You hear a bang and abruptly the full area is shaking. You just saw your soldiers on the monitors, but now the comms are down. You only have a fewer seconds to react. This is not a computer game, but an example of an action conducted in a modern BITE simulator, in which practitioners can feel like a real field command center.
Babcock global Group is simply a partner of the Polish Armed Group construction of a multi-tasking frigate “Meter”. During this year International Defence manufacture Salon The British company officially extended the agreement with PGZ to support Poles in this programme. It is to be implemented until delivery to the Navy 3rd ship in 2031. But the British came to Kielce with more.
The novelty that Babcock presented to MSPO guests was BITE (Babcock Immersive Training Experience). The fresh British task does not attract attention to its visual side. It's an average container with 2 entrances. However, during the presentation at MSPO, journalists could see that appearances were misleading. BITE is nothing but electronics and various systems simulator Command Center. Or, as the maker himself states, ‘a commercial training environment that reflects physical, sensory and cognitive challenges associated with action in the urban environment’. What's this all about? 1 larger area includes a group of soldiers who can feel like a basement, a home or another urban space that has been adapted for the command staff. In the version presented in Kielce in the area there was a table and maps spread over it, many screens on which you can display, for example, a view from the drone on field of action, and another applicable data and information.
At the same time, there was a specialist in the second area who was watching the ‘command room’, collecting information for later analysis and introducing more variables for training. BITE support can make realistic shocks in the training area (e.g. from a close explosion), cut off power and origin another hardware failures, stimulate all senses through effects specified as falling dust from the ceiling, burning smell, detonation sound, etc. All so that the participants in the simulation can prove themselves under different conditions and practice appropriate behaviour in a given situation.
BITE support, in addition to providing further incentives for the scenario, monitors all visual, audio and biometric signals from the next room. Full control of both the environment and the information collected is possible, allowing you to adjust the strength of the experience in real time. And then put participants in training with realistic stressogenic factors of modern combat operations.
After each training, the data is analysed. It checks out who and how they reacted at a critical minute when, for example, the light went out or there was a close raid. BITE support sees and hears everything, can measurement heart rate and evidence another signals that show how to respond to stress. All this to draw conclusions after the training is finished, which will consequence in another exercise or yet during a real surgery.
BITE construction is durable, mobile and modular, so you can usage it in any environment. The presentation at MSPO was the European premiere of the system, which in the beginning of the year gathered affirmative opinions during the global Exhibition and Conference of Training Technology 2024 (IT2EC) in London.
