Snowbox ready for the Caves

polska-zbrojna.pl 3 weeks ago

As many as 30 fresh positions and more weapons to choose from. The snowman shooter simulator at the Land Army Academy was thoroughly upgraded. The horsemen can practice shooting on it not only with Beryl or AK rifles, but besides with modern Grot rifles and VIS 100 pistols.

Snowman has been utilized in the Polish Army for many years.which enables shooting training in the room. The virtual shooting scope consists, among others, of a panoramic screen on which you can display 3D graphics simulating the battlefield in different weather and terrain. For example, you can practice fighting inside buildings or with armored troops. Soldiers shoot virtual missiles for digital targets with a training weapon, which in many ways resembles a combat weapon, e.g. after-fire recoil is felt.

Land Army Academy In Wrocław, he has been utilizing Sněžnik since 2011. Future officers can practice shooting rifles and pistols on a simulator, as well as device guns, grenade launchers and suspended grenade launchers. And as part of squad training, you can train fire steering and exercise observation. After 14 years, however, it was time to upgrade the trainer.

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As the lecturers emphasize, the simulator must keep up with changes in the equipment of soldiers and training programs. – The modification of the Snowman consisted of changing shooting platforms, hanging fresh projectors and all the equipment. Software has been changed – so that you can introduce scenarios of all exercises required in the current shooting program. Especially for us, an crucial change was to add fresh platforms to let shooting from simulators. Grot carbines is VIS 100 pistols, i.e. the most popular weapon in the Polish Army – explains Colonel Krzysztof Hanek, head of the Department of explanation and Shooting Practice of the Academy of Land Forces. In the upgraded Snowbox there are 30 fresh simulators for firing from each of these 2 types of weapons. After expansion, the trainer can train on it individually 30, not as before – 20 subjects. So far there has besides been no anticipation to train shooting with the Grot and the VIS100 pistols.

– We had training platforms with Beryls, kbk AK, p.m. device guns. erstwhile the Snowman showed up, he was a basic weapon. in the Polish Army was Beryl, present it is time for the Grot, and hence it was essential to grow the anticipation of a simulator – explains Colonel Hanek. He adds that training stations with simulation of shooting from Grot are very important, due to the fact that in the future it is these rifles that will replace Beryle in the Polish army.

Development Snow White and the launch of platforms enabling shooting from the Grots and VIS do not override the anticipation of training with, among others, Beryls, but besides with the weapons of a possible opponent. “In this case, it is an AK carbine, a PK device weapon or RPG grenade launchers,” added the officer.

Marcin Moneta

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