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Inzpire looks forward

10th June 2016 - 06:00 GMT | by Trevor Nash in RAF Waddington, UK

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The UK’s Air Battlespace Training Centre (ABTC) at RAF Waddington is probably the foremost synthetic training-based research and training provision facility in the UK. Developed as a host for the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Mission Training through Distributed Simulation (MTDS) capability concept demonstrator (CCD) programme, today’s ABTC reflects little of the past.

MTDS transformed itself into the Distributed Synthetic Air Land Training (DSALT) capability, with the latest DSALT 2 programme being awarded to QinetiQ in 2014. Managed by the RAF, approximately 50% of the funding comes from the British Army and this underscores the amount of

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