Technology and Imagination Driving RAF Training Concepts

摘要

Technical capability and economic reality are the main limiting factors in almost every attempt to improve military technology. But the Royal Air Force is finding that these factors need not only be exerting a downward pressure on systems and aspirations. Within the Boeing-provided GLADIATOR training system, increasing technical capability and the need to limit the amount of live flying that takes place when training pilots to operate increasingly sophsticated and expensive-to-fly platforms is pushing the service towards goals that, even five years ago, seemed unrealistic.