Cubic to continue training support for British army's weapon simulator systems
NewsMay 04, 2017
SAN DIEGO. British army officials tasked Cubic Global Defense, a business unit of Cubic Corp., to continue support and repair services to the Area Weapons Effects Simulator (AWES) at Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA) in the United Kingdom and at the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) in Alberta, Canada. The contract is worth an estimated $35 million.
AWES enables the British army to conduct large-scale, force-on-force combat exercises with realistic, but simulated effects of direct fire, artillery, mortar fire, mines and air-delivered munitions as well as nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
The system tracks and monitors the actions and positions of more than 1,400 individual soldiers and 250 vehicles using GPS technology. It also records “hits,” “kills” and “misses” of small-arms fire with Cubic’s Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) technology and recreates combat exercises for post-mission analysis.
In 1998, Cubic developed and installed the AWES system. Installation work was completed at the Salisbury Plain training area in late 2002.
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