ITEC 2017: Military and VIP presence on the up (video)
This year's ITEC took place in Rotterdam, Netherlands, for the first time and for those attending the show the Dutch Ministry of Defence had a …
The whole question of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) has raised heated debate about who should fly them; officer pilots or non-commissioned officer non-pilots. Due to the shortage of fast-jet pilots and a long awaited realisation that RPA crews do not need to be officer pilots with thousands of flight hours, the USAF has now graduated its first NCO RPA operators.
The three NCOs completed their undergraduate RPA training programme at Joint Base (JB) San Antonio-Randolph in Texas.
The graduates came from a cohort of 12 enlisted candidates that were selected from the USAF in December 2015, for a new initiative
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This year's ITEC took place in Rotterdam, Netherlands, for the first time and for those attending the show the Dutch Ministry of Defence had a …
There has been much debate of recent years about the use of virtual versus live training. Observers tend to relate this to flight simulation but …
This year's ITEC 2017 saw new products unveiled, an emphasis on the virtual environment and solutions to problems with big data. Trevor Nash, editor of Military …
US company QuantaDyn, specialists in the provision of Joint Terminal Attack Controller training systems, has been exhibiting at ITEC 2017 in Rotterdam and has brought …
Constructive training and AI specialist MASA and Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) have signed a product sales and technical cooperation agreement to further develop MASA SWORD …
Rockwell Collins demonstrated its Coalescence mixed-reality solution at ITEC in Rotterdam after initially launching the product in 2016. The company is focusing on the role-playing market …