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The Army on Friday issued an Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for the procurement of 36 Tactical Engagement Simulators (TES) for the infantry regimental centres to train Agniveers. The first batch of Agniveers recruited beneath the new Agnipath scheme for jawans are scheduled to begin coaching subsequent month.
The Request For Proposal for a similar, which is able to begin the formal procurement course of, is anticipated to be uploaded on the Army’s web site by December 01, 2022.
Each TES set ought to consist of the next subsystems and be succesful of coaching 50 individuals, the AoN mentioned. These are physique and helmet harness, laser unit, sensor unit, show unit, Umpire gun to allow or disable any participant and Exercise Control (EXCON), which is the train management system with laptop and software program.
The TES ought to have the next wi-fi communication programs. “There should be short range communication network to communicate subsystems. There should be long range communication network to establish communication between EXCON and each participation via base station,” it acknowledged.
Weight of varied elements of TES needs to be lower than 4 kilograms, the AoN added.