NWS 980: 2008

2551/12/15

NWS980 ได้รับรางวัลผลงานประดิษฐ์คิดค้น

"โครงการวิจัยและพัฒนาเครื่องฝึกจำลองยุทธ์ NWS980 เฉลิมพระเกียรติเนื่องในโอกาสมหามงคลเฉลิมพระชนมพรรษา 80 พรรษา 5 ธันวาคม 2550" โดย กองการจำลองยุทธ์ ศูนย์ศึกษายุทธศาสตร์ทหารเรือ สถาบันวิชาการทหารเรือชั้นสูง ได้รับรางวัลผลงานประดิษฐ์คิดค้น ระดับดีเยี่ยม ประจำปี 2552 จากการเข้าร่วมประกวดผลงานประดิษฐ์คิดค้น ของสภาวิจัยแห่งชาติ ประจำปี 2552 โดยคณะกรรมการสภาวิจัยแห่งชาติ ได้ประชุมพิจารณาและมีมติตัดสินและอนุมัติให้รางวัลผลงานประดิษฐ์คิดค้น เมื่อวันที่ 2 ธันวาคม 2551 ที่ผ่านมา ซึ่งมีผลงานที่ได้รับรางวัลทั้งสิ้น 23 ผลงาน 21 รางวัล

รายละเอียดเพิ่มเติม : http://nrct.go.th/index.php?mod=contents&req=view&id=400

สำนักงานคณะกรรมการวิจัยแห่งชาติ กำหนดจัดพิธีมอบรางวัล ในวันที่ 2 กุมภาพันธ์ 2552 ในงาน "วันนักประดิษฐ์" ประจำปี 2552 ซึ่งจะจัดขึ้นที่ ฮอลล์ 9 อิมแพค เมืองทองธานี พร้อมกับจัดนิทรรศการแสดงผลงานประดิษฐ์คิดค้น และผลงานวิจัยต่างๆ ระหว่าง 2 - 5 กุมภาพันธ์ 2552 ด้วย

ขอเรียนเชิญทุกๆ ท่านที่สนใจผลงานประดิษฐ์ และผลงานวิจัยของคนไทย ร่วมชมงานพร้อมกันนะครับ

2551/12/14

NWS980 won Thailand National Invention Award 2009

National Research Council of Thailand approved the Thailand National Invention Awards 2009. NWS980 won the Excellence Thailand National Invention Award 2009.

more : http://nrct.go.th/index.php?mod=contents&req=view&id=400

2551/11/25

C-in-C RTN came to visit NWS980

Admiral Kamthorn Pumhiran C-in-C Royal Thai Navy came to visit NWS980 yesterday. (25th November 2008)

Wargaming Division, IANS set a large scale of demonstration for the presentation.

2551/09/27

Thailand National Invention Awards 2009

NWS980 in Thailand National Invention Awards 2009

By Office of The National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT)

at Kasetsart University, Bangkok

on 26-27 September 2008

2551/09/03

Present to New Zealand

NWS980 prouds to present special version to New Zealand by our friendship.

Sent from my phone using trutap

2551/09/02

Representative of the Ministry of Defense, Royal New Zealand visited NWS980

On 2nd September 2008 Major Michael Chivers represent the Ministry of Defense, Royal New Zealand came to visit NWS980 at Wargaming Division, IANS.

We presented him the overview of NWS980 and special scenario in the north of NZ coast.
This is the main page of NWS980 which presented to the Ministry of Defense, RNZ.

He impressed and said "very clever". In NZ has no simulation likes NWS980. NZ Navy has only Bridge Simulator. The high level of simulator NZ joins with Australia. He said when he go back to NZ he will told his Navy to join with Royal Thai Navy.
We exchanged some knowledge of simulations and idea for development. He showed me his simulation softwares, JANUS and JSAF which NZ Army uses to train troops. He showed VIDEO clips of training by using commercial software, VBS2.

Major Michael Chivers came from Army Simulation Wing, Land Warfare Development Centre.

Before he came to Thailand he participated in Simulation and Modeling Exibition in Singapore.

2551/08/28

Anti-Submarine Warfare Training

On August 25th -29th, 2008

The Line Officer Course trained in anti-submarine warfare by using NWS980.

Training scenario : Task Group of Blue Force got the mission to protect the sea line of communication in the Andaman Sea which Red Force will be attack merchant ships by surface warships and submarine. TG Blue go on to protect merchant ships and search for the enemy by surface ships and aircrafts.

Officer students are the Task Group of Blue force.

2551/08/22

NWS 980 Features

NWS 980 Features

We developed NWS980 by using Global Conflict Blue or GCB as a prototype. (http://www.gcblue.com/)
We changed and added some features and recompiled in order to get the new software NWS 980 but the basic features still similar to GCB. The features of NWS 980 show on as follow.
• Real-time war game simulation.
• Able to simulate 3 dimension operation theater of Naval and Air Warfare all around the world.
• Able to simulate sensors, weapons, logistics, movement and other condition in realistic 3D and can evaluate the result of using each weapon and create more than 1,000 units in game.
• Able to simulate more than 64 sides in game simultaneously (GCB can simulate only 4 sides).
• Accelerate time scale up to 128:1
• Players can join game anywhere by using computers and Internet which has been installed NWS 980.
• Generated communication network by VoIP.

Using NWS 980

Simulate training courses by strategic war game exercises and Command Post Exercise (CPX) in order to the Officer Training Courses as follow.
Naval Command and Staff Course (Operational planning level)
Line Officers Course (Tactical planning level)

Testing for strategic planning and operation planning development and procedure development.

