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"... returning young officers needed to be listened to, valued, and most importantly, rewarded."
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of a decade of conflict can be applied to training and education. Appropriately, he has focussed on the leadership, warning that we can’t capture the imagination of combat-seasoned forces that have seen incredible complexities by “... bludgeoning them with PowerPoints... we must make the ‘scrimmage’ as hard as the ‘game’ in both the schoolhouse and home station.” The new Army Training Concept outlines the vision for the 2012-2020 force. Central to the Concept is “to make training more rigorous and relevant by leveraging technology to create challenging training environments for our leaders,” says Dempsey. The idea is to maintain capabilities and produce the next generation of agile, ready forces, while expanding the aperture from counterinsurgency to hybrid threats, full spectrum operations, and manoeuvre training, plus the myriad other skills that can atrophy over time. At the core of the Army Training Concept is Tradoc’s “Training Brain” and the role of technology to help pull real-world data from current operations and use it to build realistic scenarios to support training. Further, videos based on recent operations can be made available on the Army Training Network, and used in the schoolhouse, at home station or even when deployed. Perhaps the most exciting application of the Training Brain is its role in helping facilitate massive, multiplayer online role-playing games, which provide a means to interact using common scenarios in a virtual environment, both within units and across the Army. MS&T reported early and often on gaming technologies over the past several years, noting the inevitability, and the value, of soldiers wanting to participate even on their own time. Realistic and relevant training at the point of need is the result. Dempsey has written of the need to never lose sight of the fundamentals of “move, shoot and communicate.” But the embrace of student-centric training to preserve the skills of adaptive leaders, forged in the crucible of current asymmetric operations, is to be applauded. It will, as the General says “... increasingly be our competitive advantage against future threats...” Chris Lehman MS&T Editor-in-Chief chris@halldale.com
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This Yearbook issue of MS&T represents our annual effort to collect and analyse the major themes, issues and opportunities associated with the military training and simulation community. This point in the editorial year also allows MS&T’s global staff a short period for reflection and assessment. For the past decade a significant portion of MS&T’s editorial content has been driven by the leadership, doctrinal and training technology issues surrounding the on-going anti-terror deployments. Most of the US troops in Iraq will be coming home by the end of this year, and some 33,000 surge troops sent to Afghanistan 18 months ago will be home by summer 2012. Other significant combatants such as the UK and Canada are also now drawing down their forces. But there is concern as to how these battle-hardened veterans will downshift from a decade of full-speed operations, to post-conflict and home station training – all while maintaining the critical and hard won skills forged in combat operations. Back in 2008, a series of MS&T Editorial Comments on these pages extolled the value of these young leaders, and pointed out that combat units were now filled with a vast cohort of junior officers and NCOs well-versed in adaptive and innovative leadership skills, and highly capable of operating in environments of ambiguity and complexity. These well-educated and all-volunteer forces were often thrust into missions outside their combat specialties, beyond their familiar military doctrine, and shifting continuously from intense combat to counterinsurgency and diplomatic nation building. The experience created unparalleled adaptive thinking and leadership skills unrecognizable to previous generations. We marvelled at how they performed in these complex environments, made decisions in the blink of an eye, and accomplished the near impossible, much of the time without any guidance or direction from higher command. We joined other commentators who warned that when this large cohort of adaptive, independent leadership returned, the Army needed to encourage the momentum, leverage the innovation and adaptability, and use it to push the institutional cultural changes vital to Training Transformation. These returning young officers needed to be listened to, valued, and most importantly, rewarded. US Army Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey recently talked about how the lessons
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05 Editorial Comment Back to the Future. Editor-in-Chief Chris Lehman highlights a challenge: maintain the operational expertise gained in the last decade of conflict through training and education.
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M&S Caucus. The US Congressional M&S Caucus promotes the US M&S industry. Group Editor Marty Kauchak reports.
Defeating IEDs. Improvised explosive devices are a significant threat. Training to counter this threat is essential. Chuck Weirauch reports on some current training initiatives.
16 Training Technology Visual Systems. The capability of visual systems technology continues to grow in step with platform requirements. MS&T’s Marty Kauchak reports.
22 Submarine Training Royal Navy Submarine Training. MS&T’s Dim Jones describes the process the RN uses to make submariners and their submarines Ready for Operations. 26 National Focus
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flight simulation.
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A Measure of the Industry. MS&T presents the 2011 census of military flight simulators. Ian Strachan compiled the list.
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Beyond the Military Domain While the Congressional M&S Caucus remains a proponent for using the technology to enhance military readiness, the lawmakers continue to eye its use in other domains and higher-order purposes at the national level, reports Group Editor Marty Kauchak.
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he Congressional Modeling and Simulation caucus promotes the U.S. M&S industry, and serves as a forum to understand the policy challenges facing this technology. From its earliest days, the caucus has been an advocate for using M&S to achieve military readiness and gain other efficiencies for the services’ learning audiences. The group of 27 bipartisan legislators has raised its expectations for the technology – advocating its continued use in military, medical and other individual fields, and for broader national security and defense purposes.
Toward a Higher Plateau During an interview with MS&T this May, Congressman Randy Forbes, Founder and Co-chairman of the M&S Caucus, recalled how a wide array of modeling and simulation products and systems help the U.S. Military achieve training readiness efficiencies. The congressman from Virginia’s 4th Dis-
trict (Hampton Roads) then described how the caucus’s current legislative goal places the technology on a trajectory toward a higher plateau – using it in military and other individual fields, while at the same time, bolstering the nation’s defense and security. Indeed, Forbes added that when people discuss modeling and simulation they are often talking about the economics of it – how it benefits a particular area or hub of excellence. “I am far beyond that. What I am looking at, is I believe we need M&S for the national defense of the country. We simply can’t do the training and testing, and the logistical planning and other things that we need to do without it. That’s the image we want to give.” Under Forbes’s leadership the caucus also maintains its reputation as a “convener” – bringing together key elements of the community so that they can corporately elevate the industry to higher levels of achievement. “Specifically, it means looking at policies that we need
Above On the caucus’s horizon – an American Response Center would play a prominent role during disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. Image credit: USCG/NyxoLyno Cangemi.
governmentally to help the modeling and simulation industry. A perfect example of that was having the industry determined to be a critical national technology – which you know we were successful in getting that done.” Asked what new accomplishments the community may expect from the caucus in the near future, Forbes responded, “in medical simulation, and using it in economics, homeland security and interagency reform. We will continue do that through the rest of this year.” The caucus’s advocacy of M&S applications for the healthcare community is aligned with a policy initiative of the National Training and Simulation Association.
students will have been given the opportunity to pursue a career in M&S.
Industry Interaction The caucus members obtain a basic understanding of the technology due, in part, to NTSA’s proactive engagement with members of Congress and their staffs about the community of practice. Several lawmakers participate in the M&S Caucus panel discussion conducted at the beginning of each I/ITSEC. Much broader congressional participation, from caucus members and their personal and professional staffs, occurs when they visit the annual M&S Expo each summer on Capitol Hill, or other events. Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) is one company with the experience of being included in NTSA’s Capitol Hill events. Waymon Armstrong, President and Chief Executive Officer at ECS, noted these activities assist his company in educating the legislators to the benefits of modeling and simulation. “Through exposures such as these, ECS continues to develop and expand the simulation industries such as gaming and virtual world technologies. Also,
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USJFCOM is one entity to come under the scalpel as part of the Pentagon’s effort to gain department-wide efficiencies. “The command uses a lot of M&S,” Scott told MS&T. The congressman went on to note that while the Pentagon was finalizing USJFCOM’s closure plan, he was satisfied that “a lot of the M&S functions, jobs and missions will continue and remain in Hampton Roads.” Scott, a long-time proponent of education, also stated his continued interest in obtaining funding to implement M&S educational grant programs that would encourage and enhance the study of modeling and simulation at institutions of higher education. Legislation to establish these programs was enacted in a previous session of Congress. And to ensure the long term wellbeing of the industry, Scott wants to maintain a robust conduit into the community of practice through well-funded science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs in the nation’s middle schools and high schools. While recognizing7”these students may also go X 4.8” into other science, engineering or other allied fields of study, Scott concluded the
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Fred Lewis, President of the Arlington, Virginia-based association, has maintained a dialogue with the caucus about the importance of M&S to healthcare practitioners. “This has been in terms of policy directives and resources that they can provide on the educational front and on the policy issue as it relates to healthcare legislation,” Lewis said. He added that when M&S is used to train healthcare providers, it is “the mother lode” in terms of helping that community reduce costs and increase safety and efficiencies. “That policy has not been folded into any of the healthcare legislation to this point and it should be. It’s a challenge that the M&S Caucus has and I would personally like them to take it up and lead the charge,” Lewis concluded. The caucus is engaged in a number of other challenges to support the long term vitality of the M&S community. Congressman Bobby Scott, fromVirginia’s 3rd District (Hampton Roads area), is a long-time community advocate who stated his interest in the future of the M&S portfolio at the soon-to-bedisestablished U.S. Joint Forces Command and its Joint Warfighting Center.
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ECS employee, Matt Spruill is on Congressman Forbes’ M&S advisory board to assist in keeping the congressman apprised of the latest innovations in the M&S arena,” Armstrong added. In addition to NTSA’s advocacy of the healthcare community’s expanded use of M&S, the association is also engaged with caucus on yet another front – to gain support for obtaining NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) codes for the M&S community. The codes are used by federal statistical agencies to classify businesses. Lewis pointed out there currently is not one that adequately describes what the industry does.“We have long sought to get that changed, to get an NAICS code in the list of codes. That would give people the clear idea that the industry is recognized for what it is – legitimate, professional and all onto itself, and important to the economy.”
On the Horizon Congressman Forbes has placed another lofty goal on the caucus’s horizon – the embryonic American Response Center. The center would conceptually play a prominent role during a national disaster
on the order of Hurricane Katrina or the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Forbes built a compelling case for the center. “During such a disaster we have thousands of ideas across the country no one ever looks at because they are filtered
mand and control structures – you pick which one you want.’ The beautiful thing is that modeling and simulation can help us do that. The other thing is we can do that on day three or four – not six months from now.”
“The M&S company will bring in some good people and often times tell the member of Congress how something works. Don’t tell them how it works. Tell them what it does and how it solves the problem.” Congressman Randy Forbes for political reasons and nobody wants a good idea from somebody in the opposite political party. And when a president sits around with his political cabinet, the cabinet secretaries’ number one goal is often making sure they don’t look bad or fall on their face with the wrong idea.” An American Response Center’s processes would be powered by M&S. The facility would be staffed with individuals who would receive inputs, process them, and provide recommended courses of action to the president or another policy maker during a crisis. “We could say, for example, ‘Here are the top three com-
Engaging the Caucus Forbes encouraged the M&S industry to reach out to its congressional delegations and educate and inform them about their businesses and the broader community of practice. And the veteran lawmaker offered this suggestion when the companies meet with their members of Congress. “The M&S company will bring in some good people and often times tell the member of Congress how something works. Don’t tell them how it works. Tell them what it does and how it solves the problem.” ms&t
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ust as warmer weather in Afghanistan brings the end of opium poppy harvesting season, it also signals an increase in conflict with the Taliban and other militant groups. And that means more improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to be found and defeated by US, NATO and Coalition forces. Since IEDs are the primary cause of US service combat casualties, the Pentagon has made countering IEDs its top priority. In 2010, roadside bombs killed 268 and wounded nearly 3,400 US troops in Afghanistan, a 60 percent increase over the previous year even as the Pentagon employed new measures to counter the Taliban's makeshift weapon of choice. And IEDs have become a threat in trouble spots around the world.
JIEDDO The Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) leads the counter-IED (C-IED) strategy effort for the US Department of Defense (DoD). The organization requested a $220 million budget for fiscal year 2012. Just as insurgents keep developing new IED techniques and strategies, so too must the organization
work with the services and international partners to help foster the latest technologies, tactics and procedures and related training efforts to eliminate the IED threat. This training incorporates JIEDDO's three guiding foundational pillars, which are attacking the insurgent network that builds and plants the IEDs; finding and defeating the IED devices; and training the force to meet these objectives. The organization funds initial operational and training programs to plant the seed for the services to then further develop their own such efforts. Keeping up with the latest changes in insurgent tactics is vital. For example, JIEDDO officials note that IEDs in Afghanistan have been mostly triggered by underground trip wires and pressure plates concealed under debris; now the organization expects that there will be a shift in the country towards IEDs triggered by more sophisticated remote electronic devices, as they have been in Iraq. This shift will call for new IED countermeasures, tactics, procedures and related training. One solution could be the development of the next-generation Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Impro-
Above A Husky vehicle-mounted mine detector scans an area for IEDs during a route clearance mission in Afghanistan. Image credit: USAF/Stephen Schester.
vised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare system, which enables the networking of man-portable, vehicle-mounted and fixed-site electronic signal jammers to intercept signals from remote trigger devices.
JCOE M&S The JIEDDO Center of Excellence (JCOE) located at the Army's National Training Center at Fort Irwin, CA, implements the JIEDDO Counter-IED training program. The JCOE works in cooperation with Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine training COEs to provide live and virtual predeployment and deployed I-IED training solutions to those armed services. This training addresses fielded counter-IED equipment, counter IED identification and defeat tactics, techniques and procedures and the implementation of lessons learned. According to the JCOE senior pro-
According to Vigus, the JCOE employs IMIs for training a multiple number of counter-IED systems, such as JIEDDO's Joint Counter Radio Controlled IED Warfare (JCREW) signal jamming systems that are either man-portable or mounted on vehicles. However, JCREW can also affect the radio communication systems of friendly forces. To enable realistic simulation of IED, counter-IED operations, and minimizing unintentional jamming of friendly communications, Sierra Nevada Corp. designed the Jamming Effects Training Module (JETM), which replicates the congested RF environment. Sierra Nevada is a major supplier of JCREW systems for JIEDDO.
Game-based Training According to Leslie Dubow, Games for Training Project Director for PEO STRI, the US Army has made extensive use of the Virtual Battlespace2 (VBS2) gaming system to train for counter-IED operations and route-clearing activities, both at national training centers and in operational units. The Marine Corps Program Manager for Training Systems (PMTRASYS) in particular has stressed the importance of employing VBS2 scenarios for
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panels were being damaged in theater through operator error due to their lack of familiarity with the HMDS, Vigus said. Explaining the approach to the training solution, Vigus said "Once we determine that we need to develop a training capability that is going to be available in theater, then what we do is develop a virtual, a surrogate or in essence a computer-based instruction, which we call an interactive media instruction (IMI), which can be provided via the iPad, the computer or a multiple of different ways. What we do is we model and we replicate based on a threat or capability. We replicate that capability or threat into a simulator, which will then ultimately allow the Warfighter to become familiar with the threat that is downrange." The HDMS solution was to develop a training intervention based in an iPad mounted in the Husky driver cabin, Vigus said. The HMDS trainer is also integrated into the standalone Virtual Route Clearance Trainer developed and provided by the Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) Virtual Route Clearance Trainer employed for Husky operator training.
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gram manager Frank Vigus, its charter is to fill specific training gaps that are created as the evolution of the IED threat continues to migrate. Requests to the JCOE to find the means to fill these gaps come from service units in theater or COCOMS. Then the JCOE staff works to determine what capabilities might exist to address these training gaps. Often those capabilities are provided by modeling and simulation technology, Vigus pointed out. "Our intent is to use modeling and simulation to reduce the cost and to reduce the burden on that service, because it (M&S) can be quickly changed and adapted without having to build a whole new thing," Vigus said. "We also choose to use it because this is something that our audience, Warfighters between the ages of 19 to 25, understand." One quite recent example of employing an M&S training solution is the case of training Husky route clearance vehicle operators in the operation of the Husky Mounted Detection System (HMDS). This equipment is a deep-ground-penetrating radar mine detection system mounted on the vehicle. Unfortunately more than 50 percent of these systems' $40,000 radar
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cognitive skills training; for example, thinking like an insurgent to place IEDs then planning counter-IED operations accordingly. In fact, Dubow pointed out, JIEDDO initially funded the Games for Training initiative that employs VBS2 as a part of its Home Station counterIED training ranges. The latest version of VBS2 released this May incorporates the means to create underground structures in scenarios, an addition that will enhance counter-IED training, she added. According to Douglas Upperman, Program Integrator and Training Simulation Specialist for JIEDDO, the organization's virtual training starts with individual training modules and proceeds to collective training in a virtual training environment. At the end of the training, individual warfighters are given a mission to conduct. They then participate in a multiplayer online game to conduct the mission. JIEDDO has funded several simulation training areas for pre-deployment training requirements, Upperman said. These efforts include Dismounted Soldier, which is now a US Army program of record that was funded by JIEDDO 2009 as part of the service's Home Station Training Lanes initiative. Dismounted Soldier places a nine-member squad in a virtual, 360-degree training environment using untethered weapons. The program focuses on visual detection of IEDs and how to look for indicators of their presence, dismounted C-IED battle drills, IED reporting and how to react to an IED attack in a dismounted environment, he elaborated. The Mobile Counter-IED Interactive Trainer (MCIT), with the Institute of Creative Technologies (ICT) at the University of Southern California as the prime contractor, is another example of a C-IED training system. It consists of four 40-foot trailers that have been deployed to a number of Battle Command Training Centers in the US. AT Solutions is the major subcontractor for the MCIT, and currently has provided 10 units for JIEDDO on a low-rate initial production contract basis. The latest MCIT variant is the Multicultural Mobile Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Interactive Trainer, or McMCIT, which was just recently deployed to the Joint Multinational Training Command in Grafenwoehr, Ger-
many. The McMCIT is the only one of its kind in the world system made available to all US, NATO and Coalition soldiers for counter-IED training. Instruction in the McMCIT is currently provided in a number of languages spoken in Europe as well as in English. According to Todd Richmond, the ICT's Program Manager for the MCIT, the system provides an immersive environment for IED training, starting with video narrative introductions of the problem in the first trailer. In the second trainer, soldiers "meet" a virtual insurgent bombmaker and walk into his workshop filled with triggering devices and wires to provide troops with the training to identify these components. In the third trailer, a virtual soldier provides counter-IED lessons learned, and a briefing of an upcoming mission. The fourth trailer features a VBS2 gaming environment, where soldiers role play both sides – red and blue - alternately role-playing blue team convoy escorts, then red team insurgents setting up IEDs to disrupt the convoy. Threemember crews are positioned in two Humvee mockups, with video screens providing VBS2 scenarios for each of the vehicle crew members. The goal is to get team members to learn geo-specific terrain IED location cues, and then to "think like an insurgent" as red team members as to where they would place IEDs, Richmond explained. "The soldier teams are quite competitive in the gaming environment, and actually wind up providing after-action reviews to each other," Richmond said. "Soldiers also are quizzed at each MCIT phase to find out their retention levels. We are working to build the MCITs better to help mitigate mistakes soldiers make during MCIT exercises, and are
Above Soldiers examine evidence at an IED training site at the Army's National Training Center at Fort Irwin, CA. Image credit: US Army.
currently in the process of creating geospecific VBS2 scenarios for other locations throughout the world, not just in Afghanistan and Iraq."
Upcoming sim trainers According to Upperman, there are also a number of JCOE-sponsored simulationbased counter-IED training systems currently under development. One is the Decision Training Toolkit for C-IED Skills being produced under contract by the Cognitive Performance Group. As in the MCIT, the virtual training program will place the Warfighter in the role of either the insurgent or the blue team warfighter. The intent of the training is to allow the warfighter an opportunity to think like the enemy and see the IED event from the enemy's perspective, Upperman said. The Decision Training Toolkit for C-IED skills will be released on the VBS2 program of record, he explained. Another JIEDDO JCOE prototype is the Enhanced Dynamic Geosocial Environment (EDGE) being developed by the Army's Training and Development Command (TRADOC) and Army Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC) in Orlando. When the EDGE prototype is complete, Warfighters will enter the EDGE as avatars into a virtual Afghan village. Once there, they will be able to practice tracking down IEDs and destroying roadside bombs, as well as bomb-making networks. MS&T will provide an update on this prototype once it is ready to go "live." ms&t
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Beyond an OTW View Visual display systems are rapidly maturing to deliver more accurate renderings of on-board aircraft sensors, and provide 3-D visualization and other tools for military training audiences, Group Editor Marty Kauchak reports.
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dvancements in image generators (IGs) and projectors are allowing visual display systems to immerse operators in high fidelity training environments for weapons platforms such as the fifth generation F-35 Lightning II. Even as digital light processor (DLP)-based projectors and light-emitting diode (LED) illumination engines evolve, liquid crystal-on silicon (LCOS) and other projector technologies continue to find favor in major training devices, including the F-35’s full mission simulator (FMS).
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Component Developments Industry veteran Phil Perey, the Technology Director in the office of CAE’s Chief Technology Officer, reflected on recent changes in visual display technologies and how his company has responded to the dynamic environment. At the top of his list was how the migration to higher resolution projectors has placed increased performance demands on IGs. “That is in
terms of rendering capabilities,” Perey pointed out. “One of the things we did when we launched the Medallion 6220 was to introduce a step change in its rendering performance. Where you would need two image generator channels to drive a single projector, we have cut that in half – we can use a single image generator channel to drive up to a 4 megapixel output [WQXGA models] and still have a performance increase relative to the previous generation.” CAE’s efforts to more effectively pair IG and projector capabilities have been rewarded with significant contracts, including an award in late 2010 by the Turkish S&T company, Havelsan. The contract award calls for CAE to deliver more than 190 Medallion-6000 image generators for a range of Turkish Air Force flight simulators. Christie and projectiondesign are representative companies delivering the more capable projectors described by Perey.
Above The F-35 FMS includes a high-fidelity, 360-degree visual display system and a reconfigurable cockpit that simulates all three aircraft models. Image credit: Lockheed Martin.
Christie launched its Matrix StIM LED illuminated simulation projector at the 2008 I/ITSEC. Since then, the 1-chip, DLP projector and its LED technology foundation have built a proven record for solving military simulation and training requirements, according to Dave Kanahele, the company’s Director of Simulation Solutions. A competing product is projectiondesign’s latest projector, the F35 WQXGA. The F35 provides improved imagery (2560 x 1600 WQXGA resolution) based on single-chip, DLP-based technology and other enhancements, when compared to the company’s earlier F32 series. The company’s International Marketing and Communications Manager,
The latest breed of DLP projectors and their supported visual systems are delivering higher quality renderings of sensor data. At 2011 ITEC, projectiondesign exhibited an LED-illuminated projection system for highly realistic night vision goggle (NVG) stimulation. Løkke said the company’s attention to enabling sensor renderings in visual systems will evolve. “The continuation of that is there will be an LED with IR-based F35 version. We realize warfare does not happen only during daytime.” Back at Christie, the latest Matrix StIM enhancement is a dual input capability – taking a visible channel from an image generator and a completely separate channel from the IG to drive the infrared (IR) component of the projector. Kanahele explained what that does is solve the customer’s requirement for NVG stimulation by providing a balance between the visible and IR energy – not only a per scene basis but a pixel-by-pixel basis. “So ideally what you would have are two separate projectors – one for the IR and for the visible. That’s what we effectively have with the Matrix StIM.” Last year Christie delivered its full-dual channel capability of Matrix StIM to FlightSafety International for integration in the U.S. Army’s CH-47 Transportable Flight Proficiency Simulator Program. Christie also recently delivered the Matrix StIM with dual inputs for Defense Research and Development Canada’s Hercules Observer Trainer. This system is being developed for Canadian Forces aircrews that employ NVGs. Part of this NVG training solution leverages previous achievements with Renaissance Sciences Corporation (RSC). Christie has collaborated with RSC during the last several years to address the IG and display interface issues, and ensure that it maximizes NVG training value at the system level. At 2010 I/ITSEC another partnering effort had Christie demonstrating the Matrix StIM using the Night Readiness Virtual Terrain Board image generator. The IG utilizes RSC’s programming libraries to deliver accurate NVG scenes by computing the optimal display drive parameters and injecting accurate sensor effects based on a physically accurate model of the NVG, the Christie Matrix StIM output, the underlying database, and environmental dynamics.
Commenting further on the state of LED illumination technology, Kanahele said that limitations in brightness are preventing these projector enhancements from being more dominant for simulation applications. “LEDs are the newest technology. They are starting out at a lower level in terms of the brightness they can offer. But we anticipate future increases in LED illumination and our systems will take full advantage as the technology improves.” Indeed, Christie is expanding its LED technology throughout its product line, in particular into the Mirage WU-L, a projector capable of supporting 2-D-3-D visualizations. This move signals yet another market development – the military customer’s growing interest in 3-D, active stereo projection for maintenance training and other tasks. Other ongoing upgrades to projectiondesign’s F35 WQXGA technology suite will provide a higher 120 Hz frame rate and 3-D stereoscopic viewing. Kris Pribadi, a project manager at RSC, supplied an impartial, software provider’s perspective on DLP and LED technologies.
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Anders Løkke, explained that while the F35 WQXGA is built on the exact same mechanical platform as the F32 it has newly developed electronics, optics and software. “We can base the F35 WQXGA and all its optics on the mechanical infrastructure that we have in place and know works in this market.” projectiondesign’s F35 baseline technology is evolving beyond its DLP technology foundation as it, too, integrates LED, solid state illumination into its portfolio. Løkke pointed out “These will go into very highly specified or very high-class flight simulators. There is no smear, no color separation artifact with the LED and solid state.” An F35 WQXGA with an LED capability is likely to be demonstrated at 2011 I/ITSEC. To date, “hundreds of F35 WQXGA’s have been delivered to military customers or their OEMs,” said Løkke. The Japanese firm Nittoh provides the F35 WQXGA lens. All other hardware and software are produced inhouse.
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The Chandler, Arizona-based engineer noted that RSC’s use of the Matrix StIM allows it to make substantive progress in developing its software applications for simultaneous and correlated NVG stimulation and night out-the-window (OTW) scenes in a 4-channel configuration. Pribadi said he would like to see more collaborative efforts between the projector and software sectors to maximize the potential for DLP projectors, especially in LED technology. “If projector providers can come up with different options to increase the usable dynamic range of each channel, that would be welcomed. And in the development of the projectors they need to discuss with companies like us so we can make full use of such a multi-channel system with full access to the high dynamic range control in real-time. We believe the software is capable to drive that.”
