French seek more realistic troop training.
The French Army has agreed to purchase 4,300 laser-firing
simulators, harness-worn sensors - Thermocouple
- RTD - Resistance Temperature Detector or Resistance thermometer or Pt100
- Microphone
- Hydrophones
- Seismometers
- Photoresistor
- Phototransistor
- Infrared thermometer
- Multi-User Multimodal Tabletop Interaction
- Cationic Sensor
and head units for infantry infantry, body of soldiers who fight in an army on foot and are equipped with hand-carried weapons, in contradistinction originally to cavalry and other branches of an army. training.
The laser transmitters will be used on assault and sniper rifles Sniper rifles:
Regular 'sniper' rifles. Including scoped variants of regular weapons, dedicated designs, dedicated marksman variants, etc.. - Accuracy International Arctic Warfare / L96
- Accuracy International Arctic Warfare AE
and
related weapons.
RUAG Electronics' simulation and training division and GAVAP,
a French partner, are producing the systems. A spokesman for the Swiss
firm says the French military will begin testing the systems this year,
adding that the 17 million-euro deal will culminate culminate, in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian and is said to be in upper transit. in 2006 when the
laser simulators and sensors will be delivered in batches.
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