MOSCOW. Feb 5 (Interfax-AVN) - Specialists at Russia's Strategic Missile Troops (RVSN) are being trained for combat duty using special simulators simulating real-life combat systems and units, RVSN spokesman Col. Igor Yegorov told Interfax-AVN on Wednesday.
With the Army having received new missile systems, "more than 130 of the latest simulators will be supplied to RVSN formations, higher-education institutions and training centers before the end of 2014, which is 10 percent more than last year," he said.
"The pace of supplying modern training devices to the RVSN will increase in the future. We are planning to supply around 1,000 simulators before 2020 to train specialists to use prospective missile systems," he said.
"In 2013 new training devices were introduced in use in the regiments of the Tagil, Novosibirsk and Kozelsk missile formations, which are being rearmed with the latest Yars system," the RVSN spokesman said. "Likewise, the supply of training devices to the Teikovo Missile Division (Ivanovo region) has been completed," he said.
Concurrently, efforts are underway to develop more advanced training systems. For instance, the RVSN technicians' school N161 conducted successful admission tests of the first model of a Russia's unique simulator for training driver mechanics of the autonomous launching pads for the Yars mobile ground-based missile system. The new simulator is unique in that it is capable of creating for the trainees an absolutely realistic visualization system and thanks to a six-degree mobility system to ensure simulations of expected and unexpected situations in real-time.