exchanges data among live instrumentation, virtual simulators, and constructive simulations as well as between joint and Army battle command systems, Lyders further explained. LVC-IA will allow all the systems to operate together at near realtime, he pointed out. This will provide a “train as you operate” capability within an integrated LVC training environment for brigade commanders, battlestaff and individual soldiers on tactical-level collective tasks found in the Units Mission Essential Task List (METL). Leaders and soldiers will have the ability to make those critical decisions on the battlefield without any delay between systems, provide command and control during their mission rehearsals and training, as well as evaluate their units, Lyders added. “One of the things that LVC-IA brings to the Army is a persistent LVC training capability,” said CESI president Bryon Cole. “Until now, most of the LVC interoperability has been ad hoc and opportunistic, whereas the LVC-IA will be a leave-behind infrastructure at Home Station that the Brigade commander can actually employ to train at Home Station in an LVC integrated

environment. It’s his own asset, which can be used to plan and schedule training in preparation to deployment to the National Training Center or wherever, as compared to coordinating with external department organizations for one-time training events.” Because the Brigade commander will have this training system in place, there will be more opportunities to schedule LVC training exercises. Such an asset will enable training prior to the next rotation of a unit, for example, Cole said. The LVC-IA will also provide a higher fidelity of training, lead to more effective training and lower training costs, he added. Several training systems will be integrated into the LVC-IA. The LiveHomestation Instrumentation Training System (HITS) will be the live training touch point for LVC-IA. HITS supports collective maneuver training for platoon-through-battalion units for forceon-force and force-on target training across the full spectrum of operations. For the virtual domain, the Close Combat Tactical Trainer (CCTT) and Aviation Combined Arms Tactical Trainer (AVCATT) will be integrated into LVCIA. In the constructive domain, the Joint Land Component Constructive Training Capability (JLCCTC) Entity Resolution Federation and the One Semi-Automated Forces (OneSAF) will be integrated. Overall, the LVC-IA will provide the ability to stimulate Army and Joint Battle Command Systems and enable such-equipped units to exchange data, information, and services and accept the same from other current and future systems, units, or forces, Lyders explained. “The LVC-IA is also focused on reuse, taking advantage of the products that PEO STRI has provided in training domains,” Cole pointed out. “The LVCIA networked systems will permit those training systems to interoperate so that there is the capability for LVC interoperability with the Battle Command structure just like there would be in the real world.” According to Lyders, PEO STRI is anticipating initial fielding at Forts Hood, Bliss and Campbell with the first increment of LVC-IA in FY 2012. Nine more systems will follow this fielding over the next four consecutive years at both CONUS and OCONUS duty stations. ms&t

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Joint Strike Fighter News Canada selects Lockheed Martin F-35 – The Government of Canada plans to acquire 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning IIs as the country's nextgeneration fighter aircraft and will use them to replace its current fleet of CF-18 Hornets that entered service in the early 1980s. Delivery of Canada's F-35s will begin in 2016. The F-35 is a supersonic, multi-role, 5th-generation stealth fighter developed and funded by a consortium of nine countries, including Canada. It is designed to excel in both air-to-air and air-to-ground operations and features the most comprehensive and powerful avionics of any fighter ever produced. Lockheed Martin is developing the F-35 with its principal industrial partners, Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems. NGRAIN to Deliver Canadian F-35 Maintenance Training Programs – NGRAIN has announced that it will deliver training programs and maintenance support systems for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft. Maintainers of the F-35 will be using NGRAIN's 3D technology as the backbone for the Low Observable Health Assessment System (LOHAS) which is designed to support the maintenance operations for the aircraft. In 2005 NGRAIN received a C$5 million Technology Partnership Canada investment to enhance its products and technology in support of the advanced capabilities of the F-35. This investment was used by NGRAIN to support opportunities within the JSF program and resulted in the transformation of aircraft damage assessment and repair tracking. With NGRAIN's advanced virtual damage assessment and repair tracking software, Canadian aircraft maintainers will record damage and repair information on a true-to-life 3D model of the F-35. 32

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NGC Delivers F-35 Courseware – Northrop Grumman Corporation has added momentum to the planned summer 2010 opening of Lockheed Martin's Integrated Training Center at Eglin AFB, FL, by delivering the first set of courseware needed to train pilots and aircraft maintainers. The electronic materials include all of the presentation materials that classroom instructors will use to teach pilots how to fly the F-35, and maintainers how to repair and support the aircraft. The courseware also includes students' self-study materials and pilot briefing materials used to support F-35 simulator and flight training events. Northrop Grumman, a principal subcontractor on the Lockheed Martin-led F-35 industry team, delivered the first block of courseware for maintainers in March, followed by the first block of courseware for pilots in April. According to Peter Leung, leader of Northrop Grumman's courseware integrated product team, much of the company's expertise in courseware derives from its experiences as the Air

Above Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. Image credit: Lockheed Martin.

Force's prime contractor on the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, where it had similar training development responsibilities.

Trainer Aircraft Royal Air Force Hawk Advanced Trainer Makes 500 – The first 500 sorties and 500 flying hours have been completed on the UK Royal Air Force's (RAF) Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT). The RAF received the first of their 28 Hawk AJTs, also known as the TMk2, in 2009. Significant progress with the aircraft, which is used to train fast jet pilots of the future, has been made to date. Wing Commander Brian Braid said: "To complete over 500 sorties and flying hours in the Hawk TMk2 is a great achievement. It has all the familiarity of the world renowned and much loved Hawk series of aircraft, but has the added bonus of being packed with the

latest technology and avionics. The Hawk TMk2 is set to revolutionize the way the RAF trains its future fast jet pilots under the UK Military Flying Training System." BAE Systems has recently been awarded a contract to support the AJT aircraft over the next four years, and is responsible not only for the number of aircraft made available for training flights but also for ensuring that the aircraft are available to carry out the training mission effectively. Hawk Advanced Trainer Aircraft for Indian Air Force and Navy – An agreement has been signed between BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and India's leading aerospace company, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), to supply 57 Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) aircraft to the Indian Air Force (40 aircraft) and Indian Navy (17 aircraft) The deal is worth around £700 million, of which over £500 million is for BAE Systems and up to £200 million for RollsRoyce. It will support over 200 jobs in the UK. The final terms and conditions for the contract were signed by Guy Griffiths, Group Managing Director International, BAE Systems, in the presence of British Prime Minister, David Cameron on his visit to India. The aircraft will be manufactured under license at HAL's facilities in Bangalore and BAE Systems will provide specialist engineering services, the raw materials and equipment necessary for airframe production and the support package for the Indian Air Force and Indian Navy end users. Grob, Elbit Develop G-120TP Trainers – German aircraft manufacturer Grob Aircraft AG and Elbit Systems Ltd. have teamed in several agreements to partner in the development of a new family of trainer aircraft - the G-120TP. The G-120TP trainer family is based on a modular aircraft concept - one aircraft in three different configurations, a side-by-side aircraft, a tandem-seat aircraft and a four-seat aircraft, where all three aircraft maintain a maximum of commonality. Manufactured by Grob Aircraft AG, the aircraft will feature Elbit Systems avionic suite which includes a glass cockpit with a high level of mission simulation capability incorporating virtual tactical training. The partnership is an ideal combination in completing a training system, which includes the aircraft platform, mission simulation in the cockpit as well as training simulation outside of the cockpit. Hawker Delivers T-6A Trainers to Iraqi Air Force – Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) has delivered the first eight Beechcraft T-6A military trainers ordered by the Iraqi Air Force and is on schedule to deliver seven more of the high performance turboprop aircraft by the end of the year. In addition to the 15 aircraft, the contract also includes ground based training systems, spares, contract logistics support, maintenance, post production support and technical publications. "The T-6A is playing a significant role in the growth and modernization of the Iraqi Air Force," said Jim Maslowski, HBC president, US and International Government Business. "As the roles of the Iraqi military forces expand, it is essential that their training and capabilities keep pace with the technology and sophistication of the systems they utilize. The T-6A will prepare Iraqi pilots to transition into 21st century aircraft that are considerably more complex than the equipment they previously employed."

Fixed-wing Aircraft Training Devices L-3 to build F-22 Full Mission Trainers – L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3) won $39.2 million in production contracts from The Boeing Company to build 12 F-22 Full Mission Trainers (FMTs). The Boeing Company developed and implemented the overall F-22 Training System for the U.S. Air Force, which includes L-3’s high-fidelity F-22 FMTs that let pilots practice operating this fighter air aircraft. F-22 FMTs are used to reinforce air-to-air and air-to-ground warfighting skills, including undertaking simulated missions against advanced integrated radar networks and dense surfaceto-air missile environments. The FMTs are integrated into the U.S. Air Force’s Distributed Mission Operations training network, allowing F-22 pilots to train and conduct missions with other aircrews flying different simulated aircraft at locations throughout the world. L-3 Link has delivered nine F-22 FMTs, 23 F-22 Weapons Tactics Trainers and five F-22 Egress Procedures Trainers in support of the F-22 Training System since 2003. New F-16 Electronic Warfare Management System – L-3 Link Simulation &Training (L-3 Link) and Terma A/S, a Denmark-based defense and aerospace firm, signed a contract to jointly develop a fighter aircraft simulation solution that incorporates Terma’s Electronic Warfare Management System (EWMS). The EWMS simulation will be initially integrated into two Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) F-16 Unit Level Trainers and two F-16 Part Task Trainers, allowing them to more accurately simulate the aircraft’s on-board electronic warfare self-protection systems. The solution will be delivered to the RDAF in 2011.

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L-3 Link to Build Third F-16 Mission Training Center Suite – L-3 Link Simulation & Training was awarded a $21 million contract option to build a third F-16 Mission Training Center (MTC) suite at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. This contract option from the Aeronautical Systems Center’s Training Systems Product Group brings the total contract value on the program to $132.8 million. L-3 Link will build and deliver an F-16 MTC suite with four high-definition simulators and The Boeing Company will provide the instructor/operator stations and brief/debrief systems. All the F-16 MTC suites under order are being integrated with L-3 Link’s HD World™ simulation product line that features high-definition databases, image generation systems, physics-based processing technology and visual system displays to create highly realistic and relevant environments for F-16 pilot training. For the first time in a simulator, F-16 pilots will be able to detect, judge the orientation of, recognize and identify targets from the same distance as when flying an actual mission, according to Bob Birmingham, president of L-3 Link. Russian Su-34 FTD Developed by Dinamika – Russian specialists of aviation training equipment for flying crews and maintenance engineers have developed a flight training device (FTD) for the Su-34 fighter-bomber. CSTS Dinamika was awarded the contract to develop the Su-34 FTD and a full mission simulator (FMS) after winning the open bidding held by the Russian Forces' Ministry of Defence (RF MoD) in 2009. The Su-34 FTD was certified by specialists from the Chkalov State Flight and Test Centre of the RF MoD. It is a full cockpit replica, allowing the complex training of flight crews.

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Above The CSTS Dinamika-built Su-34 fighter-bomber FTD. Image credit: CSTS Dinamika.

The visual system is a four-channel optical-collimation system with computer image generation that provides a continuous and conjoint out-of-the-cockpit view for each member of the crew. The Instructor Operating Station (IOS) enables the training sequence to be monitored and trainees' performance to be evaluated. The Russian Air Force will be buying 32 Su-34s by the end of 2010. The plan is to buy a total of 400 aircraft to replace the fleet of Su-24M battlefield bombers. Pilots at the Lipetsk Aviation Centre were the first to fly and are developing recommendations and manuals for the air units that will operate the new aircraft in the near future. Hawker Selects CAE for AT-6 Ground-based Training Systems – Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) has selected CAE USA as its ground-based training systems provider for the Beechcraft AT-6 Light Attack and Armed Reconnaissance (LAAR) aircraft. Under the teaming agreement, CAE USA will support HBC's global pursuit campaigns of the AT-6 aircraft. CAE USA will provide a comprehensive ground-based training system as part of an expected AT-6 aircraft sale. CAE USA will lead the design and development of the ground-based training system. CAE's responsibilities will include training system design and analysis, design and manufacture of synthetic training equipment, courseware development, classroom and simulator instruction, and training support services. CAE USA will also develop embedded aircraft simulation solutions for the AT-6 and other T-6 aircraft variants. Cubic Delivers Fifth Generation of TOPGUN – Cubic Corporation installed the fifth generation of TOPGUN at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, more than 35 years after installing the first generation – which was also the world's first instrumented air combat training system. The P5 Combat Training System/Tactical Combat Training System (P5CTS/TCTS), known as TCTS to Navy and Marine Corps aviators, was developed by Cubic, and principal subcontractor DRS Technologies. It lets fighter pilots train anywhere,

anytime without the need for a fixed ground infrastructure. Portable airborne and ground subsystems make the system "rangeless," changing the scenery of training for the six F/A-18 Hornet squadrons at Miramar. Instead of flying over mostly inland and desert airspace shared with MCAS Yuma and Naval Air Facility El Centro, they can fly over the Pacific Ocean, carrying out advanced flight maneuvers. The TCTS system is due to become operational later this year at NAS Fallon, the current home of TOPGUN. Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18F Simulator – The first F/A-18F Tactical Operational Flight Trainer (TOFT) delivered to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) by L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) has achieved initial training capability status. As part of this initial delivery, L-3 Link also has installed a fully integrated mission briefing and debriefing system. L-3 Link is under contract from Boeing Training Systems and Services to support the delivery of two F/A18F TOFTs to RAAF Base Amberley. The second F/A-18F TOFT, which will include a new Australian visual system

database, will be delivered with an additional mission briefing and debriefing system in late 2010. Helmet-mounted Cueing System and Display – L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) received a $10.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide its new simulated joint helmet mounted cueing system and Advanced Helmet Mounted Display (AHMD) on training devices that support the service’s F-16 Aircrew Training Device (ATD) program. System deliveries will begin in May 2011 and conclude in September 2011. L-3 Link is prime contractor on the F-16 ATD program, which includes both unit training devices and weapons systems trainers that let pilots train and accomplish air-to-air and airto-ground combat missions with the required visual cueing in high-fidelity networked environment.

Aircraft Maintenance Training CAE MH-60R Avionics Maintenance Trainer – CAE USA has announced that the first MH-60R avionics maintenance trainer (AMT) built by the company for the United States Navy

has been declared ready-for-training and entered service at the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit (CNATTU) in Jacksonville, Florida. The MH-60R AMT will now provide transition and readiness training for MH-60R avionics electronics technicians and be used to demonstrate, instruct and provide hands-on experience on maintaining the MH-60R Romeo helicopter, which is used by the Navy for anti-submarine warfare and surface attack. CAE USA is designing a second MH-60R AMT that will be delivered later this year to Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island, California. CAE USA is also the prime contractor responsible for the design and manufacture of MH-60R tactical operational flight trainers (TOFT) for the US Navy. The MH-60R TOFT includes both an MH-60R operational flight trainer for training pilots and an MH-60R weapons tactics trainer for training sensor operators and airborne tactics officers. Newer Model F-15s for Maintenance Training at Sheppard AFB – Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas has acquired 13 newer-model F-15 Eagles to update the F-15 aircraft maintenance

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course taught there. The newer models will replace the A and B model aircraft the base currently uses to train F-15 aircraft maintenance students on how to maintain mission capability for C and D models, currently used on operational flightlines. The newer models were acquired from Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., and then altered for use as trainer aircraft by removing all the explosives to make them safe. These trainers “will help instructors give the students the type of training they actually need when they get to a flightline,” said Tech. Sgt. Gerry Sasser, a 362nd Training Squadron F-15 aircraft maintenance instructor. "The older models don't have all the pieces and parts that the newer models have in them," he said. "For example, the F-15C and F-15D have a multiple purpose color display in the cockpit that is not on the F-15B. Some of the controls are in different spots. Also, the launchers on the side are different from the new launchers. They will never see F-15B launchers again in their career. The launchers on the newer F-15 models are what they will actually see on a flightline.

