Automated Forces for Air Combat Simulation

Accurate simulation of force level air-to-air and air-to-ground combat, requires an accurate, comprehensive, tactical environment. Historically, simulation development has focused on increasing the fidelity of single ship operations. Only recently have high fidelity force level air combat simulations been fielded. Unfortunately the number of manned players is still too low to accurately represent a real world tactical environment. For example, a typical attack package in Desert Storm involved more than a dozen friendly aircraft, not including support aircraft, such as tankers, AWACS, jammers and defense suppression. If we add a capable air threat, we are clearly beyond the capability of the best force level simulation available today. In short, we have very accurate simulation of aircraft operating in very unrealistic tactical environments. There are two approaches to increasing the number of participants in an interactive simulation: networking and developing automated forces, or computer controlled adversaries and friendlies. In this particular offering Eidetics proposes to increase the fidelity of force level by designing, developing and integrating a full ensemble of automated threats and friendlies.