Making the first shot count with modern equipment; state-of-the-art weapon training aids add cost-effectiveness.

Armada International,  December, 1989  by Stone, Walter

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Making the First Shot Count With Modern Equipment

State-of-the-art Weapon Training Aids Add Cost-effectiveness

One of the greatest problems confronting military establishments today is that of training soldiers to the requisite level of skill in a limited time. Fifty years ago the infantry soldier needed to be skilled with his rifle, two or three hand-grenades, a light machine-gun and perhaps a light mortar, and it took about a year to do this. Today he has to handle a more complicated rifle and half-a-dozen types of grenades, plus probably a submachine-gun, a ...

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