Live Training capabilities
capabilities
The GAMER infrastructure is designed to conduct exercises and capture all data for an after-action review (AAR), from a small pocket-sized base station with a handheld laptop to a full Combat Training Centre (CTC) area. The communication system includes multiple link options, such as microwave and encrypted 3G/4G/5G networks, providing the capability to find the optimal position for the communication nodes while retaining the ability to position EXCON at a location easily reached by the training troops and instructors.
The communication network enables remote connection, facilitating combined exercises and distributed EXCON analyst (Remote EXCON) participation without requiring travel to training locations.
Exercise communication
The communication network enables real-time data collection for up to 10,000 players. All communication is acknowledged, and data is stored locally within the player. If a connection is lost, the data is then uploaded once restored.
Platoon-level exercise – Man-portable
This lightweight EXCON includes a laptop and a handheld radio base station, capturing data from up to 120 entities. Its mobility allows operation onshore, offshore, on foot, or by vehicle.
Company-level exercise – Mobile
The Manpack 300 captures data from up to 300 entities and is suitable for larger onshore and offshore exercises. Typically vehicle-mounted with external antennas, it uses 4G/5G to extend range and capacity.
Battalion-level exercise – Deployable
The Deployable Radio Base Station supports players using a 21 m or 30 m mast. Container- or trailer-mounted, it operates as a static EXCON and can network via 4G/5G or microwave link. A four-person team can deploy it within an hour.
Brigade-level exercise
A configurable solution supporting up to 10,000 players, tailored to customer needs.
Key features and benefits:
- Real-time data collection for up to 10,000 players
- Acknowledged data collection with no loss of data
- Expands the coverage area dynamically
- Seamless player roaming
- Distribution of Area Weapon Effects Simulation (AWES) to all players
- Distribution of situational awareness to observer trainers
The Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) Expansion Pack enables real-time integration with other simulators and training systems through Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) and High Level Architecture (HLA) standards. This integration allows the Live Training system – the primary tool for effective military training – to be seamlessly complemented by virtual elements, such as pilots in flight simulators, and constructive elements that use algorithms to simulate entities and their behaviours.
This LVC integration capability enhances the realism of live exercises and training scenarios and offers a more cost-effective training experience compared to traditional methods.
Our unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) training service provides a plug-and-play drone as a player in live training scenarios or can be offered as a standalone product or leasing service that includes all UAV equipment and a qualified pilot ready to act as a role player for either friendly or opposing forces. Customers using Saab’s world-leading live training system, GAMER, can add this capability without any special upgrades or investments.
Customers using the GAMER system can add this UAV service to their training system without any special upgrades or investments. The UAV service is compatible with multinational interoperability exercises according to the Interoperability User Community’s (IUC) standard interfaces. The UAV service comes with its own Distribution and Acquisition Network (DAN) player unit and will appear in EXCON as a player, just like everyone else participating.
Key features and benefits:
- UAV positioning in EXCON provides real-time location data, along with full after-action review (AAR) capabilities
- Drop bomblets or suicide attacks – the role player/pilot can execute GAMER AWES effects at the UAV location. Kill/wound effects are compatible with all GAMER players and are locally adjudicated
- The role player/pilot's view from the UAV is recorded and available for AAR
- The UAV can be used as either an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) asset, an enemy threat, or for drone counter/defence in any GAMER exercise
- The UAV is equipped with a target system and can be "shot down" and neutralised by ground forces
Saab’s GAMER Urban Training Expansion Pack enhances live military training in urban environments. It introduces instrumented capabilities to simulate urban combat challenges, ensuring more realistic and data-driven exercises. This system supports training in complex environments without the need for equipment reconfiguration.
The Urban Training Expansion Pack allows for realistic exercises in buildings, tunnels, and subways. It integrates directly with existing GAMER systems without the need for equipment reconfiguration and supports key urban combat elements such as suppression fire, building-dependent protection and casualty tracking. Commanders receive valuable feedback on tactical performance, including building entry routes, time to clear rooms, and response to threats like IEDs. A built-in indoor tracking system ensures seamless transition between indoor and outdoor areas while maintaining full situational awareness. The system is scalable and requires no additional gear for soldiers. Realism is further enhanced through immersive effects like sound, smoke, and synchronised training videos for behaviour reviews.
Key features and benefits:
- Shoot-through-wall and room-dependent fire effect simulation
- Indoor tracking with no additional equipment required
- Plug-and-play deployment in any terrain or structure
- Real-time feedback on tactical effectiveness and command performance
- Immersive audio-visual effects for enhanced realism
Saab’s Modular Target System (MTS) is a next-generation, laser-based training system based on enhanced BT46 technology. It is future-proof, compact, and modular by design, enabling flexible adaptation to a wide range of military and civilian vehicle platforms in the land and maritime domains.
