⊲ Varjo ⊳ Juny, a Uruguayan combat veteran wounded three times by FPV drones while serving with Ukrainian Special Forces, now works with Applied Virtual Simulation on the Horizon Guardian...
Tag: simulation
CAE Urges Pilot Training Overhaul
⊲ CAE ⊳ CAE's 2026 Blueprint argues that allied defence forces must overhaul pilot training to meet a more volatile geopolitical era. Legacy fixed-curriculum programmes are ill-suited to Generation...
Digital Twins Reach the Battlefield
⊲ Medium ⊳ David Burden explores how digital twins are moving beyond industrial systems into military operations, creating detailed battlefield models that combine platforms, infrastructure and...
Simulators Support More Car Testing in Less Time
⊲ Ford From the Road ⊳ Ford's Product Development Simulator, launched in 2020 in Dearborn USA, allows engineers to run ten times more tests in a tenth of the time compared to real-world testing....
Ukrainian Medical Simulator Reaches NATO Nations
⊲ The Defender ⊳ The LifesaverSIM tactical medical simulator is now available across NATO member states, expanding from its original Ukrainian focus into 44 countries. Developed by a startup in...
ANSYS Secures $82m USAF Simulation Contract
⊲ Defence Blog ⊳ The U.S. Air Force has awarded Ansys Government Initiatives an $82.1 million contract for advanced modelling and simulation software at Edwards Air Force Base, effective until May...
AI Helps Build Level D Simulator Visuals
⊲ Halldale ⊳ Quantum3D’s live AI-generated Level D simulation was showcased at WATS 2026 in Orlando, demonstrating a real-time JFK to Manhattan flight using the MANTIS S image generator. Developed...
A New Dimension in 3D World Capture
⊲ Digital Camera World ⊳ Ouster's REV8 Color LiDAR chip captures colour and depth simultaneously using a single lens and chip, abandoning the traditional pixel grid in favour of a point cloud of up...
GTA V Becomes War Tool
⊲ Business Insider ⊳ Ukraine's defence ministry has revealed that FPV drone pilots train using Grand Theft Auto V between real missions, with a video showing a pilot flying a bomb into highway...
Norway’s 4 Year Contract with OneArc
⊲ UK Defence Journal ⊳ Norway's Armed Forces have secured an enterprise licence upgrade to VBS4, the flagship virtual training and mission rehearsal system from BAE Systems' OneArc division. The...
Rethinking Military Flight Training Effectiveness
⊲ Joint Air Power Competence Centre ⊳ The article examines how military aviation training can be improved by applying modern learning science, focusing on deliberate practice, feedback, and...
New Facility Supports British Army Readiness
⊲ Saab ⊳ Saab UK has officially opened a new training & simulation facility in South West England, its fifth such site in the UK. Opened by Kit Malthouse MP for North West Hampshire, the...
Ukraine Gets Mobile F-16 Simulators
⊲ Kyiv Post ⊳ Ukraine's Air Force has received mobile F-16 flight simulators programmed to replicate the terrain and weather conditions pilots face in combat. Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said...
Dextrous Robots Train in Simulation
⊲ WIRED ⊳ Eka Robotics in Cambridge have developed a robot that demonstrates unusually fluid, tactile manipulation, from grasping keys to screwing in a light bulb. Cofounders Pulkit Agrawal and...
Simulation First Strategies for Manufacturers
⊲ NVIDIA Blog ⊳ NVIDIA's Omniverse platform is enabling manufacturers to adopt a simulation-first approach, using high-fidelity digital environments to train AI systems before physical deployment....
Simulation, Training and Operations Converge
⊲ Halldale ⊳ ITEC 2026, held at ExCeL London in April, brought together military practitioners, NATO officials and industry against the backdrop of conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. Air...