Making the first shot count with modern equipment; state-of-the-art weapon training aids add cost-effectiveness.
Armada International › Vol. 13 Nbr. 6, December 1989
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Making the first shot count with modern equipment; state-of-the-art weapon training aids add cost-effectiveness.
Making the First Shot Count With Modern Equipment
State-of-the-art Weapon Training Aids Add Cost-effectiveness One of the greatest problems confronting military establishments today is that of training soldiers to the requisite level of skill in a limited time. Fifty years ago the infantry soldier needed to be skilled with his rifle, two or three hand-grenades, a light machine-gun and perhaps a light mortar, and it took about a year to do this. Today he has to handle a more complicated rifle and half-a-dozen types of grenades, plus probably a submachine-gun, a general-purpose machine-gun, a recoilles rifle, an anti-tank missile, an air defence missile, night vision equipment, the cannon on his IFV ... the list is inexhaustible. Moreover the time available for training has not increased, particularly in conscript armies. On top of this there are the increasing constraints of the outside world; demands for armies to give up large training areas for community housing, for industrial development, for conservation; demands to take firing ranges out of earshot of the public; demands to end the air pollution caused by firing weapons in the neighbourhood of civil housing; and so on. As a result of these problems, more and more ...See the full content of this document
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