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Realistic, collective training of Forward Area Air Defense (FAAD) units is essential for combat readiness. However, the air defense artillery (ADA) community has a limited number of options currently available for pursuit of this requirement. Training simulators, such as the Moving Target Simulator (MTS), do not allow the conduct of collective training and introduce artifacts not representative of the true combat environment. Field test exercises are always resource intensive (costly), are difficult to control, and usually do not provide realistic threat targets or accurate and rapid corrective instructional feedback. The U.S. Army National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin, California employs scaled threat aircraft against weapons firing live rounds or using the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES). NTC allows greater realism than do conventional FTX applications and provides greater control, and more accurate and rapid feedback. Yet NTC is resource intensive, heavily scheduled, and provides limited opportunity to train FAAD crews/teams. In this regard, NTC cannot be an effective and efficient vehicle for the comprehensive, collective training of air defense units. |
