Army base workshop develops simulators

The 515 Army Base Workshop here is developing a series of simulators to train soliders in heavy guns.

The 515 workshop, one of the eight corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers (EME) units in the country, is working jointly with EME's Secunderabad-based Simulators Development Division to build the simulators indigenously for heavy guns.

The workshop had developed Drona, the Small Arms Range Trainer Simulator (SARTS), and it had been successfully deployed.

"Drona has been installed at various naval, Air Force, Army and Para military establishments across the country," 515 army base workshop commandant and managing director brigadier Om Parkash told reporters here on Monday.

He said over 200 Drona simulators have been installed at various defence training units.

Parkash said several simulators for heavy arms, designed to sharpen the firing skills of soldiers, were being developed and tested at the Secunderabad unit.

The workshop has fabricated "a prototype container, that would have backup power, to be a virtual workshop in operational areas." He said a simulator, to hone skills of rookie and trained drivers, was undergoing trials.