⊲ Royal Aeronautical Society ⊳The Royal Aeronautical Society’s 2026 Flight Simulation Conference will examine changes reshaping aviation training and simulation. Topics include EASA’s new...
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UK MoD Buys Drone & Mission Training Tools
⊲ OneArc ⊳ The UK Ministry of Defence has procured FlowState and SceneCast licences for its Defence Virtual Simulation 2 (DVS2) framework, adding OneArc's tools to a wider set of FPV training...
Army Builds Drone Simulator In-House
⊲ Army.mil ⊳ Drone warfare in Ukraine is reshaping US Army training doctrine, prompting the Combined Arms Command-Training Innovation Facility to build the Virtual Drone Collective Trainer (VDCT)...
Open Source UAV Flight Test Bench Emerges
⊲ Hackaday ⊳ Developer AlexanderRex has built PteroSim, an open-source test bench for simulating uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) from pre-flight validation to a full autonomy testing pipeline. The...
Drone Training & Design Converge
⊲ Euromaidan Press ⊳ Ukraine is using the UFDS combat-drone simulator to train interceptor operators before they handle real aircraft. Accurate digital models of the P1-SUN and Bullet allow troops...
Simulated Drone Warfare Exposes Weaknesses
⊲ TechRadar ⊳ During the Combined Resolve military exercise held in Germany in April and May 2026, Ukrainian drone forces disabled armour so rapidly that equipment had to be respawned into the...
3D Scanner’s Tiny Size & Power
⊲ Tech Briefs ⊳ MIT researchers have built a low-power chip, named Gleanmer, that lets tiny drones and other battery-limited robots construct real-time 3D maps of their surroundings using around 6...
Lightweight LiDAR Gives Drones Real Time Vision
⊲ NextGen Defense ⊳ MicroVision has introduced lightweight LiDAR sensors designed to give UAVs real-time 3D mapping and onboard perception. MOVIA Air supports obstacle avoidance, autonomous landing...
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...
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...