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ITEC 2017: USAF graduates first enlisted RPA crew
10th May 2017
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 …
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 …
10th May 2017
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 …
9th May 2017
Cubic Global Defense has provided details of its Area Weapons Effects Simulator (AWES) component contract, following on from Saab Training Systems' announcement that they had …
9th May 2017
US-based VirTra, suppliers of small-arms training (SAT) simulators, has announced that it has received a follow-on contract award from an undisclosed international customer in the …
8th May 2017
Dutch simulation specialists VSTEP and international shipyards group Damen have signed a cooperative agreement to produce a NAUTIS full mission bridge simulator (FMBS) for the …
8th May 2017
Orlando, Florida-based Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS), has been awarded a firm-fixed-price contract for the F-16 A/B Block 15 training system. The $24.3 …
8th May 2017
Masa, an attendee of ITEC 2017 and the forthcoming CAX (computer aided exercise) Forum, will highlight its latest version of Masa Sword including its new …
8th May 2017
The European Defence Agency is in the midst of the 11th exercise Fire Blade which will provide tactical training under the agency's Helicopter Exercise Programme …
8th May 2017
Modelling and simulation systems provider, Plexsys, has been selected by L3 Link Simulation & Training to provide system support to L3 Link's IDEAtion centre.Plexsys has …
8th May 2017
Bagira Systems' Joint-fire Battle-Space Simulator (JOBSS) call-for-fire training system has entered service with the Artillery Corps at the IDF Land Forces Training Centre. The company …
8th May 2017
Ukrainian company Program-Ace will be demonstrating its mixed reality solution for the first time during ITEC in Rotterdam. The software solution, Mixed Reality & Augmented …
8th May 2017
In February, Germany and France signed an agreement at a NATO Ministers meeting in Brussels to create a joint air transport unit to operate the …
8th May 2017
TerraSim, a Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) company has released a new terrain generation software bundle specially designed for BISim VBS users. Known as the TerraTools …
27th April 2017
The first flight of the second aircraft under development by Boeing and Saab for the US Air Force's (USAF's) T-X advanced pilot training programme has …