Helicopter Training New AH-1Z Helicopter Simulator Ready to Train – The only AH-1Z full-motion cockpit simulator is ready for training at Camp Pendleton, Calif., the initial training site for all Marine Corps pilots transitioning from the AH-1W Super Cobra to the new AH-1Z helicopter. The Naval Aviation Training Systems program office (PMA205) and the H-1 Upgrades program office (PMA-276) worked with prime contractor Bell Helicopter Textron and subcontractor Flight Safety International to design, build, test and deliver the first full motion cockpit simulator of its kind for Marine Corps aviation.

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Naval Training Meggitt Simulates Swarming Threat – Meggitt Training Systems Canada conducted the first large-scale 'swarmex' demonstration, a simulation of a real-world threat of swarming fast in-shore attack crafts (FIACs), at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt in British Columbia. Designed to create a maritime self-protection training scenario for naval ships, the swarmex involved the simultaneous operation of 16 Meggitt Hammerhead boat targets controlled on a single radio frequency for more than seven hours. In the demonstration the Hammerhead flotilla was controlled safely and effectively, substantiating Meggit’s FIAC threat replication training services and allowing it to offer those service. The demonstration led to the Canadian Navy asking Meggitt to support a major multi-national live-fire naval exercise using Hammerhead in 2011. 360 Software in Egypt – Orlando-based 360 Software Corp. has won a contract to develop high-tech training simulator software and equipment for the Arab Academy for Science & Technology and Maritime Transport, based in Alexandria, Egypt. 360 Software received the deal from the contracting team of Global Simulations Inc. and MPRI (a unit of L-3 Communications Inc.), which is producing a training simulator system for the Egyptian institute. The system is being developed to train maritime technicians in using the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System, a real-time alert system for naval vessels that combines shipboard, satellite and land-based communications.

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More than 46 percent of the transition training from the AH-1W to the AH-1Z can be done in this simulator that will train aircrews how to use the mission computers, communications, navigation and weapons systems on the AH-1Z, according to Col. Harry Hewson, H-1 Upgrade program manager. Sikorsky Innovations Introduces X2 Technology LTH Simulator – Sikorsky Innovations, the technology development organization of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., unveiled its X2 TechnologyTM Light Tactical Helicopter (LTH) simulator that will provide users a tangible experience of the significant benefits of X2 Technology. X2 Technology combines an integrated suite of technologies to advance the state-of-the-art, counter-rotating coaxial rotor helicopter. It is designed to demonstrate that a helicopter can cruise comfortably at 250 knots while retaining such attributes as excellent low-speed handling, efficient hovering, and a seamless and simple transition to high speed. Sikorsky introduced the X2 Technology demonstrator in 2005, and the program has progressed through flight testing with the goal of achieving the 250-knot speed later this year. The X2 LTH simulator will demonstrate the military application of the capabilities Sikorsky is proving out with the X2 Technology demonstrator, which features fly-by-wire flight controls, counter-rotating rigid rotor blades, hub drag reduction, active vibration control, and an integrated auxiliary propulsion system.

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Charles River's most recent M&S effort for the Army is Uncertainty-Modeling Rules for Situational Awareness (URSA), under a two-year, $850,000 contract with the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM). URSA addresses modeling uncertainty in ground soldiers' situation awareness and its effects on decision making in battlefield situations. URSA can be used in constructive simulations, such as IWARS, to determine the impact of information and information accuracy/certainty on critical soldier decisions. SDS Enhances Virtual Test Bed for US Army – SDS International (SDS) was awarded the second year of a multiyear contract by the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC), Natick, MA, to enhance the First Person Shooter (FPS) PC-based simulation system Virtual Test Bed (VTB) developed by SDS and NSRDEC under earlier contracts. SDS' Advanced Technologies Division in Orlando, Florida, will provide extensive systems engineering support needed to enhance the ability of the FPS-based human/hardware-inthe-loop (HIL) test bed to demonstrate system capability and capture technical performance measures for the Soldier Domain Technologies follow-on Army Technologies Objectives (ATOs). SDS will build on the first year's efforts to provide a VTB capable of supporting the Army's need for a revolutionary approach to system integration, assessment and simulation of soldiersystem architectures encompassing survivability, mobility, networked communications, collaborative situational awareness, power sources, and networked lethality/fire control. Afghan National Army Opens Infantry School – The Afghan National Army has opened a new infantry school at

Darulaman in Kabul. The move, a first step toward establishing a brand new infantry facility in Kandahar, will temporarily provide the ANA a larger, improved training area for students, as well as hold larger classes. The new school will teach infantry tactics and different weapons systems such as the RPG-7, SPG-9 recoilless rifle, mortar, reconnaissance and infantry intelligence. Col. Abdul Sabor, the new infantry school commander, said the school will help the army by focusing more time and attention on infantry-specific skills for entry-level soldiers, non-commissioned officers and officer. It will also allow trainees to have time for classroom lessons and hands-on application. If courses are run at full capacity, the new school will be able to accommodate up to 2,000 students at one time, and each year they will be able to produce 14,000 infantrymen. VirTra Threat-Fire Simulator – VirTra has received an order for 13 Threat-Fire II™ sense-memory simulators and 15 wireless stations to accompany the Threat-Fire II devices from Lockheed Martin. The patent-pending Threat-Fire II is a device clipped onto a trainee to be worn during simulation exercises. When a virtual suspect or enemy in the simulation fires upon the trainee, the trainee experiences a momentary (300 ms.) sense-memory alert, which adds a critical dimension of realism and instant feedback to the trainee during simulation training

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Medical Simulation Meeting Since 1994, SESAM, the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine, has been promoting the use of simulation in medicine for the purpose of training and research. This year’s annual meeting, the 16th, was organised by the University Medical Center Groningen and the University of Twente, (both Netherlands), the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Germany), and the MSR Israel Center for Medical Simulation. The event, held from 16 to 18 June 2010 in Groningen, attracted about 270 participants from 18 countries. Under the conference title “Linking high tech to high touch”, attendees: gained insights into the latest advances and innovations in medical simulation for assessment and training; heard about the growing number of opportunities for multidisciplinary and multicentre collaboration; and, learned more about current and upand-coming simulation-based research. The keynote by Amitai Ziv from Israel explored the use of simulation for high-stake assessments in medicine - a method well received by test participants. Richard Reznik from Canada discussed the role of simulation when integrated into the educational strategy of a department. Jan Maarten Schragen, Netherlands, drew connections between cognition and the use of simulation for learning, exploring the unique possibilities for learning. Albert Scherpbier from the Netherlands discussed the challenges still encountered when simulation is implemented into curricula and when drawing on educational theories during simulation use. Rein Willems, former president of Shell Netherlands, explored the role of simulation in an organisation aimin for safety at all levels of operation. The keynote lectures were complemented by presentations, workshops, pro-con debates and roundtables. The next SESAM meeting will be in Granada, Spain from 1 to 4 June 2011. – Walter F. Ullrich Sponsors: CAE Healthcare; Laerdal; Virtual proteins; 3bscientific; AQAI; HEART WORKS; B-LINE MEDICAL; KYOTO KAGAKU; Limbs & Things; METI; Simbionix; SimSurgery; SIMTICS; SKILLS MEDUCATION; SKILLS MED; truCORP; haptica; Studiocode; Blue Phantom

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at the Air Forces' Air Operations Center (AOC). The training is designed to familiarize academy cadets with UAS vehicles and teach them how these systems can be integrated into Air Force Operations to support warfighters. In the eight-day course the cadets get hands-on experience in the operation of UAS and instruction about intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, aerodynamics, mission planning, emergency procedures, visual observer duties and techniques and airmanship concepts. SDS MQ-9 Reaper Simulator to AFRL – SDS International (SDS) delivered its ROVATTS(tm)-based MQ-9 Reaper Mission Training Device (MTD) to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Mesa, Arizona to support Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) research and training. The MTD gives the AFRL a realistic Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) component for use in a variety of its Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) operations training research activities. SDS' MQ-9 Reaper MTDs support individual (pilot or sensor operator) and crew training in a stand-alone environment and distributed operations involving a live, virtual and constructive systems in either local or distributed exercises using DIS or HLA connectivity. The Reaper MTD is an integral part of Mesa's new Integrated Theater Combat Operations Training Research testbed, with connectivity to – and interoperability with – AFRL's 5-meter domed Joint Terminal Attack Control Training and Rehearsal System (JTAC TRS) and the Joint Theater Air/Ground Simulation System or JTAGSS for air support coordination and operations training.

Visuals and Displays Presagis Lyra IG – Presagis introduced Lyra IG, a pre-integrated PC Image Generation (IG) solution for delivery of immersive visual simulations in air, UAS, and maritime training environments. Based on Presagis COTS technology, Lyra IG offers users a high-performance, low-cost IG solution that runs at a 60 Hz frame rate and delivers rich visual simulations without locking users into proprietary systems. Lyra IG helps users save development costs and deliver flexible, adaptable, and immersive experiences in training and simulation development for

high-fidelity and dynamic 3-D environments by combining new software features and functionality – like special effects and large area database management – with a custom-tuned PC appliance. It will be commercially available in early fall 2010. AFRL F-16 X-DTTs Updates – The Air Force Research Laboratory, Warfighter Readiness Research Division in Mesa, Arizona, updated its F-16 Experimental Deployable Tactics Trainer (X-DTT) simulators to use MetaVR visuals and Immersive Display Solutions portable domes. The AFRL/Mesa lab purchased 26 MetaVR Virtual Reality Scene Generator (VRSG) licenses to replace its existing SDS International AAcuity PC-IG systems for the simulators for the update. The F-16 X-DTTs are deployable, medium fidelity, in-theater training systems for keeping the warfighter proficient between missions. Each device has six projected views on the partial dome, a sensor view, and the ability to be used as a standalone training tool or networked with other simulators to participate in larger exercises. The systems are similar in design to MetaVR's and Immersive Display Solutions' JTAC MiniDome, with differences specific for the F-16 X-DTT. AFRL/Mesa is conducting research to examine the effectiveness of mediumfidelity X-DTT simulators for training air combat skills. The updated F-16 X-DTT simulators are slated to be delivered to and installed at the Aviano Air Base, Italy, starting this fall. Christie’s New Mirage 3D Projector – Christie has announced the latest edition of its popular Christie Mirage Series, the Christie Mirage WU7K-M. Featuring a full WUXGA resolution display and dual lamps for excellent uniformity, the Christie Mirage WU7K-M is a compact, 6,300 ANSI lumens powerhouse. With dual-link DVI support at 330MHz full bandwidth and up to 10,000:1 contrast, the projector delivers crisp images, vibrant colors and uniform brightness. The Christie Mirage WU7K-M has three modes of 3D input: standard frame rate of up to 120Hz, as well as frame-doubled content for maximum source compatibility and flicker-free operation. With the addition of a second input module, the Dual Input 3D mode enables the display of a frame-locked, passive stereo source

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for high-performance, active stereo at 120Hz without the need for an external passive to active converter. VDC’s Display Systems Wins L-3 Orders – VDC Display Systems was awarded $2.5 million in additional orders from L-3 Link Simulation and Training for visual display systems and accessories for U.S. Air Force F-22 and Moroccan F-16 training devices. The training simulators provide a range of training maneuvers -- from formation flight, air refueling, weapons delivery, air-to-air and air-to-ground combat, emergency procedures, and take-off and landings."

Training for Africa ACOTA Program Award – The U.S. Department of State awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a contract to continue providing staff for peacekeeping operations and humanitarianism assistance training for the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program. The contract has a potential value of $150 million over five years. The ACOTA program’s objective is to help participating nations' militaries to develop their own trained unit capac-

ity to provide peacekeeping support operations Northrop Grumman provides the staff and training to select African Nations through seminars, instruction, simulation-supported exercises and field training. Nations currently participating in the ACOTA program include Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Rwanda, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia.

News from Eurosatory Rheinmetall’s MBT Revolution – Main battle tanks play a role in current conflicts and will continue to do so in future conflicts - not least because they will remain in the military inventories for decades. Originally conceived for tank battles, they have to be retrofitted for today’s asymmetric scenarios, where they can produce a massive show of force. Rheinmetall’s conversion programme, called MBT Revolution, balances force protection and force projection. One essential element is the digital turret concept where, for the first time ever, an automated operating

and weapon engagement concept gives the Rheinmetall system a hunter/killer capability. Combined with an intelligent C4I system it features augmented reality and enables training to take place directly inside the vehicle in simulation mode. Elbit Systems Next-Generation Joint Command and Staff Trainer – The novel CST provided by the Israeli company offers full C4I connectivity to all command and staff levels while allowing joint forces training via an advanced virtual battle space scenario. It simulates complex, joint operations in high- and low-intensity conflicts, as well as operations other than war (OOTW), providing a complete virtual arena, including opposing forces, civilian population, infrastructures, open and urban terrains and weather conditions. CST’s modular and flexible software is installed on standard COTS hardware and meeting global training and simulation standards. Convoy Protection Training by RUAG – The “Simulateur de Tir d’Equipage et de Section” (STES simulator) is RUAG’s reference product when it comes to training vehicle commanders

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and gunners in asymmetric scenarios. The simulator seen on the RUAG booth replicates the VBCI, the new infantry fighting vehicle of the French Army. In addition to the basic control, operation and firing functions, the replicated Battle Management System allows the entire communication and information platform to be trained. A modern CGF (computer-generated forces) system also enables virtual infantrymen to be controlled in out-of-vehicle states. STES is being realised as a turnkey solution together with the French partner company GAVAP. Ten sites with a total of 48 cabins will be provided. GAVAP and CS Showcase Urban Warfare Training System – The consortium comprising the two French companies has been selected to develop the pilot system for SYMULZUB, a live simulation for military operations in urban terrain for the French MOUT training centre (CENZUB). GAVAP is the national expert for live and virtual simulation programs for ground combat, while CS brings its expertise in virtual reality simulations, capitalising on the technical solutions developed by its subsidiary DIGINEXT. A large-screen display demonstrated the integration of real personnel into the MOUT set-up, and gave an outlook on the French Army’s Joeffrecourt urban warfare training facility at Sissonne, northern France, which should be ready in 2015.

ESDT Promotes Private Tactical and Technical Training Centre – The French distributor of military equipment for Special Forces ESDT informed about the company’s 2,500 m2 privately run tactical and technical training centre. The centre was designed to meet the needs of collective training for armed forces personnel (special and conventional), law enforcement officers, task forces (police and gendarmerie), foreign special units, as well as the administration’s safety departments, air and rail transport companies, bank security, and for people responsible for managing trouble spots. This rather unique training facility recruits specialised instructors on a case-by-case basis, according to the customer's individual training needs. Chemring Showcases ManPAD Missile Simulator – Chemring’s German subsidiary, which is well-known for its weapon effect simulators, presented the further development of the company’s ManPAD Missile Simulator, which flies higher and further than any other of its kind. It realistically simulates the effects (blast, bright light and smoke trail, plus strong plume in the IR-spectrum of light) during the launch phase of many types of portable surface-launched groundto-air missiles. The new equipment, developed together with an undisclosed customer, exceeds the performance of the actual equipment, which has a burning time of 3 seconds and at least 3,000

m visibility. It can be used as a multiplelaunch device, remote-controlled by Chemring’s PDA. Noptel Presents Progressive Marksmanship Training – The Finnish company Noptel demonstrated the three-phase Noptel Integrated Rifle Marksmanship (IRM) Programme that makes a skilled shooter out of a soldier. The training is safe and does not require live fire safety precautions. It can be arranged anywhere, even in the garrison area. Yet it is portable and can be easily carried to a shooting range, where the shooter can use real-size standing targets, pop-up targets, turning targets and moving targets. At the end of the IRM training programme the soldier is ready for live ammunition training on a controlled manoeuvre range, where he will learn tactical skills and more advanced operations in the field. i3M Canopy Control Simulator – The Toulouse-based SME, in association with the French army, introduced PASS. Based on immersive 3D technology, PASS is innovative in the field of parachuting. While suspended in a real parachute harness, the student trains in a virtual reality to improve their descent. A realistic simulation is obtained using a large range of parameter settings such as the choice of the canopy type, the weather conditions, the terrain, the parachutist equipment, the dropping point, and incident occurring or not.

