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QinetiQ Platform Management System Simulator for Type 45

Trains Propulsion System Operators and Maintainers

QinetiQ is to design and supply a shore-based trainer that simulates the platform management system of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers, the company announced on 23 March.

To be installed at the Defence School of Marine Engineering at HMS Sultan, the simulator will improve and enhance training, accurately replicating the functionality and behaviour of the vessels’ sophisticated systems and providing operators with a real-time picture of critical power and propulsion technologies.

The high-fidelity trainer is to include a control centre, six satellite outstations and an intuitive instructor operating station, designed using user-centred design methodologies. It will contain a mix of physical controls and photo-realistic touchscreen emulations, and will deliver training in line with the Type 45’s pre- and post-Propulsion Improvement Project configurations, to enable continual qualification and endorsement of marine watchkeepers.

QinetiQ Training and Simulation’s pedigree in naval training includes the simulator that emulates the Machinery Control and Surveillance system on the Hunt-class mine countermeasure vessels. The need for an updated trainer followed completion of an extensive programme of upgrades to the class, which uses high-definition sonar to scour the seabed for mines and lost explosives.

The company is also on track to deliver HMS Boadicea, an immersive simulator to support chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear training at HMS Sultan for Royal Navy’s Type 23 and Hunt-class vessels.

The Royal Navy’s fleet of six Type 45 destroyers will benefit from a shore-based Platform Management System simulator. (Royal Navy)

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03/27/2023

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