SIMULATION TECHNIQUES FOR TRAINING AND COACHING OF NAVY OFFICERS IN NAVAL KINEMATICS PROBLEMS AND FLEET FORMATIONS SCENARIOS
SIMULATION TECHNIQUES FOR TRAINING AND COACHING OF NAVY OFFICERS IN NAVAL KINEMATICS PROBLEMS AND FLEET FORMATIONS SCENARIOS

Summary/Abstract: A fleet or naval fleet is a large formation of warships. Naval kinematics, as a part of navigation, is mainly used by military ships in solving problems concerning the ship movement for occupying, maintaining or changing of a position compared to a fixed or mobile point, considered as a landmark reference point, or to decide the route to take in different situations, from collision avoidance to searching hostile ships. By adapting the principles of naval kinematics to naval battles conditions the principles of tactical maneuver of a ship or of a group of ships were generated, aiming to ensure optimal conditions for the use of weapons and combat equipment onboard, by using mathematical methods for occupying, maintaining or changing of a position to the opponent. Naval tactics play a crucial role in modern battles and wars. "Mircea cel Bătrân" Naval Academy (MBNA), using the Maritime Simulator System "Integrated simulator for driving of watercraft", does the training and coaching of navy officers in naval tactics. The training is done at initial operational level for undergraduate students to solve the classical naval kinematic problems. The coaching is done at the managerial level for active navy officers during periodical specialized training. Using "Fleet Formation" module, from the "Integrated simulator for driving of watercraft", various naval formations can be created based on several parameters such as distance between the ships in the formation, speed and the tactical diameter for the turning circle of the formation. This paper aims is to present the rules and methods of the simulator instructors from MBNA in the process of training and coaching using the "Fleet Formation" module and simulated naval communications capabilities such as MF/VHF radio or International Code of Signals flags.

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