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Other Training News US Plans Military Training Centre in Tajikistan – The United States plans to spend close to $10 million to build a training center for armed forces in Tajikistan, according to the country’s U.S ambassador, Ken Gross. He said Washington hopes to sign a deal to build the training center by this fall and open it sometime next year. No U.S. troops would be stationed at The Karatag National Training Center and it would be administered by the Tajik National Guards and open for all Tajik forces, he said. The center will be located about 45 km (30 miles) from Dushanbe. Cubic Expands in Orlando – Cubic Corporation expanded its presence in Orlando's Research Park by co-locating its Defense Systems and Mission Support Services business development and selected program management offices for the geographic convenience of their customers. The Research Park location will also serve as a focal point for the development of new Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) integration capabilities. Cubic's current LVC efforts include the U.S.-Australia Joint Combined Training Capability and the Alaska Training Range Evolution Plan. Northrup Grumman Upgrades US Navy's Firebee – Some of the oldest aerial targets in the U.S. Navy's inventory can now be used for some of the service's most advanced training missions thanks to the recent on-schedule completion of an avionics upgrade of those targets by Northrop Grumman Corporation. The company completed deliveries of 25 BQM-34S Firebee aerial targets to the Navy that were retrofitted with modern avionics hardware from the service's primary target system, the Northrop Grumman-produced BQM-74E. As part of this Avionics Upgrade program, Northrop Grumman also provided updated operational flight program software, training of Navy personnel and flight test support. Aerial targets are unmanned, aircraft-like systems used by the military to simulate tactical threats posed by enemy aircraft and missiles. They are typically used to test and evaluate surface ship defensive weapons systems or to train pilots in air-to-air combat techniques. The new avionics and software

added to the BQM-34Ss give the targets fully autonomous waypoint navigation and an improved ability to perform intricate maneuvers at extremely low altitudes, according to Hans Dall, program manager of the BQM-34 Targets Program for Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems sector. ms&t

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S&T’s annual census of military flight simulators reveals an increase in simulator numbers of over 30 compared to our 2009 census, despite a large group of Unit Training Devices (UTDs) that last year were listed with single-window visuals, but turned out to be simpler Cockpit Procedure Trainers (CPT) without visuals. The 2009 figures were an increase of over 250 compared to those for 2008, which in turn were an increase over those for 2007. Although there are uncertainties regarding the numbers, primarily because of the difficulty of capturing all current military devices, there is evidence of growth indicating an increasing reliance on simulation in training. This is not surprising in this era of recession, high cost of aircraft programmes and the resultant budget constraints. Most militaries have recognised the advantages of modern simulation technology and are using it more than in the past. On a life-cycle cost (LCC) basis, the cost ratio for military simulators compared to using the aircraft itself is touted to be between 1:10 and 1:20, that is, heavily in favour of simulation. In this census, training devices are listed that have either an outside-thewindow (OTW) visual system or a motion system, or both, and full-size cockpit controls. Except for a few “open plan” devices, they have full-size replica cockpits. At one end of the spectrum we find UTDs with only one visual channel. At the other end there are Full Mission Simulators, many having multi-channel wide-angle visuals with domes or partial domes, and some having motion systems with all of the six degrees-of-freedom, similar to a civil Full Flight Simulator (FFS). Looking first at the distribution of flight simulators by nation (Table 1), it is no surprise that the USA leads. What is unexpected is the magnitude of the numbers in the USA compared to any other

nation, 850 in the USA compared to the next country, the UK, with only 94. The order of other nations can be seen in the table, and some may surprise you. Despite MS&T’s efforts to obtain information, the numbers for some nations are certainly underestimated. For instance, we have not managed to track down the simulators made by the ex-Penza company which used to claim that they had made simulators for most types of Russian military aircraft. Very few simulators are listed for China even though the PLAAF is the world’s third largest air force; obtaining information about military simulators for this country is difficult. Within the USA, the Air Force leads with nearly 460 devices, followed by the Navy with over 170. The Army weighs in with over 110, illustrating the size of its air arm. The US Marine Corps also has a large air arm with 90 devices available for training. Turning to simulators vs. aircraft Table 1: Military Flight Sims by Nation

Sims Country Within the USA 850 USA 458 USAF 94 UK 172 USN 77 France 114 US Army 55 Germany 55 USMC 48 Japan 35 USN/MC 40 S Korea 16 Others 38 Canada 850 Total 38 Italy 32 Saudi Arabia 32 Netherlands 31 Russia 30 Sweden 29 Taiwan 26 Egypt 25 Spain 24 Australia 24 India 19 Singapore 18 Turkey 17 UAE

roles, over 1050 simulators are for fighter type aircraft, over 440 for rotary-wing and nearly 270 for large multi-engined types. For fighters, trainers and ground attack aircraft (the centre-line thrust category) wide-view directly-projected visuals prevail over collimated displays and motion platforms. For extra cueing, vibrators and motion-seats are used in some designs. Of the 1000 or so fighter simulators, only about 100 have motion seats and only 60 have anti-G-suit inflation. In the rotary and large aircraft categories, the civil Full Flight Simulator design is frequently used. This has a 6 degree-of-freedom motion platform and a wide view visual, often with display optics with distant focal length. Nearly 580 simulators can be networked with other training or live devices, Table 2: Military Flight Sims by Manufacturer

323 Link (USA) 260 CAE (Canada,Germany & USA) 187 Thales (France & UK) 157 Boeing (USA) 133 FSI (USA) 108 LM (USA) 62 ETC (USA & Poland) 54 Elbit (Israel & Romania) 40 Sogitec (France) 39 Rockwell Collins (USA) 35 Frasca (USA) 32 Indra (Spain) 28 CSTS Dinamika (Russia) 28 Mitsubishi (Japan) 25 QinetiQ (UK) 21 Saab (Sweden) 19 AMST (Austria) 17 BAES (UK & Australia) 17 USAFRL (USA) 14 Dodaam (S Korea) 14 EF Sim Sys (Europe) 13 VRM (Slovakia) 10 Havelsan (Turkey) 178 Others 1814 Total MS&T MAGAZINE • ISSUE 4/2010

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about 60 are designed to be transportable, over 30 have two separate cockpits (for instance in separate domes), 16 have head-tracking, 15 are for research, and 14 have Roll-on Roll-off (RoRo) cockpits. Simulation can be used for training pilots in various aspects of spatial disorientation, and 35 disorientation trainers capable of full freedom in yaw are listed in the tables. For real high-G training, 22 man-rated centrifuges are listed that are capable of training for G values over six. The simulator manufacturers are

speaking of the training schedule for the C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft a keynoter at the recent I/ITSEC noted only two aircraft handling sorties are needed before initial checkout, because these are preceded by 26 sorties on a full flight simulator with wide visuals and an electric 6-axis motion platform. Finally, it is worth noting that almost a third of the devices are networked, not only with other training aids but some with live assets as well. This also is an important and growing trend. ms&t

summarised in Table 2. Link is well in the lead with 323 devices in service. CAE has 260 devices in service; then comes Thales, Boeing, FSI and Lockheed Martin. What might be unexpected is the order after this, led by Environmental Tectonics (USA and Poland), then Elbit (Israel and Romania), Rockwell Collins and Frasca. The census illustrates the extensive and growing use of simulation technology in military flight training. And no wonder there is growth. For example,

Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Codes Used Within The Tables Aircraft Categories F Fighter, FGA Fighter/Ground Attack, FT Fighter/ Trainer (all with centre-line thrust, little asymmetric effect on engine failure) M Multi-engined aircraft with significant asymmetric effect on closing an engine, and other transport aircraft R Rotary Wing aircraft such as Helicopters, Tilt/ Rotor & Tilt/Wings G Generic cockpit T Trainer aircraft (with centre-line thrust, little asymmetric effect on engine failure) U Unmanned Aircraft

FFS Full Flight Simulator FMS/FMT Full Mission Simulator/Trainer FNPT Flight Navigation Procedures Trainer FTD Flight Training Device. A trainer below a Full Flight Simulator (FAA/EASA definition) HMD Head-Mounted Display HOTAS Hands-on Throttle and Stick IFT Instrument Flight Trainer I.G. or IG Image Generation system, the proprietary Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) system used LAMARS Large-Amplitude Multimode Aerospace Research Simulator (Gondola on hydraulic arm) MCAS Marine Corps Air Station MTDS Mission Training by Distributed Simulation MRTT Multi-Role Tanker Transport aircraft NAS Naval Air Station OFT Operational Flight Trainer OTW Out-the-Window Pax River MFS US Navy Manned Flight Simulator section at Patuxent River, Maryland PSPK Russian for a Flight Simulator with a moving cockpit used for generic aircraft research PTT Part-Task Trainer. A device optimised for a particular equipment rather than the whole aircraft. RFT Ready for Training Ro-Ro Roll-on Roll-off. In simulation, the capability to interchange cockpit/crew sections on a standard simulator base. The cockpit sections may be used as FTDs when off the main simulator base SAR Search and Rescue SF Special Forces SOF Special Operations Forces TCC Tactical Control Centre TOFT Tactial Operational Flight Trainer TProj TProj, specifically for projecting a high-fidelty target image on the overall display u/d Updated UTD Unit Training Device (also known as a Unit Level Trainer (ULT)) WST Weapons System Trainer WTT Weapons and Tactics Trainer Aircraft Manufacturers Aero Vod Aero Vodochody (Czech Replublic) AgWest Agusta Westland (Italy and UK) BAES BAE SYSTEMS Boeing Includes ex-McDonnell Douglas aircraft CASA Construcciones Aeronauticas SA, the Spanish part of the EADS company

Visual Display ch I.G. channels w Display windows CC Cross-cockpit Collimated C Collimated D Dome F Faceted back-projected. PD Partial Dome Motion Axes 0-6, zero being fixed-base E Electric, otherwise Hydraulic assumed V Vibrator(s) M Motion Seat G Anti-G-suit inflation D Dimming of visual at high G Y Freedom in yaw (yaw ring) Networking L on-base Local Area Networking (LAN) W off-base Wide Area Networking (WAN) General Abbreviations ACT Air Combat Training AoI Area of Interest (display) ASTA Aircrew Synthetic Training Aids AVCATT Aviation Combined Arms Tactics Trainer CPT Cockpit Procedures Trainer DART Display for Advanced Research and Training DisoTr Disorientation Trainer, generally with full freedom in yaw DMO Distributed Mission Operations DSALT Distributed Synthetic Air Land Training

EADS European Aeronautic Defense and Space company KAI Korea Aerospace Industries LM Lockheed Martin NorGrumm Northrop Grumman PZL Panstwowe Zaklady Lotnicze, the (ex-) Polish State Aviation Works WIML Wojskowy Instytut Medycyny Lotniczej (Wojskowy Aero Medical Institute, Warsaw) Simulator Manufacturers and Operators AAB Army Air Base AFB Air Force Base AFRL Air Force Research Laboratory (US AF) AIDC Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation, Taiwan AMST Austria Metall System Technik ASI Aero Simulation Inc., Tampa, USA ATIL Aviation Training International Ltd (UK-based Boeing and AgustaWestland company) BASC Beijing Aviation Science and Technology BIAM Beijing Institute of Aviation Medicine CAE includes CAE USA, CAE USA includes ex-Reflectone and ex-BAE F&S CAE India Private Ltd ex Macmet CAE USA Tampa facility of CAE USA, ex-Reflectone, ex BAE Systems CSC Computer Sciences Corporation ESS Eurofighter Simulation Systems ETC Environmental Tectonics Corporation, PA, USA FATEC Fuji Aerospace Technology Co. Ltd., Japan FSI FlightSafety International HATSOFF Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (Bangalore, CAE/HAL company) Helisim training centre at Mariagne, Marseilles, France, owned by Eurocopter and Thales HFTS Helicopter Flight Training Services (CAE GmbH, Eurocopter, Thales Deutschland and Rheinmetall Defence) IAI Israel Aircraft Industries JSDF Japanese Self Defence Force KAI Korea Aerospace Industries L-3 Link Link Simulation and Training, Arlington, TX, an L-3 Communications group company LM includes Lockheed Martin Akron & Orlando facilities MTDS Mission Training through Distributed Simulation (UK Programme)

NAS Naval Air Station NLR Netherlands National Aerospace Laboratory RColl Rockwell Collins Simulation & Training Solutions RDE Rheinmetall Defence Electronics, Bremen, Germany Rotosim AgustaWestland and CAE Training Centre at Sesto Calende, Italy Shanghai E Shanghai Eastern Flight Training Co. SIRE Synthetic Immersion Research Environment (US AFRL networking project) SLM Singer Link Miles, UK. Now part of Thales ST Electronics Singapore Technologies Electronics (Training & Simulation Systems) Pte Ltd STS Tulsa Safety Training Systems Inc TCT Tactical Control Centre. For co-ordination of networked simulator exercises and war gaming Thales R/S/T Thales, ex Rediffusion (UK), ex Thomson (France) or ex Singer Link Miles (UK) TsAGI Tsentralâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ny Aerogidrodinamicheski Institut (Central AeroHydrodynamic Institute), Zhukovsky, Russia, Research Institute VRM Virtual Reality Media, Slovak Republic Image Generator and Display Systems Aechelon (USA) - PC Nova Alion (USA) - CATI CAE (Canada) - MaxVue, Medallion Frasca (USA)) - FVS, TruVision FO HMD - Fibre Optic Head-Mounted Display (CAE wide-view display) FlightSafety International (USA) - Vital series Glass Mountain Optics, GMO (USA) - display manufacturer Indra (Spain) - INVIS Ivex (USA) - VDS 1000 Link L-3 (USA) - ATAC DiG, SimuView, also SimuSphere faceted display system LM - CompuScene (ex GE) Quantum 3D (USA) - Aalchemy, Independence Rockwell Collins (ex Evans & Sutherland Image Generators) - ESIG, EPX, Harmony, PT2000, SimFusion, SP (Special Product) series SGI (USA) - Onyx Sogitec (France) - Apogee Tector -(UK) Opdis Thales - Image (ex SLM, UK), Space series, ThalesView, Visa (ex Thomson, France)

We invite comments and corrections to the tables. Updates can be incorporated on the census summary on our web page that is revised more often than the annual printed version.

Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer

Sims Image on line Generator

Visual Display

Motion Networking Axes Capabilities

Remarks

Algeria - Air Force LM C-130H Hercules

CAE

Vital 4

3ch/4w 150x40

Plus FSI-built systems trainer

Angola - Air Force Aero Vod L-39-C/ZA Albatros

PC/VEGA

3ch/3w 150x45

FTD

Mil Mi-17 Hip

FT&GA VRM R

VRM

VRM/IMMAX

3ch/3w 180x45

FTD

Moravan Zlin 143/242

VRM

VRM/IMMAX

1ch/1w 60x45

CPT/FNPT

Argentina - Air Force Bell UH-1H Huey Boeing A-4M Skyhawk

Frasca

FGA Camber

FVS

3ch/3w 150x40

SGI

3ch/3wC 150x40

Dassault Mirage III/5/50/C/E/VP

Thales T

Vital 4

3ch/3w 150x40

IAI Dagger A

IAI

Vital 4

3ch/3w 150x40

Argentina - Navy Dassault Super Etendard 46

FGA Thales T

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3ch/3w 150x40

Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer

Sims Image on line Generator

Visual Display

Motion Networking Axes Capabilities

Remarks

Australia - Army Eurocopter Tiger ARH

Thales

ThalesView

6chD 200x60

Two cockpits plus 2 x 2-cockpit CPTs

NH Industries NH-90

CAE

Medallion

5chCC 220x60

Level D qualified

Sikorsky UH-60A Black Hawk

CAE

Maxvue Enh B

5chCC+2chin 220x60

Australia - Navy AgWestland Sea King 50A

Thales S

Image 2

3ch/3w 150x40

Sikorsky S-70B-2 Seahawk

Thales

ESIG

3chCC 150x40

Plus rear-crew trainer

Australia - RAAF Airbus EADS A-330 (KC-30A MRTT) BAES Hawk 127 Boeing B737 AWACS Wedgetail Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

CAE

FT&GA BAES

Medallion

3chCC 150x40

SGI

1ch/1w 40x30

Plus mission sys trainer

Thales

ThalesView

3chCC 150x40

FSI

Supplied through BAES Australia

Vital 9

5chCC 225x50

Level D+ FMS

Boeing F/A-18C Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

Simuview

1ch/1w 40x30

Tactical Trainers

Boeing F/A-18C Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

Simuview

6chF 360x130

TOFT, SimuSphere display

Boeing F/A-18C Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

6chF 360x130

TOFT, SimuSphere display

Boeing F/A-18C Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

8chF 360x130

TOFT, SimuSphere display

Boeing F/A-18F Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

8chF 360x130

SimuSphere display

Generic

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

LM AP-3C Orion

Thales

ESIG-5530

4ch/5w 210x40

LM AP-3C Orion

CAE

Maxvue

3chCC 150x40

LM C-130H Hercules

CAE

Medallion-S

5chCC 200x40

LM C-130J Hercules

CAE

Medallion-S

4ch/5w 200x40

DisoTr Gyro IPT II

Visual u/d

Austria - Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Eurofighter Sim Sys

Medallion-X

6chD 360x130

0MGD

Plus 6 TProj

Austria - AMST facility Generic

AMST

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

DisoTr Airfox

Bahrain - Air Force BAES Hawk Mk 129

FT&GA Thales

PCIG

1ch/1w 60x40

Avionics trainer

BAES Hawk Mk 129

FT&GA Thales

EPX 5000

12ch 330x90

0MG

EO trainer

SGI

1ch/1w 40x30

UTD

LM F-16C Block 40

FGA L-3 Link

Bangladesh - Air Force Generic

ETC

PC IG

1ch/C 40x30

4EY

DisoTr Gyrolab GL-1000

Generic L39

ETC

PC IG

1ch/C 40x30

4EY

DisoTr GyroFlight

Belgium - Air Force Agusta A-109 HA/HO

PT2000

3ch/3w 150x40

FT&GA Thales

ThalesView

3ch/3w 150x40

LM F-16 MLU

FGA Thales

ESIG 30+I56700

1ch/1w 40x30

LM F-16 MLU

FGA Thales

ESIG 3000

6chD 270x60

LM F-16A MLU

FGA LM

ESIG HD

3ch/3w 150x40

Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet E

CAE

UTD Plus UTD

Belgium - Army AgWestland A-109

CAE

PT2000

3ch/3w 150x40

AgWestland A-109 B1

Thales

Space Magic

3ch/3w 150x40

Belgium - CAE Centre LM C-130H Hercules

CAE

Vital 4

3chCC 150x40

Brazil - Air Force Alenia/Embraer AMX A-1 EADS CASA C-295

FGA Compro M

CAE

SGI

3ch/3w 170x40

Medallion

3chCC 150x40

Embraer Emb-312 Tucano

ABC Dados

Opdis

3ch/3w 150x40

Embraer Emb-314 Super Tucano

Elbit

PC IG

3ch/3w 180x60

Northrop Grumman F-5BR Tiger II

Elbit

PC IG

3ch/3w 180x60

Northrop Grumman F-5E Tiger II

ESIG

5chD 210x50

Inc helmet display Ex GE Training Centre

Brazil - Navy Bell Jet Ranger III Boeing TA-4J

Thales R

PCIG

3ch/3w 150x40

FGA Quintron

PCIG

2ch/2w 70x40

Canada - Air Force AgWestland AW101 Cormorant BAES Hawk 115 Bell B412/212

Atlantis

FT&GA BAES R

CAE

CATI IG

3ch/3w 120x30

SGI

1ch/1w 46x29

Maxvue

5chCC+2chin 220x60

To AW Specification - SAR Training CPT

Boeing CF-18 Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SGI

8chF 360x130

0MG

ACT, SimuSphere display

Boeing CF-18 Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SGI

8chF 360x130

0MG

ACT, SimuSphere display

Boeing CF-18 Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

HOTAS PTT

Boeing F/A-18 Hornet

FGA CAE

Vital 9

6chD 220x50

Boeing F-18 Hornet

FGA Wyle (operator)

PC IG

3ch/3w 120x35

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Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer

Sims Image on line Generator

Visual Display

Motion Networking Axes Capabilities

LM C-130E Hercules

CAE

Maxvue

3chCC 150x40

LM C-130H Hercules

CAE

Vital 4

3chCC 150x40

LM C-130H Hercules

CAE

Maxvue

3chCC 150x40

Remarks

Maxvue display

LM P-3 Orion (Aurora)

CAE

Medallion-S

4ch/5wC 210x45

LM P-3 Orion (Aurora)

CAE

Medallion-S

4ch/5wC 210x45

Level D qualified

Sikorsky MH-92 Cyclone

RColl S&T

ESIG

5chCC 220x45

Through L-3 MAS (Montreal)

Generic

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

DisoTr Gyro 1

Canada - Canada Wings Aviation Training Beechcraft C90B King Air

FSI

Vital 9

3chCC 180x50

Bell 412

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 200x60

Bell 412

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 200x60

Canada - NFTC BAES Hawk

Maxvue Enh B

3ch/4w 200x45

Beechcraft T-6 Texan II

FT&GA CAE T

CAE

Maxvue Enh B

8chD 300x60

0 0

Beechcraft T-6 Texan II

CAE

Maxvue Enh B

3ch/4w 180x40

Chile - Air Force Generic Cessna 172

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

Dassault Mirage III/5/50

Sogitec

Apogee

3ch/3w 180x40

EADS CASA C-101 Aviojet A-36

Indra

INVIS

3ch/3w 150x40

GAT II sim Flat panel display

China - BIAM Generic

AMST

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

Centrifuge

Generic

AMST

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

DisoTr Airfox

China - PLA Air Force Generic

BASC

CGI

5chD 330x60

ACT

Generic

AMST

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

Centrifuge

Generic

BASC

CGI

4chF 270x45

ACT

Harbin Y-5

BASC

CGI

3ch/3w 150x40

Shenyang F-6/J-6 (MiG 19)

BASC

CGI

4ch/5w 300x135

0MG

Shenyang F-6/J-6 (MiG 19)

BASC

CGI

3ch/3w 150x40

FGA BASC

CGI

3ch/3w 150x40

Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker

Head-tracked display

Colombia - Air Force Enstrom F28F Falcon

Frasca

TruVision

3ch/3w 180x45

Croatia - Air Force MiG 21-bis Fishbed

Soko Z I

Soko CGI

1ch/1w 60x45

Czech Republic - Aero Vodochody Aero Vod L-159B

FT&GA E-COM

E-COM

6chD 220x150

Aero Vodochody training facility

Aero Vod L-39

FT&GA E-COM

E-COM

4ch/5w 60x120

Aero Vodochody training facility

Czech Republic - Air Force Generic L39, L159, MiG29, Rotary

Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D

FGA Saab

ETC

PC IG

3ch/3w 110x30

SGI / Saab Grape

8chD 220x75

4EY 0

DisoTr Gyro IPT II

Barco SEER-8 display

Czech Republic - Heli Trg Centre Ostrava Mil Mi-171

CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

8ch/PD 210x60

Denmark - Air Force AgWestland AW101 Merlin

Atlantis

Diamond Visionics Genesis 3ch/3w 120x30

Generic

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

DisoTr Gyro 1

To AW Specification - SAR/Maritime training

LM F-16 MLU M5

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

8chF 360x130

SimuSphere display

LM F-16 MLU M5

FGA L-3 link

Simuview

1ch/1w 40x30

Deployable Trainers

Ecuador - Air Force Dassault Mirage F1

Thales T

SP3

3ch/3w 150x40

IAI Kfir C2

IAI

Vital 4

3ch/3w 150x40

Egypt - Air Force Aero Vod L-59E Albatros

PC IG

3ch/3w 180x40

Boeing AH-64D Longbow

Boeing

CGI

4ch/5w 200x45

Cessna 172

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

Dassault Mirage 2000E

Thales T

Visa

6chD 270x60

Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet MS1 Embraer Emb-312 Tucano Generic Hongdu K-8E Karakorum LM F-16 Block 15, 32, 40L

FT&GA Letov LV

FT&GA Thales T

SP3

3ch/3w 150x40

ABC Dados

Opdis

3ch/3w 150x40

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

4EY

CGI

3chCC 200x45

CGI

3ch/3w 180x60

FT&GA BASC FGA L-3 Link

Egypt - Navy Sikorsky Sea King 47 48

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Thales T

SP3T

3ch/3w 150x40

Plus ejection seat trainer GAT II sim

DisoTr GL 1000

UTD

Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer

Sims Image on line Generator

Visual Display

Motion Networking Axes Capabilities

Remarks

Finland - Air Force BAES Hawk 51

FT&GA Thales T

Vital 7

3ch/3w 150x40

BAES Hawk 51

FT&GA Thales S

Image 2

3ch/3w 150x40

Boeing F-18C Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

CompuScene 6

6chD 300x75

Boeing F-18C Hornet

FGA Boeing

CGI

1ch/1w 40x30

Head-tracked Aol UTD, 215 deg upgrade scheduled

France - Air Force Dassault Mirage 2000

Latecoere

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

Centrifuge Model 101.5

Dassault Mirage 2000-5

Sogitec/Thales

Apogee

1ch/1w 40x30

UTD

Dassault Mirage 2000C2/3

Thales T

Visa 4

6chD 270x60

plus TProjs

Dassault Mirage 2000D

Sogitec

Apogee

1ch/1w 40x40

UTD

Dassault Mirage 2000D

Sogitec

Apogee 3

5chD4.6m 270x135

Dassault Mirage 2000D

Sogitec

Apogee 3

5chD8m 270x135

Dassault Mirage 2000D

Thales T

Apogee

6chD8m 270x135

Dassault Mirage 2000N

Thales T

Visa 4

4ch/5w 160x40

Dassault Mirage F1/2000

Thales T

Visa 4

6chD 270x60

Dassault Mirage F1CR

Thales T

Space Magic

3ch/3w 150x40

Dassault Mirage F1CR

Thales T

Space Magic

3ch/3w 150x40

FGA Sogitec/Thales

Apogee 6

8chD 330x130

Space Magic

1ch/1w 40x30

Dassault Rafale F2 Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet E

FT&GA Thales T

with TProjs

Visual u/d Visual u/d Visual u/d

Embraer Emb-312 Tucano

Thales T

Space Magic

1ch/1w 40x30

FTD, visual u/d

Eurocopter AS532 & SA330

Sogitec

Apogee

6chD 200x60

Convertible, Puma or Cougar

Eurocopter SA330 Puma

Thales T

Visa

4ch/5w 220x45

Transall C-160 NG

Thales T

Space Classic

3ch/3w 180x40

France - Air Force/Army Eurocopter AS 330B Puma

Thales T

Visa

6chD 270x60

Eurocopter AS 550 Fennec

Thales

Space Magic

3ch/3w 150x40

FTDs

France - Army Eurocopter AS350/AS550

Thales T

Visa

3ch/3w 150x40

Eurocopter SA341 Gazelle

Thales

ThalesView

6chD 270x60

Grob 120

Frasca

Sogitec

3ch/3w 180x45

Two cockpits

France - Navy AgWestland WG-13 Lynx HAS2/4

Thales

Space Magic

4ch/5w 220x45

u/d 2006

Dassault Atlantique ATL2

Thales

Space Magic

3ch/3w 150x40

u/d 2007

Dassault Rafale F1

FGA Sogitec/Thales

Apogee-6

1ch/1w 60x40

UTD, one on A/C carrier

Dassault Rafale F2

FGA Sogitec/Thales

Apogee-6

8chD 330x130

Dassault Super Etendard

FGA Thales

Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye

CAE USA/Sogitec

Space Magic

3ch/3w 150x40

Apogee-4

3ch/4w 190x50

u/d 2005

France - Helisim Centre Eurocopter AS332/532 S

Thales

Space Magic 200

5chCC 200x60

Ro-Ro, Super Puma & Cougar

Eurocopter AS365/AS565

Thales

Space Magic 200

5chCC 200x60

Ro-Ro, Dauphine & Panther

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Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer

