Naval Simulators: Enhancing Shipboard Defense Training

by admin Virtual Sailor NG
Naval simulators, including virtual sailor simulations, are vital in preparing crews for high- risk situations at sea. These advanced training tools provide sailors with a realistic and safe environment to refine their skills, improve teamwork, and enhance decision-making abilities. As a result, the Navy can maintain its position as a leading-edge fighting force with naval simulators.
Training Challenges Faced by the Navy:
  1. Expensive and Complex Live Exercises:
    2. Conducting training exercises at sea is costly and involves intricate logistical arrangements.
  2. Time and Cost Constraints:
    3. The Navy must balance the need for well-trained personnel with their regular duties and tasks onboard vessels, making it challenging to provide comprehensive training.
  3. Equipment, Tactics, and Procedure Familiarization:
    4. Ensuring personnel are adequately prepared for shipboard defense requires familiarity with equipment, tactics, and procedures.
  4. Availability of Shipboard Defense Training:
    5. Ship defense simulation offers a solution by providing a dedicated sea-based simulation package that allows personnel to train in a controlled environment.
  5. Interoperability and Expansion:
    6. The VS-NG suite of simulation platforms is fully interoperable with other modeling and simulation systems, enabling the enhancement and expansion of shipboard defense training capabilities.
Get Trained with Virtual Sailor Simulators
Using virtual sailor simulators offers immersive training experiences for maritime personnel. These simulators provide a realistic environment where trainees can develop essential skills, navigate virtual sailing scenarios, and enhance their decision-making abilities. Additionally, instructors customize the training to meet individual needs, ensuring effective skill development in a safe and controlled setting.
The naval simulator enables the Navy to enhance training outcomes by immersing personnel in realistic scenarios and fostering their preparedness for real-world challenges.
Simulation employs tried-and-true training ideas to immerse learners in tactical scenarios in which they must:
  • Operating complex weapons systems
  • Using and responding to radio and voice communications
  • Taking decisive countermeasures against threats
  • Experiencing challenging weather conditions
  • Interacting with vehicles and virtual personnel
VS NG includes:
  • A Staff Tactical Trainer for command and staff training.
  • Aiding commanders and staff officers in developing rapid decision-making skills.
  • Planning.
  • Reviewing actions.
Capabilities of Ship Defense Simulation:
  • Integration of VR-Forces, a powerful computer-generated forces (CGF) simulation
  • Customizable scenario creation for scalable simulations
  • Realistic behavior and interactions of objects in the environment
  • AI-controlled entities responding to simulation events
  • High-fidelity real-time weapons interactions
  • Real-time manipulation of simulation entities by instructors for precise training exercise management.
Interoperability is a key feature of the platform, allowing seamless integration with other modeling and simulation architectures, including:
  • DIS (Distributed Interactive Simulation)
  • HLA (High-Level Architecture)
  • TENA (Test and Training Enabling Architecture)
This interoperability ensures compatibility and enhances the versatility of the VS-NG suite, enabling it to work alongside other simulation systems seamlessly.
What Does Trainee Experience?
  • Immersive Action:
    • The trainee is placed at the center of the action, with high-fidelity surroundings and realistic views of the sky and ocean.
  • Realistic Environmental Conditions:
    • The naval simulator accurately renders multiple cloud layers, rain, wind, day and night light conditions, shadows, and atmospheric effects on visibility.
  • Authentic Sea Representation:
    • The sea is realistically depicted with water reflection, transparency, tidal movements, and swells.
  • Diverse 3D Content:
    • Human characters, vehicle types, and weapon systems are represented in 3D, accompanied by visual effects like weapon fire, detonations, flames, and smoke.
  • Physically Accurate Views:
    • The virtual sailor simulation incorporates sensors that provide physically accurate views from the trainee’s perspective.
  • Accurate Vehicle Motion:
    • A high-fidelity physics engine ensures realistic vehicle motion.
  • Interactive Engagement:
    • Trainees can open doors, deploy weapons, take countermeasures against hostile elements, and interact with a library of opposing and neutral characters.
  • Real-Time Performance Analysis:
    • Instructors can measure and analyze trainee performance in real time, allowing for adjustments and fine-tuning exercises.
The VS-NG Virtual sailing simulation software has been tailored to meet the client’s needs. Additionally, the software incorporates infrared and image intensification features to facilitate nighttime and low-light operational training. As a result, both onboard tactical operations teams and active naval personnel can greatly benefit from this advanced simulation training solution.
The Bottom Line
Experience the power of naval simulators for immersive shipboard defense training! With its advanced technology and customizable features, Hangsim offers a realistic and practical training solution for maritime personnel. Enhance your virtual sailing skills in operating complex weapons systems, responding to communications, and making decisive decisions in the face of threats.