⊲ Tech Funding News ⊳ Nick Blair, son of Tony Blair, is reportedly seeking around $200 million for Pyra, a UK defence technology startup with no public product and a website that simply reads...
Category: Military & Security
Drone Warfare Rewrites Military Training
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ BAE Systems OneArc and Varjo are using simulation to help militaries keep pace with rapidly evolving drone warfare tactics. Oliver Arup of OneArc says procurement cycles cannot...
Glasses Grant Wearers Infrared Vision
⊲ Popular Science ⊳ Engineers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have built infrared-sensing glasses that let wearers see infrared light alongside normal vision. The 23-gram prototype uses...
Some of the Tech Behind British Army Training
⊲ The Guardian ⊳ Skyral, a UK company spun out of Improbable, is part of the Omnia Training consortium that won a £2bn Ministry of Defence contract to help train the British Army using digital...
Trending Towards 50:50 Live:Simulator
⊲ Varjo ⊳ Korea Aerospace Industries has spent two decades building an indigenous fighter pilot training pipeline around its T-50 Golden Eagle, exported across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe....
$30m Simulation-AI-Drone Convergence Bet
⊲ Tech.eu ⊳ Founded this year, UK-based defence startup Agon has launched with $30 million in funding to build a platform training AI-powered autonomous weapons in virtual battlefields. Founded by...
US Army’s Data Driven Adaptive Training
⊲ Team Orlando News ⊳ Brig. Gen. Christine Beeler, capability program executive of the U.S. Army's Capability Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, Test and Threat (CPE ST3), has...
Royal Navy Accelerates Warfighting Readiness
⊲ Halldale ⊳ Project Selborne, the Royal Navy's £1.26 billion shore based training programme, is preparing for Epoch 3, due to begin in April 2027, with a focus on faster warfighting readiness and...
Swiss Simulation Startup Backs Latvia Drone Training
⊲ LIAA ⊳ Swiss startup nordfen AG has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with "Drone Force Europe" to develop drone simulation technologies in Riga. Nordfen, which originated from the ETH Zurich...
Helsing Combat AI Trained in Days Not Years
⊲ YouTube ⊳ Dominic Hauschild, defence correspondent at the Sunday Times, describes AI fighter pilots developed by German company Helsing, whose simulators compress a million hours of training into...
3D Depth Sensing Reshapes Global Industries
⊲ MarketsandMarkets ⊳ MarketsandMarkets reports the global 3D sensor market will grow from USD 8.26 billion in 2026 to USD 21.45 billion by 2032, a CAGR of 17.2%. The technology, which captures...
3D Printing Cuts Simulator Production Costs
⊲ VoxelMatters ⊳ Wraith Systems has expanded production of its F-35 desktop Hands-On Throttle-And-Stick pilot training system by adopting 3D printing, raising output to 75 units each month while...
A Decade On: Revisiting the Simulation Singularity
Spotlight by Andy Fawkes "Will there be a world where the simulation may be just as good as the real world?" That's the rather grand question I put to a lunchtime crowd at London's Digital...
Preparing Troops For Combat Trauma
⊲ KentOnline ⊳ The article discusses the British Army's use of trained actors, employed by the Canadian firm Calian, to simulate mass casualty scenarios for soldier training. These actors, equipped...
The Eye as Battlefield Interface
⊲ Military AI ⊳ US firm Syntec Optics has secured new orders for optical components supporting AI-enabled military augmented reality headsets that use eye tracking to identify where soldiers are...
Potential Civil-Military AR Crossover
⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril and Oculus, has revealed a prototype pair of compact augmented reality glasses believed to be under development at Anduril, claiming they deliver...