F-35 Visualization Requirements The U.S. DoD’s F-35 Lightning II program consists of three different variations scheduled to enter service later this decade – the F-35A model is for the Air Force, the F-35B will be a short takeoff/vertical landing model for the Marines and the F-35C aircraft carrier version of the joint strike fighter is for the Navy. Lockheed Martin, the F-35 prime contractor, has program oversight of the high fidelity training environment. The F-35 industry team’s efforts are a premier, contemporary example of creating a state-of-the-art visual display system
Above The Christie Matrix StIM LED projection system. Image credit: Christie.
for a next generation weapons platform’s training devices. Training in the first FMS, at the F-35 Integrated Training Center at Eglin Air Force Base, is expected to begin this fall. Construction of a second FMS was being completed when MS&T spoke with the Lockheed Martin-led team this May. Rockwell Collins provides the entire visual system for the simulator. JoAnne Puglisi, Director of F-35 training systems for Lockheed Martin, recalled that her company’s joint contract specifications for the F-35 did not specify any requirements for a visual system within the flight simulators, but rather the direction to “provide mission qualified pilots”. An October 2001 document essen-
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tially gave the industry team “a blank sheet of paper” to develop a training visual system to support an initial low-rate initial production for the actual aircraft in the fiscal 2010-2011 timeframe. The effort to design the training system was based on supporting a fifth generation combat aircraft. And as the aircraft’s overall design evolved it became evident the F-35 would be a sensorbased weapons platform – with consequences for the training visual system that was in parallel development. The visual displays in flight simulators supporting U.S. DoD’s heritage aircraft fleets were designed to provide an out-the-window frame of reference for aircrews. In the case of F-35, the OTW perspective almost became secondary. “That was because all the onboard sensors – radar, electro-optical and others –which feed imagery are really driving the requirement for what our image generator can do – much more so than the display,” Puglisi pointed out. She continued, “When we went out for the imagery and the request for proposal for the IG, we actually concentrated our technical requirements on the sensors’ requirements and we added in what we thought would be a 2020-like design.” The F-35 FMS visual display has evolved to take all onboard sensors and project their unique data onto the pilot display console in front of the pilot at the different layers (radar, EO and others) and also extract that imagery from a simulated environment and project those different levels of fidelity.
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F-35 FMS Update The Lightning II’s FMS includes a highfidelity, 360-degree visual display system and a reconfigurable cockpit that simulates all three aircraft models. The visual system’s centerpiece is Rockwell Collins’ Griffin rear-projected dome. The system’s visual display, projected on a smooth surface as opposed to faceted displays, was designed to accommodate “the STOVL [F-35B] which is very critical because they need a very large downfield of view to complete their vertical landings. And for the Navy variant [F-35C] to be able to have that abeam approach for a carrier landing, as well as for tasks that included air-to-air refueling,” Puglisi concluded. Dennis Hartley, Principal Systems Engineer at Rockwell Collins, pointed out the significant attributes of the visual system including high resolution renderings with a large field of view, and the integration of 25 of the company’s 2015HC model projectors. While the FMS is platform agnostic with respect to the type of projector which could be used, the 2015HC, an LCOS projector, was deemed the best solution for DoD’s requirements. “The
system is required to support a very demanding night training mission which required ‘black-level’ capabilities and very high contrast ratios for which the 2015 is unmatched in the industry,” Nick Gibbs, Senior Director of Combat and International Solutions at Rockwell Collins, explained. Twenty one projectors are rear mounted with four projectors providing direct projection to the cap of the display. This allows the system to be used in a building with lower ceilings than would have been possible otherwise. In addition to providing high detail, high resolution OTW views, the visual system must also provide highly realistic sensors’ views. Five IG channels help replicate the F-35’s onboard sensor package. “Since the sensor is a key part of this trainer, we are providing an accurate sensor representation of the scene across multiple sensor wave bands. The challenge to provide this has been significantly greater than prior systems due to the sophistication of the F-35 sensor suites,” Hartley said. Rockwell Collins’ EPX-50 image generator helps the FMS meet training requirements.
Visual system renderings of sensor and other data are also displayed to the helmet mounted display (HMD) which is also provided by Rockwell Collins. The efforts to correlate the visual imagery in the HMD with the rear projected dome image required extensive coordination between Lockheed Martin and Rockwell Collins. Their efforts included virtual collimation to align sensor produced imagery with the background image. Hartley explained virtual collimation in more detail. As the pilot moves his head and the corresponding head tracker on the HMD, the team modifies the display parameters to ensure correlation with the display, via the OTW view. “So we’re actually modifying the out-the-window scene based on the helmet position.” And while panorama displays are also collimated, the virtual collimation procedure used in this FMS is unique from the perspective that it delivers an aligned, rear-projected HMD display solution. “Lockheed Martin had a lot to do with that – that was their design,” Hartley emphasized. ms&t
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Ready for Operations Train the man; train the team; train the submarine. Dim Jones describes the process the Royal Navy uses to produce Ready for Operations submarines.
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he 2010 UK Strategic Defence and Security Review embraced significant reductions in the Royal Navy’s surface fleet, air arm and personnel. In contrast, the submarine service emerged almost unscathed and, indeed, the significance of the submarine’s anti-submarine capability will arguably be increased by the demise of the Nimrod MRA4 and the early retirement of Type 22 frigates. Affordability, however, remains an issue, and the quest for savings continues. The RN operates two types of submarine, the Vanguard Class ballistic missile boats (SSBN) and the hunter-killers (SSN), armed with Spearfish torpedo and Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM). The SSBN replacement numbers debate continues, but maintenance of the extant capability, which requires a minimum of 4, appears to be winning the day. The 7 planned Astute Class SSN survived the SDSR, but the last 4 will embody budgetdriven design changes; HMS Astute is
now undergoing sea trials, and the class will progressively replace the remaining 6 Trafalgar Class by 2022. The V- and T-Class boats, commissioned in the 80s and 90s are, in concept and technology, if not in role, ‘of an age’. Astute represents a step change in capability and, combined with the MOD’s Maritime Change Programme has occasioned a review of how future submarine training should be delivered. Additionally, financial pressure and the need to rationalise force structure and the defence estate has driven a rethink of where it should be delivered.
Training the Man New recruits, both officer and rating, generally join the Navy as prospective submariners, rather than being selected at a later stage. Basic training (Phase 1) is completed at BRNC Dartmouth (for officers) and HMS Raleigh for ratings, and they come together for Phase 2 training at the RN Submarine School at
Above Manoeuvring Room Trainer with touchscreen instructor console. Image credit: Royal Navy.
HMS Raleigh. This is the first part of the ‘Submarine Stream’ – Train the Man; it ensures that he can perform his primary role safely as part of a submarine crew. A vital part of this process is determining whether the individual is suited for submarine service at all. The modern submarine is a far cry from the boats of 50 and more years ago – I well remember the experience of 2 weeks in HMS Opportune, an O-Class diesel attack submarine, in the 60s, where my bunk, when it was not occupied by someone else, appeared to double as the wardroom table. I also had to be careful, when attempting to mould myself to the contours of the Ops Room in order to allow someone vastly more important to pass,
Training the Team A modern submarine comprises a small number of interconnected ‘cells’, which control the various aspects of the boat’s operations. Each is manned by a team of personnel, mirrored throughout the watch system, and it is these which are the object of the second stage of the FOST concept - ‘Train the Team’. For this purpose, there are suites of simulators, each particular to a submarine type: the Ship Control Trainer for dynamic
control of the vessel – planes, rudder, ballast system; the Manoeuvring Room controls the primary and back-up propulsion systems, electrics and hydraulics; the Weapon Handling and Load Trainer for conventional weapons – torpedoes and TLAM; and the Trident Training Facility for the SSBN’s main armament, management of which requires maintenance to be conducted inside the missiles while at sea. The hub of the organisation is the Command Team in the Control Room, which includes the Officer of the Watch, navigator and sensor operators. The team members are mostly specialists in their fields – marine engineers, weapons engineers or warfare staff. However, the principle of secondary roles, which pertains in surface ships, applies to the Ship Control Team; when I saw the Vanguard Ship Control Trainer in action the controls were manned by a medic and a chef. These simulators are used for continuation training and periodic qualification as well as for initial training. They support the practice of all emergency procedures, and allow the trainers to run scenarios beyond normal ‘safe operations’. The training is realistic and, I am told by the participants,
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watch rota conforms to the milestones of meal times – sometimes the only reliable indicator to those without reference to the outside world of whether it is day or night. If life at sea in general is something of a foreign concept to most of us, that of a submariner is yet further removed. It clearly takes a special sort of person to put up with it, let alone enjoy it, but enjoyment and professional pride are precisely the impressions with which I was left by the submariners I met. The Submarine School ensures that the individual is suited to the role, and he will have to complete the Submarine Qualification Course (SMQ) to demonstrate this.
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that I did not inadvertently sit on the standby periscope control – particularly if the captain was draped over the handlebars at the time! HMS Opportune, at a length of 88 metres, displaced only 2410 tons submerged. HMS Astute, although only 9 metres longer, displaces 3 times that amount; the V-Class boats are half as long again, and displace nearly 16,000 tons. However, the ship’s complement is larger, (71 in Opportune, 98 in Astute, 135 in V-Class) reflecting the number and complexity of the systems to be employed, and the systems themselves take up a lot of space. It is only with the advent of the Astute Class that the practice of ‘hot-bunking’ – the same bunk-space being shared by more than one crewmember on different watches – has been discontinued. The living and working environment is much cleaner, certainly in terms of air quality, and quieter - the submarine survives on stealth. However, the boat’s ability to generate its own water and air allows it to remain submerged for long periods, and the absence of the need to refuel means that operational deployments can be extended in length – certainly in excess of 10 months. While at sea, the
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totally immersive; from what I saw, I can believe it. Emergency drills are carried out from memory, backed up by the necessary reference documents. Lastly, a recent addition to the simulator suite is the Pathfinder navigation trainer, a generic device which enables training in surfaced manoeuvring, particularly entering and leaving port. All weather, light and sea conditions can be simulated; there is no motion in Pathfinder, but the visual was effective enough to have me clinging onto whatever support was available. The simulators themselves, as far as is possible, replicate the equipment and environment found on board. Where effective training demands it, the actual equipment is used; in other cases, less expensive mock-ups satisfy the requirement. As the boats undergo modification, every effort is made to keep the simulators representative – not always easy when there is variation within the class itself. This raises an interesting cost-benefit issue. In the past, it has been cheaper to equip the training devices with emulators than to stimulate them with Boat equipment; however, as increasing use is made of COTS equipment on board,
Above Weapons Handling Trainer. Image credit: Royal Navy.
in the control rooms contrasts sharply with the 70s technology in the simulators themselves.
Training the Submarine it has become more expensive to fund the software changes of the emulators than to use the real thing. Many of the simulator instruction stations have been upgraded with state-of-the-art touchscreen controls, and the environment
The third and final part of the FOST concept is to Train the Submarine. As with their surface counterparts, submarines newly commissioned into service, and those returning after refit, undergo collective training under the FOST staff in
Submarine training has historically been conducted by the serving personnel of the FOST staff; the advent of the Astute Class has prompted a paradigm shift in delivery. FAST, a consortium comprising BAE Systems, L-3 (formerly CAE Marine) and Babcock (formerly VT Flagship), was awarded the training contract for the first 3 Astute Class boats in 2001, under a 36-year PFI. The training facility is located in purpose-built accommodation at Faslane, where all boats in the class will be based. The syllabi cover new training introduced by this class of submarine from the SMQ onwards, including new elements such as a Planesman’s Course. The disciplines required for Astute are essentially the same as for previous boats, but sometimes delivered differently – such as the use of non-penetrating camera periscopes to replace optical systems. The training suite covers the full range from classroom and CBT through desktop
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trainers – including a 3-D visualisation of the boat’s interior, based on gaming technology – to high-fidelity Command Team, Manoeuvring Room, Ship Control and Weapons Handling simulators; the equipment used reflects the high-tech nature of the new submarine. The FAST training staff are all experienced ex-RN submariners, which helps to maintain the Service ethos, discipline and professionalism. They facilitate, and role-play for, initial, continuation and qualification training; instruction and assessment are carried out by both RN (who provide the operational currency) and FAST staff. FAST staff do not deliver sea training, but assist in training the FOST SeaRiders, most of whom have not served in an A-Class boat – whereas some of the recently-joined FAST staff have! So what are the immediate challenges facing submarine training? The first is estate rationalisation. The V-, T- and A-Class training systems will need to function in parallel for many years. Trafalgar Class boats are currently based at Devonport, but are planned to migrate to Faslane by 2017; their simulators are at Devonport and Portsmouth. Funds are allocated for moving the simulators, but accommodation, both technical and domestic, is tight, exacerbated by the need for additional simulators as more A-Class boats come on line. Secondly, the training contract for Boats 4 to 7 needs to start delivering training in late 2014, and the design changes will require modified simulators and training courses, but the financial climate is much colder than when the first PFI was let. Thirdly, there is the need for the system to evolve to meet future training requirements. As stern a challenge as these may present, the evidence is that the RN Submarine Service is alert to it, and adapting to meet it. ms&t
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the form of Basic Operational Sea Training (BOST). This training differs for SSN and SSBN, reflecting their different roles, and is typically 38 days for SSN and 43 days for SSBN. The programme is constructed around ‘training milestones’; harbour inspections and safety training alongside determine that the boat is Ready for Training; further shore training culminates in an assessment of Safe for Sea, at which point, the FOST team of SeaRiders embark. Submarine sea training differs from surface fleet BOST in that the transit times to suitable areas – which need to allow deep water operations and be relatively quiet as regards shipping – are of the order of 24hrs; it is more efficient, therefore, for the training to be conducted in blocks of up to a week or more. The boat progresses from Safe for Sea through a further intense safety phase to achieve a Safe at Sea assessment. Operational training then commences in earnest, and the crew are trained and assessed in all aspects of the boat’s operation, including the live firing of training torpedoes, simulated TLAM strikes and intelligence gathering operations, in addition to the traditional antisubmarine and anti-surface warfare disciplines. As the training progresses, an increasingly demanding scenario will ensure that all these capabilities can still be delivered in a simulated war environment, with emergency procedures, fire and damage control evolutions adding realism and increasing the challenge. Finally, an Operational Inspection (OPEX) is undertaken, to ensure that the submarine can be employed on its full spectrum of tasks without the need for further training; there are too few submarines to do otherwise. Successful completion of OPEX will lead to the submarine being declared Ready for Operations. Whenever appropriate, specialised Directed Continuation Training (DCT) supplements BOST. Working up a crew after commissioning or refit is relatively straightforward in manning terms; ensuring that the right people with the right qualifications are put through individual training and then amalgamated for team training, to be ready to fill the necessary posts on a trickle-feed basis, is anything but, and it is a constant challenge for the RN’s manpower planners to blend career courses with the fleet requirement. Ensuring compliance with the necessary periodic qualifications within a busy schedule is also difficult for the SSN crews; it is slightly less so for the SSBNs, each of which has 2 crews alternating operation of the boat. There are no dedicated training submarines, and familiarisation with the boat during initial training must be done on an opportunity basis.
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Askari Thunder Creating a contemporary battlefield in Kenya, the British Army trains infantry battle groups for expeditionary deployments. Walter F. Ullrich describes the operations at BATUK.
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he British Army has a long tradition of training troops abroad. In addition to the Army's domestic training site on Salisbury Plain, it has overseas exercising facilities in Canada, Belize, Brunei and Kenya. BATUS, the British Army Training Unit Suffield located at the Canadian Forces Base Suffield training area in the province of Alberta, allows instrumented combined arms training up to brigade level. Jungle warfare instructors are trained at TTB, the Training Team Brunei on the island of Borneo. BATSUB, the British Army Training Support Unit Belize, which was significantly downsized in 2010, provides limited jungle training. BATUK, the British Army Training Unit Kenya, supports British Army infantry battalions in carrying out sixweek exercises in an arid and extremely hot environment. Under an agreement with the Kenyan Government, the British Army has been sending troops to Kenya for train-
ing since the country gained independence in 1963. The British Army Training Unit Kenya is based at two sites: BATUK Rear is located at Kifaru Camp 10 km outside of Nairobi; BATUK Main is located at the Nanyuki Show Ground (NSG) 200Â km north of Nairobi right on the equator. A staff of 55 in Nairobi and 67 in Nanyuki currently supports the exercising troops. 100 opposing force (OPFOR) personnel and up to 500 locals are also available to BATUK. The exercising battle group (BG) comprises an infantry battalion with around 700 soldiers plus medics, logisticians, engineers, artillerymen and a Desert Hawk Miniature UAV team. The Joint Helicopter Force Kenya, a small permanent detachment of Puma and Lynx helicopter air and ground crews deployed at the Kenyan Laikipia Air Base in Nayuki, also supports BATUK and the exercising units. A Kenyan infantry unit also takes part in each exercise. Seven exercises are currently scheduled for
Above Puma helicopters support the battle group during the exercise. Image credit: Walter F. Ullrich.
a training year that lasts 12 months from August – a throughput that takes BATUK to the very limits of its capacity. From next year the number of training exercises will therefore be reduced to six. Kenya in many respects resembles present-day operation areas in Iraq or Afghanistan. So similar in geography, topography and climate, it is the ideal place to prepare troops for overseas deployments in those areas and could lead one to assume that training in Kenya is done in direct preparation for operations there. Yet, British officials attach great importance to the fact that the training is just regular basic training. In fact, it represents final overseas generic
The British Army prides itself in training its personnel to fight a war. As far as live training is concerned, hardly an army in the world does training more realistically than the British. Exercising under extreme stress up to physical and emotional exhaustion in ways that reflect the realities of the modern battlefield has always been upheld as a principle. This is also particularly true of Exercise Askari Thunder, as the six-week exercise in Kenya is dubbed. After arriving in Kenya, the BG deploys from BATUK REAR in Nairobi to the Nanyuki Show Ground close to Mount Kenya for inprocessing and to take receipt of special equipment. A second move brings the units to a collecting point for acclimatisation and trooping. Then, the BG moves onto the main exercise area around Archers Post into the army’s Main Operating Base MOB SIMBA, approximately 100 km north of Mount Kenya. The scheme of manoeuvre foresees 24 days, and four phases, to achieve all the training objectives. Individual training and battle drill is done from D-Day to D+6, during Ex ASKARI WARRIOR. From D+8 to D+16, during Ex ASKARI CENTURION and Ex ASKARI MARAUDER, the company commanders train their platoons and exercise with the company as a whole. Finally, Ex ASKARI SPARTAN, D+19 to D+24, in which the battalion commander exercises with the whole of his BG. All the individual exercise segments are embedded in a demanding scenario in which the soldiers encounter “hybrid threats”, during which the enemy uses a combination of conventional and unconventional warfare. On their way up and across the Lolldaiga Valley, they not only continuously improve battle and weapon skills but sharpen situational awareness and do risk assessment. They face indigenous Kenyan people who assume the roles of the locals, insurgents or aid workers with tribal and ethnic and religious tensions. The soldiers learn to interact with people who speak what is for them an incomprehensible language and behave unpredictably. These tribal role players are no actors – they are real and their actions are authentic. All this takes place in an utterly inhospitable environment: hot, dry, dusty and arid. The Great Rift Valley behind Archers
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training before troops begin their training specific to Afghanistan as specified in the newly accelerated training regime of the British Army. “What we have got here in Kenya is a unique opportunity to create a contemporary battlefield,” says BATUK Commander Colonel Neil Hutton. “What this place gives is expeditionary training – contemporary operations in an expeditionary and austere environment over a line of communication of about four thousand miles.” The most important aspect for the Colonel is that BATUK not only trains and tests the rifle company troops; every single part of the BG that comes down to Kenya is tested across every discipline, not just the combat phase, but whatever contributes to successful conduct of the operation, including communication and logistics. “The other great thing about Kenya is that we can deliver very, very cost effectively a densely populated battle space,” says the Commander. For the final phase of the exercise, 500 people from the local tribes are mobilised to populate the small townships and villages which have been created in the training area.
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portable base stations (PBS) for exercise communication. The typical propagation radius of 8 km up to 20 km under perfect conditions is more than enough for the 40 by 50 km exercise area. Saab also used its novel Rapid 3D Mapping Solution to capture images of the training area and to generate detailed 3D maps for exercise control. An important element of DTES outside the training site itself is the container complex for maintenance and support. Despite the high exercise frequency, Saab regularly exceeds the contractually guaranteed 98 per cent system availability. “The minimum was 99.75 per cent,” says Saab’s Site Manager in Nanyuki, Magnus Aronsson, with some pride. The Logistic Support Team is made up of 32 people, including 30 locals. The team is trained to do all the necessary support work autonomously, including warehouse work, transport, repair, as well as setting up and operating the equipment out in the bush. The DTES team out in the bush comprises a Senior Team Leader, a Logistics & Training Advisor, and a System Technician. They also function as BG liaison team. Three company liaison teams – team leader, deputy and a crew of nine locals from the Logistic Support Team – assist and accompany the exercising troops out in the field. Team leaders are former officers and senior NCOs with long-standing handson experience. The soldiers being tested accept them because they see them not so much as umpires but as transmitters of a verifiable action or omission. The most precise visual representation of the observations during the after-action review (AAR) is very convincing for the IT-accustomed young men, says Major (Ret.) Ben Lampard, the Senior Team Leader. He is also the direct contact for the BATUK Commander. The Commander is also extremely satisfied with the Saab team. For the Colonel it is almost irrelevant that they do not wear a uniform. They are part of his BATUK team. “80 per cent of my final AAR is Saab provenience…I rely on Ben and his guys”, Colonel Neil Hutton freely admits. He knows that training will be delivered, and so he can concentrate fully on military issues and leadership.
The Host Setting up a training complex in an
overseas context does not work without involving the host country and local people. That is not so much of a challenge when it happens within one’s own cultural sphere. The situation changes, however, when the project is realised in a very different social and cultural environment. Kenya provides the British Army with a unique opportunity to create a contemporary battle field for expeditionary training – and all for a very reasonable £23 million a year. The market town of Nanyuki benefits greatly from the British presence, as do the Masai, Turkana and Samburu north of Archers Post when they provide supernumeraries for the extremely densely populated battle space during Exercise Askari Thunder. However, the army representatives have to take good care that the 500 jobs are evenly distributed among the various tribes and villages in the area. Otherwise they risk getting into trouble. The constantly changing units of the Kenyan Army that participate in the exercise receive the same high-value training as the British troops. This not only lays the foundation for future joint operations, but may also open minds to different structures, other doctrines and unfamiliar norms. The Saab Group has hired 30 locals on a permanent basis for various functions, including technicians, system specialists, power generator operators, warehousemen and workmen. For the Swedish company it is a matter of course that their local employees take advantage of a social security system comparable to what their colleagues
Above The Light Infantry BG out in the bush is exercising under extreme physical and mental stress. Image credit: Walter F. Ullrich.
have in Europe. Saab is thus playing a pioneering role in this field, and is demonstrating that social welfare in poorer and developing countries is possible and desirable. Although only a small employer, Saab enjoys an excellent reputation and the Saab logo is most welcome throughout the Nanyuki area. Yet there are also jealousies and resentments because the social gap between the privileged Saab workforce and the many unemployed has widened. 80 kilometres north at Archers Post, Saab had to employ extra workers from the local tribes because they found it intolerable that people from the Kikuyu, Kisii, Luo and Nandi tribe were earning money on their tribal territory and they were not. Now, Masai warriors guard the company’s equipment which is scattered over the huge training area in the Great Rift Valley. What Saab is doing in Kenya on a social level may not be altogether altruistic, since the company is interested in a business running smoothly. Saab’s sponsoring of an orphanage, however, to which children ranging from babies to teenagers are admitted and prepared for an independent life as grown-ups, is unselfish – most of all because it started as a private initiative of one employee, namely Brian Drummond, Saab’s Deputy Site Manager in Nanyuki. ms&t
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From Russia: A Flight Simulation Update The Russian flight simulation industry progresses: Andrew G. Bushgens, Deputy Director and Chief Designer, CSTS Dinamika, comments on recent significant events.
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ussian manufacturers are catching up: certification procedures and qualification standards are being harmonized with international requirements; the market is grouping (export, commercial aviation, military and paramilitary aviation); and, aircraft suppliers have become conscious of the need for flight simulators as an important component of their after-sales services. Over the last two years, several events and milestones have served to push the industry along.
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Since Russia had no recognized certification system, numerous operators preferred to use flight simulators from foreign manufacturers for Russian-origin aircraft rather than those produced by domestic companies. Russia's annual losses total 100 to 150 million USD. By facing up to the challenge,the Russian aviation community has done quite a lot to change the situation. First and foremost, the Center for Certification of Flight Simulation Training Devices (CC FSTD) was established in 2008 to bring together Russian experts in the field.
The centre is entrusted with developing a national regulatory system for flight simulator manufacturers and operators. A draft national standard for airplane FSTD that is harmonized with international regulations has been worked out and is now under review by and waiting approval from the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Transport. A similar standard for helicopter training devices is currently under development. These national standards are substantially similar to ICAO international standards as recently amended. CC FSTD qualifies flight simulation training devices for compliance with established domestic and international standards, frames regulations for the certification procedures and is developing an effective mandatory system for FSTD qualification. CC FSTD specialists train and instruct flight simulator manufacturers and training centres and provide advanced training for their experts. Thus Russia now has a flight simulator qualification competence centre that is helping to shape a large infrastructure, including a Council for Science and Engineering of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Industry and Trade, Techni-
Above The Mi-171 FTD at the HTP Ostrava CZ training cente. Image credit: CSTS Dinamika.
cal Committees for ICAO and ISO standards, and other bodies that are to form a basic structure of the FSTD certification system in Russia.
