“Simple things like vehicles don’t really need simulators. Just an expensive toys, IMHO.”
Was this a joke?
This article is written by another reporter who clearly knows nothing about what he is writing, but sees an opportunity (which is apparently working) for a couple cheap points. I am all for fiscal responsibility, but simulators are valuable and necessary for a range of military vehicles, which will be driven into the ground ten times over (at much MORE expense and potential loss of life) over years of training hundreds of soldiers.
Nope, just my thoughts, as stupid you may think they are.
Having a few decades of off-road driving experience to base it on. And yes that was on very frightening trails. I learned the hard cheap way, by slowly doing.
Common sense goes a long way.
Weapons simulators may be necessary but I fail to see a need for expensive truck simulators. Driving, riding, egress in accidents, bomb blasts, and computer weapons use, are different things, that was my point. Having built shipboard missile simulators, you need not build a ship simulator to simulate the weapons use.