Cubic tailors mortar simulator for the US Army
The company’s mortar trainer received improvements based on soldier’s feedback.
Boeing has received a contract to deliver Deployable Mission Readiness Trainers (DMRTs) to the US Navy for its P-8A Poseidon fleet, the company announced on 6 June.
The company will supply seven DMRTs under the contract, with deliveries beginning in 2019.
The deployable P-8A Poseidon trainer will be portable with low-power requirements and will include Boeing’s Weapons Tactics Trainer system, which incorporates sonobuoy and ocean acoustics modelling.
The high-fidelity, crew-based trainers will allow aircrew and operators to improve their mission readiness without adding flight hours to the aircraft while deployed away from home training stations.
The US Navy trains P-8A Poseidon aircrews at naval air stations in Jacksonville, and Whidbey Island. Seventy percent of the training for P-8A aircrews takes place in simulators and other trainers; the remaining 30 percent uses the actual aircraft.
The company’s mortar trainer received improvements based on soldier’s feedback.
The company will operate in two new locations in the coming years to better support US services.
This type of tool provides more realistic training easing the incorporation of new scenarios that accurately represent the threats of the battlefield.
The Engineering Corps has been conducting individual instruction using FLAIM Systems’ Sweeper and should start collective deployments in 2025.
The next-generation platform is motion-compatible and can be used in OTW and NVG applications.
The system can be used to prepare soldiers for both drone offensive operations and CUAS missions.