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Australian Army to receive Cubic Synthetic Wrap

22nd September 2018 - 13:00 GMT | by Trevor Nash in Westdown Camp, SPTA

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Elements of Cubic Defence UK’s Micro-SCOPIC, in service as part of the British Army’s Collective Training Synthetic Wrap Capability Programme since 2016, are set to be delivered to the Australian Army later this month.

Synthetic Wrap integrates virtual overlays and objects on live instrumented exercises such as those undertaken by the British Army at Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA) in the UK, as well as Canada and Kenya.

In essence, Micro-SCOPIC takes the entity positional data from live instrumented tactical engagement simulation exercises and converts it to virtual data that is inserted into a virtual database. This virtual database,

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