Sweden orders training equipment for Carl-Gustaf M4
Swedish defence procurement agency FMV placed an SEK135 million ($15.98 million) order with Saab for an undisclosed number of Carl-Gustaf M4 Ground Combat Indoor Trainers (GC IDTs).
GC IDT provides the user with replica weapons, a virtual environment and a sophisticated evaluation for realistic and accurate training.
Deliveries of training studios and conversion kits will be made in 2022-2023, Saab announced on 5 February.
The order was made under a ten-year framework agreement between Saab, the FMV and the armed forces of Estonia and Latvia. This agreement, signed in June 2019, includes Carl-Gustaf M4 weapons, training systems and associated equipment.
Åsa Thegström, head of Saab Training & Simulation, described the indoor trainer as a ‘realistic and cost-efficient virtual training solution’, adding that it ‘replicates the operations and characteristics of the real weapons and ammunition, their ballistics and terminal effects. By that we are able to provide the crew with required skills as well as engagement techniques training combined with training using the real systems’.
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