In the context of modernizing the army's training centers, the CERBERE program aims to enable units to train and be evaluated in conditions very close to reality (combat frictions, weapon effects). This program replicates all combat capabilities offered by SCORPION and new armaments, up to the scale of a GTIA (combined arms tactical group) including three SGTIA (subgroupings combined arms).
CERBERE equips the CENTAC (Mailly-le-Camp Combat Training Center - open area) and the CENZUB, the Urban Zone Action Training Center located in a mock city equivalent to 300 buildings, capable of hosting 5,000 inhabitants and fully instrumented.
The deployed system allows for the training of 2,400 infantry soldiers with their equipment and vehicles, and the control of SGTIA-level units in conditions close to reality, especially for SCORPION units. CERBERE enables
- The creation, management, real-time monitoring, and high-value debriefing (video, etc.) of exercices,
- the instrumentation of the terrain (sensors in all rooms, etc.) and participants to track each individual/vehicle (position, health status, etc.),
- the incorporation of new weapons (IED, grenades, etc.), and the enhancement of information.
In this project, CS Group provided Thales with the Operational Center of the solution, along with instructor tablets for the field, allowing for the supervision, exercice control and direction (ExCon), and debriefing of exercises. Based on Crimson technology and the digital twin concept of the terrain, this system offers unique capabilities for scenario creation and exercise animation, integrating sensor data in real-time into a 2D or 3D visualization of the operational theater, both indoors and outdoors, while enabling control of all effectors. The sensors cover the entire localization systems of infantry, their vehicles, weapons, as well as several hundred cameras. The effectors include around 1,000 loudspeakers and 700 smoke generators for sound and visual effects, both inside and outside urban infrastructures..