Sims Image on line Generator

Visual Display

Motion Networking Axes Capabilities

Remarks

Eurocopter EC155 Super Dauphin

Thales

ThalesView

5chCC 200x60

Eurocopter EC225/AS725 S

Thales

ThalesView

5chCC 200x60

Ro-Ro

NH Industries NH-90

Thales

ThalesView

5chCC 220x45

Ro-Ro

France/Germany - Armies - Combined Training Eurocopter Tiger HAP/UHT

Thales

SimFusion7000

3ch/3w 150x40

Two cockpit FTD

Eurocopter Tiger HAP/UHT

Thales

SimFusion7000

6chD 270x60

Two cockpits

Germany - Air Force Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet

Maxvue

3chCC 150x40

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Thales

Medallion-X

3ch/3w 150x40

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Eurofighter Sim Sys

Medallion-X

4chPD 220x100

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Eurofighter Sim Sys

Medallion-6000

8chPD 240x105

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Eurofighter Sim Sys

Medallion-X

6chD 360x130

0MGD

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Eurofighter Sim Sys

Medallion-6000

6chD 360x130

0MGD

Generic

CAE

AMST

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

MiG 29A Fulcrum

CAE/ERA

Medallion

3ch/3w 150x40

NH Industries NH-90

HFTS

Thales View

8chD 230x85

Transportable Cockpit Trainer

0 Plus 6 TProj Plus 6 TProj

Centrifuge

u/d CAE Stolberg

6HV

Panavia Tornado ECR

FGA CAE

Medallion-S

3ch/3w 150x40

Panavia Tornado IDS

FGA CAE

Medallion-S

7chD 300x120

Transall C-160

CAE

Medallion 6000

3ch/3w 150x40

Transall C-160

Thales

ESIG-3000/200

4ch/5w 200x45

u/d CAE Stolberg, laser projection

Germany - Air Force/Navy Panavia Tornado IDS

FGA CAE

CompuScene 3

7ch7wColl 210x45

Germany - Army Bell UH-1D Huey

CAE

Harmony

4ch/5w 240x90

Eurocopter EC-135

CAE

Harmony

5chCC 240x90

NH Industries NH-90

HFTS

Thales View

8chD 230x85

6HV

Sikorsky CH-53 Stallion

CAE

Harmony

3chCC 150x40

Sikorsky H-53G Stallion

CAE

Harmony

5chCC+2chin 240x90

Plus FTDs

Germany - Army/Air Force NH Industries NH-90

HFTS

Thales View

8chD 230x85

6HV

Germany - HFTS NH Industries NH-90

CAE

Medallion-S

5chCC 210x45

NH Industries NH-90

Thales

ThalesView

5chCC 210x45

Plus FTDs

Germany - NATO AWACS Boeing E-3A Sentry

CAE

Medallion 200

3chCC 150x40

Germany - Navy LM P-3C Orion

CAE

SP3T

3chCC 150x40

AgWestland Sea King 41

CAE

SPX

5chCC 210x45

Greece - Air Force Dassault Mirage 2000-5

Sogitec

Apogee

5chD4.6m 270x135

Generic

AMST

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

DisoTr Airfox

Hawker Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

FSI

Vital 9

7chPD 270x70

OFT

LM F-16 C Block 52+

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

4chF 180x70

LM F-16C Block 52+

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

8chF 360x130

Hungary - Air Force Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D

FGA Saab

SGI / Saab Grape

8chD 220x75

Barco SEER-8 display

India - Air Force Antonov AN-32

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

BAES Hawk

FT&GA BAES Australia

PCIG

1ch/1w 56x44

CPT

BAES Hawk

FT&GA BAES Australia

PCIG

1ch/1w 46x29

PTT

BAES Hawk

FT&GA BAES Australia

PCIG

3ch/3w 180x50

BAeS/Dassault Jaguar Darin 1

CAE/Macmet

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

Dassault Mirage 2000H

Thales T

Visa

6chD 270x60

Dornier/HAL Dornier 228

CAE/Macmet

PC IG

5ch/5w 200x40

Generic

AMST

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

LM C-130J Hercules

CAE

Medallion

5chCC 150x40

CAE/Macmet

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

Visa 4

3ch/3w 180x40

MiG-27 Flogger SEPECAT Jaguar

FGA CAE/Macmet

FGA Thales T

6HMG

0 L Centrifuge

India - Army HAL Alouette - Chetak/Llama

CAE/Macmet

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

India - HATSOFF Training Centre Various B412/Dauphin/Dhruv 50

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CAE

Medallion

5chCC 210x45

Ro-Ro, 3 cockpits

Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer

Sims Image on line Generator

Visual Display

Motion Networking Axes Capabilities

Remarks

India - Navy Thales

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

BAES Sea Harrier FRS51

AgWestland Sea King 42

FGA CAE/Macmet

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

BAES Sea Harrier FRS51

FGA Thales

Harmony

6chD 270x60

BAES Sea Harrier

FGA Camber

SGI

3ch/3w 150x40

EPX-5000

7chD 300x75

MiG-29K Fulcrum

RDE Bremen

Original 1983 by SLM Visual u/d

WST Laser projectors, Avior system

Indonesia - Air Force BAES Hawk 209

FT&GA Thales

ESIG 3000

6chD 270x60

BAES Hawk 53

FT&GA ETC

Opdis

1ch/1w 40x30

Simulator

FGA ETC

Opdis

1ch/1w 40x30

Simulator

Maxvue Enh

5chCC 210x45

Boeing A-4E Skyhawk LM C-130H Hercules

CAE

LM F-16A Block 15

FGA Thales

ESIG-3000

3chD 270x90

Head-tracked AoI

Northrop Grumman F-5E Tiger II

Opdis

1ch/1w 40x30

Simulator

ETC

Indonesia - Army Bell NB412

Frasca

GT100

3ch/3w 150x40

Eurocopter NBO-105

Frasca

GT100

3ch/3w 150x40

Indonesia - Navy Socata TB-10

Frasca

TruVision

3ch/3w 180x45

Iran - Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook

BASC

CGI

4ch/5w 200x45

Iraq - Air Force (US Training Program) Bell 206

Frasca

TruVision

3ch/3w 180x45

Bell Huey

Frasca

TruVision

3ch/3w 180x45

Cessna 172

Frasca

TruVision

3ch/3w 180x45

Cessna Caravan

Frasca

TruVision

3ch/3w 180x45

Israel - Air Force Boeing F-15I/AUP Eagle

SGI

4ch/5w 210x100

Generic

Elbit (ex BVR)

PC IG

1ch/1w 120x60

Generic

IAI

PC IG

5chPD 230x85

FSI

Hawker Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

0 0

Missile trainer at Rafael

0VMG

ACT

Vital 9

7chPD 270x70

LM F-16A

FGA Elbit

PC IG

3chPD 180x60

0MG

LM F-16D

FGA Elbit (ex BVR)

PC IG

6 DLP 220x100

Two seats

LM F-16I

FGA Elbit

PC IG

6chD 220x100

0MG

Two cockpits

Sikorsky CH-53 & UH-90

CAE

Maxvue

5chCC+2chin 220x60

Ro-Ro, 2 cockpits

Sikorsky CH-53 & UH-90

CAE

Maxvue

5chCC+2chin 220x60

Ro-Ro, 2 cockpits

Italy - Aermacchi Aermacchi MB-339A

FT&GA Elbit (ex BVR)

PC IG

3ch/3w 180x45

Aermacchi training centre

Italy - Air Force Aermacchi M-346

FT&GA CAE

Medallion

3ch/3w 150x40

Aermacchi MB-339C/D

FT&GA Elbit (ex BVR)

SGI

3ch/3w 180x45

Agusta Bell AB-205 Alenia Aeronautica C-27J Spartan

CAE

Vital 4

5chCC 210x45

Alenia Aeronautica

Alenia Sapphire

3chCCol 180x45

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Alenia Aeronautica

Alenia Sapphire

5chD 220x140

E-ACPT4 model

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA EF ASTA Consortium

CAE Medallion

7chD 360x140

0MG

FMS + 6 TProj

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Alenia Aeronautica

Alenia Sapphire

1ch/1w 40x25

AC PT2 model

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Alenia Aeronautica

Alenia Sapphire

5chD 220x140

E-ACPT3 model

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Eurofighter Sim Sys

Medallion-X

4chPD 220x100

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Eurofighter Sim Sys

Medallion-X

6chD 360x130

0MGD

Plus 6 TProj

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Eurofighter Sim Sys

Medallion-6000

6chD 360x130

0MGD

Plus 6 TProj

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

DisoTr Airfox

SGI

1ch/1w 40x30

Generic LM F-16A ADF LM KC-130J Hercules Panavia Tornado IDS

AMST

FGA Compro M

Level D equiv FFS

CAE

Vital 9

5chCC 200x40

Plus avionics PTT

FGA CAE/Galileo

Medallion

3ch/3w 150x40

Visual u/d

Italy - Alenia Sim Centre Alenia Aeronautica C-27J Spartan

Alenia Aeronautica

Alenia Sapphire

2ch/2w 80x30

Alenia Aeronautica C-27J Spartan

Alenia Aeronautica

Alenia Sapphire

3chCC 180x40

Alenia Aeronautica Sky-X/Y UAV

Alenia Aeronautica

Alenia Sapphire

1ch/1w 40x30

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Alenia Aeronautica

Alenia Sapphire

5chD 220x140

E-ACPT1

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Alenia Aeronautica

Equipe Blue Sky

7chD 360x135

0MG

Plus 2 TProj

Italy - Army Agusta Bell AB-205A

CAE

Maxvue Enh

3ch/4w 150x40

Two cockpits

AgWestland A129 Mangusta

Thales

Medallion-S

6chD 270x60

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Visual Display

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Remarks

Italy - Navy AgWestland EH-101 Boeing/BAES Harrier II+

CAE

FGA Indra

Medallion

5chCC 210x45

pC-Nova

8chF 360x135

Maxvue display

Italy - Rotorsim Centre AgWestland AW-139 & A109

CAE

Medallion-S

5chCC+2chin 200x60

Ro-Ro, 2 cockpits

AgWestland AW-139 & A109

CAE

Medallion-S

5chCC+2chin 200x60

Ro-Ro, 2 cockpits

Japan - Coast Guard Bell TH67

Frasca

TruVision

3ch/3w 180x45

Japan - JSDF Air Beechcraft Beech 400A Jayhawk

ESIG-3000

5chCC 180x40

Based on USAF T-1A

Boeing F-15J

ETC

PCIG

1ch/1w 40x30

3EG

Centrifuge G-FET 6G/s 15G

Boeing F-15J

ETC

PCIG

3ch/3w 120x70

4EY

DisoTr GL 4000

Boeing/Mitsubishi F-15J Eagle

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

Boeing/Mitsubishi(MHI) F-15J Eagle F

Mitsubishi(MPC)

DiaScene IG-5530GT 8chD 260x80

0MG

Generic

ETC

PCIG

1ch/1w 40x30

4EY

Hawker U-125A Hawker 800

CAE/Fuji (FHI)

SE2000+

5chCC 210x45

Thales

ESIG-3250

3ch/3w 150x40

Kawasaki T-4

Kawasaki C-1A

FT&GA Mitsubishi(MPC)

DiaScene IG-950

3chCC 180x60

Kawasaki T-4

FT&GA Mitsubishi(MPC)

DiaScene IG-4530

8chD 260x80

LM C-130H Hercules

Mitsubishi(MPC)

DiaScene IG-750

5chCC 220x46

Mitsubishi F-2A

Mitsubishi(MHI)

DiaScene IG-5530GT 5chD 240x120

Mitsubishi F-2A

Mitsubishi(MHI)

DiaScene IG-5530GT 6chD 210x110

Sikorsky/MHI UH-60J Black Hawk

Mitsubishi(MPC)

ESIG-4000

5chCC+2chin 220x60

UTD DisoTr GL 2000

Visual u/d Visual u/d

Japan - JSDF Ground Bell/Fuji AH-1S Cobra

Mitsubishi(MPC)

DiaScene IG-1000

3chCC 150x40

Bell/Fuji AH-1S Cobra

Mitsubishi(MPC)

DiaScene IG-3000

3chCC 150x40

Bell/Fuji UH-1J Iroquois

Mitsubishi(MPC)

DiaScene IG-95

3ch/3w 165x40

Boeing AH-64DJP Longbow

Boeing

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

Boeing/Fuji AH-64D Apache

Fuji (FATEC)

DiaScene IG-7500

4ch/5w 180x60

Sikorsky/MHI UH-60JA Black Hawk

Mitsubishi(MPC)

DiaScene IG-95

3chPD 165x40

Flat panel display Flat panel display

Japan - JSDF Maritime Beechicraft TC90

Mitsubishi(MPC)

LM P-3C Orion

CAE/Mitsubishi (MHI) 2

DiaScene IG-3000

3chCC 150x40

MaxVue

5chCC 210x45

LM/Kawasaki P-3C Orion

Mitsubishi(MPC)

DiaScene IG-1000

3chCC 150x40

LM/Kawasaki P-3C Orion

Mitsubishi(MPC)

DiaScene IG-3000

3chCC 150x40

Shinmaywa US-1A

Mitsubishi(MPC)

PT-2000SJ

3ch/3w 180x40

ShinMaywa US-2

ShinMaywa

DiaScene IG-7500

3chCC 180x40

Sikorsky MH-53E Sea Dragon

Mitsubishi(MPC)

DiaScene IG-950

5chCC+2chin 120x40

Sikorsky/MHI SH-60K Sea Hawk

Mitsubishi(MHI)

DiaScene IG-7000

5chCC+2chin 220x60

Sikorsky/MHI SH-60K Sea Hawk

Mitsubishi(MHI)

DiaScene IG-3000

5chCC+2chin 220x60

Flat panel display Visual u/d

Japan - US Marine Corps Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet LM KC-130T Hercules

FGA L-3 Link M

J F Taylor

SimuView

8chF 360x130

ESIG-4530

3ch/3w 180x40

SimuSphere display

Jordan - Air Force Dassault Mirage F1C

Thales T

Visa

3ch/3w 150x40

EADS CASA C-101CC Aviojet

Indra

Vital 5

1ch/1wC 30x40

LM F-16A Block 15

FGA L-3 Link

SGI

3ch/3w 150x40

UTD

FMS

Kazakhstan - Air Force Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot

FGA VRM

VRM/IMMAX

3ch/3w 135x45

Kuwait - Air Force BAES Hawk 64

SpaceMagic

3ch/3w 150x40

Boeing F-18C Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

CompuScene 4

6chD 300x75

Boeing F-18C Hornet

FGA Boeing

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

4EY

Generic

FT&GA Thales

ETC

2 domes UTD DisoTr GL 1000

Kuwait - Army Boeing AH-64D Longbow

Boeing

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

Malaysia - Air Force Boeing F-18D Hornet BAES Hawk 208

FGA L-3 Link FT&GA Thales/Sapura

CompuScene 6

6chD 300x75

CompuScene 6

3ch/3w 330D

EADS CASA CN-235-220M

Sapura Defence

PC IG

3ch/3w 180x40

Cessna 172

ETC

PCIG

1ch/1w 40x30

MiG 29N Fulcrum

CAE/Sapura

Maxvue Enh A

3ch/3w 40x120

MiG 29N Fulcrum

CAE/Sapura

Maxvue Enh B

3ch/3w 55x120

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Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer Multiple MiG29, F-18, Hawk, Su-30 FGA ETC

Sims Image on line Generator 1

PCIG

Visual Display 5chPD 120x70

Motion Networking Axes Capabilities 3EG

Remarks Centrifuge ATFS 400 10g/s 15G

Mexico - Air Force Mil Mi-17-1V Hip

CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

5chPD 220x60

Mexico - Navy Generic Twin Engine

Frasca

TruVision

3ch/3w 150x40

Generic Twin Helicopter

Frasca

TruVision

3ch/3w 150x40

Morocco - Air Force Agusta Bell AB-205A Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet 1H LM C-130H Hercules

