MASA expands SWORD simulation with TARAN strategic-level version
A screenshot from MASA's TARAN constructive simulation developed from its SWORD software, seen as the company launched its TARAN simulation for division and corps level training at I/ITSEC 2024. (MASA)
French firm MASA has continued to refine and expand its SWORD constructive simulation with TARAN, an operational and strategic level version of SWORD.
SWORD is optimised for use at brigade level and below and is in service with 25 armies worldwide.
In collaboration with the French Ministry of Defence (MoD), MASA has now developed the division-to-corps level TARAN version of SWORD, the company said in a press release ahead of Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference 2024 (I/ITSEC 24), held in Orlando, Florida, between 2 and 6 December, where the system was showcased.
In the French Army, where SWORD is known as SOULT, it is used for staff training and to support exercises. After Exercise ‘Orion 23', a major French exercise for joint forces, a report to the French National Assembly in October 2023 noted that it had shown “the limits of use at divisional level of SOULT” and highlighted the need to accelerate the development of TARAN as a “joint system … to be used from divisional to corps level”.
According to the MASA release, TARAN is part of the MoD's new Programme à Effet Majeur (PEM, Major Effect Programme) – Simulation. The software will “leverage MASA's proprietary DirectAI artificial intelligence technology, incorporating advanced decision-support modules, new behavioural models, and enhanced units with surface representations”. The National Assembly report said that TARAN would be launched in 2025 with incremental development until 2030.
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