At the heart of our air combat training systems is the instrumentation pod, typically mounted on a wingtip weapon station. The pods collect in-flight events and data, and transmit information to ground stations for real-time monitoring of exercise events and the post-mission debriefs.

Our advanced pods incorporate GPS technology to provide continuous and precise position tracking of all players, as well as air-to-air weapons simulations with real-time hit/miss notifications and weapons scoring capabilities.

Our "rangeless" ACT-R pods used for rangeless/autonomous training can operate in either the untethered or real-time monitor mode. Missile simulations are processed in the pod, with real-time kill notification provided to pilots via a synthesized voice call. Data can be transmitted to a ground monitoring station via Cubic's proven data link technology.

New Features

Cubic's new-generation ACT-R pod features the following enhancements:

• Electronic Warfare threat computations
  
• No Drop Bomb Scoring (NDBS)
  
• Captive Air Training Missile (CATM) capabilities
  
• Pilot notification by a low-power Radio and Speech Board for air-to-air Real
  
• Time Kill Notification, bomb hit position, and CATM cage and uncage tones
  
• Pod computes for nine air-to-air weapons, 12 air-to-ground weapons, and six ground-to-air weapons
  
• Significant growth capability inside the pod for future enhancements
  
• Engineered to accept the Advanced Message Oriented Data Secure Module (AMODSM) encryption device
  
• Upgraded data link with 100 simultaneous players
  
• Range improved to greater than 100 nautical miles
  
• Data Link relay function

Additionally, Cubic now offers enhanced debriefing capabilities using the Individual Combat Aircrew Display System (ICADS®), capable of displaying more than 100 aircraft and electronic warfare threats. It also uses commercial software packages and is portable to many different hardware systems.