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Navy sources said: “People go online and fight with their friends in Call of Duty. This is like a big, complex version of that, where real airmen operate in a synthetic war without having to leave the ground. You can record and play it back, you can press pause. The enemy can’t watch what you are doing and what your tactics are.”….
Hmm 🤔, sounds like a “State Hackers” dream come true! Whilst playing war games online and practicing your tactics, your possible peer enemy states may well be able to watch and record everything without you knowing… 👀
What could possibly go wrong? 😬😯
An air-gapped sim is a lot harder to "hack" than watching pilots training in real jets. The sad fact of modern day to day training is that we can't often operate as we would in combat without giving the game away. It's only going to get more complicated in the future.
We absolutely need to continue flying "live" events in a greater proportion to "sim", but current sims are far more capable than many of us have been used to in the (recent?) past. I actually enjoy going to the sim now for the first time in my career - if you'd asked me if that was possible 5 years ago I would have laughed!