MilSim Asia: ECA delivers driver simulator

19th January 2016 - 12:38 GMT | by Gordon Arthur in Singapore

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French company ECA Group is set to deliver the first components of a military vehicle driver simulator to a Middle East customer ‘very soon’.

The Military Vehicle Simulator (MVS) will eventually comprise 15 units mimicking new-type European-built armoured vehicles that the customer is acquiring, with one demonstrator simulator already completed and the first batch of five MVSs nearing the end of production.

Arnaud Chevillot, commercial director at ECA Group simulation branch, noted that this marks ECA’s first sale of a military driver simulator, even though it has a long pedigree in similar simulators for the civilian market. The company was

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