Spanish Army boosts armoured training
The Spanish General Directorate of Armament and Materiel has contracted Indra Sistemas to provide 28 simulators for the Pizarro Infantry/Cavalry Combat Vehicle. The devices will comprise seven troop clusters of four simulators each and will be located throughout Spain.
Each vehicle is represented by a driver simulator and a turret simulator; the latter housing the commander and gunner. The new training devices will be delivered in 2022 and operate with the Spanish Army’s extant Leopard 2E and Víctrix simulators in a distributed network using high-level architecture protocols.
Indra has said that the Pizarro simulators will include Phase I/II vehicles. According
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