The system is available in two configurations – Regular Line and Premium Line – sharing the same core modular components for streamlined logistics and reduced lifecycle costs. Both variants comply with SISO UCATT U-LEIS standards and leverage wireless communication for ease of use and integration.
Regular Line:
- Ideal for light or unarmoured vehicles
- Fast, tool-free installation without vehicle-specific customisation
- Supports rapid deployment
- Well-suited for both national assets and visiting training units
Premium Line:
- Provides the highest fidelity in vulnerability and lethality simulation
- Tailored to specific vehicle types
- Offers precise impact modelling and the ability to simulate countermeasures, such as reactive armour or active protection systems
Key features and benefits:
- Wireless detector units with integrated Kill LEDs and retroreflectors
- Full SISO UCATT U-LEIS compliance with 360° vulnerability simulation
- Supports appended weapons and automatic fire inhibition on critical damage
- Compatible with blank-fire and dry-fire kits with audio/visual effects
- Long-range, eye-safe laser engagement with pinpoint accuracy
- Commercial interfaces for easy operation and integration
The GAMER EXCON suite of interoperable software tools, WinEXCON, is designed to help in the preparation, planning, execution, control and evaluation of exercises. It enables high-quality live combined arms training in open and urban environments, can be scaled with as many workstations as needed to conduct the training, and supports collective training from individual soldiers to battalion task forces and beyond.
WinEXCON delivers:
- Comprehensive exercise lifecycle support: Streamline every phase of your exercise, from planning and preparation to execution, control, and evaluation.
- High-quality combined arms training: Experience realistic and engaging training scenarios in diverse environments.
- Unmatched scalability: Adapt to any training need, from individual soldier drills to complex battalion-level operations.
- Seamless interoperability: Integrate with existing systems and platforms for a cohesive training experience.
Key features and benefits:
- Tactical training with virtual assets for up to 10,000 players
- Complete situational awareness
- Full integration of online synchronised audio and video data
- Allows the operator to visualise situations from a single entity to an aggregated unit
- Uses the same software suite from a single Manpack to a large, networked CTC configuration
- Integration of military C2/C4I data to support analysis and evaluation
- Live, virtual and constructive (LVC) integration out of the box via Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) and High Level Architecture (HLA) standards
- Continuous functional growth – annual software release
Implementing effective indirect fire support into training enhances the realism of exercises, helping prepare soldiers for real-life combat scenarios. The Combat Support Expansion Pack for GAMER adds new indirect fire support capabilities, covering training needs from the firing unit to impact adjustment, including ammunition logistics.
Mortar simulation – The Mortar Outdoor Trainer (ODT) requires soldiers to follow the correct operational handling procedures, which is crucial for training at all levels, from individual to battalion level.
Indirect Fire Emulator – The Indirect Fire Emulator enables trainees with mortar and artillery applications to be a part of live training without needing larger integration work. The emulator is available in configurations for dismounted troops or vehicles and runs on a standard tablet computer together with a radio unit.
Forward Observer Simulator – The Forward Observer Simulator is a pair of binoculars that allow the forward observer to observe/spot indirect fire effects and also correct fire through a virtual representation of the battlefield.
Saab’s solider systems provide highly realistic, scalable solutions for force-on-force and gunnery training. Designed to replicate real-world conditions, they develop both tactical and gunnery skills through accurate ballistic simulation, immediate feedback and adaptable training configurations for individuals and unit-level training requirements.
A key element for the dismounted trainee is the Personnel Detection Device (PDD). The PDD evaluates events from the simulated battlefield and instantly provides the user with simulated training information. Based on years of user feedback, the PDD is designed with the modern soldier in mind, prioritising robustness, ergonomics and performance.
Tailored to a wide range of weapons, from anti-tank weapons to small arms, our cutting-edge training solutions deliver highly realistic and immersive training experiences using Saab’s leading simulation systems.
The CBL replicates real ballistics by factoring in range, lead angle, and time of flight, which enforces proper gunnery techniques and provides a fully true-to-life experience. The SAT supports fast alignment to actual weapon sights and simulates weapon-specific performance characteristics.
The optional Tracer Burst and Obscuration Simulator (TBOS) further enhances realism by simulating tracer effects and visual obstructions. In environments where blanks are unsuitable, full dry-fire capability is available, including e-bullet simulation and fire signatures. The Gunnery Training mode supports engagements against moving targets with feedback via the instructor’s WE:X app, providing near-real-time performance data.
Key features and benefits:
- The Personnel Detection Device (PDD) offers the highest fidelity in simulating the combat effects for the dismounted soldier and provides immediate feedback
- The Compact Ballistic Laser (CBL) delivers true-to-life ballistic simulation
- The Small Arms Transmitter (SAT) enables quick, weapon-specific sight alignment
- Accurate modelling of ammunition behaviour: range, lead angle, and flight time
- Moving target capability: Practice engaging targets in motion, enhancing tactical skills
- Effective against moving targets in any environment
- The WE:X app tracks and presents individual performance in near real-time
- Scalable system adaptable to both individual and group-level exercises
The Medic Expansion Pack enables simulation of the medical chain, providing medical treatment tools that enable soldiers and medics to perform examinations according to applicable standards for injured soldiers in the field.
