Army Training Command has signed a memorandum of understanding(MoU) with Gandhinagar-based <\/span>Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU<\/span><\/a>) to develop a \u2018Wargame Research and Development Centre(WARDEC) in New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n WARDEC will be a first-of-its-kind simulation-based training center in India that will use artificial intelligence(AI) to design virtual reality wargames.<\/span><\/p>\n Purpose<\/b>: The centre will be used by the Army to train its soldiers and test their strategies through metaverse-enabled gameplay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Soldiers will test their skills in the metaverse where their surroundings will be simulated using a combination of virtual reality(VR) and augmented reality(AR).<\/span><\/p>\n Location: <\/b>The centre will come up in a military zone in New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n Significance:<\/b> The centre will help soldiers prepare for wars as well as counter-terror and counter-insurgency operations.<\/span><\/p>\n Since the 9\/11 attacks, the use of information technology-enabled wargaming is preferred by several countries like the US, Israel, and the UK to prepare for possibilities in case of terror attacks or war.<\/span><\/p>\n For instance, in 2014, several world leaders including former German chancellor Angela Merkel, former US president Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping played a war simulation game during the Hague Summit about how to react in case of a nuclear attack. In that case, the target of the nuclear attack was a fictional country named <\/span>Brinia.<\/b><\/p>\n Source:<\/b> The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cExplained: Project WARDEC \u2013 India\u2019s upcoming AI-powered wargame centre\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> Indian Express <\/b>on 21st May 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Army Training Command has signed a memorandum of understanding(MoU) with Gandhinagar-based Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) to develop a \u2018Wargame Research and Development Centre(WARDEC) in New Delhi. What is WARDEC? WARDEC will be a first-of-its-kind simulation-based training center in India that will use artificial intelligence(AI) to design virtual reality wargames. Purpose: The… Continue reading Explained: Project WARDEC \u2013 India\u2019s upcoming AI-powered wargame centre<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-185756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":5,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698353842},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is WARDEC?<\/b><\/h5>\n
How will the simulation exercises play out at the center? <\/b><\/h5>\n
How many countries use such wargaming drills?<\/b><\/h5>\n