Devices and Aids for Training M1 Tank Gunnery in the Army National Guard: A Detailed Analysis of Training Requirements.

This report is the second in a series of four reports that describe the development of a deviceaid-based strategy for training M1 tank gunnery in the Army National Guard ARNG at the company level. The first report reviews the military and research literature on five computer-based armor training devices and one training aid designed to train gunnery skills and knowledge for the M1 tank. This report assesses the capabilities of the devices and the aid reviewed in the first report to support gunnery training. The third report reviews current ARNG training practices, emphasizing the devices used and conditions that constrain gunnery training. The fourth and final report integrates the results from the first three reports and presents a detailed training strategy for using training devices and aids to support and augment on- tank gunnery training. This report assesses the devices by determining whether the devices i.e., TopGun, the Videodisc Interactive Gunnery Simulator VIGS, the Mobile Conduct-of-Fire Trainer M-COFT, the Guard Unit Armory Device Full- Crew Interactive Simulation Trainer GUARD FIST I, and the Simulation Networking SIMNET battle simulation system are capable of simulating the tank components and gunnery conditions associated with M1 tank gunnery, and the degree to which gunnery behaviors can be performed.