A new product from Cubic Corporation introduces the concept of “Data Containers”, popular in the datacenter industry, to the mobile training industry with their new mobile virtual small arms trainer. It’s 40-foot long trailer that folds down into a self-powered and environmentally controlled 5-lane EST 2000.
Manufactured by Cubic’s Simulation Systems Division in Orlando, Florida, EST 2000 is a laser-based system that uses digital video projectors, high-definition screens, game-based computer graphics and ballistically accurate simulated weapons to create highly realistic virtual combat scenarios. It replicates the performance of individual small arms and crew-served weapons. Its geo-specific virtual scenarios can be varied from urban to jungle and mountain terrains to Middle Eastern desert environments.
These units are already scheduled to hit the ground in Fort Knox, the US Army WAr College, and a National Guard Armory.
via U.S. Army Evaluating Cubic’s Mobile Small Arms Trainer.
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Over in the UK, they’ve taken a hint from the US Army’s Recruitment site and developed a fully interactive recreation of a wartime environment called the “Start Thinking Soldier” site. In the site, you’re presented with a 2-minute live action & CG video to setup a situation, and then asked to select the proper solution.
Called “Start Thinking Soldier“, it is the first time live-action video is blended on the web with state-of-the-art computer graphics.
The French-owned company behind the design has spent six months setting it up.
And unlike the much-derided “skiing and snorkelling” ads of the 1990s, scenarios reflect the true nature of desert war, as soldiers call in air strikes, blow holes in walls before storming compounds and search enemy tunnels for arms caches.
Each two-minute episode ends by asking the viewer “What would you do?” and to anticipate the decision of the commander.
“At a time when soldiers are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, this had to be as realistic as possible,” explained Will Arnold-Baker, managing director of the company, Publicis.
Start Thinking Soldier, with information from News.Sky.com
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