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U.S. Space Force Wants to Ramp Up Simulators for Training

U.S. Space Force Wants to Ramp Up Simulators for Training
A member of the U.S. Space Force's 71st Intelligence Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Squadron, Detachment 4, disseminates intelligence assessments to drive simulated combat operations during SPACE FLAG 23-1 at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo. last Dec. 13. SPACE FLAG 23-1 ran from Dec. 5-16 and was the third Coalition SPACE FLAG and the 16th SPACE FLAG exercise. 23-1 was the first in the SPACE FLAG program to exercise combat tactics in a U.S. European Command scenario, Space Force said. (U.S. Space Force Photo)

U.S. Space Force needs to ramp up its use of high-fidelity simulators to train personnel how to deter potential adversaries, and, if necessary, defeat them, Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, the service's chief of space operations said on Feb. 22. "If you think all you have to do is buy the best equipment, to have the most exquisite hardware from a military standpoint, that you're just gonna roll over an opponent, that's not the way it works," he told a Center…

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