A. Pantazi, A. Papadopoulos, M. Varsamou, N. Papandreou, P. Savvopoulos, Th. Antonakopoulos and V. Makios:

Anti-Aircraft Artillery Simulator

IEEE Aerospace and Defense Electronic Systems Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 5, May 2004, pp. 26-30.

Abstract: A new type of anti-aircraft artillery simulator that uses multimedia technologies for presenting realistic combat conditions to the trainee is presented. The basic configuration consists of a central control station and a weapon terminal. The central control station is a multimedia terminal used by the instructor, where the actual trainee's behavior is presented, the exercise status is updated continuously and statistics are collected. The weapon terminal is attached directly to the anti-aircraft weapon, utilizes its sensors and presents the combat conditions using high quality graphics. The communication between these two computing devices is achieved by using a high-speed wireless link.

The simulator uses powerful signal processors for calculating the projectile trajectory in real-time and for estimating the minimum distance between the projectile and the target trajectories. Multiple anti-aircraft weapons can operate simultaneously using the same combat scenario under the supervision of a single instructor, having different views of the combat conditions from different locations of the combat field.

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