Military Simulations

Training for the Next Evolution of Warfare

The ongoing war in Ukraine has catapulted commercial drone warfare from its former insurgent roots into the front lines of peer to peer war fighting. I decided to emulate this in a small game using Unity. In this game the user pilots a drone that emulates the flight model one of the more popular commercial drones used for reconnaissance as well as direct action attacks on today's battlefields: the DJI Mavic.

The game allows the user to have a thermal camera on their drone which is not available on most commercial drones, but it makes target acquisition much faster for both infantry and vehicles. A requirement for the course that I was taking was to create a simulation that leveraged the use of a 6DOF platform that we modeled and tested in SolidWorks. I then used a laser cutter, 3D printers, LPKF, and lathe to fabricate the parts. I then programmed the micro controller to complete all 6 degrees of freedom movements with trim and limits to avoid servo crashing.

The user is able to create a call for fire on vehicles and large groups of infantry. For smaller targets or if indirect fire assets are unavailable, the user has the ability to drop an F1 grenade from the drone on infantry.