CAE

FT&GA Thales R M

CAE

Vital 3S

3ch/3w 150x40

ESIG

2ch/2w 90x40

Vital 3S

2ch/2w 70x45

Two cockpits

Myanmar - Air Force MiG 29 Fulcrum

CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

6ch/6w 120x60

Netherlands - Air Force Eurocopter BO-105CB

Frasca

TruVision

3ch/3w 150x40

Visual u/d

Generic

AMST

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

DisoTr Airfox

LM C-130 Hercules

CAE

Medallion

3chCC 150x40

LM F-16 MLU

FGA Thales

ESIG 3000

1ch/1w 40x30

UTD

LM F-16A MLU

FGA LM

ESIG HD

1ch/1w 40x30

UTD

Netherlands - Army AgWestland Lynx

CAE

Maxvue Plus

5chCC 210x45

Netherlands - Navy AgWestland Lynx 27

CAE

Maxvue Plus

5chCC 210x45

AgWestland Lynx 88

CAE

Maxvue Plus

5chCC 210x45

AgWestland Lynx 90

CAE

Maxvue Plus

5chCC 210x45

LM P-3 Orion

CAE

Maxvue Plus

5chCC 210x45

Netherlands - NLR Generic Heli Reconfigurable

NLR HPS

NLR PC IG

4ch PD 180x70

LM F-16MLU

FGA NLR F4S

NLR PC IG

3ch/3w 135x30

Research, helicopter ACT 4-ship networked

LM F-16MLU

FGA NLR GFORCE

NLR PC IG

2chHMD 330x110

6VMG

Head-tracked 140x110 , for research

LM F-16MLU

FGA NLR F4S

NLR PC IG

1ch/1w 45x30

ACT 4-ship networked

Various Reconfigurable

NLR APERO

NLR PC IG

1ch/1w 45x30

Research, human & cockpit

Various Reconfigurable

NLR Grace

NLR PC IG

3ch4wColl 135x30

Research, Pilot studies; coupled to ATC sim

Netherlands - SIMONA Institute Generic

Delft University

Harmony

3chCC 180x40

Research Sim, special motion platform

Netherlands - TNO Generic

AMST

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

3GY

DisoTr Desdemona disorientation

New Zealand - RNZAF Bell UH-1H Huey

Frasca

TruVision

3ch/3w 150x40

LM C-130H Hercules

CAE

Medallion 6000

3chCC 150x40

0 0

LM P-3K Orion

Fidelity Flt Sim

LCD Mosaic Wall

3ch/4w 40x150

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Visual Display

Motion Networking Axes Capabilities

Remarks

Nigeria - Air Force Aero Vod L-39ZA Albatros LM C-130H Hercules

FT&GA Letov LV M

CAE

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

Vital 4

3chCC 150x40

6H 0

LM F-16 MLU

FGA Thales

ESIG 3000

1ch/1w 40x30

LM F-16A MLU

FGA LM

ESIG HD

1ch/1w 40x30

SEPECAT Jaguar

FGA Thales S

Image 2

3ch/3w 150x40

Ex Tampa, installed by Rotran UTD

Norway - Air Force Eurocopter AS332L Super Puma

Thales

ESIG

3ch/3w 150x40

Generic

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

DisoTr Gyro 1

ESIG-3000

3chD 270x60

Head-tracked AoI

LM F-16

FGA Thales

Oman - Air Force AgWestland Super Lynx 300 LM F-16C Block 50+

CAE

FGA L-3 Link

Medallion-S

5chCC+2chin 200x60

SimuView

6chF 300x130

FMT, SimuSphere display

Pakistan - Air Force Generic LM F-16A Block 15

ETC

FGA Thales

PC IG

3ch/3w 110x30

4EY

ThalesView

3ch/3w 150x40

DisoTr GL 1500

Peru - Air Force Dassault Mirage 2000P

Sogitec

GI 10000

6chD8m 200x60

Poland - Air Force LM F-16C/D Block 52

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

6chF 180x70

SimuSphere display

LM F-16C/D Block 52

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

8chF 360x130

FMT, SimuSphere display UTD

PZL PZL-130TC1 Orlik

ETC-PZL

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

PZL PZL-130TC1 Orlik

ETC-PZL

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

PZL-Mielec I-22 Iryda

ETC-PZL

SGI

3ch/3w 150x40

PZL-Mielec M-28 Bryza 1R

Letov LV

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

PZL-Mielec TS-11 Iskra

ETC-PZL

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

PZL-Swidnik W-3 Sokol

ETC-PZL

SGI

3ch/3w 200x60

Sukhoi Su-22M4 Fitter

FGA ETC-PZL

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

Sukhoi Su-22M4 Fitter

FGA ETC-PZL

SGI

3ch/3w 190x50

Also for aero-medical trg

UTD

Poland - WIML Aromedical Institute Generic

AMST

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

Centrifuge

Portugal - Air Force LM F-16 MLU

FGA Thales

ESIG 3000

1ch/1w 40x30

LM F-16 MLU M2

FGA Thales

ESIG 4530

3ch/3w 180x40

LM F-16A

FGA Indra

Vital VII

3ch/3w 150x40

LM F-16A MLU

FGA LM

ESIG HG

1ch/1w 40x30

Vought A-7P Corsair II

FGA Indra

Vital 7

3ch/3w 150x40

UTD

Qatar - Air Force AgWestland Sea King Commando Dassault Alpha Jet Dassault Mirage 2000-5

Thales T

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

FT&GA Thales T

Sogitec

3ch/3w 150x40

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x40

Sogitec

UTD

Romania - Air Force Craiova IAR-99 Soim

PC IG

3chPD 180x60

IAR SA330 Puma

FT&GA Elbit Romania R

Elbit Romania

PC IG

3chPD 180x60

Data Link with flying A/C

MiG-21 Lancer

Elbit Romania

SGI

3chPD 120x40

Inc helmet display

MiG-21 Lancer

Elbit Romania

PC IG

3chPD 120x40

Inc helmet display

Pilatus PC-9

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

GAT II sim

Russia - Air Force Aero Vod L-39

FT&GA CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

3ch/3w 190x50

Aero Vod L-39

FT&GA CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

3ch/3wC 129x30

MiG-31 Foxhound

CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

4ch/5w 200x60

Mil Mi-24P Hind

CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

3ch/3w 120x40

Mil Mi-24P Hind

CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

4ch/5w 176x60

Mil Mi-24PN Hind

CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

1ch/1w 40x30

Inc FLIR, NVG

Mil Mi-28NE Havoc

CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

2chPD 240x70

Head tracked, inc FLIR, NVG

Sukhoi Su-30MK

FGA Kronshtadt/Sukhoi

Transas Aurora

5chD 270x110

Sukhoi Su-33 Flanker D

FGA CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

3ch/3wC 120x28

Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback

FGA CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

4ch/3wC 172x28

Russia - Army Mil Mi-17 Hip

Kronshtadt

Transas Aurora

8chD 180x75

Mil Mi-17V5 Hip

Kronshtadt

Transas Aurora

8chD 180x75

Mil Mi-26T Halo

Kronshtadt

Transas Aurora

8chD 180x75

Mil Mi-35M Hind

Kronshtadt

Transas Aurora

8chD 180x75

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Sims Image on line Generator

Visual Display

Motion Networking Axes Capabilities

Remarks

Russia - MiG Training Facility MiG 29 Fulcrum

CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

3ch/3wC 120x28

Research Sim

Forestry patrol

Research Sim

Russia - Mil Helicopter Mil Mi-28NE Havoc

CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

3ch/3w 120x30

Russia - Roslesinforg Mil Mi-8MTB

CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

6chPD 220x70

Russia - Sukhoi Training Facility Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker C

FGA CSTS Dinamika

Transas Aurora

3ch/3w 110x30

Russia - TsAGI Generic

AMST

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

Centrifuge

Generic (various)

TsAGI

3ch/3w 180x45

Research Sim type PSPK 2

Generic (various)

TsAGI

8chPD 240x140

Research Sim type PS 10M

Generic (various)

TsAGI

1ch/1w 60x45

Research Sim type PSPK 102

Generic (various)

TsAGI

3ch/4wC 80x40

Research Sim type PSPK 102

Saudi Arabia - Air Force BAES Hawk 65

FT&GA BAES

PCIG

1ch/1w 50x25

BAES Hawk 65

FT&GA Thales S

ESIG

3ch/3w 150x40

Bell 412SAR

Frasca

TruVision

3ch/3w 140x30

Bell B412/212

CAE

Vital 9

3chCC 150x40

6H 6H

Boeing E-3D Sentry

Thales R

SPX

3ch/3w 150x40

Boeing F-15C Eagle

Boeing

AAlchemy

6chD 330x60

Boeing F-15C Eagle

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

Boeing F-15S Eagle

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

Boeing KE-3D Sentry tanker

Thales R

SP-3T

3ch/3w 150x40

CPT u/d 2000

DMO 3x2-ship UTD, plus avionics trainer

Generic

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

1EG

Centrifuge G-Lab

Generic

ETC

PC IG

3ch/3w 110x30

4EY

DisoTr Gyro IPT II

LM C-130H Hercules

CAE

ESIG 4530

3chCC 150x40

Panavia Tornado F3 ADV

FGA Thales S

Image 3T

3ch/3w 150x40

Plus CPT

Panavia Tornado IDS

FGA Thales S

Image 3T

3ch/3w 150x40

Plus two CPTs

Pilatus PC-9

BAES

PCIG

1ch/1w 50x25

Pilatus PC-9

BAES

EPX 500

3ch/3w 150x40

CPT

Saudi Arabia - Navy Eurocopter AS-332 Super Puma

Thales

Space

6chD 270x60

Eurocopter AS-565N Dauphin 2

Thales

Space

6chD 270x60

Singapore - Air Force BeechCraft C90GTi

TruVision

2chHMD 220x75

Boeing A-4 S1 Skyhawk

FGA CAE/STTS

Frasca

Vital 6

3ch/3w 150x40

Plus mission trainers

Boeing A-4SU Skyhawk

FGA CAE/STTS

CompuScene 6

2chD24ft 270x90D

Head-tracked AOI

Boeing Apache AH-64

CAE

Medallion 6000

5chPD 240 x 90

Boeing CH-47D Chinook

Head-tracked AoI

CAE

Medallion

5chCC 200x45

Eurocopter AS332/532 & Sikorsky UH60 R

CAE

Medallion 6000

5chCC+3chin 240x50

Ro/Ro S Puma, Cougar, Black Hawk

Eurocopter AS332B/M S Puma

Thales T

Compuscene 6

6chD 270x60

Op by STTS company

Eurocopter AS550 A2/C2 Fennec

ST Electronics

PC IG

3ch/3w 180x45

Eurocopter EC-120

Frasca

TruVision

3ch/3w 180x45

Generic

AMST

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

Centrifuge at Aeromedical centre

Generic

AMST

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

DisoTr at Aeromedical centre

LM C-130H Hercules

Thales T

Visa 4

3ch/3w 150x40

LM F-16C

FGA ST Electronics

Onyx2

3ch/4w 200x45

Northrop Grumman F-5E Tiger II

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

ST Electronics

Plus distributed mission trainers

Slovakia - Air Force 1

VRM/IMMAX

3ch/3w 150x45

FMS

MiG 29 Fulcrum

Aero Vod L-39-C/ZA

FT&GA VRM M

VRM

VRM/IMMAX

3ch/3w 180x90

FMS

Mil Mi-17 Moder

VRM

VRM/IMMAX

4ch/4w 180x45 (70)

FMS

South Africa - Air Force AgWestland A-109LUH

CAE / African Def Sys 1

Maxvue

4ch/5w 200x60

AgWestland AW 109LUH

AgWestland

Q3D Aalchemy

3ch/3w 120x50

Also NVG mode

SGI / Saab Grape

3ch/3w 180x40

Display by GMO

BAES Hawk Pilatus PC-7 Astra Pilatus PC-7 Astra Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D

FT&GA BAES Australia T

Thales South Africa Ltd 4

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

Thales South Africa Ltd 1

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

PCIG /Saab Grape

8chD 290x75

FGA Saab

Barco SEER-9 display

South Korea - Air Force BAES Hawk 67 Boeing F-15K Eagle

FT&GA Thales F

Boeing

Space Classic

4ch/5w 200x40

Independence

1ch/1w 40x30

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military Flight Simulator Census

Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer

Sims Image on line Generator

Visual Display

Motion Networking Axes Capabilities

Remarks

Boeing F-15K Eagle

Boeing

Independence

6chD 330x60

EADS CASA CN-235-100M

Havelsan

Harmony-II

5chCC 220x45

Generic

DoDaam

CGI

3ch/3w 150x40

Pilot aptitude trainer

Generic

DoDaam

CGI

3ch/3w 45x180

Centrifuge

Level D Compliant

Generic

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

1EG

Centrifuge G-Lab

Generic

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

3EG

DisoTr GL 1000

Generic Helicopter Reconfigurable

DoDaam

CGI

6chPD 75x150

Tactics trainer

Iliushin T-103

DoDaam

CGI

1ch/1w 35x40

CPT to FAA FTD Level 5

KAI KT-1 Ungbi

KAI

Onyx 2

3ch/3w 150x40

KAI KT-1 Ungbi

KAI

Onyx 2

6chD7.3m 200x60

KAI T-50 Golden Eagle

FT&GA KAI/Dodaam

Harmony 2

3ch/3w 180x60

KAI T-50 Golden Eagle

FT&GA KAI/Dodaam

Harmony 2

8chD7.3m 315x180

LM F-16C

FGA L-3 Link

CompuScene 6

5chD 330x60

LM F-16C

FGA L-3 Link

ESIG-3000

5chD 330x60

LM F-16C Block 52

FGA L-3 Link

SGI

1ch/1w 40x30

UTD

LM P-3 Orion

CAE

Medallion

3chCC 150x40

Northrop Grumman F-5E Tiger II

DoDaam

CGI

1ch/1w 40x30

CPT

Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk

DoDaam

CGI

3ch/3w 150x40

FTD

Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk

DoDaam

CGI

5chCC 60x210

Level D FFS

Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawk

DoDaam

CGI

1ch/1w 40x30

FTD

Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawk

CAE

ESIG-4350

4ch/5w 210x60

South Korea - Army Bell AH-1F/S Cobra

CAE

ESIG-4350

4ch/5w 210x60

Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawk

Thales/DoDaam

ThalesView

4ch/5w 200x45

South Korea - Navy AgWestland Lynx

DoDaam

CGI

5chCC 60x210

Spain - Airbus Military Airbus A-400M

Thales

ThalesView

3ch/3w 150x40

FTD

Airbus A-400M

Thales

ThalesView

5chCC 220x45

FMS

Spain - Air Force 2

Indra

3chC 150x40

Canadair CL-415

Boeing EF-18A Hornet

FGA Indra M

Indra

Invis2

3ch/3w 180x40

Dassault Mirage F1M

Indra

1ch/1wC 30x40

Dassault Mirage F1M

Thales T

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

EADS CASA C-101B Aviojet

Indra

INVIS

3ch/3w 150x40

EADS CASA C-295

CAE

Medallion

3chCC 150x40

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Eurofighter Sim Sys

Medallion-X

4chPD 220x100

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Eurofighter Sim Sys

Medallion-X

6chD 360x130

Flat panel display

0 0MGD

Generic T-6

ETC

PC IG

1ch/C 40x30

4EY

LM C-130 Hercules T-10

Indra

INVIS

3ch/4w 200x45

Northrop Grumman F-5M Tiger II

Indra

INVIS

3ch/3wC 150x40

Sikorsky S-76

Indra

INVIS

6chPD 200x45

Plus 6 TProj DisoTr Gyro IPT II

Spain - Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook HT-17

Indra

INVIS

3ch/4w 200x45

Boeing CH-47 Chinook HT-17

Indra

INVIS

8chD 210x80

6EV

Eurocopter AS532 Cougar HU21L

Indra

INVIS

3ch/4w 200x45

Eurocopter AS532 Cougar HU21L

Indra

INVIS

8chD 210x80

6EV

Eurocopter Tiger HAD

Indra

INVIS

6chD 165x120

Eurocopter Tiger HAD

Indra

Two cockpits

INVIS

12chD 240x120

6EV

Two cockpits

Spain - Navy Boeing/BAES EAV-8B Harrier II

FGA Indra

CT5A

9chD 150x40

FMS

Boeing/BAES Harrier II+

FGA Indra

pC-Nova

8chF 360x135

FMS

INVIS

5wCC 210x120

Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk

Indra

FMS

Sudan - Air Force Hongdu K-8S Karakorum

FT&GA BASC

CGI

3chCC 200x45

Sweden - Saab Saab JAS 39 Gripen

FGA Saab

SGI/Saab Grape

8chD 270D

SEOS display

Saab JAS 39 Gripen

FGA Saab

SGI/Saab Grape

8chD 270D

SEOS display

Sweden - Air Force AgWestland AW 109LUH

AgWestland

Q3D Indep 3000

3ch/3w 180x50

Saab 105/SK60

Sjรถlan&Thyselius

PC IG

3ch/4w 180x60

Barco SEER-4 display

Saab JAS 39 Gripen

FGA Wyle Labs

PC IG

3ch/3w 120x35

Centrifuge

Saab JAS 39 Gripen

FGA ISD Technologies

Equipe PCIG

3ch/4w 180x45

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Aircraft Type

Cat Simulator Manufacturer

Saab JAS 39 Gripen

FGA Saab

PC IG / Vega

6chD 200D

Dome w AOI

Saab JAS 39 Gripen

FGA Saab

PC IG / Vega

6chD 200D

Dome w AOI

Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D

FGA Saab

SGI / Saab Grape

8chD 220x75

Barco SEER-8 display

Saab JAS 39A Gripen

FGA LM

ESIG-4530

3ch/3w 150x40

Saab JAS 39A Gripen

FGA LM

ESIG-3000

5chD 250x50

PCIG /Saab Grape

2chHMD 330x90

Saab Viggen Switzerland - Air Force

Saab

Sims Image on line Generator

Visual Display

Motion Networking Axes Capabilities

Remarks

HMD by RColl (ex-Kaiser)

