⊲ 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...
Category: Military & Security
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...
HLA Bridge to Learning Ecosystems
⊲ Yet Analytics ⊳ Yet Analytics, a leader in the Experience API (xAPI), Learning Record Store (LRS) technology, has released Federate xAPI, an open source tool that lets High Level Architecture...
Daily 3D Maps for Uncrewed System Navigation
⊲ Space Daily ⊳ Vantor, the Earth observation company formerly known as Maxar, has launched WorldView 3D, a service producing daily updated three dimensional maps of Earth accurate to 15...
Fifteen Year £2 Billion Training Contract
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ Omnia Training, a Raytheon UK-led consortium including Capita, Cervus, Rheinmetall UK, and Skyral, has secured a £2bn, 15-year contract from the UK Ministry of Defence to deliver...
Rifle Becomes New Drone Controller
⊲ Military.com ⊳ The US-based startup PYRRHUS Aeronautics has developed LADRS, a rifle mounted device that lets soldiers control drones through weapon movement rather than a handheld joystick or...
Korean Simulator Supports Emergency Flight Practice
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ The Republic of Korea Army has fielded a new KUH-1 'Surion' flight training simulator. Developed by Korea Aerospace Industries under a December 2023 contract, the simulator...
“Sim Pods” for British Army Drone Training
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ Skua Defence Limited and UFDS EU have partnered to bring Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator, a Ukraine-developed UAS training system, to UK and allied forces. UFDS has trained more...
Battlefield Vision Platform Unveiled
⊲ Distance Technologies ⊳ Helsinki-based deep-tech startup Distance Technologies has launched Acuity, a visual intelligence platform built on its new Acuity OS, designed to connect sensors, battle...