Simulation Support of Teaching and Research Activities at the Departments of Combat Support Forces at the University of Defence

This paper discusses the employment of simulation technology in teaching and research at the Department of Air Defence and Fire Support at the University of Defence. In the course of the last years was requirement placed to increase the competencies of students in the area of the forces operation planning and ensuring the coordination of the means of ground air defence and artillery. Additionally, theoretical results from troop deployment planning processes that could be realistically confirmed had to be credibly verified. The current information technologies enable to create static situations of battlefield, based on graphic interfaces and simulate interactions of entities. Collaboration with defence industry businesses is also beneficial for creating and implementing the simulation environment. The approach discussed here has a synergistic impact of vastly accelerating and tremendously improving land and air defence operations planning through several realistically practical applications.