Fiona Greenyer

SZENARIS has installed the world’s first highly immersive team training platform in Indonesia. The future operators of the amphibious vehicle M3 from General Dynamics European Land Systems-Bridge Systems will be trained holistically with the system. At the beginning, the participants learn the theoretical basics using eLearning, they then drive the amphibious vehicles individually on land and in the water. This is followed by the training of the land-water and water-land transition.

NATO is innovating so that the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exercise (CWIX) 2020 can take place this year, despite ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. This year 19 Nations plan to participate in the exercise, and two additional Nations will be observing. The exercise, which is focused on testing and improving interoperability, will test about 160 capabilities, including two that are particularly relevant in the context of COVID-19. Many aspects of CWIX 2020 are being done for the first time.

With training having been suspended for the last couple of months, and with it only now beginning to resume again, one Reserve unit is still spending weekends in the field, on vehicles and calling in air strikes on the virtual battlefield. The Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry, the UK's newest combat unit, has seized the opportunity of the COVID-19 training lockdown to explore other avenues of training.