RAN to get engine room simulator
Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded a contract by the Australian Department of Defence to develop and deliver a new K-Sim Engine simulator to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), it announced on 9 March.
The simulator will be delivered to the navy's HMAS Cerberus training facility located in Melbourne. The new simulator model will run on the existing Kongsberg K-Sim Engine desktop simulator delivered in 2013, which is also maintained by the company under a long term system support programme agreement signed in 2015.
The new simulator model is a high-fidelity representation of the engine room configuration on the landing ship dock (auxiliary) (LSD(A)) vessel, HMAS Choules.
Tone-Merete Hansen, global sales manager, Kongsberg Maritime, said: ‘Kongsberg Maritime was chosen following the Commonwealth of Australia's positive experience of the customised K-Sim Engine full mission simulator delivered in Sydney for the training of engineers aboard the RAN's Canberra Class Landing Helicopter Dock vessels and the desktop K-Sim Engine simulator delivered at HMAS Cerberus.
‘With Kongsberg's support, the LHD engineering system trainer has significantly improved training for LHD vessel engineering personnel. The new K-Sim Engine LSD(A) model will extend the RAN's training capabilities, offering the same operational benefits through high quality simulation training.’
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