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Facilitate high-quality training for Navy personnel

Rapidly improve training and operational performance through the immersive simulation technology in K-Sim® Navy solutions.

With over 200 years of expertise, KONGSBERG provides state-of-the-art simulator solutions, delivering realistic, cost-effective training without the risks and logistical challenges of live exercises. Our simulators offer recruits and officers immersive environments to prepare for missions and specific scenarios.

Facilitate safer and more cost-efficient training
Highly flexible, configurable and customisable, our simulators are recognised as vital training platforms for developing competence and situational awareness across all vessel operations, including fast craft deployment, navigation and engine control. Combining the different simulators makes it possible to carry out complex and integrated team training covering all aspects of vessel operation in a single exercise.

Maximise performance for navy operations

  • Effective training solutions

    K-Sim® Navy solutions provide effective training through realistic, adaptable simulations that build essential skills for individuals and teams - ensuring readiness and cohesion in real-world operations.

  • Realistic exercises

    The state-of-the-art simulations and hydrodynamic modelling closely replicate real-world naval challenges, allowing recruits and officers to develop critical skills in a safe, controlled environment.

  • Highly customisable

    Our simulators are extremely flexible. To fit your exact requirements, they can be configured for a desktop computer or an operational full mission simulator using custom panels and instruments or combined for team training benefits.

Provide an unlimited range of training scenarios

Kongsberg Maritime's K-Sim® maritime simulation systems facilitate efficient and realistic training for students and crew. Through immersive, realistic scenarios, learners will build vital skills that promote safety, cost-efficiency, and sustainability across a wide range of operations at sea. Choose from among the maritime training solutions best suited to your organisation's needs.

Realistic training with K-Sim® Navigation

K-Sim® Navigation is a customizable simulator for navigation, ship handling, and communication training. With advanced physics and hydrodynamic modelling, it ensures realistic vessel behaviour and high-quality training.

Boost skills and safety with K-Sim® Fast Craft

K-Sim® Fast Craft delivers realistic, immersive training in high-speed navigation, boat handling, and tactical operations—enabling safe, repeatable practice while minimizing risk to crew and equipment.

Maximise performance with K-Sim® Engine

K-Sim® Engine provides structured training on engine room operations, from individual systems to complete engine room management. It enhances competence in marine engineering with models ranging from generic systems to customised replicas of naval vessel propulsion plants for hands-on, 1:1 training.

  • The provision of the Choules model and, in particular, the installation of a three-console K-Sim® Engine desktop simulator on board the ship provides the Royal Australian Navy with a significant training capability that will gratly enhance the quality of training that can be provided to the ship`s engineering personell.
    Commander Ned Whiteley (retd) Choules Simulation Project Manager, Royal Australian Navy
  • Kongsberg Maritime has provided the Royal Canadian Navy outstanding support to their all-important navigation and bridge simulators for the past 20 years. The company`s workforce, whether from Norway, the USA, or locally in Esquimalt and Halifax has been instrumental in providing reliable and modern training systems that have remained at the leading edge of technology.
    Directorate of Naval Combat Systems Royal Canadian Navy

    Integrated training

    The K-Sim® product family supports interdepartmental crew training. Interfacing between K-Sim® simulators such as K-Sim® Navigation, Engine, Fast Craft, Safety, Dynamic Positioning, and Cargo facilitates more comprehensive crew training. K-Sim® Navigation supports interfacing with other simulators following Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) application procedures and High Level Architecture (HLA) standards. Through exchanging information with other simulators, trainees will integrate with other training personnel within a larger federated system of combat operations teams, aircraft, and land-based vehicles.

    • The Human factor element in training

      The integrated solution enables focus on key human factors development such as:

      • Situational awareness
      • Interaction and teamwork
      • Internal and external communication
      • Leadership and decision-making

    • Offer highly realistic simulation training from Kongsberg Maritime

      As real shipboard equipment and simulator platform technologies converge, so do the shipboard and simulator training environments. Simulator training in highly realistic operational scenarios presents a shorter route to competency and force readiness.

    • Prepare personnel for a range of situations

      Trainers and scenarios can be specifically tailored to allow warfighters to prepare for every situation, from essential procedural training to challenging, high-stress combat missions where learned reactions are critical to survival. Such exercises using validated tactics and procedures can be rerun many times to develop, build, and maintain core skills in a safe training environment.
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      The training possibilities also include customised scenarios according to international standards, including: 

      • Procedure development, validation, and testing
      • Bridge Resource Management (BRM)
      • Engineering Resource Management (ERM)
      • Engineering studies
      • Concept testing and verification
      • Crew competence screening

    • Customise training to address key needs

      Simulation is highly responsive to operational requirements and can be customised to provide on-demand training ranging from dedicated, single-operator, part-task training through team and sub-team training and up to large fleet and task force synthetic training in a live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) environment.

    • Research and development activities

      In addition to standard and special task training, the K-Sim training solutions enable testing and R&D for:

      • Fast prototyping
      • Vessel behaviour studies
      • Fuel economy studies
      • Operator fatigue studies
      • Port and fairway development studies

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