Land Training and Simulation

Thales is a world leader in the development, delivery, operation and support of synthetic training devices and training delivery within the land military domain. This is evidenced by a number of successful design, maintenance, support, training delivery and through-life engineering support contracts in place at several training centres in Australia supporting the Australian Defence Force and New Zealand Defence Force. 

Training capabilities offered by Thales Australia within the land domain include:

• Live Training systems comprising soldier, vehicle and building instrumented systems to facilitate force on force training;
• Armoured Fighting Vehicle Training systems comprising vehicle simulators to support a breadth of vehicle types and levels of fidelity ranging from desktop trainers to full motion simulators; 
• Command and staff trainers; and
• Small arms training systems to enable marksmanship training within both range and dynamic exercise environments.

Thales provides simulator and training support services to the Australian Army and New Zealand Army related to military vehicle training technologies.

The Australian Light Armoured Vehicles (ASLAV) Crew Procedural Trainer (CPT) Project introduced ASLAV CPTs and associated supplies, manufactured by Thales, into the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to enhance the gunnery training effectiveness of Army personnel in the use of the ASLAV-25 vehicle. Thales Australia developed a training solution including the creation of Training Management Plans (TMPs) for operator and maintainer training as well as Operator and maintainer user handbooks.

Thales delivered to the Australian Army a Combat Vehicle Desktop Tactical Trainer (CVDTT) capability comprising networked systems which facilitate both Technical and Tactical training for crews at the Individual, Crew, Collective and Combined Arms levels. The user may select from a variety of vehicle platforms and the software will configure the system to represent the mission equipment, including communications, sighting, sensor and weapons systems, corresponding to that platform types.

Under project LAND907, The Australia Army will acquire M1A2 SEP V3 Main Battle Tank Immersive Tactical Trainers (ITT) to provide gunnery training and tactical training of Army personnel in the use and employment of the M1A2 vehicle. Thales is providing a turn key computing solution to our partner and prime contractor, Thomas Global Systems, for this capability. Thales’s solution includes all computers with cyber hardened operating systems as well as networking, audio distribution and the simulated vehicle software.

To accompany the New Zealand Army’s acquisition of Bushmaster vehicles, Thales has developed  a Crew Procedural Simulation (CPS) System in order to support Crew and Collective level training requirements. The system consists of a number of vehicles as well as a role player station to support additional mission actors, which can all be networked together in the same synthetic environment. This system utilises a mix of desktop and virtual reality technologies in order to deliver a training solution that is immersive and matched to the end user’s desired training outcomes.