BAES Hawk 66

FT&GA Thales R

SPX500

6chD 270x60

Boeing F/A-18C

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

8chF 360x130

TOFT, SimuSphere display

ESIG-4530

6chD 270x60

Visual u/d

Eurocopter AS532 Cougar

Pilatus PC-7 Taiwan - Air Force

Thales/RUAG

RUAG

Aalchemy

1ch/1w 48x36

AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo

AIDC

ESIG-3000

7chD 330x70

Head-tracked AoI

Dassault Mirage 2000-5

Sogitec

Apogee

1ch/1w 40x40

UTD

Dassault Mirage 2000-5

Sogitec

Apogee

8chD8m 320x130

plus 2 TProj

Dassault Mirage 2000 & LM F-16

Latecoere

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

Centrifuge Model 101.5

Generic

AMST

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

DisoTr Airfox

LM C-130H Hercules

CAE

Medallion

3chCC 200x40

LM F-16

FGA Camber

SGI

7chD 270x70

LM F-16A Block 20

FGA L-3 Link

ESIG-3000

3ch/3w 180

LM F-16A Block 20

FGA L-3 Link

ESIG-3000

Taiwan - Army

Bell UH-1 Iroquois Taiwan - Navy

CAE

Sikorsky SH-60C Seahawk Thailand - Air Force

Generic

CAE

SP3T

ESIG 3000

4ch/5w 330x45 3ch/3w 150x40

PC IG

1ch/C 40x30

Space

5chPD 220x60

Similar to USN SH-60F sim

FGA Thales

ETC

3ch/3w 150x40

LM F-16C

WST

DisoTr GL 1500

4EY 0

Northrop Grumman F-5E Tiger II

Elbit

PC IG

3ch/3w 120x30

PAC CT/4E Airtrainer

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

GAT II sim

Pilatus PC-9

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

Simulator

PCIG /Saab Grape

9chD 290x75

Barco SEER-9 display

Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D

FGA Saab

Thailand - Army

Bell UH-1H Huey Tunisia - Air Force Aero Vod L-59T Albatros

CAE

FT&GA Letov LV

Generic

ETC

3ch/3w 150x40

Two cockpits

SP3T

PC IG

3ch/3w 180x40

Plus ejection seat trainer

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

GAT II sim

Turkey - Air Force

Boeing F-4E-2020 Phantom II

FGA Havelsan

PCIG

3ch/3w 210x60

Boeing F-4E-2020 Phantom II

FGA Havelsan

PCIG

3ch/3w 210x60

LW L

EADS CASA CN-235-100

Havelsan

EPX-5000

3chCC 180x40

Generic

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

1EG

FGA L-3 Link

ESIG-500

3ch/3w 150x40

LM F-16C Block 40

FGA L-3 Link

ESIG-3000

3ch/3w 150x40

LM F-16C Block 40

FGA L-3 Link

ESIG-3000

5chD 330x45

Several C-130, F-16, T-38, UH60

FMR ETC

PCIG

5ch/5w 120x70

Turkey - Army

4EY

Bell UH-1D Huey

CAE

ESIG-600

3ch/3w 150x40

Havelsan

EPX-5000

3ch/3w 210x60

Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk S-70

Havelsan

EPX-5000

5chCC 220x60

Havelsan

EPX-500

3ch/3w 180x45

Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk

Havelsan

EPX-5000

5chCC 220x60

BAES Hawk 63

FT&GA Thales S

L L

Level D JAA

Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk UAE - Air Force

DisoTr GL 1500

Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk S-70

Level C Compliant Centrifuge G-Lab

LM F-16C Block 30

Turkey - Navy

Inc helmet display

L L

Level D JAA

Image IIIT

3ch/3w 150x40

Dassault Mirage 2000-9

Sogitec

Apogee-3

3ch/3w 150x45

Dassault Mirage 2000-9

Sogitec

Apogee-3/4

6chD6m 270x135

One seat

Dassault Mirage 2000-9

Sogitec

Apogee-3/4

6mD8m 270x135

Two seats

Generic

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

4EY

DisoTr GL 1000

LM F-16E/F

FGA Sogitec

Apogee4

3ch/3w 160x40

Plus 4 sensors

LM F-16E/F

FGA Sogitec

Apogee4

8chD8m 300x130

4 sensors, 4 TProj

LM F-16E/F Block 60

FGA LM

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

LM F-16E/F Block 60

FGA LM

PC IG

5chD 250x50

Maxvue

3ch/3w 150x40

Pilatus PC-7

CAE

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Sims Image on line Generator

Visual Display

Motion Networking Axes Capabilities

Remarks

UAE - Emirates/CAE Centre Bell B412/212

CAE

Tropos

3ch/3w 180x60

UK - Air Tanker Consortium Airbus A330-200 MRTT

Thales

ThalesView

3chCC 180x45

UK - Army AgWestland Lynx AH7/9

Thales

ThalesView

4ch/5w 220x45

PFI contract

Boeing Apache AH1 Longbow

Boeing (ATIL PFI)

EPX 5000

6chPD 220x90

Transportable

Boeing Apache AH1 Longbow

Boeing (ATIL PFI)

EPX 5000

6chD 220x90

FMS + Tproj

UK - AW Trg Academy AgWestland AW101 Generic

Atlantis

Diamond Visionics Genesis 3ch/3w 120x30

To AW Specification

UK - Cranfield Aerospace LM F-16

FGA Cranfield Aerospace

PCIG

1ch1w 60x40

0MG

Motion & G-suit demonstrator

UK - Defence Helicopter School Bell 412EP

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 220x60

PFI, also Frasca CPT

Bell 412EP

Frasca

TruVision

3ch/3w 170x45

PFI with FSI

UK - EDM LM F-16

FGA EDM

PCIG

2ch1w 60x40

Motion seat demonstrator

UK - ETPS Generic

AMST

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

DisoTr Airfox

UK - Pennant company site Generic fighter Hawk and others

Pennant Training

PCIG

3ch/3w 120x40

CPT demonstrator

UK - QinetiQ Generic F&R Reconfigurable

QinetiQ

RColl EPX 50

12chD 250x75

ETPS Test Pilot Training

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA QinetiQ

QinetiQ IG

1ch/1w 60x40

ACT Joust programme

Generic R&M Reconfigurable

QinetiQ

QinetiQ IG

3ch/3w 150x40

Panavia Tornado GR4

FGA QinetiQ

QinetiQ IG

4ch/4w 270x180

Research, Hovers prog, heli & large ac 4m Cube, for tactics & TP training

UK - Royal Air Force AgWestland EH-101 Merlin HC3

CAE PFI

Harmony 1

5chCC 210x45

AgWestland Sea King HAR3/3A

Thales R

ESIG-3000

4ch/5w 200x45

6VM

BAES Harrier GR7

FGA Thales S

PCIG

6chD 330x60

Head-tracked AoI

BAES Harrier GR7/9

FGA Thales S

ThalesView

6chD 330x60

u/d from GR5

TCC for co-ord Plus rear-crew trainer

BAES Hawk

FT&GA BAES

Onyx 2

1ch/1w 40x30

IFT; PFI

BAES Hawk Mk1

FT&GA BAES

Onyx 2

3ch/3w 130x320

WTT, PFI

E&S

3chCC 190x45

BAES Jetsream T1

Thales R

BAES Nimrod MR2

Thales

SP-X 500

3chCCol 180x40

To be replaced by MRA4

BAES Nimrod MRA4

Thales

Harmony 2

5chCCol 210x45

Plus 2 CPT & 2 RCT

BAES VC10 C & K

Thales R

ESIG 3250

3chCC 150x40

Boeing CH-47 Chinook

CAE PFI

Harmony 1

5chCC 210x45

Boeing E-3D Sentry

Thales R

ESIG 4530

3chCC 150x40

CAE PFI

Eurocopter SA-330 Puma HC1

6H 6VM

TCC for co-ord

Harmony 1

5chCC 210x45

6VM

TCC for co-ord

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA QinetiQ - CueSim

QinetiQ IG

12chD 250x75

DSALT Facility

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA QinetiQ - CueSim

QinetiQ IG

12chD 260x42

DSALT Facility

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA QinetiQ - CueSim

QinetiQ IG

2ch/2w 80x60

DSALT Facility

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Thales

ThalesView

1ch/1w 40x30

Eurofighter Typhoon

FGA Eurofighter Sim Sys

Medallion-X

6chD 360x130

0MGD

Transportable Cockpit Trainer Plus 6 TProj

Generic

AMST

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

DisoTr Airfox

LM C-130 Hercules

CAE USA

ESIG-4530

5chCC 210x45

Plus FTD and PTTs

LM C-130K Hercules

Thales R

SPX-500

4ch/5w 200x40

LM KC-130J Hercules

CAE USA

ESIG-4530

5chCC 210x45

Thales R

ESIG-3250

3chCC 190x45

Panavia Tornado F3

LM TriStar K1

FGA Thales R

ESIG

3ch/3w 180x44

Panavia Tornado GR4

FGA QinetiQ - CueSim

QinetiQ IG

12chD 250x75

DSALT Facility

Panavia Tornado GR4

FGA QinetiQ - CueSim

QinetiQ IG

12chD 260x42

DSALT Facility

Panavia Tornado GR4

FGA QinetiQ - CueSim

QinetiQ IG

2ch/2w 80x60

DSALT Facility

Panavia Tornado GR4

FGA Thales R

Harmony 1

6chD 270x60

ESIG

3ch/3w 150x40

Raytheon Sentinel R1 (ASTOR)

RColl S&T

4th vis ch for rear view

Plus CPT and PTT; PFI

UK - Royal Navy AgWestland EH-101 Merlin HM1

CAE

Maxvue

3chCC 180x40

AgWestland EH-101 Merlin HM1

CAE

Maxvue

8chD 270x70

AgWestland EH-101 Merlin HM8

CAE

Maxvue

5chCC+2chin 220x60

AgWestland Lynx HAS8

CAE

Maxvue

5chCC 210x40

Thales R

SP3T

4ch/5w 200x45

Plus 3 rear-crew trainers

FGA Thales R

Harmony 1

6chD 270x60

PFI contract

AgWestland Sea King HAS6 BAES Sea Harrier FA2 58

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Motion Networking Axes Capabilities

Remarks

UK - Universities Generic

Merlin FSG

PC IG

1ch1w 60x40

SimType 520 - reconfig flt program

Generic

Merlin FSG

PC IG

1ch1w 60x40

SimType 520 - reconfig flt program

Uruguay - Air Force Pilatus PC-7

Frasca

FVS

1ch/1w 40x60

USA - Air Force Beechcraft Beech 400A Jayhawk

ESIG-500

3ch/4w 200x40

Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

Frasca

FVS-200TX

3ch/3w 150x40

Bell CV-22 Osprey

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 220x60

6EV

WST

Bell CV-22 Osprey

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 220x60

FTD

Bell CV-22 Osprey

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 220x60

FTD

Bell CV-22 Osprey

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 220x60

Bell TH-1H Huey

CSC

CGI

3ch/3w 150x40

Bell UH-1H Huey

SE2000

4ch/5w 220x40

Boeing B1B Lancer

Thales R

ESIG

3ch/3w 150x40

Some at AF Academy Colorado Springs

FTD FSXXI prog

Boeing B1B Lancer

Thales R

ESIG

3ch/3w 150x40

Boeing B-1B Lancer

Boeing

SP3T

3ch/3w 150x40

Boeing B-52B Stratofortress

Boeing

EPX-500

3ch/3w 150x40

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

FSI

Vital 9

3ch/3w 180x40

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 225x50

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 225x50

Level D+ FMS

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 225x50

Level D+ FMS

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 225x50

Level D+ FMS

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 225x50

Level D+ FMS

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 225x50

Level D+ FMS

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 225x50

Level D+ FMS

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 225x50

Level D+ FMS

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 225x50

Level D+ FMS

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 225x50

Level D+ FMS

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 225x50

Level D+ FMS

Boeing E-3A/B/C Sentry

CAE

Medallion

5chCC 225x50

Boeing F-15A/C Eagle

ESIG 500

3ch/3w 150x40

Boeing F-15C Eagle

Boeing

ESIG-4350

6chD 330x60

Boeing F-15E Eagle

PT4000

5chD 250x50

Boeing F-15E Eagle

Boeing

Independece

6chD 330x60

Boeing KC-10A Extender

Thales R

ESIG-4350

4ch/5w 225x45

LW LW

Plus 5 CPTs and 2 mission trainers CPT

DMO 4-ship DMO 4-ship Plus 4 FTDs

Boeing KC-135E Stratotanker

Thales R

ESIG

3ch/3w 150x40

Plus 2 boom operator PTTs

Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker

Thales R

ESIG-4350

4ch/5w 225x45

Visuals u/d, FSI motion added

Boeing RC-135R/W Rivet Joint

RColl S&T

ESIG-5530

3chCC 150x40

Gen Atomics Predator GCS

L-3 Link

SimuView

3ch/3w 150x40

Generic

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

1EG

Centrifuge g-Lab 10g/s to 15G

Generic fighter

Wyle (operator)

PC IG

3ch/3w 120x35

Centrifuge

Generic fighter reconfigurable

USAF AFRL/Link

PC IG

8chF 330x75

M2 DART model

Generic fighter reconfigurable

USAF AFRL

Onyx

6chPD 330x75

SIRE (Synth Research Env)

Generic fighter reconfigurable

USAF AFRL

PC IG

6chD 266x110

LAMARS, gondola on hydraulic arm

Generic reconfigurable

USAF AFRL

PC IG

6chD 330x75

MS-1

Generic T-6

ETC

PC IG

3ch/3w 110x40

4EY

DisoTr Gyro IPT II

Hawker Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

FSI

Vital 9

1ch/1w 45x33

IFT

Hawker Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

FSI

Vital 9

4ch/5w 270x70

OFT

Hawker Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

FSI

Vital 9

1ch/1w 45x33

IFT

Hawker Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

FSI

Vital 9

4ch/5w 270x70

OFT

Hawker Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

FSI

Vital 9

1ch/1w 45x33

IFT

Hawker Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

FSI

Vital 9

7chPD 270x70

OFT

Hawker Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

FSI

Vital 9

1ch/1w 45x33

IFT

Hawker Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

FSI

Vital 9

7chPD 270x70

OFT

Hawker Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

FSI

Vital 9

1ch/1w 45x33

IFT

Hawker Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

FSI

Vital 9

4ch/5w 270x70

OFT

Hawker Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

FSI

Vital 9

1ch/1w 45x33

IFT

Hawker Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

FSI

Vital 9

4ch/5w 270x70

OFT

FGA USAF AFRL

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

LM A-10

LM AC-130U Hercules

Vital 9

3ch/3w 150x40

LM AC-130U Hercules

CAE USA

Vital 9

3chCC 180x40

LM C-130 Hercules

CAE USA

CompuScene 4

3chCC 150x40

SF Spectre gunship

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Motion Networking Axes Capabilities