Sukhoi Superjet 100 Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, JSC (SCAC) came up against all the shortcomings of the Russian certification system when they marketed their new regional airliner, the Superjet 100. Under existing regulations, aircraft certification starts with the national aviation authorities. In Russia that is the Aviation Register of Interstate Aviation Committee (AR IAC).Then come the international bodies such as EASA. It should be noted that simulators should be developed simultaneously to the new aircraft. However, while new aircraft in Russia are certified by the AR IAC, there is no authority that is responsible for flight simulators. The SSJ-100 got its AR IAC certifi-
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cate before the SSJ-100 FFS by THALES (TT&S) appeared on the scene. With no training device available, the aviation authorities set a strict requirement that type rating of the crews had to be done on a full-flight simulator qualified by the Russian aviation authorities, i.e. it should meet both the standards of ICAO 9625 issued in 1995and those of IOSA (JAR FSTD A). Technically, the SSJ-100 FFS by TT&S is supposed to satisfy all standards, both domestic and international,set by EASA and IOSA, but there is no such simulator and none will be available before the end of the year at the earliest. As a result, SCAC had to provide an alternative flight training device in order to award lots of contracts for nearly every aircraft system. This FSTD must be approved by the Federal Air Transport Agency of the RF Ministry of Transport (FATA), and must enable type rating (including pilots of the Tu-154), which expressly implies the availability of a fullflight simulator. According to the 1995 ICAO 9625 it should be something similar to JAR FSTD A Level C or D. In order to break the deadlock, SCAC decided on a basic design: a fixed base with a projector and screen visual system but functionally
enabling type-rating capability, i.e. an FSTD to meet Level V of ICAO 9625 is s.3 of 2009. The only problem is that this document is not yet valid in Russia. As a result, the available FTD has not been officially qualified, but approved for training of crews skilled in handling a glass cockpit. Airbus and Boeing pilots comply with the requirement, while in the case of Tu-154 crews this is questionable. Aeroflot and EASA flight instructors feel good about the fixed-base platform as well as the projector and screen visualization. What really matters is the realistic cockpit with full functionality, adequate flight dynamics and performance systems, an accurate list of simulated emergencies, and some specific flight simulator functions such as flight freeze, reposition, change of waypoints etc. All things considered, EASA had to approve the Russian FTD LV although some limits were imposed on its operation.
Irkut MS-21 Starting a project for the new mediumrange airliner, the MS-21 management tried to learn some lessons from the Superjet-100. Essentially, these were: The late involvement of the technical
specialists. Initially the training solution was the responsibility of the logistics and after-sales departments at SCAC; and SCAC contracts with system suppliers did not stipulate the further transfer of data for flight simulators. The MS-21 is in the construction design phase; the flight simulator is part of the technical documentation,and on a similar level as the airliner. TsAGI is doing the research to support the development of the new airliner in the area of structure, aerodynamics and flight dynamics. TsAGI awarded CSTS Dinamika a contract for an engineering simulator to support the research regarding performance standards set by FTD-5. This simulator should enable work on: • FBW synthesis and elaboration; • Pilot–cockpit interface optimization; • Side sticks adjustment; • Flight testing support; • MS-21 certification support; and • SW prototyping for the entire range of the MS-21 flight simulation training devices. The MS-21 management is considering involving the world's best in flight simulation and modelling in the search for a training solution.
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Helicopter Training Point (HTP Ostrava CZ) Integrating the global transport infrastructure resulted in new forms of international cooperation, especially in the area of training. In 2010 CSTS Dinamika joined up with a Czech partner, THT Ostrava, JSC, and launched an international project. The partners were well chosen, as was the platform. The Mi-8/17 is the biggest family in the world and there is pressing need for training. By the time a decision had to be made CSTS Dinamika already had a good reputation as a manufacturer of flight simulators for Russian-origin aircraft and was deploying the training complex comprising the Mi-171FTD and a CBT system. The Czech partner provided the building, infrastructure and management for the newly established training centre. Now the initial stage is over, HTP Ostrava is gathering pace. The current training capacity totals 6000 simulator hours per year. Regular training kicked off in December 2010. 2500 hours have been booked for 2011 for Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian and US crews. More customers are scheduled for 2012. There are requests from Brazil, Croatia, Bulgaria, Russia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Bangladesh and Malaysia. The next step will be options delivery, the NVG imitator and sling-load operator PTT. The HTP Ostrava CZ have reserved space for another flight simulator and the centre is doing a marketing analysis on what will fill the spare bay.
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In 2009 CSTS Dinamika joined the 7th European Framework Programme as part of Simulation of UPset Recovery in Aviation (SUPRA). This project involves nine entities from six European countries: The Netherlands, Austria, Spain, Russia, the UK and Germany. The collaboration aims to develop a flight simulator and practices to enable crew training in early upset detection and recovery. Spatial disorientation has proved one of the main causes of fatalities in transport aviation. Dynamic models currently available in flight simulators and their motion control algorithms cannot assist in the development of the necessary piloting skills. Russia is represented by TsAGI (research on the 6-DOF engineering simulator PSPK-102), the GROMOV Flight Research Institute (real flights on the
Tu-154M test bed) and CSTS Dinamika (development of software and dynamic models simulating upsets or “unusual attitudes”, as well as motion control algorithms).
Above The An-148 FFS at the S7 Training Centre is the first Russian level D simulator for a fixed wing aircraft. Image credit: Transas.
Commercial Aviation The certification of the Transas Antonov-148 FFS in the Domodedovo S7 training centre is anticipated by mid-summer. (Currently the centre is equipped with the Boeing 737 and A320 full-flight simulators from Thales). The Ilyushin Finance lease company awarded this contract to Transas on behalf of S7.This will be the first Russian D-Level simulator for a fixed-wing aircraft, although Transas has deployed four Level DMi-8 FFS to Gaspromavia’s Ostafievo training centre. New FATA tenders for a large fleet of flight simulators – Mi-8/17, An-148, Ka-32, A320, and B737 – will be issued in the summer of 2011. CSTS Dinamika and Transas are thought to be the main bidders. The catastrophic forest fires in Central Russia last summer aroused great interest in Mi-8MTV FFS at the Aerial Forest Protection Training Center. Opened in 2008, this training facility emphasises the specific forest conservancy capability and employs a bambi-tank PTT to train helicopter crews in fire-fighting and rescue missions. CSTS Dinamika is currently upgrading these full-flight simulator and fire-fighting PTT at the Aerial Forest Protection Training Center.
Exports The Russian flight simulator complex has made some progress over the last
two years. Exports still remain a problem; however, some prestigious international orders have been won. Transas, for example, is delivering a fleet of Mi-171, Mi-17V5, Mi-25 and Mi-35 FTDs to Venezuela; Dinamika set up the aforementioned helicopter training centre in the Czech Republic and built a MiG-31B FMS for the Kazakhstan air force. Nevertheless, exports continue to fall far short of what is possible in terms of industrial capacity and market opportunities. The Rosoboronexport State Corporation, the sole Russian state intermediary agency for the export of military and dualpurpose products, estimates that the export market of flight simulators for Russian-made aircraft flying in over 20 countries worldwide will total 500 million USD by 2015 alone. But it is also Rosoboronexport that is preventing the prompt assignment of export contracts on account of an extremely opaque competition policy. In the end, it is international companies that are producing simulators for Russian aircraft rather than domestic simulator providers. Russian manufacturers lost out on 19 flight simulators because of that, a haemorrhage that Russia cannot afford in view of the rather small production profitability on the national market. Again, it is not the lack of ingenuity that is causing progress to fail in Russia but too ambiguous decision-making structures and excessive red tape. ms&t
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Alive and Well Despite overall fiscal constraints, acquisition of training technologies and services continue. Chuck Weirauch and Walter F. Ullrich examine the opportunities in America, Europe and NATO.
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In spite of tightening US Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, a record number of attendees at the 2011 Training and Simulation Industry Symposium (TSIS) June 15-16 in Orlando heard about a significant number of contract opportunities from US military training organizations at the event. Coupled with more emphasis on simulation-based training by the US services, highlighted at the event was the need for more advanced technologies that will provide more cost-effective and immersive training solutions. If anyone in the 700-plus TSIS audience still had any doubts about the future of modeling and simulation applications for military training, they only had to hear keynote speaker Major General Robert Brown, Commanding General for the US Army’s Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, GA, express the need for more Home Station training, game-based LVC training and blended training solutions.
"Soldiers are not training the way we operate, and one of the reasons for that is that they don't have the tools they need to do so," Brown said. "However, we have the perfect opportunity to do that right now. We now have the capability to replicate the complex operating environment at Home Station through game-based LVC training and blended training models. LVC gaming is the only way to get at the complexities of the operating environment of the future." While Brown's presentation reflected the upbeat tone of the TSIS, attendees were reminded by other presenters that government procurement agencies are under greater scrutiny than ever before to provide the best contract value for contract dollars. David Burgess, Director of the Cost Department for the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) said that the rising complexity of major military systems is leading to up to a 40 percent cost growth. As a result, he pointed out, there is now a considerable
Above $85 million has been allocated for Medical Simulation Training Center (MSTC) growth and support. Image credit: US Army.
focus on the need for the reduction of defense acquisition cycle time and total system ownership cost through cost management programs. He challenged the training industry to consider this an opportunity to become part of the solution, rather than the problem, by helping control product acquisition costs.
PEO STRI Rob Reyenga, Army Deputy Program Executive Officer for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), warned that military budget cuts will occur on a regular basis and become the "current normal." This is why his agency is looking to become more efficient and obtain "the strongest buying power and
Brian Hicks, Naval Air Warfare Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) Cross Warfare Programs Director, announced that the request date for proposal revisions for the agency's $2 billion Training Systems Contract (TSC) III would be sent out July 25, with final proposal evaluations completed by the end of August and contract awards to be issued October 5. Among other contract opportunities, Hicks highlighted the new $10 million Scenario Generation System procurement that NAWCTSD is conducting in conjunction with the Air Force Agency for Modeling and Simulation (AFAMS)
Walter F. Ullrich, Europe Editor MS&T, spoke to Major-General Albert I. Husniaux, M. Sc. (Eng.) Director of the NATO Research & Technology Agency (RTA) about the business of the RTO.
Above Osprey contracts include containerized FTDs, maintenance trainer upgrades, cabin part task trainers and courseware development. Image credit: US Navy/John Lill.
in Orlando. He pointed out this system which calls for the ability to rapidly and with a minimum amount of preparation compose modeling and simulation scenarios for distributed mission operations has a lot of potential since various service commands are interested in the development of this new capability. Other NAWCTSD procurement development areas of interest included the increasing involvement in the MV-22 Osprey program, with a total of $132 million allocated in estimated contract value for MV-22 containerized FTDs, maintenance trainer upgrades, cabin part task trainers and courseware development. Another heightened area of activity is the Littoral Combat Ship: NAWCTSD has become the LCS Training System Executive Agent (LCS TSEA). At the TSIS, NAWCTSD held a separate LCS briefing to consolidate information for interested contractors concerning the LCS Mission Modules Program and to provide an overview on other upcoming needs for the growing LCS training requirement, citing $12 million in LCS procurement opportunities.
Air Force Like the other two training organizations, the Air Force Training Systems Product Group is in the process of renewing its major multi-year omnibus procurement contract, Training Systems Acquisition III. According to Mark Adduccio, Simulation Division Director, the contract RFI
Q: To what extent is simulation technology an issue in the research work of the RTO? Simulation Technology research activities are an important element of the Programme of Work for the RTO, of particular interest to the end-users of R&T: the soldiers of the armed forces of NATO. These activities are very cross-panel in nature, complementing the research work performed in the RTO Panels at the application level, where all the technologies are integrated. Besides delivering simulation technology, the NMSG also performs another important role: informing policy making within NATO. Currently, the NMSG concentrates its Programme of Work on promoting the effective use of Modelling and Simulation (M&S) within the training domain and on standardisation. The latter, enabling interoperability and reuse, is of extreme importance for an Alliance involving many different Nations, all of whom are facing challenging budgetary constraints. With this in mind, the NMSG continues to produce a set of recommendations for NATO and the Nations on how best to use M&S as a -lever to prepare their forces quicker, better and more cost effectively. The NMSG has a large portfolio of activities, of which I will mention some, such as the RTO Task Group MSG-099, which started this year, looking at Standards for Urban Combat Advanced Training Technology (UCATT) and the RTO Task Group MSG-106, which is also starting this year, which will “Define the Support to Exercises with Distributed Simulations and Tools�. This coming October, we have MSG-108, an RTO Workshop to be held in Farnborough, GBR, that will address Commercial
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then increasing it" though procurement activity. He encouraged the training industry to work together with government agencies to help get the "best deal" for the contract dollar through new types of acquisition strategies. Citing a push from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) to look more closely at Training Services contracts, Reyenga pointed out that" hundreds of millions of dollars have been returned to government coffers because of the efficiencies gained through the Warfighter FOCUS contract." Those results have led to PEO STRI efforts to propose the development of a new Training Services contract, he pointed out. The request for information (RFI) on the proposed new 10-year multiple award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity training services contract was released March 25. More information on this new acquisition effort can be obtained by via its contracting officer, particia.hyland@us.army.mil. Again as last year, medical simulation is playing a considerable part on PEO STRI contracting opportunities, with $85 million allocated for Medical Simulation Training Center (MSTC) growth and support. New is a $28 million contract for PEO STRI to provide simulation and training support to the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). According to PEO STRI's Col. Francisco Espaillat, opportunities are building here since under this agreement PEO STRI could wind up providing training support for the entire VHA network. Also of considerable interest is the $ 115 million Close Combat Tactical Trainer (CCTT) modernization procurement effort and the PEO's work to provide training solutions for the US Air Force.
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Technologies and Games for use in NATO. Further examples of the NMSG’s work include Security in Collective Mission Simulation (MSG-080), Standardisation for C2-Simulation Interoperation (MSG-085), Simulation Interoperability (MSG-086) and the recent inter-panel challenge of Modelling Human Behaviour (MSG-107). Your readers can navigate on our website, using the aforementioned activities numbering system, to find information on these activities.
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Q: How big is your Agency’s budget, and how is Industry involved in RTO tasks? The budget of the RTA, around €5M, takes into account the role of the RTA; namely, providing a cooperative environment to enable the Programme of Work of the RTO. This budget leverages an estimated €200M that Nations currently spend every year to augment their investments in their R&T capabilities and in the generation of their (military) capabilities, Industry is involved in the RTO in several different ways, from involvement in the governance of the RTO, to involvement in the on-going Programme of Work. Industry contributes directly to several important RTO studies, the Joint Operations 2030 study being one particular case in point where industry for sure will benefit from the long term views being developed within the RTO.
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Q: The Lisbon Summit in 2010 set the framework for an in-depth review. What are the prospects for RTA? NATO’s Agencies Reform has provided an opportunity to develop a NATO-wide S&T Reform, of which the implementation has been decided upon by the Ministers at their June 2011 meeting The objectives of that S&T Reform are to increase the impact of S&T within NATO, to increase the value the Nations and NATO bodies extract from NATO S&T and to enhance coordination and synergies within the NATO S&T community. To that extent NATO will appoint a full-time NATO Chief Scientist, acting as both a Scientific
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Above AgustaWestland signed a contract with EDA for the provision of an Interim Helicopter Tactics Training Service. Image credit: AgustaWestland.
was released in January. The release date for the RFP is still to be determined, but contract awards are now scheduled for the third quarter of fiscal year 2014. Dollar wise, the major TSPG acquisition effort is the Predator Mission Aircrew Training Systems full and open competition recompete, estimated at $178 million Another, new significant contract opportunity is the KC-46A Training Systems. The KC-46, a derivative of Boeing's 767, is the winner of the controversial KC-X contract awarded in February for the new Air Force aerial refueling transport.
In Europe Europe’s arms policy is very much dominated by budgetary constraints. Much of the ongoing restructuring work within the European defence forces seems to be dictated more by the need to save money than by any enemy threat; however, pooling resources could solve the apparent inconsistency between budget constraints and the need for security. The instruments are in place, created by the European governments themselves, the European Defence Agency (EDA) and the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR). According to its statutes, EDA’s programmes, projects and other activities must contribute to improving the military capabilities needed for future operations in accordance with the European
Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). EDA’s Capability Development Plan (CDP) is the driver for R&T, armament cooperation and for industry. It defines future capability needs from the short to the longer term. In March 2011, EDA’s Steering Board approved a set of prioritised actions which will be focal points for the Agency’s activities in the years to come. The CDP Top 10 Priorities comprise a Counter Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED); medical support; intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance; increased availability of helicopters; cyber defence; multinational logistic support; CSDP information exchange; strategic and tactical airlift management; fuel and energy; mobility assurance. While only one of many activities, simulation and training, as a capability driver, figures frequently on the Defence Contracts Opportunities Board. In May 2011 AgustaWestland signed a contract with EDA for the provision of an Interim Helicopter Tactics Training Service. The Czech Republic, Hungary, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom have formally agreed to collaborate on the procurement of a training service in this programme which will help prepare helicopter crews for joint deployment on allied military operations whilst they develop their own national tactics training capabilities. This is already the third contract EDA has awarded to the Finmeccanica affiliate. One of the most complex EDA projects, however, is the Advanced European Jet Pilot Training System (AEJPT), which aims to develop a common Inte-
Advisor and the top executive of the new NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO). This organization will involve all NATO bodies implied in NATO S&T, today’s RTA and the NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC) being the most known ones. The RTA will continue to enable NATO’s collaborative S&T, albeit under a different name. It will do so within a new framework, the STO. It will embrace the objectives of the NATO Reforms, increasing its connectivity with NATO bodies and Nations. It will continue to look for synergies and for a better pull-through of the fine science and technology work performed in the Nations and in NATO bodies by NATO’s S&T community. The world has becoming increasingly complex and interdependent. Informed and fast decision making is more than ever needed. I’m confident the STO (and its M&S part) will stand up to the challenge and be a key player in tackling the challenges of the future, under the leadership of the NATO’s Chief Scientist.
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The A400M, designed for Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Malaysia, also offers multinational training and support packages. In 2010, Airbus Military Sociedad Limitada (AMSL) opened a central training facility in Seville, Spain. Nations will open their own training centres shortly after delivery of their first aircraft. AMSL is offering a set of training aids to equip these national centres. The Full Flight Simulator (FFS) and the Flat Panel Flight Training Device (FP-FTD) are being developed by Thales Training and Simulation. Cargo Hold TrainerEnhanced (CHT-E) and the Load Master Work Station Trainer (LMWST) are from Rheinmetall Defence Electronics. The Cockpit Maintenance Operation Simulator (CMOS) is from CAE. CBT, finally, is an Airbus Military product. It remains to be seen whether and to what extent customers actually go for the offer, since the decision is entirely up to them. Unilateral approaches at national level as a result of national special provisions or in support of domestic industry can never be ruled out.
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grated Training System (ITS) to train future fighter pilots. This system will most likely comprise not only the aircraft but also the basic infrastructure, including ground-based training, academic training, mission planning/debriefing systems and the logistics to support the full system. A complete list of ventures can be found on EDA’s Electronic Bulletin Board (EBB) on Government and Industry Contract Opportunities at: http:// www.eda.europa.eu/ebbweb/. OCCAR is an intergovernmental organisation which provides more effective and efficient arrangements for the management of very specific existing and future joint armament programmes, comprising the nations of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Turkey. OCCAR is not affiliated to any other multinational defence organisation. Programmes encompass, amongst others, BOXER (a multi-role armoured vehicle), COBRA (a weapon locating system), TIGER (a new generation of helicopters), and A400M (one of the largest programmes of all). For more business opportunities see: http://www.occar-ea.org/13.
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In NATO For more than a decade now NATO has regarded M&S as a key enabler. However, it was certainly a first to see NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT) participate in a computer game competition – and then even to win an award. That is what happened when Boarders Ahoy!, a 3D multiplayer game for maritime security and search teams, won the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge – People’s Choice Award at I/ITSEC 2010. The game, which was developed in partnership with the US-based Engineering and Computer Simulations (ECS), is only one of many similar intitiatives; ACT has already developed a series of virtual worlds within the Nexus Virtual World platform. And more are set to follow. ACT is currently investigating technologies which could be used to enhance or replace NATO’s current training and education methods. Serious games technology is a favourite, as Lieutenant
General Karlheinz Viereck, Deputy Chief of Staff, Joint Force Training, ACT confirmed in an interview with MS&T. Only recently ACT awarded a contract to Raytheon Professional Services GmbH to develop an electronic Individual Training and Education Program (e-ITEP). The e-ITEP will support the delivery of the right training to the right people at the right time, allowing the individuals to possess, upon arrival in a NATO post, the skills and competencies needed for the job. Embedded in the e-ITEP is the NATO Education and Training Opportunities Catalogue (ETOC), which includes the training opportunities offered by NATO education and training facilities, as well as from nations, global partners and other international organisations. For the currently valid platform see: https://jadl. act.nato.int/npetn/ The NATO Research and Technology Organisation, or RTO, is NATO’s premier forum for Research and
Technology (R&T) co-operation. It serves as the hub for the knowledge exchange, linking all actors, and provides support to the scientific community which is delivering the Programme of Work of the six Panels and the NATO Modelling and Simulation Group (NMSG). UCATT (Urban Combat Advanced Training Technology), a Task Group of the NATO Modelling and Simulation Group, is a fine example of cooperation between NATO, nations, partners and industry. This Task Group will set the architectural framework for unclassified, interoperable, multinational, industry-independent urban training technology architecture, a prospect which is not only attractive for the military. In the long term, the system participating providers Cubic, NSC, RDE, RUAG, SAAB and Tenetec (and others) will benefit from greater competition possibilities. Learn more about the RTO at www.rto.nato.int. ms&t
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Contract NAWCTSD AV-8B Maintenance Trainers AV-8B WST Tech Refresh Fire Scout -Maintainer Shadow- Marine Corps Mission Sims AH-1W WST Visual Upgrade MV-22 Containerized FTDs MV-22 Maintenance Trainer Upgrade MV-22 Cabin Part Task Trainer MV-22 Courseware Development CH-53E Flight Training Device MH-53E Flight Training Device F/A-18C/D TOFT 27X System EA-6B/EA-28G COMS/CIS P-C3/P-8A/BAMS COMS Chief of Naval Air Training COMS Naval Aviation Technical Trn.Ctr. COMS CNATRA CIS WESTPAC COMS RESFOR COMS Navy Helicopter COMS DARTS/AAAT CIS E-6B COMS E-2C/D COMS/CIS Chief Naval Bureau Medicine COMS Marine Common Aircrew Trainer ATC Tower Simulation Device Landing Signal Officer Trainer Instructional Systems Dev. AV-8B Instructional Systems Dev. EA-6B Instructional Systems Dev. F/A-18 C/D/F
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$5M $5M $6.4M $3.2M $4.7M $80M $5M $10M $37M TBD TBD $10M $15M $40M $40M $10M $120M $5M $10M $35M $10M $110M $15M $2M $80M $27M $3M $3M $15M $9.7M
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4Q/13 2Q/14 3Q/15 4Q/15 4Q/15 2Q/12 2Q/12 2Q/12 1Q/12 4Q/11 2Q/12 3Q/12 4Q/11 2Q/12 TBD 2Q/12 4Q/12 1Q/14 3Q/12 4Q/11 3Q/12 3Q/12 4Q/12 3Q/13
mike.merritt@navy.mil mike.merritt@navy.mil mike.merritt@navy.mil mike.merritt@navy.mil mike.merritt@navy.mil Brian.Hicks@navy.mil Brian.Hicks@navy.mil Brian.Hicks@navy.mil Brian.Hicks@navy.mil Brian.Hicks@navy.mil Brian.Hicks@navy.mil Brian.Hicks@navy.mil paul.honold@navy.mil paul.honold@navy.mil paul.honold@navy.mil john.l.freeman@navy.mil john.l.freeman@navy.mil john.l.freeman@navy.mil john.l.freeman@navy.mil john.l.freeman@navy.mil john.l.freeman@navy.mil john.l.freeman@navy.mil john.l.freeman@navy.mil john.l.freeman@navy.mil
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4Q/11 4Q/11 TBD 4Q/11 4Q/11 3Q/11 4Q/11 4Q/11 3Q/11 4Q/12 TBD 1Q/12 TBD 4Q/11 1Q/12 TBD N/11 D/11 S/11 Ju/12 S/11
2Q/12 2Q/12 TBD 2Q/12 1Q/12 4Q/11 2Q/12 2Q/12 1Q/12 2Q/12 TBD 4Q/12 TBD 2Q/12 3Q/12 TBD Ap/12 Mr/12 Ma/12 Mr/13 Ja/12
arron.m.brown@us.army.mil percy.parker@us.army.mil rick.dunlap@us.army.mil john.david.foster@us.army.mil david.meyers@us.army.mil david.meyers@us.army.mil david.meyers@us.army.mil david.meyers@us.army.mil michael.younce@us.army.mil leslie.dubow@us.army.mil cassandra.forrester@us.army.mil robert.degaine@us.army.mil john.bishop@us.army.mil joseph.lisella@us.army.mil rita.m.tejeda@us.army.mil rita.m.tejeda @us.army.mil randi.kahl@us.army.mil craig.ravenell@us.army.mil anne.dunlad@us.army.mil gordon.graham@us.army.mil james.todd3@us.army.mil
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neil.repke2@wpafb.af.mil michele.brinkman@wpafb.af.mil rhonda.miller@wpafb.af.mil scott.macdonald@wpafb.af.mil Kenneth.Millard@wpafb@af.mil
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Air Force Training System Product Group TBD Mobility Air Forces Distributed Mission Ops. KC-46A Training Systems TBD $30Myr C-130 MATS Recompete Predator Mission Aircrew Training Sys. $178M TBD Joint Terminal Control Training and Rehearsal System ((JTC TRS) GH Weapon System Trainer (WST) $140M
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PEO STRI A Low Overhead Training Toolkit Joint Land Component Constructive Training Capability (JLCCTC) Artillery& Chemical Training (ACT) Medical Simulation Training Centers Veteran's Health Administration Support Close Combat Tactical Trainer (CCTT) Boom Operator Simulation System (BOSS) RC-12X Cockpit Procedural Trainer (CPT) C-27J Suite of TADSS-Pilot C-27J Suite of TADSS -Loadmaster Global Hawk Sensor Operator PTT Games for Training Increment II Common Driver Trainer (CDT) Engagement Skills Trainer II Stryker Maintenance Trainers Call for Fire Trainer II (CFFT) Mi-17 Flight Training Device MH-47/MH-60 Special Ops Upgrade Battlefield Effects Simulator CTC Live Fire Modernization CTS-IS Modernization Opposing Force Surrogate Vehicle Target Modernization Support
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Instructional Systems Dev. Navy Helo Command Aircraft Crew Training TC-12 Command Aircraft Crew Training C-37B Command Aircraft Crew Training C-26D Command Aircraft Crew Training UC-35 Emerging Technologies (virtual worlds, etc.) Fleet Readiness Center SE Maintenance Scenario Generation System Fire Fighting Instructional Services Authoring Instructional Services PDX Advanced Concepts Federal Law Enforcement Training Ctr Submarine Contractor Maintenance Svs SubSkillsNet/Virtual Interactive Undersea Training Devices Navigation, Seamanship, Shiphandling Navigation, Seamanship, Shiphandling Fire Fighting/Damage Control Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) PC-based Reconfigurable Simulations PORTS MMTT Tech Refresh PORTS LCS Mission Modules PORTS LCS Seaframe Combat Systems LCS Contractor Ops & Maintenance Supt.
