Software designed by NSC is helping to train Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior in the use of defensive armament. The UK-based simulation, training and consultancy company is providing the security force with a virtual environment in which the crews of its Desert Chameleon armoured personnel carriers can familiarise themselves with aspects of the vehicles’ Remote Multi-purpose Turret System (RMTS).
Developed by ADWS Global Ltd, the RMTS has been designed to protect those responding to incidents or conducting surveillance or counter-insurgency operations. It does so by the integration of optical and thermal sensors and a firing system.
Replicating the look and feel of the turret’s control consoles and harnessing commercial off-the-shelf technologies, NSC says that its simulator allows for the safe and cost-effective training of the RMTS’s weapon system and student assessment.
The ability to inject virtual scenarios into an authentic sensor display is key to its delivery of immersive learning, according to Chris Williams, NSC’s head of simulation.
“As a means of training individual gunnery skills, it is important that any solution provides a high level of detail and fidelity. The simulation has to look and feel like the real thing; factors such as the behaviour of ballistics and slew of the turret have to be authentic to the platform it is modelled on.
“Our software delivers that level of immersion and is a step beyond more traditional tactical and procedural training.”
NSC’s support to Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior builds on an 18-year working relationship with the Gulf state. Since 1996, the Surrey-based company has assisted Kuwait’s Armed Forces through provision of computer-assisted decision-making exercises at the Mubarak Al Abdullah Joint Command and Staff College.
