Defense Forces use laser tag system during exercises (video)
The Ukrainian military is actively conducting training in mixed groups with mobilized and rotational soldiers under the guidance of qualified instructors with combat experience
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhnyi posted a video saying that the 151st Training Center continues to train Ukrainian military, conducting various important training courses on planning and conducting combat in defense and offense, tactical medicine, sniping, etc.
In these exercises, Ukrainian servicemen are working with the LaserTag system, which allows them to create conditions that are as close as possible to a real battlefield.
“Today we simulated an assault on conditional enemy positions. With these cadets, we used LaserTag technology to help the servicemen feel the real contact combat,” says Sergeant-instructor Serhiy of the 151st Training Center.
“More real-life situations: panic, chaos, the 300th is down, move away, don’t come here, cover, grenade. You’re also not sure what to do. I, for one, really enjoyed it. I think my brothers liked it as well,” says one of the soldiers about his impressions of the exercise.
As noted, mixed groups, including both mobilized and experienced soldiers on rotation, take part in the exercises, so that those without experience can adapt better, says Larysa, a firearms training instructor.
“They are now extinguishing at 240 meters, this is the first area we have in the caponier. And now the second exercise, we will move to a distance of 500 meters, and they will hit, believe me, they will hit. At 500 meters with a bare AK without a sight and collimators,” she says.
At the same time, according to the commander of the training company, senior lecturer Hlib, the most important thing taught at the center is tactical medicine: “All of our instructors are very qualified, and they have all been in combat, so they thought through the practical training as if they had been in combat and felt it all.”
As for the LaserTag system mentioned in the video, the Ukrainian military has been using such systems for training for several years. For example, the Ukrainian-made LaserTag system was first tested during the Armed Forces tanker competition in 2020.
In 2021, the Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said that the Armed Forces were massively switching to the use of MILES and LaserTag systems, and in the same year it was reported that the Northern Command had purchased a set of LaserTag systems for its own needs.
