Background: Recent conflicts have shown that low-cost commercial and military-grade drones, employed individually and in swarms,have become a decisive battlefield factor. Existing training replies on classroom instruction and limited live-fire drills, which are costly, weather-dependent and do not scale to give troops adequate repetitions. Detailed Description: A software-based simulation platform is required to train personnel in recognizing, classifying and responding to drone/swarm threats across varied and realistic scenarios (day/ night,degraded sensors, urban/ rural terrain, single-drone and swarm attacks). The tool should be usable at unit level with minimal speacialized hardware. Expected Solution/ Outcomes: Desktop or VR-capable simulator with scripted and procedurally generated threat scenarios. Decision-tree based scoring on detection time, threat classification accuracy and engagement decisions. After-action review (AAR) dashboard tracking individual/ unit performance over repeated sessions. Adjustments difficulty and scenario randomization to prevent rote learning.
Al-Enabled Drone & Counter-Drone Threat Simulation Trainer
Ministry of Defence (MoD)
- Ideas submitted
- 178 / 500
- Deadline
- 20 October 2026 · closed
- Category
- Software
- Theme
- Robotics and Drones
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02“This already exists. Why yours?”
What works: That existing tools are consumer products. Yours is built for the ministry, works offline, in the local language, on official data.
03“Then why has nobody solved it yet?”
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