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Seen&Heard A compendium of current news from the military simulation and training industry, compiled and edited by the MS&T editorial team. For the latest breaking news and in-depth reports go to www.halldale.com.
Training Aircraft Converted Aircraft Delivered for UK MFTS – Cobham has delivered four converted Hawker-Beechcraft B350ER King Air special mission aircraft to Ascent Flight Training Limited for the UK Military Flying Training System (UK MFTS) at Cobham Aviation Services’ facility adjacent to Bournemouth International Airport, UK. Royal Navy (RN) and Ascent personnel will use the aircraft to train RN Observers to navigate and operate their aircraft tactically, prior to commencing operational flying training on Lynx, Merlin and Sea King helicopters. Fitted out with twin student training consoles and twin instructor consoles, the aircraft will be equipped with a 360-degree telephonic RDR1700A under-belly radar and full navigation and communications suites. The on-board training system will be managed by CAE’s tactical mission trainer software system, which will include the Blue Ridge synthetic radar. The new system will offer opportunities to download training from later stages in the training pipeline. F-35 Production Jets Delivered – The first two Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II production jets to be assigned to the 33rd Fighter Wing have been delivered to Eglin Air Force Base. The aircraft will be used for activities in concert with training F-35 pilots and maintainers who begin coursework at the base’s new F-35 Integrated Training Center this fall.
Pilot Training CAE Training at RAAF Amberley – CAE Australia will provide aircrew training services for the new KC-30A air-toair refuelling tanker on a suite of KC-30A MRTT training systems the company designed and manufactured under subcontract to Airbus Military.
The training devices include a KC30A MRTT full flight and mission simulator, KC-30A MRTT air refuelling officer (ARO) part-task trainer (PTT), and CAE Simfinity integrated procedures trainer (IPT), all of which will undergo installation and acceptance testing in advance of the planned interim ready-for-training milestone in December. As part of an amendment to the Management and Support of Australian Defence Forces (ADF) Aerospace Simulators (MSAAS) contract, CAE Australia Pty Ltd will now be responsible for providing comprehensive training services to support the RAAF’s new fleet of KC-30A tanker aircraft for an initial eight-year period. CAE staff at RAAF Base Amberley will provide classroom and simulator instruction, courseware development, training device maintenance and support services and facilities management. Nellis AFB to Get MTC Simulator – Delivery is underway for the US Air Force's Mission Training Center’s first simulator at Nellis Air Force Base. The simulator is part of a $109.1 million contract with L-3 Link Simulation and Train-
Above F-35 Arrival at Eglin AFB. Image credit: Angel DelCueto/Lockheed Martin.
ing and operational turnover is scheduled for October. The F-16 MTC includes four highdefinition simulators, each enclosing an F-16 Fighting Falcon cockpit within a 360-degree display dome linked to networked simulation computers. Each cockpit can fly solo or with others on virtual missions. The system includes instructor review stations and auditorium debriefing displays and simulates all F-16 capabilities, including any modification, weapon system, or mission profile that the real fighter might have. Nellis AFB's long-range plan includes adding additional MTC simulators for other platforms, such as the F-15E Strike Eagle and F-35 Lightning II, while linking the virtual joint terminal attack controller trainer and other simulators already present. Contract Extension – Australian Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare has announced a two-year extension of the
contract with BAE Systems Australia to provide support to the Royal Australian Air Force's Lead-In-Fighter Hawk aircraft. The contract is worth $150 million and includes maintenance, engineering and logistic support services to the 33 aircraft, two training simulators and a computer-based instruction system. The Hawks are used to provide introductory fast jet training. They are based at RAAF Williamtown near Newcastle and RAAF Pearce near Perth. C-130 Modernization and Training – Boeing has won a $61 million US Air Force contract for two more C-130 avionics modernization program (AMP) kits and two aircrew training system devices as part of a low-rate initial production (LRIP) contract awarded in 2010. The devices will be developed at CAE USA's Tampa, Florida facility and delivered to the Arkansas Air National Guard C-130 AMP training center at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas in 2014. Afghan Airmen Complete First Phase of Pilot Training – The first 16 Afghan Air Force (AAF) students recently completed English-immersion training on a contract led by Raytheon Company to provide fixed- and rotary-wing pilot
training for up to 80 Afghan airmen. The students are now attending aviation ground school, the second phase of the four-part pilot training program. The $42.8 million, three-year training contract supports NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan under the U.S. Army's Warfighter Field Operations Customer Support (FOCUS) contract. Air Power Legacy in Iraq – US Air Force Airmen in the 52nd Expeditionary Flying Training Squadron are delivering the primary pilot training course and the primary instructor pilot course to Iraqi forces using the T-6A Texan II at Combat Operating Base Speicher. Once Iraqi officers have attended a short training course on the basics of flying, they then attend the PPT course, which lasts approximately one year. Graduates of PPT will also attend the six-month instructor course. Upon completion, the new Iraqi instructor pilots are charged with training the upcoming student pilots.
Training Devices Simulation Training in Afghanistan –The US Army PEO STRI awarded Fidelity
Technologies Corporation a $16.7 million contract to provide simulators and logistics support with options that could bring the contract value up to $31 million. Within an 18 month period, Fidelity will deliver four simulators: MI-17 flight training device (FTD), G-222 flight training device, G-222 basic aviation training device (BATD) and G-222 fuselage load trainer (FLT). The simulators will enable training of Afghan warfighters in support of the Combined Security Transition Command, a multinational military formation designed to train and develop security forces, including the Afghan National Army Air Corps. Walk-In Flight Simulator – Raytheon showcased its role in the development, manufacturing and installation of stateof-the-art situational awareness technology for fixed and rotary wing aircraft with a 4D walk-in simulator at the 2011 Paris Air Show. 4D refers to the addition of sound and touch to the interface. Raytheon's situational awareness technology can be added to existing aircraft with no operational flight program or mission computer impact, allowing ageing instruments to be easily upgraded on platforms such as the F-16.
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CV-22 Training Devices – FlightSafety International has won a contract from Bell Helicopter to design and manufacture two CV-22 flight training devices. The new devices will be used by the US Air Force during the training of Special Command Forces personnel. The simulators will be equipped with FlightSafety’s newly enhanced VITAL X visual system that features continuous global satellite high-resolution imagery with tens of thousands of processed elements and millions of features integrated into animated scenes of the real world. The CV-22 training devices will be completed at FlightSafety’s new simulator design, manufacturing and technology integration facility in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Military Contracts for CAE – CAE has been awarded a series of military contracts valued at more than C$115 million. The United States Navy has exercised contract options for CAE USA to design and manufacture two additional MH-60R tactical operational flight trainers (TOFTs). The first will be a fixed-based MH60R TOFT delivered to Naval Air Station Jacksonville, USA, in late 2013. The other TOFT will be delivered to the Marine Corps Air Station at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, USA, in late 2013. Under subcontract to Boeing, CAE will design and manufacture a new C-130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) weapon systems trainer (WST) and produce a second C-130 AMP part task trainer (APTT) for US Air Force. The devices will be delivered to the C-130 Aircrew Training System at Little Rock Air Force Base, USA, in 2014. Professional Way Sdn Bhd has purchased a CAE 3000 Series full flight simulator replicating the AW139 aircraft, which will be deployed to a new training centre to be established near Kuala Lumpur’s Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport. CAE USA has signed a contract with the US Army’s PEO
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Helicopter Training Black Hawk Training Center in Colombia – Sikorsky Aerospace Services’(SAS) construction of a new UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter Flight Simulator Training Center at the Colombian Air Force Base in Melgar is under way and on schedule for completion this year. The facility will help improve the operational readiness of the Colombian Armed Services Black Hawk fleet. Based on the agreement reached last year with the Colombian Ministry of Defense, the facility will offer a full motion, high fidelity Black Hawk helicopter simulator to support pilot and flight crew training for the Colombian Armed Services and Sikorsky military customers throughout Latin America. The simulator is FAA Level D rated. Cockpit Procedure Trainer – VEGA Space has delivered three cockpit procedure trainers (CPT) for the new transportation helicopter CH-53GA, to Eurocopter Deutschland. The CPTs are operating in the newly opened Eurocopter Deutschland Training Center in Donauwörth, Germany, and are being used to train the respective helicopter flight training instructors of the German Army. The initial instructor training will be completed in the autumn of 2011. Afterwards, four CPTs will be installed at the German School of Army Aviation in Bückeburg for pilot training, before two of the CPTs will be handed over to the CH-53 squadrons' sites. Rescue Techniques – Helitech’s conference this year will include a session on the opportunities and challenges for the rotary wing community that are posed by Europe’s growing number of offshore wind farms. Europe’s largest dedicated helicopter exhibition takes place between 27-29 September at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, near Cambridge. Two members of the RAF’s UK SAR Force will give a glimpse into helicopter rescue techniques from offshore wind farms. Flight Lieutenant Lee Turner and Master Aircrew Chris Bodium have practical experience in researching rescue techniques in this relatively new field for search and rescue teams. This year a number of helicopters are making their UK exhibition debuts at Helitech including a life-sized mock-up of AgustaWestland’s new AW169, as well as the Guimbal Cabri G2. Tiger Training Support Contract Extended – Thales’ support contract for the Tiger Aircrew Training Means (TATM) has been extended by the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR (1)), representing Germany and France. The four-year extension of the initial support contract that began in November 2006 is to ensure continued support and
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Ground Vehicle Simulation Lab – DCS Corp has been awarded the Ground Vehicle Simulation Lab (GVSL) contract providing support to the US Army's Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command. It is a follow-on to a contract previously awarded to DCS in 2006. DCS will continue to provide systems engineering and technical support. Under the contract, DCS will develop physics-based simulations and simulators in support of TACOM's military vehicle research, development, acquisition and life cycle management missions. The GVSL's unique motion-based simulators are used to place users, vehicle subsystems, or full vehicles in a variety of dynamic environments. Operator Driving Simulators Upgrade – FAAC Incorporated has received a contract award valued at $5.7 million from the US Marine Corps Systems Command, Program Manager for Training Systems (PM TRASYS) to increase the capability of the currently fielded Marine Operator Driving Simulators (ODS). The upgrade includes incorporation of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) All-Terrain-Vehicle (M-ATV) into the USMC ODS baseline, simulation of the Independent Suspension System (ISS) being retrofitted on the actual MRAP vehicles, and outfitting the motor transport operator schoolhouses with reconfigurable ODS cabs and dash suites allowing their existing simulator infrastructure to simulate M-ATV, MRAP Cougar Cat I & II, MK-23, and UpArmored HMMWV. The results of this effort will dramatically increase the capability of the 36 schoolhouse simulators, enabling them
to simulate all vehicles in the USMC's motor transport fleet.
Combat Cubic Delivers COMBATREDI – Cubic Simulations Systems has delivered a virtual training solution to the Florida National Guard (FLNG) for mounted and dismounted infantry operations. The solution includes a manworn "virtual reality" training system and vehicle training platform, both of which are integrated with the VBS2 game engine. COMBATREDI™, the virtual reality component, provides soldiers with fidelity, portability, and flexibility for training in warrior tasks and battle drills in a synthetic environment. It combines the fidelity of a high resolution helmet-mounted display (REDISITE™) with a powerful manworn tactical computer (REDITAC). The Warrior Skills Trainer (WST) component provides the platform for vehicle training or mounted operations and incorporates Cubic's high-fidelity engagement skill trainer weapons. The system allows soldiers to engage targets while in a simulated moving vehicle, or to dismount and engage on foot. The integration of WST with COMBATREDI allows fire teams and squads to perform increasingly complex missions in a virtual environment.
Naval Training Training 'Adaptive Expertise' – Aptima is developing ADAPT, a multimedia training system to prepare naval officers for the varied scenarios encountered in settings such as force protection, counter-terrorism, and counterpiracy. These unconventional situations call for broader, more flexible problemsolving skills. ADAPT is being funded and developed for the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to address a two-fold problem. As an 'Adaptive Device for Adaptive Performance Training,' it will prepare US Navy officers for handling unanticipated events. As an intelligent tutoring system, it will advance training science by adapting to each trainee to provide a variety of novel problem-solving scenarios. The technology can be applied to other training domains as well. Australian Navy Opens $18M Training Facility – The Royal Australian
Navy has opened a new Damage Control Training facility at HMAS Creswell, Jervis Bay. The new facility will enable Navy personnel to build their skills in responding to toxic hazards, fire fighting and conducting emergency repairs afloat. Simulated ship's compartments are hydraulically mounted to deliver the rolling motion ships experience at sea. Trainees now have to deal with ship movement while they fight fires or stem water flow in flooding compartments. The new facility is part of the $83.6 million HMAS Creswell redevelopment project, which has also seen the refurbishment and expansion of trainees' accommodation and classrooms. Scenario-based Training – The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is investigating scenario-based training of sailors with a serious-gaming approach. As part of an initial pilot project, Invenio Engineering Solutions, a Dassault Systèmes (DS) premier value solution partner in Australia, is providing support to the RAN with its REFINE (Real-time Engineering Fleet training Interactive Naval Environment) solution. REFINE immerses sailors in an online virtual representation of the ship where they will serve. REFINE provides incontext training and detailed ship familiarization by replicating real-life scenarios such as navigating to equipment, extracting engineering information from the contextual menu, fighting fires, launching the ship’s boat, and responding to damage control or a call to action stations. The game combines CATIA 3D-modeling with 3DVIA Studio Pro’s data-handling functions and programming capabilities, and 3DVIA Composer’s interactive procedure-creation features. The result is an interactive training tool that is quick and cost-effective to develop, delivers fast and intelligent responses to user needs, and increases sailors’ effectiveness in performing duties. Torpedo Simulator – DCNS has successfully delivered the SIMOPE (SIMulateur OPErationnel) MU90 torpedo simulator to the German Navy. SIMOPE provides operational launch scenarios with the MU90 lightweight anti-submarine torpedo. The delivery and acceptance process included training for German technical experts in how to use the new system.
The MU90 is the result of a partnership between the French and Italian governments and the respective industries of the two countries. Germany was the first export customer to adopt the MU90, followed by Denmark, Poland and Australia. Close analysis of the MU90's behaviour in a wide range of tactical scenarios will enhance the way operatives are prepared and trained, maximise the weapon's effectiveness in actual combat as well as support the preparation and refinement of tactical guidelines for weapon deployment, according to Germany's defence procurement agency, BWB (Bundesamt für Wehrtechnik und Beschaffung).
Software & Support Embedded Graphics Development – Presagis and WOLF Industrial Systems Inc. (WOLF), an engineering design center specializing in rapid development and manufacture of COTS and custom embedded video graphic boards and systems, are partnering to deliver a preintegrated, COTS graphics board and OpenGL driver solution for use in the development of next-generation embedded graphics applications for helicopters,
fixed wing aircraft, and military vehicles. With the goal to offer a full graphics stack ability to rapidly develop embedded graphics applications, the solution will also support VAPS XT. It will also help users decrease costs and time associated with certifying their safetycritical embedded graphics applications because it offers a clear path toward certification and compliance with DO-254, DO-178B, and the upcoming DO-178C. Altair Releases HyperWorks 11.0 – Altair Engineering, Inc. has released HyperWorks 11.0, the latest version of the engineering industry’s popular computer-aided engineering software suite. HyperWorks is a comprehensive simulation solution for rapid design exploration and decision-making. It provides a tightly integrated suite of best-in-class tools for all facets of the simulation process, including modeling, analysis, optimization, visualization, reporting and collaborative knowledge management. HyperWorks 11.0 adds two new software products to its portfolio, AcuSolve, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) flow and multi-physics solver, and solidThinking, a 3D conceptual modeling and visualization software.
Maintenance Training Equipment Training – NGRAIN has won contracts with the Canadian Forces to deliver NGRAIN® Virtual Task Trainer™ (VTT™) solutions for range of systems, including the M-113 Rotzler Winch, Palfinger Crane, tEODor Remotely Operated Vehicle, and a number of weapon systems and ammunitions. NGRAIN VTT solutions provide a way to train new recruits faster, avoid costs associated with acquiring equipment for training, increase access to training, and improve the performance of maintenance tasks. Kratos Receives $6.2m Contract Awards – Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has received a new order for its Black Hawk avionics trainer (BHAT-M) to support the training of maintenance personnel for the UH-60M US Army Aviation Logistics School in Ft. Eustis, VA. The BHAT-M is a full fidelity trainer that provides training and evaluation for utility helicopter personnel in fault isolation and maintenance avionics and associated subsystems. The device supports
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all the critical tasks necessary to train MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) 15N10/30 Avionics Mechanics. Also announced were contracts with Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) to supply sustainment products and services to existing Kratos built training devices. The total of all the awards is approximately $6.2 million including the new BHAT-M trainer.
Ventures & Partnerships Teaming Agreement – Rheinmetall Defence and Sikorsky Aerospace Services (SAS) have signed a teaming agreement to provide long term training and logistics support in anticipation of the introduction the Cyclone multi-mission helicopter into Germany. Rheinmetall and SAS will work together to lead a team of German industrial providers in creating robust maintenance, training and program support in-country for the German armed forces. The Cyclone helicopter provides multi-mission capabilities including antisubmarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, and search and rescue. Advanced Trainer Jet Simulator – Alenia Aermacchi has selected Barco to construct a visual display system for its M-346 trainer jet flight simulator. The simulator, developed in partnership with CAE, will be used at tradeshows and other promotional events to demonstrate the power of the trainer aircraft to potential customers. To give customers a highly realistic view of the M-346, Alenia Aermacchi wanted to create a flight simulator dedicated for ground demonstrations. Barco designed a tailor-made visual display system consisting of a cylindrical screen with three rear-projected SIM 7 projectors for a 180° out-the-window view and an additional SIM 5W projector for the head-up display projection. VDC Establishes Aydin Visual Solutions Group – Video Display Corporation (VDC) has established Aydin Visual Solutions (AVS), a new entity to focus on the growing demand for highly effective and configurable visual solutions for Command & Control and other large format visuals in the North American market. "The formation of AVS as a new business venture offers an exciting opportunity for Video Display Corporation to leverage its simulation and display expertise
to further expand into new markets and build lasting shareholder equity. We are pleased to partner with such global technology leaders as eyevis® and Scalable Display Technologies® to grow their market share in North America, while creating exceptional value for our customers," said David Heiden, President and COO for Video Display Corporation. Training Link Up – MBDA France and DCI-COFRAS, DCI's land force and military police department, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to reinforce their common training offer covering MBDA's products and solutions in the anti-tank, long range artillery and air defence domains for ground forces. The companies say by taking advantage of the synergies and optimising the combined skills of MBDA and DCI will offer the best way of meeting the operational expectations of the end user.
Arrivals & Departures New Program Manager at DiSTI – The DiSTI Corporation welcomes Rick Wrenn to the team as the newest Program Manager. Rick brings over 20 years of management experience in the design, development, testing and implementation of real-time military training systems. His credentials include contributions to major projects including the US Navy Landing Craft Air Cushioned (LCAC) virtual environment and F-14 flight simulator, the LAV-25 project for the Marines, and live fire range projects in Germany. projectiondesign Appointment – Norway’s projectiondesign® has appointed Karl A. Hantho as president of its Americas subsidiary. Hantho’s arrival follows the recent announcement of the company’s acquisition of projectiondesign LLC, which had been its exclusive distributor in North America since 2004. Hantho joins projectiondesign from LTI DataComm and NOVA Power Solutions, where he held the roles of CEO and president since 2007. UK Regional Director – David Eadie CBE has joined Cubic Defense Applications, Inc. to lead the company's activities in the UK. Eadie succeeds Brig. David Williams who plans to retire. Eadie will lead all business development and program activities in the UK and support regional marketing activities. Development Director – Kratos
Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has named Clement “Clem” Greek as the Director of Army Aviation and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Initiatives for Kratos Technology & Training Solutions (TTS). Greek will focus on further building Kratos’ partnerships with Army Aviation and Training Commands, including customers such as PM Black Hawk, Utility Helicopter Program Office and TRADOC, as well as UAS training systems across all of the armed services.
Shows & Events MS&T Editors report on some of the places we’ve been. Paris Air Show 2011, 20-26 June 2011 – As in previous years, CAE ran a chalet and had its products displayed on other companies' stands. One was the VCD (virtual cockpit demonstrator) for the C-27 Spartan on the Finmeccanica booth. However, what was truly new was the AT-6 Unit Training Device (UTD) set up at the Hawker Beechcraft (HBC) static display. The Hawker Beechcraft AT-6 is the armed version of the popular T-6 Texan trainer. It is designed for light air support (LAS) and light attack and armed reconnaissance (LAAR). The AT-6 UTD is a full fidelity AT-6 cockpit with fully functional panels and controls. The device is foldable, easily transportable and has a small footprint, both folded or assembled. The UTD is one element of the AT-6 ground-based training system (GBTS), which is a suite of aids comprising computer-based training, courseware, desktop trainers and full mission simulators. The training can be easily adapted to the needs, qualifications and learning culture of the students, and therefore be used in a nation-/ partnership-building context. Environmental Tectonics Corporation (ETC) highlighted the company's newest line of tactical flight simulators. The Authentic Tactical Fighting System (ATFS-400) Phoenix provides cost-effective, realistic, ground-based training for a wide variety of tactical training uses. It offers the most comprehensive training available by offering a system with extended field of view (EFOV) visuals, high-fidelity cockpits, and authentic sound and, contrary to other simulators, provides the physiological stresses that are felt when flying tactical aircraft
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in high G training events. The GYROLAB GL-6000 offers advanced capabilities in motion technology for research and training in STOL, VTOL and STOVL dynamic flight, flight phase transition training, dynamic G tolerance and spatial disorientation. The GL-6000 also offers capabilities in situational awareness, fatigue countermeasures and adaption to unusual acceleration environments. Both systems are currently being installed in Wright Patterson AB and will go into service in 2012. Finnish Patria, one of the leading flight training organisations in northern Europe, presented its pilot training and avionics engineering capabilities. The company is now flying the most modern fleet in Europe, with glass cockpit experience from the first flight. At the Nordic Pilot Training Centre on Kauhava Air Force Base, Patria offers both advanced and tactical jet training using upgraded glass cockpit Hawk jet aircraft. Patria's training simulator concept offers scalable architecture and A/C fidelity level from part-task trainers (PTT) to more sophisticated flight training devices. The COTS simulation software used in the PTT provides global scenery and complete flight simulation environment. If higher fidelity flight dynamics or national databases are needed, the concept can be extended with external simulations (e.g. simulink models) and IG/databases. At Le Bourget, Patria showcased the company's flight procedure trainer. – Walter F. Ullrich CanSec 2011 – By the time CANSEC 2011 ended on Thursday, June 2nd, the show had over 9,000 registrants. Organised by CADSI, the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries, the show provided a venue for 260 exhibiting companies in three separate exhibition halls, and a further 24 exhibitors in an outdoor display, to showcase their capabilities and products to military and government customers. The two day show, held in Ottawa’s Lansdowne Park, addressed the broad defence and security needs of Canada. Major capital programmes - land, sea, and air - were targeted by the major exhibitors; even so, MS&T found some interesting training displays. Defence R&D Toronto displayed HOT, the Hercules Observer Trainer, in which a trainee looks through the door window into a wide angle view of the world – and in that world can be a multi-
Above CAE's AT-6 UTD on display in the Hawker Beechcraft chalet at Paris Air Show. Image credit: Walter F. Ullrich.
