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I/ITSEC 2016: Swiss Army helicopter simulator upgrades for Thales

29th November 2016 - 16:00 GMT | by Trevor Nash in Orlando

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The Swiss federal defence procurement authority, armasuisse has contracted Thales to undertake a number of significant concurrency upgrades to the Swiss Air Force’s AS 532 Super Puma and EC635 full flight mission simulators (FFMS).

The AS532 FFMS upgrades includes improvements to the primary flight avionics, communications suite, the digital moving map, the forward-looking infrared and the helmet-mounted display. Functional improvements will also be made to both simulators, in particular to the instructor operating station.

The company says that these updates will be delivered to the Swiss Air Force in September 2017.

Functional upgrades will also be made to the Swiss Air Forces

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