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RAF using inflatable SAM sites for pilot training
4+ hour, 20+ min ago (238+ words) According to Draken, each Sting system is rapidly deployable and can replicate an individual SAM site, with threat-representative options for all modern-day surface-to-air missile systems. The system includes multiple threat emitters, rotators and surrogate platforms, accurately replicating adversary systems including…...
Modern warfare is outpacing military training
2+ week, 6+ day ago (494+ words) Dispersion, speciali Sation, and speed now define the battlefield. Small, agile units equipped with drones, sensors, and precision fires routinely deliver effects that once required brigades. Yet many armed forces still train as if mass and heavy armour were the…...
Norway upgrades military simulation with BAE Systems VBS4
3+ week, 1+ day ago (311+ words) UK Defence Journal The Norwegian Armed Forces have selected an enterprise licence upgrade to BAE Systems One Arc's VBS4 virtual training and mission rehearsal environment, under a four-year multi-year agreement that also includes VBS Builder Edition, Blue IG rendering software, ongoing…...
MOD expands defence apprenticeships with skills push
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (182+ words) ukdefencejournal. org. uk The Ministry of Defence has outlined plans to expand defence-related apprenticeships as part of a wider effort to strengthen the sector's skills base. Responding to a written question from DUP MP Jim Shannon, Defence Minister Luke Pollard…...
UK considers expanding the use of sythentic training
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (175+ words) The proposed Gladiator and Spartan Core Systems and Services contract would support the MOD Gladiator distributed training system while also enabling the Royal Navy's developing SPARTAN programme for maritime collective training. The system has primarily been used by the Royal…...
Army reserve in major explosion response drill near Glasgow
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (256+ words) The exercise took place at the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service National Training Centre in Cambuslang and involved soldiers from 144 (Parachute) Medical Squadron, a Glasgow-based Army Reserve unit that forms part of 16 Medical Regiment. According to the British Army in…...
NATO launches multinational virtual training network
7+ mon, 6+ day ago (275+ words) Thirteen NATO Allies have agreed to begin work on a new shared virtual training capability designed to improve readiness and reduce costs across the Alliance. Thirteen NATO Allies have agreed to begin work on a new shared virtual training capability…...
Royal Marines hone mountain warfare skills in California
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (309+ words) The unit, normally based in Arbroath, Scotland, deployed to Pickel Meadows at the United States Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, 7, 000ft up in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The six-week exercise, known as Green Dagger, was designed to maintain the UK…...