1. GCB is used by IANS. for studying, research and development for our simulator. Now it can be used to practice war game for student officers in our different courses. We have conducted research and development for some time to assure that we can use it for practice for different war game courses. But for sure, I invite representatives from each department in the Royal Thai Navy to get suggestions and ideas for better development of NWS 980 based on GCB.
2. Our Institute (IANS.) has had two types of simulators, one is "REDIFON" and the other is "CPX" (stands for "Command Post Exercise") simulator. Both of manufacturers who produced spare-parts have closed their business for a long time. Now we have no spare-parts for both of our simulators.
3. Now our Institute cannot use REDIFON to practice the "line officers course" (for student officers whose rank are lieutenant), and cannot use CPX to practice our "Naval Command and Staff course" (Lieutenant Commander - Commander rank). So it must send them to practice at the Training Division of Royal Thai Fleet in Amphur Satahip . That of course incurs much more expense for those practices.
4. Our Institute proposed a plan to the Royal Thai Navy for buying a new simulator to replace our old simulators. But our Naval Force has no budget for this, so it seems hard to get a new simulator in the future.
5. On May 2006, our Wargaming Division discovered free software named "Global Conflict Blue" which was developed by a team led by Dewitt Colclough. We think there are no problems to modify GCB source code or just even grab it for use under the GPL license of the Free Software Foundation. From studying GCB, we found that it's appropriate for war game practice in our different courses, both tactical level and operation level. We are able to develop this project by using less than 6 million baht (200,000 us$)
6. Our institute proposed this project in the meeting of the Royal Thai Navy on last April, and Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Navy approved budget for this project.
7. Capabilities of GCB
7.1 surface operation
7.2 anti-submarine operation
7.3 coast guard command operation
7.4 air operation GCB also simulates sensor, weapon, logistics, and weather in realistic 3D. Also it can evaluate the result of using each weapon and is able to create more than 1000 units and 4 sides in game.
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