tude of threats. When a threat is detected the simulated Hercules can deploy defensive measures and manoeuvres in response to the trainee reports. Evaluations comparing novices to experienced observers have confirmed the efficacy of HOT and the training benefits. HOT is now a permanent part of the Loadmaster training course. Bluedrop, a training solutions company, has been awarded a contract to build and deliver a HOT to the Australian Department of Defence Atlantis Systems Eduplus (ASE), a subsidiary of Atlantis Systems International, displayed an aircraft marshalling training device running on an Xbox Kinect system – the foundation for a very cost effective system. The student receives instruction, practices, receives feedback, and plays scenarios, such as an engine fire. According to Carl Daniels, Vice President of ASE, the trainer may be fielded in various contexts – even as a game outside the classroom environment. C4I Consultants displayed MILSIM and EDMSIM, both innovative, low overhead solutions for constructive simulations that contain all the features necessary for meaningful training. Both tools are portable and deployable, have simple user interfaces and are supported by video instruction. And finally, MIL-SIM-FX showed their line of safe, non-pyrotechnic, reusable, IED detection/reaction training simulators that create audio and visual reports. A modular platform allows
MIL-SIM-FX devices to be incorporated into a full range of training applications including MOUT, Convoy and Live Fire Training. Denis Noel, Sales Manager, highlighted both the effectiveness and low cost of the devices, citing the case of the emulated hand grenade with a $2.00 recycling cost CANSEC 2012 will be held on May 30th and 31st, 2012 at the brand new CE Centre, located on Uplands Drive near the Ottawa International Airport. The new facility has 150,000 square feet of column free and fully air conditioned exhibition hall space. – Jeff Loube 2011 MT3 – The significant increase in attendance at the 2011 Medical Technology, Training and Treatment (MT3) conference, June 1-4, in Orlando is indicative of the growing interest in medical simulation technologies and applications. A key theme of the conference was the use of simulation and the latest medical training practices for the reduction of clinical errors and improvement in patient safety. Dr. Michael Butler, Executive Vice President of Jackson Health System said that this is an area where simulation technology can significantly aid the medical community. Dr. Dimitrios Stefanidis, Medical Director for the Carolinas Simulation Center, said that simulation will help medical practitioners transition to the next level of competency, and that the medical education system is moving towards competencybased training. Dr. Jim Hurst, Medical Director of the University of South Florida/HCA Trauma Network, said it is time to change from the traditional methodology of medical training and the way health care is delivered. He advocated the use of medical simulation in medical curricula, resulting in training that will be safer and will deliver higher quality results, as well as being more efficient and cost-effective, especially for medical team training. "Those days of traditional medical training are gone," Hurst said. "Simulation based training will transform surgical health care in the future." Hurst also described the 90,000 square-foot Medical Simulation Center that the university plans to open in 2012. The MT3 conference featured more than 30 presenters from the medical, military and academic communities who covered a wide range of related medical education and treatment topics, ranging
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from the use of simulation for training for robotic heart surgery to new simulation technologies to what needs to be done to help close the gaps in medical modeling and simulation. Companies exhibiting medical training related products included CAE, Engineering and Computer Simulations, Lockheed Martin Global Training and Logistics, METI, Raydon, SAIC, SynDaver Labs and Unity Technologies. Halldale Media Group was one of the ten sponsoring organizations. – Chuck Weirauch Allied Auroras – The ABCA Armies exercise Allied Auroras was in full swing on the third day of the ‘test event’, five days of vignettes, when MS&T visited the multi-national Headquarters and Activity Control in Kingston, Canada on 19 July. The purpose of Allied Auroras was to conduct a technical test and evaluation of an ABCA synthetic environment used to support the conduct of ABCA simultaneous distributed training. The military scenario placed the ABCA armies – Canadian, British, Australian, New Zealand, and United States Armies and the US Marine Corp in coalition operations in Afghanistan. The basic question is whether ABCA should establish a ‘permanent’ or on-going capability to conduct simultaneous distributed events. Allied Auroras is gathering data to specifically determine if it can be done, what is involved and to get some data on the training value and other factors. The distributed synthetic environment had four main components: the distribution backbone – the combined federated battle lab (CFBL) augmented by national systems; the simulations tools – OneSAF for the constructive simulation and VBS2 for the 3D feed from UAVs; C2 – national command and control information systems linked into the multinational HQ C2 systems; and the scenario – an ABCA Bde pre-mission training event / command post exercise. According to project team lead, LCol Russel Bassarab, they were making good progress in addressing the programme questions in the exercise. The concept is proving to be valid, all the distributed sites were connected and functioning, issues were being identified and addressed in testing, and the activity has facilitated considerable learning as well as ABCA and national development. – Jeff Loube ms&t
Edited by Ian Strachan. (8%) for basic training aircraft. Roles also include UAVs (22 trainers), 20 with generic cockpits, and 13 with multi-role capabilities. The main increases this year are for basic trainers (+33) and Rotary Wing (+32), with an increase of 7 each for FGA/T and Multi-Engined aircraft. Of the 953 FGA/T simulators, 136 (14%) have motion-seats designed to enhance cueing during manoeuvre, and 50 (5%) enable pilots to wear their own anti-G suits in the simulator, to be inflated when the simulator computer calculates the appropriate G values. The fighter, rotary, multi and trainer roles are major drivers for the characteristics of visual and motion systems. FGA/T aircraft are manoeuvrable and are capable of high G, many with flight envelopes up to 9G. Most of their simulators have wide-angle out-the-window (OTW) Table 1: Military Flight Sims by Nation Sims Country 879 USA 102 UK 77 France 58 Germany 48 Japan 47 S Korea 45 Italy 39 Canada 38 Russia 33 Saudi Arabia 31 Netherlands 31 Sweden 30 Australia 30 Taiwan 28 Egypt 28 India 25 Spain 20 Brazil 19 Singapore 19 UAE 18 Turkey 13 Belgium 12 Poland 12 Switzerland 12 Thailand 11 Iraq 10 Israel 10 S Africa 187 remaining
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visuals but few have motion platforms. Because a platform cannot produce continuous G, people in the FGA area often conclude that there is no point in having one at all. However, a platform works well in the centre of the flight envelope, and some 95% of a FGA/T simulator sortie will not require either high manoeuvre or G. In contrast, almost all full flight simulators for large multi-engined aircraft and many for helicopters have full 6-axis motion. Many are to the civil “Level D” design that also has a wide-angle “collimated” display that enables the pilots to view the outside world at a distant focus. It also enables the two pilots in aircraft with side-by-side seating to see the same image without distortion or the false angles that would be presented to one of the two pilots in displays using direct projection on a screen, including on the inside of a dome. Some 1250 simulators (66%) are fixed-base, three-quarters of Table 2: Military Flight Sims by Manufacturer Sims Manufacturer 323 L-3 Link (USA) 256 CAE (Can/USA/Germany) 189 Thales (France/UK) 157 Boeing (USA) 150 FSI (USA) 109 LM (USA) 62 ETC (USA) 54 Elbit (Israel) 54 Frasca (USA) 51 R Collins (USA) 41 Sogitec (France) 34 AMST (Austria) 32 Indra (Spain) 30 CSTS Dinamika (Russia) 28 Mitsubishi (Japan) 25 Qinetiq (UK) 22 Saab (Sweden) 21 BAES (UK) 20 Dodaam (S Korea) 20 VRM (Slovakia) 19 EF ASTA (Europe) 18 ASI (USA) 17 AFRL (USA) 15 Camber (USA) 10 Alenia (Italy) 10 Havelsan (Turkey) 141 remainder
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his year we list 98 flight simulators more than last year’s 1814, for a new total of 1912. For 2011, such a large increase might seem surprising because most of the militaries of the world are taking financial cuts. However, the probable reason for the overall increase is that aircraft fleet managers and commanders realise that economies can be made by transferring some training from the aircraft itself to a simulator or flight training device (FTD), and still preserve, or even enhance, combat effectiveness. Indeed, the UK Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, in April at a conference at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London, stated that future training may “move to 50% real and 50% virtual in the next five to ten years”. Compared to 2010, the larger increases in flight simulator numbers are 29 in the USA, 8 in the UK, 7 more each for Italy, South Korea and Russia, 6 for Australia, 5 for Switzerland, 4 for India and 3 for Belgium. Further, because of the difficulty in obtaining information from some countries, overall numbers are almost certain to be an underestimate; particularly for China, Iran, Russia and some of the countries previously part of the Soviet Union. Turning now to the overall numbers of flight simulators, the USA has an enormous lead with 879 devices that have out-the-window (OTW) visual systems and a full-size replica cockpit with flight controls, the criteria for inclusion in the MS&T Census. This is 46% of the 2011 world total. The full tables that follow this article list a further 39 countries in addition to those in Table 1. The characteristics of these simulators and FTDs are related to the role of the aircraft for which they are to train. Almost exactly half (953) are for centre-line thrust aircraft such as fighters, ground attack aircraft and advanced trainers (FGA/T). Such trainers also serve as light attack aircraft. Then, there are 476 devices (25%) for rotary-wing aircraft, 280 (15%) for large multi-engined types, and 148
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them for FGA/T aircraft. About 530 (28%) have 6-axis motion platforms and most are similar to the civil so-called “Full Flight Simulator” (FFS) design. The census also includes 26 disorientation trainers with full freedom in yaw, and 23 manrated centrifuges capable of training in a real high-G environment. Modern centrifuges have gimballed gondolas that give extra cues of pitch and roll as well as G, and when combined with a replica cockpit give realistic high-G training. Turning now to visual systems that display outside-world imagery, the most popular layout is three channels, typically giving a field-of-view (FoV) between 150x40 and 180x45 degrees. There are 320 simulators with 5 channels, many giving 240x45 view. There are 200 6-channel systems and some have “facets” where back-projection is used with flat screens that surround the pilot and cockpit. Stepping up to 7-channels, there are about 60 including helicopter simulators with 5 channels spread horizontally and two extra so-called “chin windows” that use collimated monitor units to
enhance downward view for hovering. Dome and wrap-around faceted systems for FGA/T aircraft have even more channels, about 160 simulators being listed with 8 channels and over. On simulator connectivity, about 740 (39%) have either Local- or Widearea network capability (LAN/WAN). Since last year there has been almost a doubling of devices with LAN. This allows multi-ship training at a simulator complex and with WAN, multi-role and joint training with other bases, including long-haul networking across oceans. Such networking will become the norm for future top-end simulator designs. Simulator manufacturers are listed in the Table 2. L-3 Link, headquartered in Arlington, Texas, is in the lead by a long way with over 320 flight simulators. Link is followed by CAE of Montreal with over 250 simulators, including some made in Tampa, Florida and Stolberg, Germany. After this comes Thales with about 190 from facilities at Crawley (UK) and in France (N of Paris). Then, three companies from the USA, led by Boeing with
about 160, mainly from their St Louis (ex McDonnell Douglas) facility, FlightSafety (FSI) with 150 from their simulator division at Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and Lockheed Martin with 109 mainly from their Orlando facility. Countries making flight simulators outside North America and Europe include Israel (Elbit), Japan (Mitsubishi), S. Korea (Dodaam), and Turkey (Havelsan). Finally, there are no less than 41 other manufacturers for which there is not room in Table 2. Compared to last year, manufacturers with increased simulator numbers include Frasca of Urbana, Illinois, (+19), FSI Simulation (+17), Austria Metall System Technik (AMST) of Braunau (+15) and Rockwell Collins’ simulation division at Sterling, Virginia (+12). So what does all this mean for the future? Air Chief Marshal Dalton’s words are prophetic. No longer can the military afford to use its equipment as extensively for training as in the past. It must be preserved for combat, and where possible, to extend its operational life. Meanwhile, flight simulation technology is more than ready to take up the training load. ms&t
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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 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 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 AgustaWestland (Italy and UK) BAES BAE SYSTEMS Boeing Includes ex-McDonnell Douglas aircraft CASA Construcciones Aeronauticas SA, the Spanish part of the EADS company 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 (USAF) 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 EF ASTA Consortium Eurofighter Aircrew Synthetic Training Aids Consortium 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 Rotorsim 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 Tsentral’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 CAE (Canada) - MaxVue, Medallion, Tropos CATI (USA) - Carmel Applied Technologies, Inc. CSTS Dinamika - Raduga IG 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 Lockheed Martin - CompuScene (ex GE) PCX-IG - PC-based IG using PCX system (ex-ZSoft) Quantum 3D (USA) - Aalchemy, Independence Rockwell Collins (ex Evans & Sutherland Image Generators) - CT Series, ESIG, EPX, Harmony, PT2000, SimFusion, SP (Special Product) series RSI Visual Systems - RasterFlite 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
M
CAE
2
Vital 4
3ch/4w 150x40
6H
Plus FSI-built systems trainer
Angola - Air Force Aero Vod L-39-C/ZA Albatros
1
PC/VEGA
3ch/3w 150x45
0
L
FTD
Mil Mi-17 Hip
FT&GA VRM R
VRM
1
VRM/IMMAX
3ch/3w 180x45
0V
L
FTD
Moravan Zlin 143/242
T
VRM
1
VRM/IMMAX
1ch/1w 60x45
0
L
CPT/FNPT
Argentina - Air Force Bell UH-1H Huey Boeing A-4M Skyhawk
R
Frasca
FGA Camber
1
TruVision
3ch/3w 150x40
1
SGI
3ch/3wC 150x40
6H 0
L
Bombardier Learjet 35
M
Frasca
1
TruVision
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
Dassault Mirage III/5/50/C/E/VP
F
Thales Fr
1
Vital 4
3ch/3w 150x40
0
IAI Dagger A
F
IAI
1
Vital 4
3ch/3w 150x40
0
Argentina - Navy Dassault Super Etendard
FGA Thales Fr
1
Apogee
3ch/3w 150x40
4H
Australia - Air Force 1
Medallion
3chCC 150x40
6H
Plus mission sys trainer
BAES Hawk 127
Airbus EADS A-330 (KC-30A MRTT) M
FT&GA BAES
2
SGI
1ch/1w 15x25
0
PTT
BAES Hawk 127
FT&GA BAES
2
SGI
1ch/1w 40x30
0
Through BAES Australia
BAES Hawk 127
FT&GA BAES
2
PXC IG
3ch/3w 150x40
0
Boeing B737 AWACS Wedgetail Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
CAE
M
Thales UK
1
ThalesView
3chCC 150x40
6H
M
FSI
WST
1
Vital 9
5chCC 225x50
6E
L
Level D+ FMS
Boeing F/A-18C Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
3
Simuview
1ch/1w 40x30
0
L
Tactical Trainers
Boeing F/A-18C Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
1
Simuview
6ChF 360x130
0
TOFT, SimuSphere display
Boeing F/A-18C Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
1
SimuView
6ChF 360x130
0
L
TOFT, SimuSphere display
Boeing F/A-18C Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
1
SimuView
8ChF 360x130
0
L
TOFT, SimuSphere display
Boeing F/A-18F Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
2
SimuView
8ChF 360x130
0
L
SimuSphere display
Generic fighter
F
ETC
1
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
3E
LM AP-3C Orion
M
CAE
1
Maxvue
3chCC 150x40
6H
LM AP-3C Orion
M
Thales UK
1
ESIG-5530
4ch/5w 210x40
6H
LM C-130H Hercules
M
CAE
2
Medallion-S
5chCC 200x40
6H
LM C-130J Hercules
M
CAE
2
Medallion-S
4ch/5w 200x40
6H
DisoTr Gyro IPT II
Visual u/d
Australia - Army Eurocopter Tiger ARH
R
Thales Fr
1
ThalesView
6chD 200x60
6H
Two cockpits plus 2 x 2-cockpit CPTs
NH Industries NH-90
R
CAE
2
Medallion
5chCC 220x60
6H
Level D qualified
Sikorsky UH-60A Black Hawk
R
CAE
1
Maxvue Enh B
5chCC+2chin 220x60
6H
Australia - Navy AgWestland Sea King 50A
R
Thales UK
1
Image 2
3ch/3w 150x40
3H
Sikorsky S-70B-2 Seahawk
R
Thales Fr
1
ESIG
3chCC 150x40
6H
Plus rear-crew trainer
Austria - AeronautX Cessna Citation Jet 2
M
VRM
1
X-Plane
3ch/3w 150x35
0
L
FTD II
Austria - Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon
FGA EF ASTA Consortium
1
Medallion-X
6chD 360x130
0MGD
Plus 6 TProj
Austria - AMST facility Generic
G
AMST
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 150x40
6Y
DisoTr Airfox
Generic
G
AMST
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 123x30
6H
DisoTr Airfox
Austria - Jet Alliance Flight Training
Cessna Citation Jet 1
M
VRM
1
RC EP-1000CT
3ch/CC 180x40
6E
L
Cessna Citation Jet 2
M
VRM
1
X-Plane
3ch/3w 135x33
0
L
FNPT II MCC
Bahrain - Air Force BAES Hawk Mk 129
FT&GA Thales UK
1
PXC IG
1ch/1w 60x40
0
Avionics trainer
BAES Hawk Mk 129
FT&GA Thales UK
1
EPX 5000
12ch 330x90
0MG
EO trainer
LM F-16C Block 40
FGA L-3 Link
1
SGI
1ch/1w 40x30
0
UTD
Generic fighter Generic fighter L39
ETC
1
PC IG
1ch/C 40x30
4EY
DisoTr Gyrolab GL-1000
FT&GA ETC
F
2
PC IG
1ch/C 40x30
4EY
DisoTr GyroFlight
Belgium - Air Force R
CAE
1
PT2000
3ch/3w 150x40
F
AMST
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 123x30
0
FT&GA Thales Fr
1
ThalesView
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
LM F-16 MLU
FGA Thales Fr
1
ESIG 30+I56700
1ch/1w 40x30
0
LM F-16 MLU
FGA Thales Fr
2
ESIG 3000
6chD 270x60
0
LM F-16A MLU
FGA LM
2
ESIG HD
3ch/3w 150x40
0
Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet E
6H
Belgium - Army Aermacchi SF-260D
T
Frasca
2
TruVision
3ch/3w 150x40
0
AgWestland A-109
R
CAE
1
PT2000
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
AgWestland A-109 B1
R
Thales Fr
1
Space Magic
3ch/3w 150x40
0
FTD UTD
53
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Remarks
Belgium - CAE Training Centre LM C-130H Hercules
M
CAE
1
Vital 4
3chCC 150x40
6H
Brazil - Air Force Alenia/Embraer AMX A-1 EADS CASA C-295 Embraer Emb-312 Tucano
FGA Compro M
CAE
FT&GA ABC Dados
3
SGI
3ch/3w 170x40
0
1
Medallion
3chCC 150x40
6H
6
Opdis
3ch/3w 150x40
2H
Embraer Emb-314 Super Tucano FT&GA Elbit
5
PC IG
3ch/3w 180x60
0
L
NorGrumm F-5BR Tiger II
FT&GA Elbit
2
PC IG
3ch/3w 180x60
0
L
NorGrumm F-5E Tiger II
FT&GA LM
1
ESIG
5chD 210x50
0
Inc helmet display Ex GE Training Centre
Brazil - Navy Bell Jet Ranger III Boeing TA-4J
R
Thales UK
FGA Quintron
1
PXC IG
3ch/3w 150x40
4H
1
PXC IG
2ch/2w 70x40
3H
Canada - Air Force AgWestland AW101 Cormorant
R
Atlantis
1
CATI IG
3ch/3w 120x30
0
Bell B412/212
R
CAE
1
Maxvue
5chCC+2chin 220x60
6H
L
To AW Specification - SAR Training
Boeing CF-18 Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
2
SGI
8ChF 360x130
0MG
W
ACT, SimuSphere display
Boeing CF-18 Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
4
SGI
8ChF 360x130
0MG
W
ACT, SimuSphere display
Boeing CF-18 Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
W
HOTAS PTT
Boeing CH-47 Boeing F/A-18 Hornet
10
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
0
CAE
1
Maxvue
5chCC+2chin 220x60
6H
FGA CAE
R
1
Vital 9
6chD 220x50
0
LM C-130E Hercules
M
CAE
2
Maxvue
3chCC 150x40
6H
Maxvue display
LM C-130H Hercules
M
CAE
1
Vital 4
3chCC 150x40
6H
Maxvue display
LM C-130H Hercules
M
CAE
1
Maxvue
3chCC 150x40
6H
LM P-3 Orion (Aurora)
M
CAE
1
Medallion-S
4ch/5wC 210x45
6H
LM P-3 Orion (Aurora)
M
CAE
1
Medallion-S
4ch/5wC 210x45
6H
Sikorsky MH-92 Cyclone
R
RColl S&T
2
ESIG
5chCC 220x45
6H
Level D qualified Through L-3 MAS (Montreal)
Canada - Canada Wings Aviation Training 1
SGI
1ch/1w 46x29
Beechcraft C90B King Air
BAES Hawk 115
FT&GA BAES M
FSI
1
Vital 9
3chCC 180x50
6HV
0
Bell 412
R
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 200x60
0V
Bell 412
R
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 200x60
6V
CPT
Canada - DRDC Toronto Boeing F-18 Hornet Generic fighter
FGA Wyle (operator) F
ETC
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 120x35
4G
Centrifuge
1
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
3E
DisoTr Gyro 1
Canada - NFTC BAES Hawk
2
Maxvue Enh B
3ch/4w 200x45
Beechcraft T-6 Texan II
FT&GA CAE T
CAE
2
Maxvue Enh B
8chD 300x60
0 0
Beechcraft T-6 Texan II
T
CAE
1
Maxvue Enh B
3ch/4w 180x40
6H
Chile - Air Force Dassault Mirage III/5/50 EADS CASA C-101 Aviojet A-36 Generic trainer SE piston
F
Sogitec
FT&GA Indra F
ETC
1
Apogee
3ch/3w 180x40
1
INVIS
3ch/3w 150x40
0 0
Flat panel display
1
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
3E
GAT II sim
China - BIAM Generic fighter
F
AMST
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 150x40
3G
Centrifuge
Generic fighter
F
AMST
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 150x40
6Y
DisoTr Airfox
China - PLA Air Force Generic fighter
F
AMST
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 150x40
3G
Centrifuge
Generic fighter
F
BASC
1
CGI
4chF 270x45
