Cubic tailors mortar simulator for the US Army
The company’s mortar trainer received improvements based on soldier’s feedback.
DSET 2018: CBRN training in focus
With the use, and threat of use of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) weapons continuing to grow, the UK Royal Marines have recently completed a major exercise to prepare troops to operate in such environments.
Supported by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Exercise TOXIC DAGGER also involved Public Health England and the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), and was the largest exercise of its kind in the country.
Specialists in CBRN from Dstl and AWE created the exercise scenarios based on current threat information.
Completing the training and exercising against the scenarios provided, ‘a challenging programme for the
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