Reservists from the British Army’s 105 Regiment Royal Artillery have begun trying out the new Blue Shell and the Artillery Mission Training Systems (AMST) capability provided by Cubic.
AMST is a 105mm gun simulator, in which a number of components on the L-118 light gun have been replaced with replica components, including the firing box. The system comes with the Blue Shell replica of the in-service 1/10th-weight rounds.
The system is meant to bridge the gap between the way the British Army conducts dry training and the way it does live-fire training. The Royal School of Artillery at Larkhill has been using