0
ACT
Generic fighter
F
BASC
1
CGI
5chD 330x60
0
ACT
Harbin Y-5
M
BASC
1
CGI
3ch/3w 150x40
0
Shenyang F-6/J-6 (MiG 19)
F
BASC
1
CGI
4ch/5w 300x135
0MG
Shenyang F-6/J-6 (MiG 19)
F
BASC
1
CGI
3ch/3w 150x40
3H
FGA BASC
1
CGI
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker
Head-tracked display
Enstrom F28F Falcon
Pilatus PC-9
T
Frasca
1
TruVision
3ch/3w 150x40
0
54
MiG 21-bis Fishbed
F
Soko Z I
1
Soko CGI
1ch/1w 60x45
0
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Frasca
1
TruVision
3ch/3w 180x45
0
Columbia - Vertical de Aviation Mil Mi-8/Mi-17
R
VRM/ASE
1
VRM/IMMAX
1ch/1w LCD 24�
0
L
CPT
Croatia - Air Force
Czech Republic - Aero Vodochody
Aero Vod L-159B
FT&GA E-COM
1
E-COM
6chD 220x150
0
Aero Vodochody training facility
Aero Vod L-39
FT&GA E-COM
1
E-COM
4ch/5w 60x120
0
Aero Vodochody training facility
Czech Republic - Air Force Generic F&R L39, L159, MiG29, Rotary FR
Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D
ETC
FGA Saab
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 110x30
1
SGI/Saab Grape
8chD 220x75
4EY 0
LW
DisoTr Gyro IPT II Barco SEER-8 display
Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer
Sims Image on line Generator
Visual Display
Motion Networking Axes Capabilities
Czech Republic - HTP Ostrava Mil Mi-171 R CSTS Dinamika 1 Raduga CD 8ch/PD 210x60 0 L Denmark - Air Force AgWestland AW101 Merlin R Atlantis 1 Dia Vis Genesis 3ch/3w 120x30 0 L F ETC 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 3E Generic fighter LM F-16 MLU M5 FGA L-3 Link 2 SimuView 8ChF 360x130 0 L LM F-16 MLU M5 FGA L-3 link 2 Simuview 1ch/1w 40x30 0 L Ecuador - Air Force Dassault Mirage F1 F Thales Fr 1 SP3 3ch/3w 150x40 0 IAI Kfir C2 F IAI 1 Vital 4 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Egypt - Air Force Grob G115E T Frasca 2 TruVision 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Aero Vod L-59E Albatros FT&GA Letov LV 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 180x40 0 Boeing AH-64D Longbow R Boeing 1 CGI 4ch/5w 200x45 0 Dassault Mirage 2000E F Thales Fr 1 Visa 6chD 270x60 0 Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet MS1 FT&GA Thales Fr 1 SP3 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Embraer Emb-312 Tucano FT&GA ABC Dados 5 Opdis 3ch/3w 150x40 2H Generic fighter F ETC 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 4EY Generic Single Engine T ETC 10 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 3E Hongdu K-8E Karakorum FT&GA BASC 1 CGI 3chCC 200x45 0 LM F-16 Block 15, 32, 40L FGA L-3 Link 4 CGI 3ch/3w 180x60 0 Egypt - Navy Sikorsky Sea King 47 R Thales Fr 1 SP3T 3ch/3w 150x40 3H Finland - Air Force BAES Hawk 51 FT&GA Thales Fr 1 Vital 7 3ch/3w 150x40 0 BAES Hawk 51 FT&GA Thales UK 1 Image 2 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Boeing F-18C Hornet FGA L-3 Link 1 CompuScene 6 6chD 300x75 0 Boeing F-18C Hornet FGA Boeing 3 CGI 1ch/1w 40x30 0 France - Air Force Dassault Mirage 2000 F Latecoere 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 3G Dassault Mirage 2000-5 F Sogitec/Thales 2 Apogee 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Dassault Mirage 2000C2/3 F Thales Fr 2 Visa 4 6chD 270x60 0 Dassault Mirage 2000D F Sogitec 3 Apogee 1ch/1w 40x40 0 Dassault Mirage 2000D F Sogitec 5 Apogee 3 5chD4.6m 270x135 0 Dassault Mirage 2000D F Sogitec 5 Apogee 3 5chD8m 270x135 0 Dassault Mirage 2000D F Thales Fr 2 Apogee 6chD8m 270x135 3H Dassault Mirage 2000N F Thales Fr 1 Visa 4 4ch/5w 160x40 0 Dassault Mirage F1/2000 F Thales Fr 1 Visa 4 6chD 270x60 0 Dassault Mirage F1CR F Thales Fr 1 Space Magic 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Dassault Mirage F1CR F Thales Fr 1 Space Magic 3ch/3w 150x40 6H FGA Sogitec/Thales 4 Apogee 6 8chD 330x130 0 Dassault Rafale F2 Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet E FT&GA Thales Fr 3 Space Magic 1ch/1w 40x30 6H Embraer Emb-312 Tucano FT&GA Thales Fr 3 Space Magic 1ch/1w 40x30 0
Remarks
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Plus ejection seat trainer
DisoTr GL 1000 GAT II model UTD
Head-tracked Aol UTD, 215 deg upgrade scheduled Centrifuge Model 101.5 UTD plus TProjs UTD
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Visual Display
Motion Networking Axes Capabilities
Remarks
Eurocopter AS532 & SA330 R Sogitec 1 Apogee 6chD 200x60 6H Convertible, Puma or Cougar Eurocopter SA330 Puma R Thales Fr 1 Visa 4ch/5w 220x45 6H Transall C-160 NG M Thales Fr 3 Space Classic 3ch/3w 180x40 6H France - Air Force/Army Eurocopter AS 330B Puma R Thales Fr 5 Visa 6chD 270x60 6H Eurocopter AS 550 Fennec R Thales Fr 6 Space Magic 3ch/3w 150x40 0 FTDs France - Army Eurocopter AS350/AS550 R Thales Fr 1 Visa 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Eurocopter SA341 Gazelle R Thales Fr 4 ThalesView 6chD 270x60 0 Two cockpits Grob 120 T Frasca 3 Sogitec 3ch/3w 180x45 0 France - Helisim Centre 1 Space Magic 200 5chCC 200x60 6H Ro-Ro, Super Puma & Cougar Eurocopter AS332/532 S Puma/Cougar R Thales Fr 1 Space Magic 200 5chCC 200x60 6H Ro-Ro, Dauphine & Panther Eurocopter AS365/AS565 Dauphin/Panther R Thales Fr Eurocopter EC155 Super Dauphin R Thales Fr 1 ThalesView 5chCC 200x60 0 1 ThalesView 5chCC 200x60 6H Ro-Ro Eurocopter EC225/AS725 S Puma/Cougar R Thales Fr NH Industries NH-90 R CAE/Thales Fr (HTMI) 1 ThalesView 5chCC 220x45 6H Ro-Ro France - Navy AgWestland WG-13 Lynx HAS2/4 R Thales UK 2 Space Magic 4ch/5w 220x45 6H u/d 2006 Dassault Atlantique ATL2 M Thales Fr 2 Space Magic 3ch/3w 150x40 6H u/d 2007 Dassault Rafale F1 FGA Sogitec/Thales 2 Apogee-6 1ch/1w 60x40 0 UTD, one on A/C carrier Dassault Rafale F2 FGA Sogitec/Thales 2 Apogee-6 8chD 330x130 0 Dassault Super Etendard FGA Thales Fr 1 Space Magic 3ch/3w 150x40 4H u/d 2005 NorGrumm E-2C Hawkeye M CAE USA/Sogitec 1 Apogee-4 3ch/4w 190x50 6H France/Germany - Armies - Combined Training Eurocopter Tiger HAP/UHT R Thales Fr 4 SimFusion7000 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Two cockpit FTD Eurocopter Tiger HAP/UHT R Thales Fr 4 SimFusion7000 6chD 270x60 6H Two cockpits Germany - Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon FGA EF ASTA Consortium 2 Medallion-X 4chPD 220x100 0 Eurofighter Typhoon FGA EF ASTA Consortium 1 Medallion-6000 8chPD 240x105 0 Eurofighter Typhoon FGA EF ASTA Consortium 2 Medallion-X 6chD 360x130 0MGD Plus 6 TProj Eurofighter Typhoon FGA EF ASTA Consortium 1 Medallion-6000 6chD 360x130 0MGD Plus 6 TProj Eurofighter Typhoon FGA EF ASTA Consortium 1 Medallion-X 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Transportable Cockpit Trainer Generic fighter F AMST 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 3G Centrifuge Generic fighter F AMST 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 6H Diso Tr Airfox Generic multi M AMST 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 120x40 6H Diso Tr Airfox - 2 seats MiG 29A Fulcrum F CAE/ERA 1 Medallion 3ch/3w 150x40 0 u/d CAE Stolberg NH Industries NH-90 R HFTS 1 Thales View 8chD 230x85 6HV LW Panavia Tornado ECR FGA CAE 1 Medallion-S 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Panavia Tornado IDS FGA CAE 3 Medallion-S 7chD 300x120 6H Transall C-160 M CAE 1 Medallion 6000 3ch/3w 150x40 0 u/d CAE Stolberg, laser projection Transall C-160 M Thales Fr 1 ESIG-3000/200 4ch/5w 200x45 6H Germany - Air Force/Navy Panavia Tornado IDS FGA CAE 8 CompuScene 3 7ch7wColl 210x45 6H Germany - Army Bell UH-1D Huey R CAE 2 Harmony 4ch/5w 240x90 6H Eurocopter EC-135 R CAE 8 Harmony 5chCC 240x90 6H NH Industries NH-90 R HFTS 1 Thales View 8chD 230x85 6HV LW Sikorsky CH-53 Stallion M CAE 1 Harmony 3chCC 150x40 6H Sikorsky H-53G Stallion R CAE 2 Harmony 5chCC+2chin 240x90 6H Plus FTDs Germany - Army/Air Force NH Industries NH-90 R HFTS 2 Thales View 8chD 230x85 6HV LW Germany - HFTS NH Industries NH-90 R CAE 4 Medallion-S 5chCC 210x45 6H NH Industries NH-90 R Thales Fr 2 ThalesView 5chCC 210x45 6H Plus FTDs AgWestland Lynx R CAE 1 Maxvue Plus 5chCC 180x60 6H Ex Netherlands AgWestland Sea King 41 R CAE 1 SPX 5chCC 210x45 6H AgWestland Sea Lynx 41/88 R CAE 1 Maxvue Plus 5ch/4w 200x40 6H LM P-3C Orion M CAE 1 SP3T 3chCC 150x40 6H Germany - NATO AWACS Boeing E-3A Sentry M CAE 1 Medallion 200 3chCC 150x40 6H Germany - Simtec DO228 FNPT II M AMST 1 PC IG 2ch/2w 80x30 0 FNPT II Greece - Air Force Dassault Mirage 2000-5 F Sogitec 1 Apogee 5chD4.6m 270x135 0 Generic G AMST 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 6Y DisoTr Airfox H-Beech T-6A Texan II T FSI 1 Vital 9 7chPD 270x70 0M W OFT LM F-16 C Block 52+ FGA L-3 Link 1 SimuView 4ChF 180x70 0
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Motion Networking Axes Capabilities
Remarks
LM F-16C Block 52+ FGA L-3 Link 1 SimuView 8ChF 360x130 0 Hungary - Air Force Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D FGA Saab 1 SGI / Saab Grape 8chD 220x75 0 LW Barco SEER-8 display India - Air Force Antonov AN-32 M CAE/Macmet 2 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 0 L BAES Hawk 132 FT&GA BAES 2 PXC IG 1ch/1w 56x44 0 L CPT BAES Hawk 132 FT&GA BAES 1 PXC IG 1ch/1w 46x29 0 PTT BAES Hawk 132 FT&GA BAES 1 PXC IG 3ch/3w 180x50 0M L BAeS/Dassault Jaguar Darin 1 FGA CAE/Macmet 1 Medallion 3ch/3w 150x40 6HMG L Dassault Mirage 2000H F Thales Fr 1 Visa 6chD 270x60 0 Dornier/HAL Dornier 228 M CAE/Macmet 2 PC IG 5ch/5w 200x40 0V L Generic fighter F AMST 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 3G Centrifuge Generic fighter F AMST 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 6H Diso Tr Airfox Generic G AMST 2 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 6H Diso Tr Airfox LM C-130J Hercules M CAE 1 Medallion 5chCC 150x40 6H MiG-27 Flogger F CAE/Macmet 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 0 L SEPECAT Jaguar FGA Thales Fr 3 Visa 4 3ch/3w 180x40 6H India - Army HAL Alouette - Chetak/Llama R CAE/Macmet 2 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 0V L India - HATSOFF Training Centre Various B412/Dauphin/Dhruv R CAE 1 Medallion 5chCC 210x45 6H Ro-Ro, 3 cockpits India - Navy AgWestland Sea King 42 R Thales UK 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 3H BAES Sea Harrier FGA Camber 1 SGI 3ch/3w 150x40 0 L WST BAES Sea Harrier FRS51 FGA CAE/Macmet 2 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 6H L Original 1983 by SLM BAES Sea Harrier FRS51 FGA Thales UK 1 Harmony 6chD 270x60 6H Visual u/d MiG-29K Fulcrum F RDE Bremen 1 EPX-5000 7chD 300x75 6H Laser projectors, Avior system Indonesia - Air Force BAES Hawk 209 FT&GA Thales UK 1 ESIG 3000 6chD 270x60 0 BAES Hawk 53 FT&GA ETC 1 Opdis 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Simulator Boeing A-4E Skyhawk FGA ETC 1 Opdis 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Simulator LM C-130H Hercules M CAE 1 Maxvue Enh 5chCC 210x45 6H LM F-16A Block 15 FGA Thales Fr 1 ESIG-3000 3chD 270x90 0 Head-tracked AoI NorGrumm F-5E Tiger II FT&GA ETC 1 Opdis 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Simulator Indonesia - Army Bell NB412 R Frasca 1 GT100 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Eurocopter NBO-105 R Frasca 1 GT100 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Socata TB-10 T Frasca 1 TruVision 3ch/3w 180x45 0 Iran - Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook R BASC 1 CGI 4ch/5w 200x45 0 Iraq - Air Force (US Training Program) H-Beech T-6A Texan II T FSI 1 Vital 9 1ch 45 x 33 0M W IFT Mil Mi-171E R FTC/VRM/ASE 1 VRM/IMMAX 5ch/4w 180x45 (70) 0V L FTD 7 Bell 206 R Frasca 2 TruVision 3ch/3w 180x45 0 Bell Huey R Frasca 2 TruVision 3ch/3w 180x45 0 Cessna 172 T Frasca 3 TruVision 3ch/3w 180x45 0 Cessna Caravan M Frasca 2 TruVision 3ch/3w 180x45 0 Israel - Air Force Boeing F-15I/AUP Eagle F LM 1 SGI 4ch/5w 210x100 0 Generic fighter F IAI 1 PC IG 5chPD 230x85 0VMG ACT Generic G Elbit (ex BVR) 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 120x60 0 Missile trainer at Rafael H-Beech T-6A Texan II T FSI 2 Vital 9 7chPD 270x70 0M W LM F-16A FGA Elbit 1 PC IG 3chPD 180x60 0MG L LM F-16D FGA Elbit (ex BVR) 1 PC IG 6 DLP 220x100 0 L Two seats LM F-16I FGA Elbit 1 PC IG 6chD 220x100 0MG L Two cockpits Sikorsky CH-53 & UH-90 R CAE 1 Maxvue 5chCC+2chin 220x60 6H Ro-Ro, 2 cockpits Sikorsky CH-53 & UH-90 R CAE 1 Maxvue 5chCC+2chin 220x60 6H Ro-Ro, 2 cockpits Italy - Aermacchi Aermacchi MB-339A FT&GA Elbit (ex BVR) 4 PC IG 3ch/3w 180x45 0 Aermacchi training centre Italy - Air Force Aermacchi M-346 FT&GA CAE 1 Medallion 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Aermacchi MB-339C/D FT&GA Elbit (ex BVR) 2 SGI 3ch/3w 180x45 0 Agusta Bell AB-205 R CAE 2 Vital 4 5chCC 210x45 6H C-27J Spartan M Opinicus/Alenia 1 Alenia Sapphire 3chCC 200x45 6E L Eurofighter Typhoon FGA Alenia Aeronautica 1 Alenia Sapphire 5chD 220x140 0 LW E-ACPT4 model Eurofighter Typhoon FGA EF ASTA Consortium 2 CAE Medallion 7chD 360x140 0MG L FMS + 6 TProj Eurofighter Typhoon FGA EF ASTA Consortium 2 Medallion-X 6chD 360x140 0MG Plus 6 TProj
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Eurofighter Typhoon FGA Alenia Aeronautica 1 Alenia Sapphire 1ch/1w 40x25 0 LW Eurofighter Typhoon FGA Alenia Aeronautica 1 Alenia Sapphire 5chD 220x140 0 LW Eurofighter Typhoon FGA EF ASTA Consortium 1 Medallion-6000 5chD 220x140 0 Eurofighter Typhoon FGA EF ASTA Consortium 2 Medallion-X 6chD 360x140 0MG G AMST 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 6Y Generic LM F-16A ADF FGA Compro 2 SGI 1ch/1w 40x30 0 LM KC-130J Hercules M CAE 1 Vital 9 5chCC 200x40 6H Panavia Tornado IDS FGA CAE/Galileo 2 Medallion 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Italy - Alenia Sim Centre Alenia Aeronautica C-27J Spartan M Alenia Aeronautica 1 Alenia Sapphire 3chCC 180x40 0 LW Alenia Aeronautica C-27J Spartan M Alenia Aeronautica 1 Alenia Sapphire 2ch/2w 80x30 0 LW Alenia Aeronautica Sky-X/Y UAV U Alenia Aeronautica 1 Alenia Sapphire 1ch/1w 40x30 0 LW Eurofighter Typhoon FGA Alenia Aeronautica 1 Alenia Sapphire 5chD 220x140 0 LW Eurofighter Typhoon FGA Alenia Aeronautica 1 Equipe Blue Sky 7chD 360x135 0MG LW Italy - Army Agusta Bell AB-205A R CAE 1 Maxvue Enh 3ch/4w 150x40 6H AgWestland A129 Mangusta R Thales Fr 1 Medallion-S 6chD 270x60 6H Italy - Navy AgWestland EH-101 R CAE 2 Medallion 5chCC 210x45 6H Boeing/BAES Harrier II+ FGA Indra 2 pC-Nova 8chF 360x135 0G LW Italy - Rotorsim Centre AgWestland AW-139 & A109 R CAE 5 Medallion-S 5chCC+2chin 200x60 6H AgWestland AW-139 & A109 R CAE/AgWest 1 Tropos 6000 5chCC+2chin 210x80 6H Tropos 6000 5chCC+2chin 210x80 6H NH Industries NH-90 R CAE/RDE/ThalesFr (HTMI) 2 Japan - Coast Guard Bell TH67 R Frasca 1 TruVision 3ch/3w 180x45 0 Japan - JSDF Air Beechcraft Beech 400A Jayhawk M LM 1 ESIG-3000 5chCC 180x40 6H Boeing F-15J F ETC 1 PXC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 3EG Boeing F-15J F ETC 1 PXC IG 3ch/3w 120x70 4EY Boeing/Mitsubishi F-15J Eagle F LM 5 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Boeing/Mitsubishi(MHI) F-15J Eagle F Mitsubishi(MPC) 6 DiaScene IG-5530GT 8chD 260x80 0MG Generic fighter F ETC 1 PXC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 4EY M CAE/Fuji (FHI) 1 SE2000+ 5chCC 210x45 6H Hawker U-125A Hawker 800 Kawasaki C-1A M Thales Fr 1 ESIG-3250 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Kawasaki T-4 FT&GA Mitsubishi(MPC) 2 DiaScene IG-950 3chCC 180x60 6H Kawasaki T-4 FT&GA Mitsubishi(MPC) 2 DiaScene IG-4530 8chD 260x80 6H LM C-130H Hercules M Mitsubishi(MPC) 1 DiaScene IG-750 5chCC 220x46 6H F Mitsubishi(MHI) 2 DiaScene IG-5530GT 5chD 240x120 0M Mitsubishi F-2A Mitsubishi F-2A F Mitsubishi(MHI) 1 DiaScene IG-5530GT 6chD 210x110 0M Sikorsky/MHI UH-60J Black Hawk R Mitsubishi(MPC) 1 ESIG-4000 5chCC+2chin 220x60 6H Japan - JSDF Ground Bell/Fuji AH-1S Cobra R Mitsubishi(MPC) 1 DiaScene IG-1000 3chCC 150x40 6V Bell/Fuji AH-1S Cobra R Mitsubishi(MPC) 2 DiaScene IG-3000 3chCC 150x40 6V Bell/Fuji UH-1J Iroquois R Mitsubishi(MPC) 1 DiaScene IG-95 3ch/3w 165x40 6E Boeing AH-64DJP Longbow R Boeing 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Sikorsky/MHI UH-60JA Black Hawk R Mitsubishi(MPC) 1 DiaScene IG-95 3chPD 165x40 6E Boeing/Fuji AH-64D Apache R Fuji (FATEC) 1 DiaScene IG-7500 4ch/5w 180x60 0 Japan - JSDF Maritime Beechicraft TC90 M Mitsubishi(MPC) 1 DiaScene IG-3000 3chCC 150x40 6H LM P-3C Orion M CAE/Mitsubishi (MHI) 2 MaxVue 5chCC 210x45 6H LM/Kawasaki P-3C Orion M Mitsubishi(MPC) 1 DiaScene IG-1000 3chCC 150x40 6H LM/Kawasaki P-3C Orion M Mitsubishi(MPC) 1 DiaScene IG-3000 3chCC 150x40 6H Shinmaywa US-1A M Mitsubishi(MPC) 1 PT-2000SJ 3ch/3w 180x40 0 Shinmaywa US-2 M ShinMaywa 1 DiaScene IG-7500 3chCC 180x40 6H Sikorsky MH-53E Sea Dragon R Mitsubishi(MPC) 1 DiaScene IG-950 5chCC+2chin 120x40 6V Sikorsky/MHI SH-60K Sea Hawk R Mitsubishi(MHI) 2 DiaScene IG-7000 5chCC+2chin 220x60 0 Sikorsky/MHI SH-60K Sea Hawk R Mitsubishi(MHI) 1 DiaScene IG-3000 5chCC+2chin 220x60 0 Japan - US Marine Corps Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet FGA L-3 Link 2 SimuView 8ChF 360x130 0 L LM KC-130T Hercules M JF Taylor 1 ESIG-4530 3ch/3w 180x40 0 Jordan - Air Force Dassault Mirage F1C F Thales Fr 1 Visa 3ch/3w 150x40 0 EADS CASA C-101CC Aviojet FT&GA Indra 1 Vital 5 1ch/1wC 30x40 0 LM F-16A Block 15 FGA L-3 Link 1 SGI 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Kazakhstan - Air Force Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot FGA VRM 1 VRM/IMMAX 3ch/3w 135x45 0 L
Remarks AC PT2 model E-ACPT3 model Cockpit trainer Plus 6 TProj DisoTr Airfox Plus avionics PTT Visual u/d
Cockpit trainer E-ACPT1 Plus 2 TProj Two cockpits Two cockpits Maxvue display
Ro-Ro, 2 cockpits
Based on USAF T-1A Centrifuge G-FET 6G/s 15G DisoTr GL 4000 UTD DisoTr GL 2000
Visual u/d Visual u/d
Flat panel display
Flat panel display
Flat panel display Visual u/d
SimuSphere display
UTD FMS
Visual Display
Motion Networking Axes Capabilities
Kuwait - Air Force BAES Hawk 64 FT&GA Thales UK 1 SpaceMagic 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Boeing F-18C Hornet FGA L-3 Link 1 CompuScene 4 6chD 300x75 0 Boeing F-18C Hornet FGA Boeing 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Generic F ETC 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 4EY Kuwait - Army Boeing AH-64D Longbow R Boeing 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Malaysia - Air Force BAES Hawk 208 FT&GA Thales UK/Sapura 1 CompuScene 6 3ch/3w 330D 0 Boeing F-18D Hornet FGA L-3 Link 1 CompuScene 6 6chD 300x75 0 EADS CASA CN-235-220M M Sapura Defence 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 180x40 6H Generic Light piston F ETC 1 PXC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 3E LM C-130H Hercules M CAE 1 Vital 10 3ChCC 180x40 6H MiG 29N Fulcrum F CAE/Sapura 1 Maxvue Enh A 3ch/3w 40x120 0 MiG 29N Fulcrum F CAE/Sapura 1 Maxvue Enh B 3ch/3w 55x120 0 Multiple MiG29, F-18, Hawk, Su-30 FGA ETC 1 PXC IG 5chPD 120x70 3EG Mexico - Air Force Mil Mi-17-1V Hip R CSTS Dinamika 1 Raduga CD 5chPD 220x60 0 L Mexico - Navy Generic Heli Helicopter R Frasca 1 TruVision 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Generic Twin Engine M Frasca 1 TruVision 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Morocco - Air Force Agusta Bell AB-205A R CAE 1 Vital 3S 3ch/3w 150x40 6H FT&GA Thales UK 1 ESIG 2ch/2w 90x40 6H Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet 1H H-Beech T-6A Texan II T FSI 2 Vital 9 7chPD 270x70 0M W LM C-130H Hercules M CAE 1 Vital 3S 2ch/2w 70x45 6H Myanmar - Air Force MiG 29 Fulcrum F CSTS Dinamika 1 Raduga CD 6ch/6w 120x60 0 L Netherlands - Air Force AgWestland Lynx R CAE 1 Maxvue Plus 5chCC 210x45 6H Eurocopter BO-105CB R Frasca 1 TruVision 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Generic G AMST 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 6Y Generic G AMST 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 1EM LM C-130 Hercules M CAE 1 Medallion 6400 5chCC 210x45 6H LM F-16 MLU FGA Thales Fr 7 ESIG 3000 1ch/1w 40x30 0 LM F-16A MLU FGA LM 7 ESIG HD 1ch/1w 40x30 0 PC7 PC7 T AMST 1 PC IG 5ch/5w 160x30 0V Netherlands - Navy AgWestland Sea Lynx 27/88/90 R CAE 1 Maxvue Plus 5chCC 210x45 6H Netherlands - NLR Generic Reconfigurable R NLR HPS 1 NLR PC IG 4ch PD 180x70 0 L LM F-16MLU FGA NLR GFORCE 1 NLR PC IG 2chHMD 330x110 6VMG L LM F-16MLU FGA NLR F4S 2 NLR PC IG 3ch/3w 135x30 0 L LM F-16MLU FGA NLR F4S 2 NLR PC IG 1ch/1w 45x30 0 L Various Reconfigurable G NLR APERO 1 NLR PC IG 1ch/1w 45x30 0 L Various Reconfigurable G NLR Grace 1 NLR PC IG 3ch4wColl 135x30 6E L Netherlands - SIMONA Institute Generic M Delft University 1 Harmony 3chCC 180x40 6H Netherlands - TNO Generic F AMST 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 3GY New Zealand - Air Force AgWestland AW 109LUH R AgWestland 1 Rockwell Collins 7chD 220x60 6EM L Bell UH-1H Huey R Frasca 1 TruVision 3ch/3w 150x40 0 LM C-130H Hercules M CAE 1 Medallion 6000 3chCC 150x40 0 M Fidelity Flt Sim 1 LCD Mosaic Wall 3ch/4w 40x150 6E LM P-3K Orion Nigeria - Air Force Aero Vod L-39ZA Albatros FT&GA Letov LV 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 0 LM C-130H Hercules M CAE 1 Vital 4 3chCC 150x40 6H LM F-16 MLU FGA Thales Fr 2 ESIG 3000 1ch/1w 40x30 0 LM F-16A MLU FGA LM 2 ESIG HD 1ch/1w 40x30 0 SEPECAT Jaguar FGA Thales UK 1 Image 2 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Norway - Air Force LM F-16 FGA Thales Fr 2 ESIG-3000 3chD 270x60 0 Generic fighter F ETC 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 3E Eurocopter AS332L Super Puma R Thales Fr 1 ESIG 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Oman - Air Force Pilatus PC-9 T Frasca 2 TruVision 3ch/3w 150x40 0
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2 domes UTD DisoTr GL 1000
Head-tracked AoI, also avionics trainer
GAT II sim
Centrifuge ATFS 400 10g/s 15G
Two cockpits
Visual u/d DisoTr Airfox Barany Chair UTD UTD FTD
Research, helicopter Research, Head-tracked 140x110 Research & ops, ACT 4-ship Research & ops, ACT 4-ship Research, human & cockpit Research; coupled to ATC sim Research, special motion platform DisoTr Desdemona disorientation Also NVG mode plus 3 FMS Trainers
Ex Tampa, installed by Rotran UTD
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Motion Networking Axes Capabilities
Remarks