LM C-130H Hercules

CAE USA

ESIG 4000

3chCC 150x40

LM C-130H Hercules

CAE USA

Vital 4

3chCC 150x40

Remarks SF Combat Talon II

LM C-141A Starlifter

CAE

ESIG

3chCC 150x40

LM C-5B Galaxy

CAE

Vital 8

5chCC 225x50

LM F-16

FGA USAF AFRL

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

LM F-16

FGA USAF AFRL

SGI

3chHMD 360x90

RS-2 project

LM F-16 Block 40/42 & 50/52

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

8chF 360x130

Mission Training

LM F-16 MLU

FGA Thales R

ESIG 3000

3ch/3w 150x40

LM F-16 Multiple Blocks

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

2chHMD 360 FoR

UTD with AHMD

LM F-16 Multiple Blocks

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

8chF 360x130

WST , SimuSphere display

LM F-16A/C

FGA L-3 Link

Onyx2 or MetaVR

5chD 330x45

LM F-16A/C

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

5chD 330x45

LM F-16C Block 50

FGA Boeing

ESIG

1ch/1w 40x30

UTD

LM F-16C Block 50/52

FGA LM

SGI

3ch/3w 150x40

DMO 3x4-ship

for USAF Reserve

LM F-22 Raptor

L-3 Link

SimuView

2ch/2w 90x40

WTT

LM F-22 Raptor

L-3 Link

SimuView

8chF 360x130

FMT, SimuSphere display

LM HC-130P Hercules

FSI

Vital X

5chCC 225x50

LM HC-130P Hercules

FSI

Vital X

5chCC 225x50

LM KC-130J Hercules

Vital 9

4ch/5w 200x50

Plus CPT and PTTs

LM MC-130E Hercules

Vital 9

3ch/3w 150x40

SF Combat Talon I

LM MC-130H Hercules

Vital 9

3ch/3w 150x40

SF Combat Talon II

LM MC-130P Hercules

Vital 9

3ch/3w 150x40

SF Combat Shadow

Northrop Grumman B-2A Spirit

L-3 Link

PC-IG

3ch/3w 150x40

Northrop Grumman E-8C JSTARS

RColl S&T

EPX-5530

3chCC 180x40

Plus 1 mission trainer Plus FTD

Northrop Grumman T-38C Talon

FT&GA Boeing

ESIG-4530

1ch/1w 40x30

UTD

Northrop Grumman T-38C Talon

FT&GA Boeing

ESIG-4530

6chD 216x135

u/d from T-38A devices

Northrop Grumman T-38C Talon

FT&GA Boeing

ESIG-4530

6chD 330x60

Sikorsky HH-60G Black Hawk

CompuScene 5

4ch/5w 220x50

SF Pave Hawk

Sikorsky MH-53J Stallion

CompuScene 5

4ch/5w 220x50

SF Pave Low IIIE

Sikorsky MH-53M Stallion

CompuScene 5

4ch/5w 220x50

SF Pave Low IV

Sikorsky MH-60G Black Hawk

Camber

SGI

5chD 150x40

SF Pave Hawk

USA - Army Bell TH-1 Iroquois

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 200x60

6EV

FSXXI prog

Bell TH-67 Creek

FSI

Vital 9

1ch/1w 18x24

IFT FSXX1

Bell TH-67 Creek

FSI

Vital 9

3chCC 180x50

6EV

OFT FSXX1

Boeing A/MH-6M Little Bird

CAE

Medallion-S

4ch/5w 240x90

Boeing AH-64 Apache

CAE

Maxvue

2chD 360x120

Head-tracked, CAE FO HMD

Boeing AH-64 Apache

CAE

ESIG-1000

2chD 360x120

Head-tracked, CAE FO HMD

Boeing AH-64D Longbow

Boeing

ESIG-2000

4ch/5w 180x60

Transportable

Boeing MH-47E Chinook

CAE/L-3 Link

Medallion-S

5chCC 210x50

Plus TopScene, for SOF av regt

Boeing MH-47G Chinook

CAE

Medallion-S

5chCC 225x50

SOF aviation regiment

Several 5 helo types

L-3 Link

Link

2chHMD 360 FoR

FSXXI OFT

Several 5 helo types

L-3 Link

Link

2chHMD 360 FoR

Several UH-60A/L,CH-47D, OH-58D R

L-3 Link

Link

5chCC 200x45

FSXXI OFT

AVCATT

Sikorsky MH-60K Black Hawk

CAE

Medallion-S

5chCC+2chin 220x60

SOF aviation regiment

Sikorsky UH-60 A/L Black Hawk

FSI

Link SimuView

5chCC+2chin 200x45

6EV

OFT, FSXXI programme

Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk

FSI

Link SimuView

1ch/1w 24x18

IFT

Sikorsky UH-60A/L Black Hawk

RColl S&T

PC IG

5chCC 220x45

USA - Boeing Training Facility Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 225x50

Level D+ FMS

USA - CAE Training Center LM C-130H Hercules

CAE USA

Vital 4

3chCC 150x40

CAE Training centre

USA - Coast Guard Boeing HH60J/HH65C

ASI

PCIG

2ch/2w 90x40

Sikorsky MH-60T Black Hawk

J F Taylor

Alion (GFE)

4ch/5w 220x45

CPT open plan

USA - DoD Mil Mi-17 Hip

Elbit

PC IG

3chPD 180x60

6EV

Mil Mi-24P Hind

Elbit

PC IG

3chPD 180x60

6EV

Mil Mi-8MTV Hip

Elbit

PC IG

3chPD 180x60

6EV

USA - German Air Force Panavia Tornado IDS

FGA CAE

Maxvue

3ch/3w 150x40

USA - Marine Corps Bell AH-1W Super Cobra 60

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Vital 9

5chD 330x60

Two cockpit WST

Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer

Sims on line

Image Generator

Visual Display

Motion Axes

Networking Remarks Capabilities

Bell AH-1Z Super Cobra

FSI

Vital 9

7chPD 270x70

Bell AH-1Z Super Cobra

FSI

Vital 9

7chPD 270x70

6EV

Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey

Veraxx Eng Corp

pC-Nova

6ch/5w 220x60

Containerised FTD

Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey

Veraxx Eng Corp

pC-Nova

6ch/5w 220x60

Containerised FTD

Bell MV-22 Osprey

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 220x60

FTD

Bell MV-22 Osprey

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 220x60

Bell UH-1N Huey

L-3 Link, ASI

Vital

5chD 330x60

WST

Bell UH-1N Huey

JF Taylor, Veraxx

pC-Nova

3ch/3w 150x55

Transportable, avioics trainer

Bell UH-1Y Super Huey

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 220x60

Bell UH-1Y Super Huey

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 200x60

Bell UH-1Y Super Huey

FSI

Vital 9

5chCC 200x60

6EV

Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight

ASI

ESIG-2000

3ch/4w 180x40

Transportable, Avionics Trainer

Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight

CAE USA

CompuScene 4

4ch/5w 220x70

WST

Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight

Level D equiv FFS

Aalchemy

3ch/4w 200x40

Plus WST

Boeing F/A-18C Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

6ChF 330x60

DMO, SimuSphere display

Boeing F/A-18D Hornet

FGA LM

Aalchemy

3ch/3w 150x40

Boeing/BAES AV8B Harrier II

FGA Indra

pC-Nova

8chF 360x135

Boeing/BAES Harrier II

FGA Boeing

CompuScene4

6chD 330x60

LM KC-130F/R Hercules

CAE

CompuScene5

5chCC 220x50

LM KC-130J Hercules

CAE USA

Vital 9

5chCC 200x50

LM KC-130J Hercules

Vital 9

5chCC 200x50

LM KC-130R Hercules

CAE

CompuScene 6

3chCC 150x40

FMS

Plus avionics PTT

LM KC-130T Hercules

CompuScene 6

3ch/3w 150x40

Northrop Grumman E-3C Hawkeye

ASI

PCIG

3ch/4wC 150x40

u/d ASI

Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler

SymSystems

ESIG

3ch/3w 190x45

Transportable; plus OFT, 1 WTT

Sikorsky CH-53D Sea Stallion

L-3 Link, DEI

ESIG 5530

5chCC+2chin 220x45

WST

Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion

Pax River MFS

ESIG-2000

3ch/4w 180x40

Transportable

Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion

ESIG-5530

4ch/5w 200x60

Transportable

Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion

L-3 Link, JFTI

pC-Nova

4ch/5w 220x70

WST

Sikorsky VH-3D Sea King

ASI

ESIG-5530

3ch/3w 150x55

Transportable

Sikorsky VH-60N Black Hawk

ASI

ESIG-5530

3ch/3w 150x55

Transportable

USA - NASTAR Centre Generic

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

4EY

Generic

ETC

PC IG

3ch/3w 120x30

4EY

DisoTr GyroFlight

FGA ETC

PC IG

3ch/3w 110x70

3EG

Centrifuge ATFS 400

Multiple F-18, F-16, F-35, F-22

DisoTr GL 2000

USA - Navy Beechcraft Beech T-34C Mentor

RColl S&T

PC IG

3ch/3w 150x40

Plus 6 CPTs

Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

FSI

Vital 9

7chPD 270x70

OFT

Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

FSI

Vital 9

7chPD 270x70

OFT

Bell AH-1W Super Cobra

J F Taylor

ESIG-4530

6chPD 250x60

Bell TH-57 SeaRanger

CAE

SP-3T

5chCC 210x40

Bell TH-57C SeaRanger

CAE

Independence 2000

3chCC 150x40

Boeing F/A-18C Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

8ChF 360x130

Boeing A/F-18 Hornet

FGA ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

Boeing AV8A Harrier

FGA Thales R

Boeing B737 P-8A Poseidon Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight Boeing E/A-18G Growler Boeing E-6B Mercury Boeing E-6B Mercury

6chD 330x60

3chCC 150x40

ESIG-5000

4ch/5w 220x70

SimuView

6ChF 300x130

3chCC 200x45

CAE USA

1 3 1

Medallion 6000

CAE

Visual u/d

Harmony Medallion

FGA L-3 Link

DMO, SimuSphere display Centrifuge G-FET

CAE

3EG

2 cockpits, Pilot & ECMO

Medallion 6000

3chCC 200x45

Boeing EA-18G Super Hornet

FGA Boeing

SimuView

6chD 330x60

Boeing F/A-18 Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

5chD 330x60

Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet

FGA CAE

M-2000

2chHMD 360x120

Boeing F/A-18C Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

5chF 300x75

Boeing F/A-18C Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

8ChF 360x130

Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

5chF 300x75

Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

8ChF 360x130

Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

8ChF 360x130

Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

6ChF 300x130

SimuSphere display

Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

6ChF 300x130

u/d TOFT with SimuSphere

Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

8chD 360x130

WTTs u/d to E/F

Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

8ChF 360x130

SimuSphere display

Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet

FGA Boeing

SimuView

6chD 300x120

Two cockpits Head-tracked, CAE FO HMD

SimuSphere display DMO, SimuSphere display SimuSphere display TOFT, SimuSphere display

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FGA Boeing

Sims on line

Image Generator

Visual Display

Motion Axes

Networking Remarks Capabilities

SimuView

6chD 330x60

u/d F/A-18C WTT

Generic fighter

Wyle (operator)

PC IG

3ch/3w 120x35

Centrifuge

Generic interchangeable cockpits

Pax River MFS

RasterFlite

3chCC 180x40

Two seats side by side

Generic interchangeable cockpits

Pax River MFS

pC-Nova

5ch{D 220x40

Inc MH-60 cockpit

Generic interchangeable cockpits

Pax River MFS

pC-Nova

6chF 270x75

F-18 & F-35 cockpits

Generic interchangeable cockpits

Pax River MFS

pC-Nova

5chCC 220x40

Inc V22 Osprey cockpit

Kaman SH-2G Seasprite

CAE

Vital 3-6000

5chCC+3chin 220x50

LM P-3 Orion

Camber

Q3D

1ch/1wC 150x40

LM P-3 Orion

CAE

Maxvue

3chCC 150x40

LM P-3C Orion

L-3 Link

Maxvue

5chCC 220x45

Northrop Grumman C-2 Greyhound

CAE

PC-Nova

3chCC 150x40

Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye

CAE

MaxVue

3chCC 180x45

Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye

Contraves

Aalchemy

3ch/3w 150x40

WTT TOFT

Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye 2000 M

RColl S&T

PC IG

3chCC 150x40

Sikorsky MH-53 Sea Stallion

Indra

pC-Nova

5ch/6wC 210x60

OFT

Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk

CAE

PC-Nova

5chCC+2chin 220x60

4 OFT & 4 WTT

Sikorsky MH-60S Seahawk

pC-Nova

4ch/5w 200x60

Sikorsky MH-60S Seahawk

Harmony

4ch/5w 220x40

Sikorsky MH-60S Seahawk

CAE

pC-Nova

5chCC 210x50

Sikorsky SH-3H Sea King

CAE

Vital 4

3ch/4w 120x40

Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk

Indra

pC-Nova

5ch/6wC 210x40

Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk

CAE

PC-Nova

5chCC 210x50

Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk

CAE

Harmony

5chCC 220x40

Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk

Indra

pC-Nova

5ch/6wC 210x40

Also 6 rear-crew WTT

LW SEOS display, Plus WTT

USA - Navy/Marines Boeing F/A-18C Hornet

FGA Boeing

Vital 4

1ch/1w 40x30

UTD + 3 CAE PTTs

Boeing F/A-18C Hornet

FGA Boeing

CompuScene 4

6chD 330x60

Two cockpits

Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet

FGA L-3 Link

SimuView

8ChF 360x130

u/d to C/D

Maxvue

3chCC 180x45

Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye

CAE

Northrop Grumman EA-6B ICAP3 Prowler F

Aalchemy

5chCC 200x50

Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler

CAE

SPX500

3chCC 200x45

USA - NASA Boeing AH-64 Apache

CAE

ESIG-1000

2chHMD 360x120

Generic fighter reconfigurable

NASA Langley

NASA

5chD 200x60

Generic reconfigurable

NASA Ames

NASA

5chCC 200x45

Vertical Motion Simulator with 60ft heave

Generic reconfigurable

NASA Langley

NASA

5chCC 200x45

Cockpit Motion Facility

Reconfigurable, FO HMD Two cockpits

Venezuela - Air Force Cessna 172

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

GAT II sim

Generic

ETC

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

DisoTr Gyro IPT

Yemen - Air Force Aero Vod L-39-C/ZA Albatros Moravan Zlin 143/242

FT&GA VRM FT

VRM

VRM/IMMAX

3ch/3w 150x45

FMS

VRM/IMMAX

1ch/1w 60x45

CPT/FNPT

User not released Boeing A-4

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

UTD, with networking

Boeing F-15 Eagle

Elbit (ex BVR)

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

UTD, with networking

Dassault Mirage 2000

Elbit (ex BVR)

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

UTD, with networking

Embraer Emb-312 Tucano

Elbit (ex BVR)

PC IG

3ch/3w 180x50

Generic

Elbit (ex BVR)

PC IG

3ch/3w 180x45

0VM

IAI Searcher UAV

Elbit (ex BVR)

PC IG

3ch/4w 240x80

LM C-130H Hercules

CAE

Medallion

3chCC 150x40

CAE

LM C-130H Hercules

FGA Elbit (ex BVR)

Missile trainer for AS550 Pilot and Ground Control sim

Medallion

3chCC 150x40

LM F-16

FGA Elbit (ex BVR)

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

LM F-16

FGA Elbit (ex BVR)

PC IG

1ch/1w 40x30

UTD, inc weapons trg

LM F-16

FGA Elbit (ex BVR)

PC IG

8chD 360x180

Two seats

LM F-16

FGA Elbit (ex BVR)

PC IG

3ch/4w 220x90

LM F-16 Block 50

FGA Elbit (ex BVR)

PC IG

1ch/1w 60x50

LM F-16 Block 50

FGA Elbit (ex BVR)

PC IG

3ch/3w 180x60

LM F-16 MLU

FGA Elbit (ex BVR)

0VG

UTD, with networking

L Avionics Trainer

PC IG

3ch/3w 180x60

Mil Mi-171sh Hip

VRM

VRM/IMMAX

3ch/4w 180x90

FMS

Mil Mi-35M Hind

CSTS Dinamika

Raduga CD

6chPD 140x60

Inc FLIR, NVG

Pilatus PC-7

Elbit (ex BVR)

PC IG

3ch/3w 160x40

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