UK awards Virtual Soldier Training System contract
11 Kasım 2021
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Soldiers from the Duke of Lancaster Regiment take part in trialling virtual reality equipment at their home base in Chester, England and are seen here on Infinadecks omnidirectional treadmills.
The Virtual Reality Land Trainer is one of CTTP's (Collective Training Transformation Programme) mature pathfinder projects. This means that the equipment being tested is not yet in service and may never be. It is being used to asses which products would best serve the requirements of the Army's CTTP.
The aim of the event was to test the use of VR and associated technologies to determine how/if can enhance collective training in the future. The most visual parts of the event are: 81mm Mortar Simulator, this brings mixed reality into the scenario with the mortar line able to conduct real time skills and drills with the bomb landing in the virtual world. A neat win for the project as it allows all members of the mortar platoon to engage with the scenario in both the real and virtual world.
Omnidirectional treadmill, these are used by the US Army and also at the Defence Rehab Centre. The aim being to see how this technology could be used in a collective training environment. Not so much for replicating the ability to walk, but to see what information can be gathered by training using such technology. They have been leased for this event.
In addition to this there is a variety of headsets in play and the underlying software has
incorporated a number of additions to better represent the collective training environment.
The UK Ministry of Defense has contracted Elbit Systems UK to deliver a new virtual soldier training system as part of the British Army’s Collective Training Transformation Programme.
The Interim Combined Arms Virtual Simulation (Deployable) ICAVS(D) will replace the current Unit-Based Virtual Trainer by April 1, 2022, providing a higher quality, more extensive and complex training system, the Israeli firm’s UK subsidiary stated.
The training system, comprising the “latest high specification hardware” and the “Defence Virtual Simulation software,” will also help provide information for future replacement of the Command and Staff Training and Combined Arms Tactical Trainer systems
