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At present, the Spanish Army is equipped with an Operational and Tactical Trainer simulator for the Artillery Corps at the Artillery Academy in Segovia. This simulator, known as SIMACA is a unique system within NATO member nations, and was designed and developed in order to provide technical and tactical training to the whole Artillery Corps. ELCO Systems, part of the TECNOBIT Group has been responsible for the programme based on a contract awarded by the Armament and Material Procurement General Direction of the Spanish MOD.
The SIMACA is an integral high performance visual simulator that participates in the artillery support both at tactical as well as at technical level. It is based on the use of state-of-the-art simulation and image processing technologies, with and with the aim to enhance knowledge and training to gunners. The system has the capabilities required for training a complete artillery group with all its operational organic positions (forward observers, Fire Direction Centre, Artillery Line Commands, Artillery lines) and provides system configuration tools able to train several types of weapons at different artillery locations.
As regards the theatre of operations in which it is possible to run the artillery simulation, the system integrates different scenarios corresponding to several firing and training ranges used by the Spanish Army. These are geo-specific scenarios from which geo-referred databases have been generated with 25m and 2m resolutions depending on forward observers' position, and field textures of low and high resolution taken from satellites and aerial platforms. It is also possible to use any area of the Spanish territory from the geo-specific information, but with generic texture, taken from the graphic tools that generate the scenario. On each field it is possible to display up to a maximum of 40 targets (armored vehicles) at the same time without losing the refresh frequency (30Hz). These vehicles can be activated so they can be displayed on the field individually...