Range Limits, Enemy Snooping Are Leading Naval Services to More Virtual Training
And the Marines want virtual foes that fight more like their real enemies.
By Caitlin M. Kenney
Staff Reporter
November 30, 2021
Virtual training environments are becoming more important as the naval services work around the limits of physical ranges and try to keep adversaries from snooping on new concepts and tactics, the Navy and Marine Corps’ top officers said Tuesday.
“We can't have combat be the first place we're trying out [tactics, training, and procedures] and new weapons,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said during the 2021 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday. The conference is hosted by the National Training & Simulation Association.
The Navy uses live-virtual-constructive training in several areas, including aviation education and wargames like the recent Large Scale Exercise 21. In that demonstration, the Navy used the technology to test out operational concepts without needing as many real ships, aircraft, or weapons, and it allowed participants to join in from simulators centers or aboard real ships.
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