AgWestland Super Lynx 300 R CAE 2 Medallion-S 5chCC+2chin 200x60 0 LM F-16C Block 50+ FGA L-3 Link 1 SimuView 6ChF 300x130 0 FMT, SimuSphere display Pakistan - Air Force Generic F ETC 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 110x30 4EY DisoTr GL 1500 FGA Thales Fr 1 ThalesView 3ch/3w 150x40 0 LM F-16A Block 15 Peru - Air Force Dassault Mirage 2000P F Sogitec 1 GI 10000 6chD8m 200x60 0 Poland - Air Force LM F-16C/D Block 52 FGA L-3 Link 2 SimuView 6ChF 180x70 0 SimuSphere display LM F-16C/D Block 52 FGA L-3 Link 1 SimuView 8ChF 360x130 0 FMT, SimuSphere display T ETC-PZL 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 0 UTD PZL PZL-130TC1 Orlik PZL PZL-130TC1 Orlik T ETC-PZL 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 0 PZL-Mielec I-22 Iryda T ETC-PZL 1 SGI 3ch/3w 150x40 6E Also for aero-medical trg PZL-Mielec M-28 Bryza 1R M Letov LV 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 6H PZL-Mielec TS-11 Iskra T ETC-PZL 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 6E PZL-Swidnik W-3 Sokol R ETC-PZL 1 SGI 3ch/3w 200x60 6E Sukhoi Su-22M4 Fitter FGA ETC-PZL 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 0 UTD Sukhoi Su-22M4 Fitter FGA ETC-PZL 1 SGI 3ch/3w 190x50 6E Poland - WIML Aeromedical Institute Generic F AMST 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 3G Centrifuge Portugal - Air Force LM F-16 MLU FGA Thales Fr 1 ESIG 3000 1ch/1w 40x30 0 LM F-16 MLU M2 FGA Thales Fr 1 ESIG 4530 3ch/3w 180x40 0 LM F-16A FGA Indra 1 Vital VII 3ch/3w 150x40 0 LM F-16A MLU FGA LM 1 ESIG HG 1ch/1w 40x30 0 UTD Vought A-7P Corsair II FGA Indra 1 Vital 7 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Qatar - Air Force AgWestland Sea King Commando R Thales Fr 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 6H Dassault Alpha Jet FT&GA Thales Fr 1 Sogitec 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Dassault Mirage 2000-5 F Sogitec 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x40 0 UTD Romania - Air Force C-27J Spartan M Opinicus/Alenia 1 Alenia 3chCC 180x40 0 L Craiova IAR-99 Soim FT&GA Elbit Romania (Simultec) 1 PC IG 3chPD 180x60 0V L Data Link with flying A/C IAR SA330 Puma R Elbit Romania (Simultec) 1 PC IG 3chPD 180x60 0V L MiG-21 Lancer F Elbit Romania (Simultec) 1 SGI 3chPD 120x40 0 L Inc helmet display MiG-21 Lancer F Elbit Romania (Simultec) 1 PC IG 3chPD 120x40 0 L Inc helmet display Pilatus PC-9 T ETC 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 3E GAT II sim Russia - Air Force Aero Vod L-39 FT&GA CSTS Dinamika 5 Raduga CD 3ch/3w 190x50 0 L Aero Vod L-39 FT&GA CSTS Dinamika 4 Raduga CD 3ch/3wC 129x30 0 L F CSTS Dinamika 2 Raduga CD 4ch/5w 200x60 0 L MiG-31 Foxhound Mil Mi-24P Hind R CSTS Dinamika 1 Raduga CD 3ch/3w 120x40 0 L Mil Mi-24P Hind R CSTS Dinamika 3 Raduga CD 4ch/5w 176x60 0 L Mil Mi-24PN Hind R CSTS Dinamika 1 Raduga CD 1ch/1w 40x30 0 L Inc FLIR, NVG Mil Mi-28NE Havoc R CSTS Dinamika 1 Raduga CD 2chPD 240x70 0 L Head tracked, inc FLIR, NVG Mil Mi-8MTB-5 R CSTS Dinamika 2 Raduga CD 8chPD 240x71 0 L Sukhoi Su-30MK FGA Kronshtadt/Sukhoi 2 Transas Aurora 5chD 270x110 0 L Sukhoi Su-33 Flanker D FGA CSTS Dinamika 2 Raduga CD 3ch/3wC 120x28 0 L Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback FGA CSTS Dinamika 1 Raduga CD 4ch/3wC 172x28 0 L Russia - Army Mil Mi-17 Hip R Kronshtadt 2 Transas Aurora 8chD 180x75 0 L Mil Mi-17V5 Hip R Kronshtadt 1 Transas Aurora 8chD 180x75 6E L Mil Mi-26T Halo R Kronshtadt 1 Transas Aurora 8chD 180x75 0 L Mil Mi-35M Hind R Kronshtadt 1 Transas Aurora 8chD 180x75 6E L Russia - Kamov Kamov Ka-52 R CSTS Dinamika 1 Raduga CD 6chPD 180x83 0 L Russia - Mil Helicopter Mil Mi-28NE Havoc R CSTS Dinamika 1 Raduga CD 3ch/3w 120x30 0 L Research Sim Russia Roslesinforg Mil Mi-8MTB R CSTS Dinamika 1 Raduga CD 6chPD 220x70 0 L Forestry patrol Russia - Sukhoi Training Facility Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker C FGA CSTS Dinamika 1 Transas Aurora 3ch/3w 110x30 0 L Research Sim Russia - TsAGI Generic fighter Various F TsAGI 1 TsAGI 3ch/3w 180x45 0 Research Sim type PSPK 2 Generic fighter Various F TsAGI 1 TsAGI 8chPD 240x140 0 Research Sim type PS 10M Generic fighter Various F TsAGI 1 TsAGI 1ch/1w 60x45 4H Research Sim type PSPK 102 Generic F AMST 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 3G Centrifuge
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Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer
Sims Image on line Generator
Visual Display
Motion Networking Axes Capabilities
Generic Multi Various M TsAGI 1 TsAGI 3ch/4wC 160x40 6H Saudi Arabia - Air Force BAES Hawk 65 FT&GA BAES 2 PXC IG 1ch/1w 50x25 0 BAES Hawk 65 FT&GA Thales UK 2 ESIG 3ch/3w 150x40 6H R Frasca 1 TruVision 3ch/3w 140x30 0 Bell 412SAR Bell B412/212 R CAE 2 Vital 9 3chCC 150x40 6H Boeing E-3D Sentry M Thales UK 1 SPX 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Boeing F-15C Eagle F Boeing 6 AAlchemy 6chD 330x60 0 LW Boeing F-15C Eagle F LM 3 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Boeing F-15S Eagle F LM 3 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 0 M Thales UK 1 SP-3T 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Boeing KE-3D Sentry tanker Generic fighter F ETC 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 1EG Generic fighter F ETC 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 110x30 4EY LM C-130H Hercules M CAE 1 ESIG 4530 3chCC 150x40 6H Panavia Tornado F3 ADV FGA Thales UK 1 Image 3T 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Panavia Tornado IDS FGA Thales UK 2 Image 3T 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Pilatus PC-9 T BAES 2 PXC IG 1ch/1w 50x25 0 Pilatus PC-9 T BAES 2 EPX 500 3ch/3w 150x40 6H Saudi Arabia - Navy Eurocopter AS-332 Super Puma R Thales Fr 1 Space 6chD 270x60 6H Eurocopter AS-565N Dauphin 2 R Thales Fr 1 Space 6chD 270x60 6H Singapore - Air Force Boeing A-4 S1 Skyhawk FGA CAE/STTS 1 Vital 6 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Boeing A-4SU Skyhawk FGA CAE/STTS 1 CompuScene 6 2chD24ft 270x90D 0 Boeing Apache AH-64 R CAE 1 Medallion 6000 5chPD 240x90 6H Boeing CH-47D Chinook R CAE 1 Medallion 5chCC 200x45 6H Eurocopter & Sikorsky AS332/532 & UH60 R CAE 3 Medallion 6000 5chCC+3chin 240x50 6H Eurocopter AS332B/M S Puma R Thales Fr 1 Compuscene 6 6chD 270x60 6H Eurocopter AS550 A2/C2 Fennec R ST Electronics 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 180x45 0 Eurocopter EC-120 R Frasca 1 TruVision 3ch/3w 180x45 0 Generic fighter F AMST 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 3G G AMST 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 6Y Generic H-Beech C90GTi M Frasca 1 TruVision 2chHMD 220x75 0 W M Thales Fr 1 Visa 4 3ch/3w 150x40 6H LM C-130H Hercules LM F-16C FGA ST Electronics 1 Onyx2 3ch/4w 200x45 0 LW NorGrumm F-5E Tiger II FT&GA ST Electronics 4 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Slovakia - Air Force Aero Vod L-39-C/ZA FT&GA VRM 1 VRM/IMMAX 3ch/3w 150x45 0 L M VRM 1 VRM/IMMAX 6ch/6w 180x90 0 L MiG 29 Fulcrum Mil Mi-17 Hip R VRM 1 VRM/IMMAX 4ch/4w 180x45 (70) 0 L Slovakia - Opera Jet Cessna Citation Jet 2 M VRM 1 X-Plane 3ch/3w 135x33 0 L South Africa - Air Force AgWestland A-109LUH R CAE / African Def Sys 1 Maxvue 4ch/5w 200x60 6H BAES Hawk 120 FT&GA BAES 1 SGI 5chPD 180x130 0MG L Pilatus PC-7 Astra T Thales South Africa 4 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Pilatus PC-7 Astra T Thales South Africa 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D FGA Saab 2 PC IG /Saab Grape 8chD 290x75 0 LW R AgWestland 1 Q3D Aalchemy 3ch/3w 120x50 0 L AgWestland AW 109LUH South Korea - Air Force BAES Hawk 67 FT&GA Thales UK 1 Space Classic 4ch/5w 200x40 0 Boeing F-15K Eagle F Boeing 1 Independence 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Boeing F-15K Eagle F Boeing 1 Independence 6chD 330x60 0 EADS CASA CN-235-100M M Havelsan 1 Harmony-II 5chCC 220x45 6H L Generic fighter F DoDAAM 1 CGI 3ch/3w 45x180 3H F ETC 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 1EG Generic fighter Generic fighter F ETC 1 PC IG 1ch/1w 40x30 3EG Generic G DoDAAM 1 CGI 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Generic Helicopter Reconfigurable R DoDAAM 6 CGI 6chPD 75x150 0 Iliushin T-103 FT&GA DoDAAM 1 CGI 1ch/1w 35x40 0 KAI KT-1 Ungbi FT&GA KAI 4 Onyx 2 3ch/3w 150x40 0 KAI KT-1 Ungbi FT&GA KAI 2 Onyx 2 6chD7.3m 200x60 0 KAI T-50 Golden Eagle FT&GA KAI/Dodaam 2 Harmony 2 3ch/3w 180x60 0 KAI T-50 Golden Eagle FT&GA KAI/Dodaam 1 Harmony 2 8chD7.3m 315x180 3H LM F-16C FGA L-3 Link 1 CompuScene 6 5chD 330x60 0 LM F-16C FGA L-3 Link 1 ESIG-3000 5chD 330x60 0 LM F-16C Block 52 FGA L-3 Link 6 SGI 1ch/1w 40x30 0
Remarks Research Sim type PSPK 102 CPT u/d 2000
DMO 3x2-ship UTD, plus avionics trainer Centrifuge G-Lab DisoTr Gyro IPT II Plus CPT Plus two CPTs CPT
Plus mission trainers Head-tracked AOI
Ro/Ro S Puma, Cougar, BlackHawk Op by STTS company
Centrifuge at Aeromedical centre DisoTr at Aeromedical centre Head-tracked AoI Plus distributed mission trainers
FTD FMS FMS Military use
Barco SEER-9 display Also NVG mode
UTD
Centrifuge Centrifuge G-Lab DisoTr GL 1000 Pilot aptitude trainer Tactics trainer CPT to FAA FTD Level 5
UTD
Visual Display
Motion Networking Axes Capabilities
LM KF-16 FGA DoDAAM 2 Eigen 11chD 300x130 0MG L LM KF-16 FGA DoDAAM 4 Eigen 6chPD 210x110 0MG L NorGrumm F-5E Tiger II FT&GA DoDAAM 1 CGI 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk R DoDAAM 1 CGI 3ch/3w 150x40 3H R DoDAAM 1 CGI 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawk South Korea - Army Bell AH-1F/S Cobra R CAE 1 ESIG-4350 4ch/5w 210x60 6H Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawk R Thales Fr/DoDaam 1 ThalesView 4ch/5w 200x45 6H South Korea - Navy AgWestland Lynx R DoDAAM 1 CGI 5chCC 210x60 6EV W LM P-3 Orion M CAE 1 Medallion 3chCC 150x40 0 W Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawk R CAE 1 ESIG-4350 4ch/5w 210x60 6H W Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawk R DoDAAM 1 CGI 5chCC 210x60 6E W Spain - Airbus Military Airbus A-400M M Thales UK 1 ThalesView 3ch/3w 150x40 0 L Airbus A-400M M Thales UK 1 ThalesView 5chCC 220x45 6H L Spain - Air Force Boeing EF-18A Hornet FGA Indra 2 Indra 3chC 150x40 0G LW Canadair CL-415 M Indra 1 Invis2 3ch/3w 180x40 0 Dassault Mirage F1M F Indra 1 Indra 1ch/1wC 30x40 0 Dassault Mirage F1M F Thales Fr 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 150x40 6H EADS CASA C-101B Aviojet FT&GA Indra 2 INVIS 3ch/3w 150x40 0 EADS CASA C-295 M CAE 1 Medallion 3chCC 150x40 6H Eurofighter Typhoon FGA EF ASTA Consortium 1 Medallion-X 4chPD 220x100 0 Eurofighter Typhoon FGA EF ASTA Consortium 1 Medallion-X 6chD 360x130 0MGD Generic trainer T-6 T ETC 1 PC IG 1ch/C 40x30 4EY LM C-130 Hercules T-10 M Indra 1 INVIS 3ch/4w 200x45 0 NorGrumm F-5M Tiger II FT&GA Indra 1 INVIS 3ch/3wC 150x40 0 Sikorsky S-76 R Indra 1 INVIS 6chPD 200x45 0 Spain - Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook HT-17 R Indra 1 INVIS 3ch/4w 200x45 0 LW Boeing CH-47 Chinook HT-17 R Indra 1 INVIS 8chD 210x80 6EV LW Eurocopter AS532 Cougar HU21L R Indra 1 INVIS 3ch/4w 200x45 0 LW Eurocopter AS532 Cougar HU21L R Indra 1 INVIS 8chD 210x80 6EV LW Eurocopter Tiger HAD R Indra 1 INVIS 6chD 165x120 0 LW Eurocopter Tiger HAD R Indra 1 INVIS 12chD 240x120 6EV LW Spain - Navy Boeing/BAES EAV-8B Harrier II FGA Indra 1 CT5A 9chD 150x40 0G Boeing/BAES Harrier II+ FGA Indra 1 pC-Nova 8chF 360x135 0G W Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk R Indra 1 INVIS 5wCC 210x120 6V Sudan - Air Force Hongdu K-8S Karakorum FT&GA BASC 1 CGI 3chCC 200x45 0 Sweden - Air Force AgWestland AW 109LUH R AgWestland 1 Q3D Indep 3000 3ch/3w 180x50 0 L Saab 105/SK60 FT&GA Sjรถlan&Thyselius 2 PC IG 3ch/4w 180x60 0 Saab JAS 39 Gripen FGA ISD Technologies 2 Equipe PXC IG 3ch/4w 180x45 0 Saab JAS 39 Gripen FGA Saab 4 PC IG / Vega 6chD 200D 0 LW Saab JAS 39 Gripen FGA Saab 6 PC IG / Vega 6chD 200D 0 LW Saab JAS 39 Gripen FGA Wyle Labs 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 120x35 4G Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D FGA Saab 3 SGI / Saab Grape 8chD 220x75 0 LW Saab JAS 39A Gripen FGA LM 5 ESIG-4530 3ch/3w 150x40 0 LW Saab JAS 39A Gripen FGA LM 2 ESIG-3000 5chD 250x50 0 LW Saab Viggen F Saab 2 PXC IG /Saab Grape 2chHMD 330x90 0 LW Sweden - Oxford Aviation Academy Bell 212/412 R CAE 1 MaxVue Enh B 5chCC+2chin 210 x60 6H Sweden - Saab Saab JAS 39 Gripen FGA Saab 1 SGI/Saab Grape 8chD 270D 0 L Saab JAS 39 Gripen FGA Saab 1 SGI/Saab Grape 8chD 270D 0 LW Switzerland - Air Force BAES Hawk 66 FT&GA Thales UK 1 SPX500 6chD 270x60 0 Boeing F/A-18C FGA L-3 Link 4 SimuView 8ChF 360x130 0 R Thales Fr/RUAG 1 ESIG-4530 6chD 270x60 6H Eurocopter AS532 Cougar Pilatus PC-7 T RUAG 1 Aalchemy 1ch/1w 48x36 0 Switzerland - Pilatus PC21 T AMST 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 120x40 0 PC21 T AMST 2 PC IG 3ch/3w 120x40 0 PC21 T AMST 1 PC IG 3ch/3w 120x40 0
Remarks FMS FMS CPT FTD FTD
Links to Sonar Stn & P-3 sim Link to Lynx sim Link to other UH60P Link to other UH60P FTD FMS
Flat panel display
Plus 6 TProj DisoTr Gyro IPT II
Two cockpits Two cockpits FMS FMS FMS
Also NVG mode Barco SEER-4 display Dome w AOI Dome w AOI Centrifuge Barco SEER-8 display
HMD by RColl (ex-Kaiser) Used by mil customers SEOS display SEOS display
TOFT, SimuSphere display Level D standard
FTD FTD FTD
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Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer PC21
T
AMST
Sims Image on line Generator 1
PC IG
Visual Display 3ch/3w 120x40
Motion Networking Axes Capabilities 0
Remarks FTD
Taiwan - Air Force AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo
F
AIDC
1
ESIG-3000
7chD 330x70
0
Head-tracked AoI
Dassault Mirage 2000-5
F
Sogitec
2
Apogee
1ch/1w 40x40
0
UTD
Dassault Mirage 2000-5
F
Sogitec
1
Apogee
8chD8m 320x130
0
plus 2 TProj
Dassault/LM Mirage 2000 & F-16
F
Latecoere
1
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
3G
Centrifuge Model 101.5
Generic fighter
F
AMST
1
PC IG
1ch/1w 60x40
3G
Centrifuge - originally by Latecoere
Generic
G
AMST
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 150x40
6Y
DisoTr Airfox
LM C-130H Hercules
M
CAE
1
Medallion
3chCC 200x40
6H
LM F-16
FGA Camber
9
SGI
7chD 270x70
0
L
LM F-16A Block 20
FGA L-3 Link
6
ESIG-3000
3ch/3w 180
0
LM F-16A Block 20
FGA L-3 Link
2
ESIG-3000
4ch/5w 330x45
0
1
Medallion
3chCC 200x40
6H
LM C-130H Hercules
M
CAE
WST
Taiwan - Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois
R
CAE
2
SP3T
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
Taiwan - Navy LM P-3 Orion
M
CAE
1
Medallion
3chCC 150x40
6H
Sikorsky SH-60C Seahawk
R
CAE
1
ESIG 3000
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
Similar to USN SH-60F sim
Thailand - Air Force Generic fighter LM F-16C NorGrumm F-5E Tiger II
F
ETC
FGA Thales Fr
PC IG
1ch/C 40x30
1
Space
5chPD 220x60
4EY
DisoTr GL 1500
0
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 120x30
0
PAC CT/4E Airtrainer
T
ETC
3
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
3E
GAT II sim
Pilatus PC-9
T
ETC
3
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
0
Simulator
1
PXC IG /Saab Grape
9chD 290x75
0
Barco SEER-9 display
Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D
FT&GA Elbit
1
FGA Saab
L
LW
Inc helmet display
Thailand - Army Bell UH-1H Huey
R
CAE
2
SP3T
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
Two cockpits
Tunisia - Air Force Aero Vod L-59T Albatros Generic
FT&GA Letov LV F
ETC
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 180x40
0
Plus ejection seat trainer
1
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
3E
GAT II sim
Turkey - Air Force Boeing F-4E-2020 Phantom II
FGA Havelsan
2
PXC IG
3ch/3w 210x60
0
LW
Boeing F-4E-2020 Phantom II
FGA Havelsan
2
PXC IG
3ch/3w 210x60
0
LW L
EADS CASA CN-235-100
M
Havelsan
1
EPX-5000
3chCC 180x40
6H
Generic fighter
F
ETC
1
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
1EG
LM F-16C Block 30
FGA L-3 Link
1
ESIG-500
3ch/3w 150x40
0
LM F-16C Block 40
FGA L-3 Link
1
ESIG-3000
3ch/3w 150x40
0
LM F-16C Block 40
FGA L-3 Link
1
ESIG-3000
5chD 330x45
0
Several C-130, F-16, T-38, UH60
FMR ETC
1
PXC IG
5ch/5w 120x70
4EY
EASA Level C Centrifuge G-Lab
DisoTr GL 1500
Turkey - Army Bell UH-1D Huey
R
CAE
4
ESIG-600
3ch/3w 150x40
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk S-70
R
Havelsan
1
EPX-5000
3ch/3w 210x60
6H 0
L
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk S-70
R
Havelsan
1
EPX-5000
5chCC 220x60
6V
L
EASA Level D
Turkey - Navy Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk
R
Havelsan
1
EPX-500
3ch/3w 180x45
0
L
Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk
R
Havelsan
1
EPX-5000
5chCC 220x60
6V
L
EASA Level D
UAE - Air Force
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Image IIIT
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
Dassault Mirage 2000-9
FT&GA Thales UK F
Sogitec
4
Apogee-3
3ch/3w 150x45
0
Dassault Mirage 2000-9
F
Sogitec
1
Apogee-3/4
6chD6m 270x135
0
One seat
Dassault Mirage 2000-9
F
Sogitec
1
Apogee-3/4
6mD8m 270x135
0
Two seats
Generic
F
ETC
1
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
4EY
DisoTr GL 1000
LM F-16E/F
FGA Sogitec
3
Apogee4
3ch/3w 160x40
0
Plus 4 sensors
LM F-16E/F
FGA Sogitec
1
Apogee4
8chD8m 300x130
0
4 sensors, 4 TProj
LM F-16E/F Block 60
FGA LM
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 150x40
0
LM F-16E/F Block 60
FGA LM
1
PC IG
5chD 250x50
0
Pilatus PC-7
T
CAE
2
Maxvue
3ch/3w 150x40
0
Pilatus PC-9
T
Frasca
2
TruVision
3ch/3w 150x40
0
UAE - Emirates/CAE Training Centre Bell B412/212
R
CAE
1
Tropos
3ch/3w 180x60
6H
UK - Air Tanker Consortium Airbus A330-200 MRTT
M
Thales UK
1
ThalesView
3chCC 200x45
6E
R7 design
UK - AgustaWestland Training Academy
AgWestland AW101 Generic
1
R
Atlantis
Dia Vis Genesis
3ch/3w 120x30
0
L
To AW Specification
UK - Army AgWestland Lynx AH7/9
R
Thales UK
1
ThalesView
4ch/5w 220x60
6H
PFI contract
Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer
Sims Image on line Generator
Visual Display
Motion Networking Axes Capabilities
Remarks
Boeing Apache AH1 Longbow
R
Boeing (ATIL PFI)
1
EPX 5000
6chD 240x90
6E
LW
Boeing Apache AH1 Longbow
R
Boeing (ATIL PFI)
3
EPX 5000
6chPD 220x90
0M
W
Transportable
RColl S&T
12
LM ExCGF
5ch+2chins 220x90
0
L
ACTT, flat screens
Various Reconfig, Apache/Lynx/Gazelle R
FMS + Tproj
UK - Cranfield Aerospace LM F-16
FGA Cranfield Aerospace
1
PXC IG
1ch1w 60x40
0MG
Motion & G-suit demonstrator
UK - Defence Helicopter School
Bell 412EP
R
Frasca
1
TruVision
3ch/3w 170x45
0
PFI with FSI
Bell 412EP
R
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 220x60
6V
PFI, also Frasca CPT
UK - EDM LM F-16
FGA EDM
1
PXC IG
2ch1w 60x40
0M
Motion seat demonstrator
UK - ETPS Generic
G
AMST
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 150x40
0
DisoTr Airfox
UK - Pennant Training Ltd. Generic fighter Hawk and others
F
Pennant Trg Sys
1
PXC IG
3ch/3w 120x40
0
CPT demonstrator
UK - QinetiQ Research, ACT Joust
Eurofighter Typhoon
FGA QinetiQ
10
QinetiQ IG
1ch/1w 60x40
0
L
Generic F&R Reconfigurable
FR
QinetiQ
1
EPX 50
12chD 250x75
6E
ETPS Test Pilot Training
Generic R&M Reconfigurable
RM
QinetiQ
4
QinetiQ IG
3ch/3w 150x40
0
Research, Hovers prog, heli & large ac
Panavia Tornado GR4
FGA QinetiQ
2
Xpi
4ch/4w 270x180
0
L
4m Cube, for tactics & TP training
UK - Royal Air Force AgWestland EH-101 Merlin HC3
R
CAE PFI
2
Harmony 1
5chCC 210x45
AgWestland Sea King HAR3/3A
R
Thales UK
1
ESIG-3000
4ch/5w 200x45
6VM
LW
6H
TCC for co-ord Plus rear-crew trainer
BAES Hawk Mk1
FT&GA BAES
1
Onyx 2
1ch/1w 40x30
0
L
IFT, PFI
BAES Hawk Mk1
FT&GA BAES
2
Onyx 2
9chD 320x130
0MG
L
WTT, PFI
BAES Jetsream T1
M
Thales UK
1
E&S
3chCC 190x45
6H
BAES VC10 C & K
M
Thales UK
2
ESIG 3250
3chCC 150x40
6H
Beechcraft 200 & 200GT
T
Frasca
1
TruVision
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
FMS
Beechcraft 200 & 200GT
T
Frasca
2
TruVision
3ch/3w 150x40
0
FTD
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
R
CAE PFI
3
Harmony 1
5chCC 210x45
Boeing E-3D Sentry
M
Thales UK
1
ESIG 4530
3chCC 150x40
R
CAE PFI
Eurocopter SA-330 Puma HC1
6VM
LW
TCC for co-ord
6H
1
Harmony 1
5chCC 210x45
6VM
LW
TCC for co-ord
Eurofighter Typhoon
FGA QinetiQ - CueSim
1
Xpi
12chD 250x75
0
LW
DSALT Facility
Eurofighter Typhoon
FGA QinetiQ - CueSim
1
Xpi
12chD 260x42
0
LW
DSALT Facility
Eurofighter Typhoon
FGA QinetiQ - CueSim
2
Xpi
1ch/1w 60x40
0
LW
DSALT Facility
Eurofighter Typhoon
FGA EF ASTA Consortium
2
Medallion-X
6chD 360x130
0MGD
Eurofighter Typhoon
FGA Thales UK
4
ThalesView
1ch/1w 40x30
0
Plus 6 TProj Transportable Cockpit Trainer
Generic
G
AMST
2
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
6Y
DisoTr Airfox
LM C-130 Hercules
M
CAE USA
1
ESIG-4530
5chCC 210x45
6H
Plus FTD and PTTs
LM C-130K Hercules
M
Thales UK
1
SPX-500
4ch/5w 200x40
6H
LM KC-130J Hercules
M
CAE USA
1
ESIG-4530
5chCC 210x45
6H
M
Thales UK
1
ESIG-3250
3chCC 190x45
6H
Panavia Tornado F3 ADV
LM TriStar K1
FGA Thales UK
4
ESIG
3ch/3w 180x44
0
Panavia Tornado GR4
FGA QinetiQ - CueSim
1
Xpi
12chD 250x75
0
LW
DSALT Facility
Panavia Tornado GR4
FGA QinetiQ - CueSim
1
Xpi
5chD 180x40
0
LW
DSALT Facility
Panavia Tornado GR4
FGA QinetiQ - CueSim
2
Xpi
1ch/1w 60x40
0
LW
DSALT Facility
Panavia Tornado IDS GR4
FGA Thales UK
2
Harmony 1
6chD 270x60
0
1
ESIG
3ch/3w 150x40
0
Raytheon Sentinel R1 (ASTOR)
M
RColl S&T
4th vis ch for rear view
Plus CPT and PTT; PFI
UK - Royal Navy AgWestland EH-101 Merlin HM1
R
CAE
3
Maxvue
5chCC 180x40
6H
AgWestland EH-101 Merlin HM1
R
CAE
1
Maxvue
8chD 270x70
6H
AgWestland Lynx HAS8
R
CAE
1
Maxvue
5chCC 210x40
6H
AgWestland Sea King HAS6
R
Thales UK
1
SP3T
4ch/5w 200x45
6H
Plus 3 rear-crew trainers
FGA Thales UK
1
Harmony 1
6chD 270x60
6H
PFI contract
BAES Sea Harrier FA2 Generic
FM
Merlin FSG
6
PC IG
1ch1w 60x40
2E
L
Type 520 with reconfig flt prog
Generic
FM
Merlin FSG
2
PC IG
3chx3w 120x40
6H
L
Type 521 with reconfig flt prog
F
Merlin FSG
1
PC IG
3ch3w 120x40
6H
L
Type 521 with reconfig flt prog
Pilatus PC-7
T
Frasca
1
FVS
1ch/1w 40x60
0
USA - Air Force
65
Alenia C-27J Spartan
M
FSI
1
CATI
5chCC 200x40
6E
Beechcraft Beech 400A Jayhawk
M
LM
14
ESIG-500
3ch/4w 200x40
Bell CV-22 Osprey
R
FSI
3
Vital 9
5chCC 220x60
6EV
W
WST
Bell CV-22 Osprey
R
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 220x60
0V
W
FTD
Bell CV-22 Osprey
R
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 220x60
0V
W
FTD
Bell CV-22 Osprey
R
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 220x60
0V
W
FTD
0
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THE FIRST TRAINING AND SIMULATION EVENT OF THE IBERIAN ZONE... IberSim is a training and simulation networking event which is being held on 26 & 27 October 2011 in Madrid, Spain and will include...
