VOLUME 21 NUMBER 3 MAY/JUN 2019 A SHEPHARD MEDIA PUBLICATION Seahawk skills Training the RAN's MH-60R crews AIMING HIGHER LIVE LESSONS GLOBAL VISION Aerial targets Tactical engagement Visual databases WWW.MILTRAINSIM.COM MTSN-03-19_OFC.indd 1 24/04/2019 13:23:47 99.2%AVAILABILITY RATE FOR B-1 99.5% AVAILABILITY RATE FOR C-17 100%QUALITY ACCEPTANCE FOR F-22 PROVEN PAST PERFORMANCE PAST PROVEN SAVE THE BATTLES FOR THE FIELD. JOIN FORCES WITH TRU AND EXPERIENCE A TOTAL TRAINING SOLUTION. Go from mission ready to mission complete with total training solutions from TRU Simulation + Training. Through proven performance in LVC, DMO, Cybersecurity and CLS, we’ve developed a system to create an experience that is seamless from training to aircraft. TRU’s design and support of devices, aircrew instruction, self-guided courses and access to mission scenarios, before ever entering the aircraft allows aircrew to remain battle-ready. 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Shephard looks Deputy Editor – Land Beth Maundrill [email protected] • Malaysian Hawks await upgrade decision at the variety of equipment being utilised in Asia-Pacific Editor • Australian Army training progresses from the HQ of the service’s Fleet Air Arm. Gordon Arthur [email protected] first DATE Senior Staff Reporter • Black Hawk simulator for Saudi Arabia FEATURE Tim Martin • CAE offers new recurrent courses at Dothan 26 GUIDED EXPERIENCES Staff Reporter Kate Martyr • New VITAL IG launched by FSI As the fidelity of virtual simulation continues to Editorial Assistant • ASDOT is no more improve, more training is now being conducted Lukasz Furmaniak • USMC in DTC first out of the aircraft and on the ground. With Contributors Gordon Arthur, Dr Joetey Attariwala, industry providing increasingly comprehensive Angus Batey, Alan Dron, Scott R Gourley, Tim Mahon, Peter Matthews, David Oliver, training services, this trend seems to be the Miles Quartermain, Richard Scott FEATURE way forward for armed forces worldwide. Production Manager 10 AIMING HIGHER Georgina Smith New aerial targets with greater capabilities FEATURE Junior Production Editor Sirli Manitski and higher speeds are entering the market 31 ONE WORLD VIEW Publishing Assistant as the training requirements of militaries The relative proliferation of high-quality source Malika Kingston worldwide transition to cope with higher- data, more powerful rendering engines and Digital Development Manager Adam Wakeling performance threats. improved displays means that the visual fidelity Graphic Designer of simulation systems is continuing to improve. Georgina Kerridge FEATURE The question is: What’s next on the horizon? 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STEM u 16,200 attendees Tactics Trainers Trade Publication / Media u 485 exhibitors Training Products Training Services u 186,000 sq ft exhibit hall Transportation 1,800 international Vehicle Trainers u Verification & Validation attendees, from 50 Visual Computing countries Visual Display Products Weapon Systems Trainers & Equipment WWW.IITSEC.ORG u DECEMBER 2 – 6, 2019 u ORLANDO, FLORIDA IITSEC2019ShepAdFull.inddMTSN-03-19_p02_IITSEC.indd 12 24/04/20193/12/19 11:42:36 4:17 PM COMMENT In the next issue • Simulator upgrades • Maintenance training Trevor Nash, Editor • Motion and control loading systems Crumbling capacity • Battlefield effects Although not the first nation to do so, the was awarded in 2008 as a 25-year PFI Trying to break the logjam, MFTS UK was instrumental in embracing public- programme that saw the contract winners is sending multi-engine pilots to private partnerships (PPPs) when it came Ascent (a JV between Lockheed Martin and Bournemouth, Dorset, to carry out training to funding large capital infrastructure, VT Group, now Babcock International) provided by L3 Commercial Training transportation and service projects. working with the RAF’s 22 Group to provide Solutions on the Diamond DA42 instead The term PPP is the over-arching aircrew training for the UK MoD. of the MFTS Phenom 100, representing descriptor of what are normally referred to They say a week is a long time in politics, a clear training shortfall. as private finance initiatives (PFIs), whereby and in military planning, 25-years is an eon, Fast-jet pilots for the advanced jet industry fund these projects instead of especially when that planning is thwarted training phase normally train at RAF Valley governments. In the UK, the PFI concept by changing political priorities and ill-judged on the glass-cockpit Hawk T2, which is was introduced in 1992 by the Conservative decision making. fitted with an embedded training system. government and in 1997, under New These changing political priorities are To help clear the number of fast-jet pilots Labour, the process was expanded. exemplified by the UK’s Strategic Defence & currently holding, spare capacity on the Security Reviews (SDSRs) of 2010 and 2015. RAF’s analogue Hawk T1 (normally used Political priorities In essence, SDSR 2010 scrapped for target towing and adversary training) The allure of PFI for politicians is easy to Nimrod and Harrier aircraft and reduced is being used. Later this year, other fast-jet understand – its adoption as a procurement the numbers of British Army helicopters