The new cavalry -- training attack helo crews: just as horse-mounted cavalry gave way to the main battle tank, so has, some would assert, the time come for the attack helicopter to provide the main spearhead into enemy lines. The helicopter's chain gun has replaced the horseman's lance and Hellfire missiles strike where swords could not have been thrust before.

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The new cavalry -- training attack helo crews: just as horse-mounted cavalry gave way to the main battle tank, so has, some would assert, the time come for the attack helicopter to provide the main spearhead into enemy lines. The helicopter's chain gun has replaced the horseman's lance and Hellfire missiles strike where swords could not have been thrust before.

However much technology has changed the face of modern warfare, it is still the better-trained force that is likely to scatter the foe, although cost and complexity in training have become a major issue in achieving this aim. In the face of trimmed defence budgets, clearly simulation is expected to provide the ...

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