Martin Carr of AVS, Mikko Luhtava of Varjo and Kristine Kvam of Fynd Reality, one high-end headset maker and two training-system builders using it, recently joined a roundtable on how Ukraine's...
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Saab’s Digital Battlefield Training Tech
⊲ Saab UK ⊳ Saab explains how Personal Detection Devices (PDDs), laser weapon simulators and vehicle instrumentation turn military exercises into measurable digital battlefields. Soldiers wear PDDs...
Army Reform Transfers Vehicle Simulation
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ The US Army has moved oversight of one office, not its entire simulation and training organisation. Product Director Virtual Training Systems (PdD VTS), previously under...
Military-Civil Aviation Training Crossover
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ Military and civil aviation training share people, methods and technologies, yet formal exchange between the sectors remains limited. Skills can move well from military into...
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...
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...
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...
Simulator Prepares ATC Recruits Before Reopening
⊲ BBC News ⊳ Doncaster Sheffield Airport is training new air traffic controllers on a computer simulator ahead of its planned reopening. At least 20 recruits, including nine trainees, are...
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...