WE:Treat is an app from the WinEXCON family that augments the basic wound simulation capabilities in the Personnel Detection Device (PDD) based on the Interoperability User Community’s (IUC) common database.
Key features and benefits:
- The software is used on a smartphone device in the field for simulated examination and treatment of soldiers
- Detailed medical treatment data is stored in the system, enabling after-action review (AAR) of the performance of the medic function, such as Golden Hour or Platinum 10 minutes evaluation
The Observer/Controller (O/C) plays an important role during exercises, observing the movement and actions from the field to enhance learning and provide accurate feedback. Saab’s O/C toolbox simplifies and strengthens this role through an integrated suite of digital tools available on a single tablet, supporting real-time situational awareness, unit evaluation, simulator configuration, and gunnery scoring.
The toolbox includes dedicated apps — WE:ARE, WE:Observe, WE:X, and WE:Setup — each designed for specific tasks. These tools provide O/Cs with intuitive control over simulator configurations, allow them to evaluate combat effectiveness based on both subjective and objective data, and support detailed performance tracking of individual gunners. The toolbox enhances coordination with EXCON and facilitates real-time or field-based after-action reviews (AAR).
Key features and benefits:
- Unified O/C toolkit on a single tablet for mobility and ease of use
- The WE:ARE app provides near real-time tactical overview and multimedia logging
- Place and simulate effects (e.g., minefields, indirect fire) during live observation
- Geo-tagged, time-stamped content sharing with EXCON for AAR and data analysis and review (DAR)
- Real-time data communication via secure connection
- WE:Observe enables structured subjective evaluation of combat performance
- Combines field observations with objective data from the GAMER system
- WE:X monitors multiple gunners, logging aiming precision and shot timing
Booby traps, IEDs, mines, electronic jammers and metal detector sensors (MDS) can be added to the system configuration, enabling individual and collective counter-IED training (non-instrumented and instrumented) in open and urban terrain. EXCON is also enhanced with special tools to evaluate the clearance of mines and IEDs, as well as the use of MDS.
Key features and benefits:
- Electronic Counter Measures (ECM): The ECM jammer creates a protective bubble that can be assigned to either a person or a vehicle. The size of the ECM protective bubble is fully tuneable to replicate doctrine.
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To enable individual and collective counter IED-training in open and urban terrain, the system configuration can be augmented with elements such as:
- Booby traps
- IEDs
- Mines
- Electronic jammers
- Metal detector sensors (MDS)
- EXCON is enhanced with specialised tools to evaluate the clearance of mines and IEDs, as well as the use of MDS.
Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) simulation is an area defined and distributed by EXCON for the instrumented system (i.e., radio-supported). Some of the parameters sent to all players include:
- CBRN ammunition/agent
- Concentration, drift direction and speed
- Area boundary
When entering a virtually simulated CBRN field, the soldier’s Personnel Detection Device (PDD) will detect the CBRN threat. The soldier must be set up with the correct counter measurement, i.e., the O/C has to set the PDD with CBRN protective gear “on”, otherwise, the PDD will suffer a CBRN injury.
The CBRN training events are controlled and monitored from EXCON. These include scenario generation and the controlling of players. All data will be time synchronised and available for real-time monitoring and replay during the after-action review (AAR). The AAR is an integrated, synchronised mix of captured events, observations, video and tactical radio recordings. Data can be used both for replay and to produce a take-home package with the AAR composer.
As a future development, the system could be further enhanced with simulated CBRN detectors and highly realistic third-party dispersion engines.
GAMER’s versatility in providing live instrumented military and law enforcement training now extends into the maritime environment. Saab’s advanced technology towards craft instrumentation and weapon system simulation capabilities permits training in complex inshore, littoral and coastal environments, enabling maritime force elements to exercise, gain experience, and learn in a highly realistic and safe manner. The physical personal and craft support weapons are used augmented with high-fidelity lasers, permitting identical realistic engagement and weapon handling procedures, as per operations.
The system is available in two configurations – Regular Line and Premium Line –sharing the same core modular components as land vehicles for streamlined logistics and reduced lifecycle costs. Both configurations comply with SISO UCATT U-LEIS standards and leverage wireless communication (Bluetooth/Wi-Fi) for ease of use and integration.
Regular Line:
- Ideal for light or unarmoured vehicles
- Fast, tool-free installation without vehicle-specific customisation
Premium Line:
- Provides the highest fidelity in vulnerability and lethality simulation
- Tailored to specific vehicle types
- Offers precise impact modelling and the ability to simulate countermeasures