Conference with speakers The conference is free to attend and will include a wide range of themes and open discussions
Exhibition The exhibition includes displays of latest products and innovations
Training & Simulation Consortium The IberSim training and simulation consortium aims to develop collaboration between Iberian training and simulation players, to share experience and to talk about projects and technologies available in the Iberian zone For more event information and to register...
please visit www.ibersim.com or email info@ibersim.com
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Visual Display
Motion Networking Axes Capabilities
Bell TH-1H Huey
R
CSC
1
CGI
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
Bell UH-1H Huey
R
LM
1
SE2000
4ch/5w 220x40
6H
Bell UH-1N Huey
R
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 220x60
6E
Boeing B1B Lancer
M
Thales UK
4
ESIG
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
W
Remarks FSXXI prog OFT
Boeing B1B Lancer
M
Thales UK
6
ESIG
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
Boeing B-1B Lancer
M
Boeing
5
SP3T
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
Boeing B-52B Stratofortress
M
Boeing
3
EPX-500
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
M
FSI
1
Vital 9
3ch/3w 180x40
0
L
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
M
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 225x50
0
L
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
M
FSI
6
Vital 9
5chCC 225x50
6E
L
Level D+ FMS
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
M
FSI
4
Vital 9
5chCC 225x50
6E
L
Level D+ FMS
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
M
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 225x50
6E
L
Level D+ FMS
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
M
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 225x50
6E
L
Level D+ FMS
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
M
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 225x50
6E
L
Level D+ FMS
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
M
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 225x50
6E
L
Level D+ FMS
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
M
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 225x50
6E
L
Level D+ FMS
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
M
FSI
3
Vital 9
5chCC 225x50
6E
L
Level D+ FMS
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
M
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 225x50
6E
L
Level D+ FMS
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
M
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 225x50
6E
L
WST Level D+
Boeing CH-47F Chinook
R
FSI
1
CATI
5chCC+2chin 200x45
6EV
Plus 5 CPTs and 2 mission trainers CPT
Boeing E-3A/B/C Sentry
M
CAE
2
Medallion
5chCC 225x50
6H
Boeing F-15A/C Eagle
F
LM
14
ESIG 500
3ch/3w 150x40
0
Boeing F-15C Eagle
F
Boeing
20
ESIG-4350
6chD 330x60
0
LW
DMO 4-ship
Boeing F-15E Eagle
F
Boeing
10
Independence
6chD 330x60
0
LW
DMO 4-ship
Boeing F-15E Eagle
F
LM
5
PT4000
5chD 250x50
0
Boeing KC-10A Extender
M
Thales UK
2
ESIG-4350
4ch/5w 225x45
6H
Plus 4 FTDs
Boeing KC-135E Stratotanker
M
Thales UK
3
ESIG
3ch/3w 150x40
3H
Plus 2 boom operator PTTs Visuals u/d, FSI motion added
Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker
M
Thales UK
19
ESIG-4350
4ch/5w 225x45
6H
Boeing RC-135R/W Rivet Joint
M
RColl S&T
3
ESIG-5530
3chCC 150x40
6H
Gen Atomics Predator GCS
U
L-3 Link
19
SimuView
3ch/3w 150x40
Generic
F
ETC
1
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
1EG
Centrifuge g-Lab 10g/s to 15G
Generic fighter
F
Wyle (operator)
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 120x35
4G
Centrifuge
Generic fighter Reconfigurable
F
USAF AFRL/Link
1
PC IG
8chF 330x75
0
LW
Research - M2 DART type
Generic fighter Reconfigurable
F
USAF AFRL
8
Onyx
6chPD 330x75
0
LW
Research - SIRE (Synth Research Env)
Generic fighter Reconfigurable
F
USAF AFRL
1
PC IG
6chD 266x110
5H
LW
Research - LAMARS, uses hydraulic arm
Generic Reconfigurable
G
USAF AFRL
1
PC IG
6chD 330x75
0
LW
Research, MS-1 type
Generic trainer T-6
T
ETC
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 110x40
4EY
DisoTr Gyro IPT II
H-Beech T-6A Texan II
T
FSI
6
Vital 9
1ch/1w 45x33
0M
W
IFT
H-Beech T-6A Texan II
T
FSI
4
Vital 9
7chPD 270x70
0M
W
OFT
H-Beech T-6A Texan II
T
FSI
6
Vital 9
1ch/1w 45x33
0M
W
IFT
H-Beech T-6A Texan II
T
FSI
5
Vital 9
4ch/5w 270x70
0M
W
OFT
H-Beech T-6A Texan II
T
FSI
3
Vital 9
1ch/1w 45x33
0M
W
IFT
H-Beech T-6A Texan II
T
FSI
3
Vital 9
7chPD 270x70
0M
W
OFT
H-Beech T-6A Texan II
T
FSI
3
Vital 9
1ch/1w 45x33
0M
W
IFT
H-Beech T-6A Texan II
T
FSI
3
Vital 9
7chPD 270x70
0M
W
OFT
H-Beech T-6A Texan II
T
FSI
4
Vital 9
1ch/1w 45x33
0M
W
IFT
H-Beech T-6A Texan II
T
FSI
2
Vital 9
4ch/5w 270x70
0M
W
OFT
H-Beech T-6A Texan II
T
FSI
6
Vital 9
1ch/1w 45x33
0M
W
IFT
H-Beech T-6A Texan II
T
FSI
5
Vital 9
4ch/5w 270x70
0M
W
OFT
H-Beech T-6A Texan II
T
Frasca
12
FVS-200TX
3ch/3w 150x40
0
Some at AF Academy Colorado Springs
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 150x40
0
Research
1
Vital 9
3chCC 180x40
6H
LM A-10 LM AC-130U Hercules
FGA USAF AFRL M
CAE USA
0
W
LW
LM AC-130U Hercules
M
LM
1
Vital 9
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
LM C-130 Hercules
M
CAE USA
1
CompuScene 4
3chCC 150x40
0
M
CAE USA
1
ESIG 4000
3chCC 150x40
6H
M
CAE USA
2
Vital 4
3chCC 150x40
6H
M
6H
SF Spectre gunship SF Combat Talon II
CAE
9
Vital 8
5chCC 225x50
LM F-16
FGA USAF AFRL
4
PC IG
3ch/3w 150x40
0
LW
Research
LM F-16
FGA USAF AFRL
1
SGI
3chHMD 360x90
0G
LW
Research, RS-2 project
LM F-16 Block 40/42 & 50/52
FGA L-3 Link
12
SimuView
8ChF 360x130
0
W
Mission Training
67
LM F-16 MLU
FGA Thales UK
1
ESIG 3000
3ch/3w 150x40
0
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Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer
LM F-16 Multiple Blocks
FGA L-3 Link
36
SimuView
2chHMD 360 FoR
0
L
UTD with AHMD
LM F-16 Multiple Blocks
FGA L-3 Link
6
SimuView
8ChF 360x130
0
L
WST , SimuSphere display
LM F-16A/C
FGA L-3 Link
4
Onyx2 or MetaVR
5chD 330x45
0
LM F-16A/C
FGA L-3 Link
12
SimuView
5chD 330x45
0
LM F-16C Block 50
FGA Boeing
14
ESIG
1ch/1w 40x30
0
for USAF Reserve UTD
Military Flight Simulator Census
Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer LM F-16C Block 50/52
FGA LM
Sims Image on line Generator
Visual Display
Motion Networking Axes Capabilities
Remarks
10
SGI
3ch/3w 150x40
0
LW
DMO 3x4-ship
LM F-22 Raptor
F
L-3 Link
23
SimuView
2ch/2w 90x40
0
W
WTT
LM F-22 Raptor
F
L-3 Link
21
SimuView
8ChF 360x130
0
W
FMT, SimuSphere display
LM F-35A-C Lightning II (JSF)
FGA Flight-Dynamix
1
EPX series
3ch/3w 150x40
0
Transportable DMRT
LM F-35A-C Lightning II (JSF)
FGA LM
1
EPX series
25chD 360x150
0
LW
RC dome, LCoS projectors
6E
W W
LM HC-130P Hercules
M
FSI
1
Vital X
5chCC 225x50
LM HC-130P Hercules
M
FSI
1
Vital X
5chCC 225x50
6E
LM KC-130J Hercules
M
LM
5
Vital 9
4ch/5w 200x50
6H
WST Plus CPT and PTTs
LM MC-130E Hercules
M
LM
1
Vital 9
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
SF Combat Talon I
LM MC-130H Hercules
M
LM
2
Vital 9
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
SF Combat Talon II SF Combat Shadow
LM MC-130P Hercules
M
LM
1
Vital 9
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
LM MC-130W
M
FSI
1
Vital9
5chCC 224x50
6E
W
WST
MC-130H Talon II
M
Opinicus
1
Vital X
5chCC 220x45
6H
L
For Special Forces
MC-130H Talon II
M
Opinicus
1
Vital X
5chCC 225x50
6H
L
For Special Forces
MC-130P Shadow
M
Opinicus
1
Vital X
5chCC 200x40
6H
L
For Special Forces
NorGrumm B-2A Spirit
M
L-3 Link
3
PC-IG
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
NorGrumm E-8C JSTARS
M
RColl S&T
2
EPX-5530
3chCC 180x40
6H
W
Plus 1 mission trainer Plus FTD
NorGrumm T-38C Talon
FT&GA Boeing
14
ESIG-4530
1ch/1w 40x30
0
UTD
NorGrumm T-38C Talon
FT&GA Boeing
14
ESIG-4530
6chD 216x135
0
u/d from T-38A devices
NorGrumm T-38C Talon
FT&GA Boeing
8
ESIG-4530
6chD 330x60
0
Sikorsky HH-60G Black Hawk
R
LM
1
CompuScene 5
4ch/5w 220x50
6H
SF Pave Hawk
Sikorsky MH-53J Stallion
R
LM
1
CompuScene 5
4ch/5w 220x50
6H
SF Pave Low IIIE
Sikorsky MH-53M Stallion
R
LM
1
CompuScene 5
4ch/5w 220x50
6H
SF Pave Low IV
Sikorsky MH-60G Black Hawk
R
Camber
1
SGI
5chD 150x40
0
LW
SF Pave Hawk
U-28A
M
Opinicus
1
Vital X
4chCC 210x70
0
L
For Special Forces
USA - Army Bell TH-1H Iroquois
R
FSI
2
Vital 9
5chCC 200x60CC
6EV
W
OFT FSXXI
Bell TH-67 Creek
R
FSI
9
Vital 9
1ch/1w 18x24
0V
W
IFT FSXXI
Bell TH-67 Creek
R
FSI
13
Vital 9
3chCC 180x50
6EV
W
OFT FSXXI
Boeing A/MH-6M Little Bird
R
CAE
1
Medallion-S
4ch/5w 240x90
6H
Boeing AH-64 Apache
R
CAE
1
Maxvue
2chHMD 360x120
0
Head-tracked, CAE FO HMD
Boeing AH-64 Apache
R
CAE
1
ESIG-1000
2chHMD 360x120
0
Head-tracked, CAE FO HMD
Boeing AH-64D Longbow
R
Boeing
24
ESIG-2000
4ch/5w 180x60
0
Transportable
Boeing MH-47E Chinook
R
CAE/L-3 Link
1
Medallion-S
5chCC 210x50
6H
Plus TopScene, for SOF av regt SOF aviation regiment
Boeing MH-47G Chinook
R
CAE
3
Medallion-S
5chCC 225x50
6H
Eurocopter UH72
R
Frasca
2
TruVision
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
Several 5 heli types
R
L-3 Link
18
Link
2chHMD 360 FoR
0
W
Several 5 heli types
R
L-3 Link
23
Link
2chHMD 360 FoR
0
L
Several UH-60A/L,CH-47D, OH-58D R
L-3 Link
9
Link
5chCC 200x45
6H
FSXXI OFT
FSXXI OFT AVCATT
Sikorsky MH-60K Black Hawk
R
CAE
1
Medallion-S
5chCC+2chin 220x60
6H
SOF aviation regiment
Sikorsky UH-60 A/L Black Hawk
R
FSI
5
Link SimuView
5chCC+2chin 200x45
6EV
W
OFT, FSXXI programme
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk
R
FSI
3
Link SimuView
1ch/1w 24x18
0V
W
IFT, FSXXI
Sikorsky UH-60A/L Black Hawk
R
RColl S&T
3
PC IG
5chCC 220x45
6H
USA - Avenge, Inc. Beech RC-12/King Air 300
M
Fidelity Flt Sim
1
LCD Mosaic Wall
4ch/4w 40x180
6E
For military training
USA - Boeing Training Facility Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
M
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 225x50
6E
L
Level D+ FMS
USA - CAE USA Training Center LM C-130H Hercules
M
CAE USA
2
Vital 4
3chCC 150x40
6H
LM C-130H Hercules
M
CAE USA
1
Medallion 6000
5chCC 220x40
6E
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American Eurocopter HH-65C
R
ASI
1
PXC IG
3ch/4w 180x40
Boeing HH60J/HH65C
R
ASI
1
PXC IG
2ch/2w 90x40
6H 0
Dassault HU-25
M
ASI
1
PXC IG
3ch/4w 180x40
6H
Sikorsky HH-60J
R
ASI
1
PcNova
3ch/4w 180x40
6H
Sikorsky MH-60T
R
ASI
1
PXC IG
3ch/4w 180x40
0
Sikorsky MH-60T Black Hawk
R
JF Taylor
1
Alion (GFE)
4ch/5w 220x45
0
CPT open plan
USA - Department of Defense Mil Mi-17 Hip
R
Elbit
1
PC IG
3chPD 180x60
6EV
L
Mil Mi-24P Hind
R
Elbit
1
PC IG
3chPD 180x60
6EV
L
Mil Mi-8MTV Hip
R
Elbit
1
PC IG
3chPD 180x60
6EV
L
USA - German Air Force Panavia Tornado IDS
FGA CAE
1
Maxvue
3ch/3w 150x40
0
USA - Marine Corps Bell AH-1W Super Cobra
R
L-3 Link, Veraxx
2
Vital 9
5chD 330x60
6H
Two cockpit WST
Bell AH-1Z Super Cobra
R
FSI
1
Vital 9
7chPD 270x70
0V
FTD
W
Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer
Sims Image on line Generator
Visual Display
Motion Networking Axes Capabilities
Remarks
Bell AH-1Z Super Cobra
R
FSI
1
Vital 9
7chPD 270x70
6EV
W
FFS
Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey
R
Veraxx Eng Corp
4
pC-Nova
6ch/5w 220x60
0V
L
Containerised FTD
Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey
R
Veraxx Eng Corp
2
pC-Nova
6ch/5w 220x60
0V
L
Containerised FTD
Bell MV-22 Osprey
R
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 220x60
0V
W
FTD
Bell MV-22 Osprey
R
FSI
3
Vital 9
5chCC 220x60
6V
W
Bell UH-1N Huey
R
L-3 Link, ASI
1
Vital
5chD 330x60
6H
Bell UH-1N Huey
R
ASI
1
PcNova
3ch/4w 180x40
6H
L
Bell UH-1N Huey
R
JF Taylor, Veraxx
1
pC-Nova
3ch/3w 150x55
0
L
Transportable, avioics trainer
Bell UH-1Y Super Huey
R
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 200x60
0V
W
FTD
Bell UH-1Y Super Huey
R
FSI
1
Vital 9
5chCC 200x60
6EV
W
FFS
Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight
R
ASI
1
ESIG-2000
3ch/4w 180x40
0
Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight
R
ASI
1
PcNova
3ch/4w 180x40
6H
L L
FFS WST
Transportable, Avionics Trainer
Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight
R
CAE USA
2
CompuScene 4
4ch/5w 220x70
6H
Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight
R
LM
1
Aalchemy
3ch/4w 200x40
0
Plus WST DMO, SimuSphere display
Boeing F/A-18C Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
2
SimuView
6ChF 330x60
0
W
Boeing F/A-18D Hornet
FGA LM
1
Aalchemy
3ch/3w 150x40
0
Boeing/BAES AV8B Harrier II
FGA Indra
5
pC-Nova
8chF 360x135
0G
Boeing/BAES Harrier II
FGA Boeing
2
CompuScene4
6chD 330x60
0
LW
LM KC-130F/R Hercules
M
CAE
1
CompuScene5
5chCC 220x50
6H
LM KC-130J Hercules
M
CAE USA
3
Vital 9
5chCC 200x50
6H
LM KC-130J Hercules
M
LM
3
Vital 9
5chCC 200x50
6H
LM KC-130R Hercules
M
CAE
1
CompuScene 6
3chCC 150x40
6H
WST
FMS
Plus avionics PTT
LM KC-130T Hercules
M
LM
2
CompuScene 6
3ch/3w 150x40
6H
NorGrumm EA-6B Prowler
F
SymSystems
1
ESIG
3ch/3w 190x45
0
Transportable; plus OFT, 1 WTT
Sikorsky CH-53D Sea Stallion
R
L-3 Link, DEI
1
ESIG 5530
5chCC+2chin 220x45
6H
WST
Sikorsky CH-53E
R
ASI
1
PcNova
3ch/4w 180x40
0
Transportable, Avionics Trainer
Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion
R
Pax River MFS
2
ESIG-2000
3ch/4w 180x40
0
Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion
R
LM
2
ESIG-5530
4ch/5w 200x60
0
Transportable
Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion
R
L-3 Link, JFTI
2
pC-Nova
4ch/5w 220x70
6H
WST
Sikorsky VH-3D Sea King
R
ASI
1
ESIG-5530
3ch/3w 150x55
0
Transportable
Sikorsky VH-60N Black Hawk
R
ASI
1
ESIG-5530
3ch/3w 150x55
0
Transportable
L
L
u/d ASI
Transportable
USA - NASA Boeing AH-64 Apache
R
CAE
1
ESIG-1000
2chHMD 360x120
0
Generic fighter Reconfigurable
F
NASA Langley
1
NASA
5chD 200x60
0
Generic Reconfigurable
G
NASA Ames
1
NASA
5chCC 200x45
6H
Vertical Motion Simulator with 60ft heave
Generic Reconfigurable
G
NASA Langley
1
NASA
5chCC 200x45
6H
Cockpit Motion Facility
L
Reconfigurable, FO HMD Two cockpits
USA - NASTAR Centre Generic fighter
F
ETC
1
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
4EY
Generic fighter
F
ETC
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 120x30
4EY
DisoTr GyroFlight
FGA ETC
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 110x70
3EG
Centrifuge ATFS 400
Multiple F-18, F-16, F-35, F-22
L
DisoTr GL 2000
USA - Navy 25
PC IG
3ch/3w 150x40
3H
Plus 6 CPTs
Beechcraft T-6A Texan II
T
FSI
5
Vital 9
7chPD 270x70
0M
W
OFT
Beechcraft T-6B Texan II
T
FSI
9
Vital 9
7chPD 270x70
0M
W
OFT
Bell AH-1W Super Cobra
R
JF Taylor
2
ESIG-4530
6chPD 250x60
0
Bell TH-57 SeaRanger
R
CAE
6
SP-3T
5chCC 210x40
6H
Bell TH-57C SeaRanger
R
CAE
2
Independence 2000
3chCC 150x40
6H
Boeing F/A-18C Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
4
SimuView
8ChF 360x130
Boeing A/F-18 Hornet
FGA ETC
1
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
Boeing AV8A Harrier
FGA Thales UK
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
6H
3chCC 150x40
6H
ESIG-5000
4ch/5w 220x70
6H
SimuView
6ChF 300x130
0
3chCC 200x45
6H
R
CAE USA
1 3 1
Medallion 6000
M
CAE
Visual u/d
Harmony Medallion
FGA L-3 Link
DMO, SimuSphere display Centrifuge G-FET
1
CAE
CAE
W
2
M
M
0
3EG
2
Medallion 6000
3chCC 200x45
6H
Boeing EA-18G Super Hornet
FGA Boeing
1
SimuView
6chD 330x60
0
Boeing F/A-18 Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
3
SimuView
5chD 330x60
0
Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet
FGA CAE
2
M-2000
2chHMD 360x120
0
Boeing F/A-18C Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
4
SimuView
5chF 300x75
0
Boeing F/A-18C Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
4
SimuView
8ChF 360x130
0
W
Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
6
SimuView
5chF 300x75
0
Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
6
SimuView
8ChF 360x130
0
W
Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
3
SimuView
8ChF 360x130
0
W
2 cockpits, Pilot & ECMO
Two cockpits Head-tracked, CAE FO HMD SimuSphere display DMO, SimuSphere display SimuSphere display TOFT, SimuSphere display
Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
1
SimuView
6ChF 300x130
0
SimuSphere display
Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
1
SimuView
6ChF 300x130
0
u/d TOFT with SimuSphere
Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet
FGA Boeing
8
SimuView
6chD 300x120
0
Plus CAE PTT
ISSUE 4.2011
FT&GA RColl S&T
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Beechcraft Beech T-34C Mentor
Military Flight Simulator Census
Aircraft Cat Simulator Type Manufacturer Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet
Visual Display
Motion Networking Axes Capabilities
Remarks
2
SimuView
6chD 330x60
0
u/d F/A-18C WTT
F
Wyle (operator)
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 120x35
4G
Centrifuge
Generic fighter Interchangeable cockpits F
Pax River MFS
4
pC-Nova
6chF 270x75
0
LW
F-18 & F-35 cockpits
Generic heli Interchangeable cockpits R
Pax River MFS
1
pC-Nova
5ch{D 220x40
0
LW
Inc MH-60 cockpit
Generic heli Interchangeable cockpits R
Pax River MFS
1
pC-Nova
5chCC 220x40
6H
LW
Inc V22 Osprey cockpit
Generic multi Interchangeable cockpits M
Pax River MFS
2
RasterFlite
3chCC 180x40
0
LW
Two seats side by side
Kaman SH-2G Seasprite
R
CAE
2
Vital 3-6000
5chCC+3chin 220x50
6H
LM P-3 Orion
M
Camber
3
Q3D
1ch/1wC 150x40
0
LM P-3 Orion
M
CAE
6
Maxvue
3chCC 150x40
3H
Generic fighter
FGA Boeing
Sims Image on line Generator
L
LM P-3C Orion
M
L-3 Link
5
Maxvue
5chCC 220x45
6H
NorGrumm C-2 Greyhound
M
CAE
1
PC-Nova
3chCC 150x40
6H
NorGrumm C-2A Greyhound
M
ASI
2
PcNova
3ch/4wC 150x40
0
NorGrumm E-2 Hawkeye
M
CAE
2
MaxVue
3chCC 180x45
6H 6H
NorGrumm E-2C Hawkeye
M
ASI
2
PXC IG
3ch/4wC 150x40
NorGrumm E-2C Hawkeye
M
ASI
2
EPX
3ch/4w 180x40
0
NorGrumm E-2C Hawkeye
M
Contraves
2
Aalchemy
3ch/3w 150x40
6H 6H
L
WTT TOFT
Reconfigurable
NorGrumm E-2C Hawkeye 2000
M
RColl S&T
3
PC IG
3chCC 150x40
NorGrumm E-3C Hawkeye
M
ASI
1
PXC IG
3ch/4wC 150x40
0
Sikorsky MH-53 Sea Stallion
R
Indra
1
pC-Nova
5ch/6wC 210x60
6V
OFT
Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk
R
CAE
8
PC-Nova
5chCC+2chin 220x60
0
4 OFT & 4 WTT
Sikorsky MH-60S Seahawk
R
CAE
13
pC-Nova
5chCC 210x50
0
Also 6 rear-crew WTT
Sikorsky MH-60S Seahawk
R
LM
2
pC-Nova
4ch/5w 200x60
0
Sikorsky MH-60S Seahawk
R
LM
4
Harmony
4ch/5w 220x40
0
Sikorsky SH-3H Sea King
R
CAE
1
Vital 4
3ch/4w 120x40
6H
Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk
R
CAE
1
PC-Nova
5chCC 210x50
6H
Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk
R
CAE
4
Harmony
5chCC 220x40
6H
Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk
R
Indra
1
pC-Nova
5ch/6wC 210x40
0V
LW
Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk
R
Indra
1
pC-Nova
5ch/6wC 210x40
6V
LW
SEOS display, Plus WTT
Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
2
SimuView
8chD 360x130
0
WTTs u/d to E/F
Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
3
SimuView
8ChF 360x130
0
SimuSphere display
W
USA - Navy/Marines Boeing F/A-18C Hornet
FGA Boeing
8
Vital 4
1ch/1w 40x30
0
UTD + 3 CAE PTTs
Boeing F/A-18C Hornet
FGA Boeing
5
CompuScene 4
6chD 330x60
0
Two cockpits
Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet
FGA L-3 Link
16
SimuView
8ChF 360x130
0
u/d to C/D
2
Maxvue
3chCC 180x45
0
NorGrumm E-2 Hawkeye
M
CAE
W
NorGrumm EA-6B ICAP3 Prowler
F
LM
1
Aalchemy
5chCC 200x50
6H
NorGrumm EA-6B Prowler
F
CAE
3
SPX500
3chCC 200x45
6H
USA - Vertol Systems Co. Mil Mi-8/Mi-17
R
VRM/ASE
1
VRM/IMMAX
1ch/1w LCD 24�
0
L
CPT
Venezuela - Air Force Generic fighter
F
ETC
1
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
3E
DisoTr Gyro IPT
Generic trainer SE piston
T
ETC
1
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
3E
GAT II sim
Yemen - Air Force Aero Vod L-39-C/ZA Albatros
FT&GA VRM
1
VRM/IMMAX
3ch/3w 150x45
6H
L
FMS
Moravan Zlin 143/242
FT&GA VRM
1
VRM/IMMAX
1ch/1w 60x45
0
L
CPT/FNPT
User not released Boeing A-4
3
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
0
LW
UTD, with networking
Boeing F-15 Eagle
F
Elbit (ex BVR)
3
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
0
LW
UTD, with networking
Dassault Mirage 2000
F
Elbit (ex BVR)
4
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
0
LW
UTD, with networking
FT&GA Elbit (ex BVR)
2
PC IG
3ch/3w 180x50
0V
Embraer Emb-312 Tucano
FGA Elbit (ex BVR)
Generic fighter
F
Elbit (ex BVR)
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 180x45
0VM
IAI Searcher UAV
U
Elbit (ex BVR)
2
PC IG
3ch/4w 240x80
0
LM C-130H Hercules
M
CAE
2
Maxvue
3ChCC 180x40
6E
M
CAE
1
Medallion
3chCC 150x40
6H
M
CAE
1
Medallion
3chCC 150x40
6H
Pilot and Ground Control sim
LM F-16
FGA Elbit (ex BVR)
6
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
0
LM F-16
FGA Elbit (ex BVR)
1
PC IG
1ch/1w 40x30
0
UTD, inc weapons trg
LM F-16
FGA Elbit (ex BVR)
1
PC IG
8chD 360x180
0
Two seats
70
LM F-16
FGA Elbit (ex BVR)
2
PC IG
3ch/4w 220x90
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LM C-130H Hercules LM C-130H Hercules
Missile trainer for AS550
0VG
LW
UTD, with networking
L
LM F-16 Block 50
FGA Elbit (ex BVR)
1
PC IG
1ch/1w 60x50
0
LM F-16 Block 50
FGA Elbit (ex BVR)
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 180x60
0
LM F-16 MLU
FGA Elbit (ex BVR)
Avionics Trainer
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 180x60
Mil Mi-171sh Hip
R
VRM
4
VRM/IMMAX
4ch/4w 180x70
6HV
0 L
FMS
Mil Mi-35M Hind
R
CSTS Dinamika
1
Raduga CD
6chPD 140x60
0
L
Inc FLIR, NVG
Pilatus PC-7
T
Elbit (ex BVR)
1
PC IG
3ch/3w 160x40
0V
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