Page 66 - Australian Defence Magazine November 2022

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CREATING AN INTEGRATED LAND TRAINING SYSTEM
As part of the Australia Army’s Accelerated Warfare and Army in Motion principles, the service is looking to modernise its training systems, particularly in the collective sense, and is increasingly turning to simulation to help fulfil its needs.
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ARMY’SFutureReadyTrainingSystemplacesagreatdealof emphasis on preparedness and it has developed a Training Transformation Program Strategy to provide guidance on its journey of transformation.
To learn more about how simulation can assist Army in this journey, ADM sat down with Lockheed Martin’s Business Development Manager Australia/New Zealand Dave Fallon and Dave Cogdall, from the company’s Ground Training Business Development division, at the recent Land Forces exposition.
INTEGRATED LIVE, VIRTUAL & CONSTRUCTIVE TRAINING
Dave Fallon said that the future is in the collective training space and there is therefore a need to blend the Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) elements together.
“If you think of a brigade, operating with all of its combined arms, you could have the brigade headquarters in the simulation centre in Townsville, a combat team conducting operations in the Shoalwater Bay Training Area, another at Cultana reporting back to brigade headquarters and aviation support coming from the 1st Aviation Regiment’s simulators in Darwin,” he explained.
“The brigade headquarters are controlling the exercise, but it is being stimulated by a range of live, virtual and constructive means.”
HARNESSING TECHNOLOGY
Fallon added that Army is looking at training soldiers to use their weapons systems, whether it’s small arms or the gun of a main battle tank as individuals, or as a team, or a collective unit – a Combined Arms Team - with other assets.
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