Laser Shot announces Personal Weapon Simulator partnership

Sophisticated 3D technology, based on a gaming engine, allows Virtual Battlespace users to create land, sea and air military scenarios of up to 100 x 100 kilometers in size and with a level of detail that includes buildings, vegetation, accurate sun angles, weather patterns and celestial objects. Once a scenario is rendered, users can explore a range of options including arms training, mission rehearsal, area control, and navigation. The program is networked, allowing up to 100 users to participate in a scenario.

VBS1 and VBS2 software has been adopted by the United States Marine Corps, Army Special Forces Command, Coast Guard, National Guard and Secret Service, as well as the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Israel, the Netherlands and New Zealand. The program was also used to train an Australian Task Group before its deployment to Iraq in 2005 – the software accurately rendered the town of As Samawah, and a 50 square kilometers area of terrain. The versatility of the scenario editor makes it a useful tool for law enforcement, first responder operatives and homeland defense.

Images featured in the gallery show VBS2 PWS applied in conjunction with Laser Shot's boat gunnery trainer, vehicular gunnery trainer, and Military Skills Engagement Trainer (MSET).