Live Thales demos at I/ITSEC 2013

For the first time at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), we are holding live demonstrations of our Training and Simulation solutions on the Thales stand.

Every day this week, visitors at the show are invited to join us on booth 1000 to watch two demos, the first focusing on Land Forces and Army Aviation training, and the second on Joint Operations, Training & Simulation.

The Land Forces and Army Aviation training demo highlights our solutions for Land Forces and Army Aviation training with our Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) reconfigurable collective training solution. The audience are presented with the powerful features of Thales’s Combat Training System, through a comprehensive demonstration featuring a Combat scenario on a representative, high feature content theatre.

The Thales Combat Training System collective training solution caters to Training Requirements from Individual level, to Vehicle Crew, Convoy and up to Platoon/Company and Brigade/Battalion training.

Based around a common architecture, using open standards such as High Level Architecture (HLA) connectivity, Thales Combat Training System brings the benefits of a consistent Training Solution, with an ability to leverage the best partners on the market for enhanced realism, such as serious games.

For our second live demo, we have designed the fictitious ‘Operation Chiron’ to demonstrate, in a realistic scenario, how Thales’s capabilities help solve the critical training challenges faced by military forces wherever and however they operate.

This demo focuses on solutions for Joint Forces training, with Fast Jet, UAV, Air to Air Refuelling and Land Forces simulators linked on the stand to demonstrate a combined exercise.

Operation Chiron is set in August 2015 in the fictitious Middle Eastern country of Siran. The British Army, having successfully extracted from Afghanistan, has deployed on a short term contingency operation after a lengthy series of failed UN peace talks. The government has collapsed in the face of a military coup and British forces are supporting NATO humanitarian intervention operations in the country.

During the resupply of one of the forward operating bases in a small town, a Chinook came under intensive ground fire and has been brought down. A platoon of Jackal MWMIK vehicles that were securing the helicopter landing site (HLS) have also come under fire from a number of enemy ‘technicals’, which in this case are a mix of Nissan Frontiers and Toyota Hilux’s with bed mounted PKM (machine guns).

A Forward Air Controller (FAC) (Widow 76) has dismounted from one of the Jackals to seek cover and requests ground support from the Warrior company at the Forward operating base who have a callsign on the ground in the vicinity.

Both demos have proved popular at I/ITSEC 2013 and we look forward to introducing more live demonstrations of our capabilities at future exhibitions.