Combat & Security Related Modeling and Simulation in Croatia

This paper describes R&D efforts undertaken in last ten years in Croatia at the University of Zagreb and some other institutions in design and development of state-of-the-art combat and security-related educational and training simulators. This overview starts with a conceptual description of individual and crew training simulators for antitank guided missiles, low attitude air defense missiles and MIG-21BIS fighter aircraft. Design and development concept of hardware-in-the-loop simulators for real time testing of newly developed digital signal processing guidance and control system is also presented. The discussion is continued with design and development of high resolution tactical simulations and operational aggregated combat simulations. Finally, the paper presents a theoretical approach applied to the modeling and simulation of national power and national security.