Use for the job training, Fleet Exercise, Surface Warfare, Anti-Submarine Warfare, Search and Rescue, etc.

Air Force can use NWS 980 on the job training of Air Warfare also.

2551/08/18

NWS 980 history

NWS 980 history

In 2006, Wargaming Research and Development team was established to research and development wargaming software for a new simulator replace the old one which 30 years old wear and tear.

There are 11 RTN officers lead by Capt.Surapak Dharachan Director of Wargaming division as the Project Manager and Capt.Sakorn Punmuangpak Deputy Director as the Project Secretary.

May 2006, one of R&D team found a free software open source from http://sourceforge.net/ named Global Conflict Blue (GCB) http://www.gcblue.com/ developed by Dewitt Colclough and his team under supporting by Free Software Foundation. The features of GCB similar to our requirement for new simulator then we started to studies GCB source code in deep. 5 or 6 months later, we could to change and add some own features and recompile in order to get new Wargaming Software which practical in use. We could to add RTN forced and enemy forced data into the database and created training scenarios for the Line Officer Course (Tactical level) and the Naval Command and Staff Course (Operation level).

January 9th 2007, we presented the new Wargaming Software to Vice Admiral Pairoat Kaensarn Superintendant of Instituted of Advance Naval Studies (IANS), NWS 980 Project Director. And 3 weeks later we presented to the Commander in Chief of Royal Thai Navy on January 30th 2007. After that we got the budget 4.39 M.Baht (125,000 USD) for the Naval Wargame Simulator Project. That is the first budget for our project, no budget for R&D or software. We spent this budget for only new hardware of NWS 980, computers, LAN network and accessories. We oprated NWS 980 Project by our heart for the best to our Navy.

We named the new Naval Wargame Simulator as “Naval Wargame Simulator 980” (NWS 980) because of in 2007 The King Rama 9 (His Majesty The King Phumipol Adulayadet) of Thailand will turned 80th birthday on December 5th,2007. In this year all Thai people joined celebrations on the Auspicious Occasion of His Majesty The King’s 80th Birthday Anniversary. That we joined the celebrations too, NWS 980. We proud to operate NWS 980 under His Majesty’s sufficiency economy philosophy.

We had been finished to build and furnish NWS 980 in September 2007 and start to use to training The Line Officer Course and Naval Command and Staff Course.

In the name of IANS we would like to say thank You to Mr. Dewitt Colclough and his team and Free Software Foundation so much. We would like to invite you to visit Thailand and NWS 980.

http://www.navy.mi.th/ians/nws980/index.html (Thai) http://www.navy.mi.th/ians/nws980/index2.htm (English)

NWS 980 Research & Development Team
Vice Admiral Pairoat Kaensarn Project Director
Capt.Surapak Dharachan Project Manager
Capt.Sakorn Punmuangpak Project Manager Assistant
Cdr.Nanat Tantadsakul
LCdr.Sith Suwanpakdee
LCdr.Thanin Akecherdchoosarts
LCdr.Yodsawat Phokeow
LCdr.Komkris Kanjananuwat
LCdr.Thawatchai Permlarb
LCdr.Suparat Kaewnuy (WRTN)
Lt.Teerapong Sonthayamarn
Sub.Lt.Phaiboon Nasomjit

2551/08/17

NWS980 : Global Conflict Blue

NWS 980 based on Global Conflict Blue.
http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2007/07/freeorion-and-global-conflict-blue.html

ลองเข้าไปดูนะครับว่า NWS 980 ดังขนาดไหน เนื่องจากว่าสื่อทางอินเตอร์เนตแพร่กระจายข่าวสารได้อย่างรวดเร็วมาก ถ้าผมบอกว่า NWS 980 go inter แล้วก็คงไม่ผิดนัก ช่วยกันพัฒนาต่อนะครับเพื่อ ทร.มีประโยคนึงที่สำคัญคือ

Intriguingly it has been adapted by the Thai Navy for training purposes although sadly they haven't made their changes availalbe to the wider public.
"เป็นสิ่งที่น่าสนใจอย่างยิ่งที่ ทร.ไทย ได้พัฒนาปรับปรุง GCB เพื่อนำมาใช้สำหรับการฝึกเฉพาะใน ทร. เอง แต่ก็น่าเศร้าที่พวกเขาไม่ได้ปล่อยสิ่งที่ได้แก้ไขออกสู่สาธารณชนในวงกว้าง"

FreeOrion and Global Conflict Blue
Global Conflict Blue
Global Conflict Blue is a:"a real-time 3D naval and air warfare simulation game similar to Fleet Command and Harpoon. The goal is a scalable single player and multiplayer game that can handle scenarios ranging from simple engagements playable in 30 minutes to massive campaigns contested over weeks.

It's only available for Windows but it's open source and a lot of it is written in Python so that can change. Intriguingly it has been adapted by the Thai Navy for training purposes although sadly they haven't made their changes availalbe to the wider public.

There's a Linux binary of FreeOrion available for download here. I'm not sure whether it's the latest stable version or latest from SVN but it should provide an opportunity for people who hadn't previously played the game to get an idea of what it is about. It is confirmed as working on an i386 Unbuntu Feisty system.

Development of FreeOrion continues at the same steady pace it has done for several years, which is promising. Some nice new graphics and features are coming. It's a well designed and well thought out game that will have a lot of depth and longevity when fully realised.