08.04.2011

Course

04.04.-08.04.2011. The members of the VTI attended a short course "Designing Fighting Vehicle", organized by the Defence College of Management and Technology (DCMT), which is part of Cranfield University - Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Shrivenham in the UK.

DCMT provides education and training in management, strategic planning, technology and other aspects related to security studies for all services of the British Army and Ministry of Defense. The college collaborates with numerous academic institutions, and most important of these is the Cranfield University. Lecturers are professors and assistants from the said university and military academy, with the possibility of participation of guest lecturers from other countries.

In education DCMT provides various forms of postgraduate studies, specialist training and short courses, many of which represent a separate module of the master study.

The aim of the short course "Designing Fighting Vehicle," a presentation by global demands, characteristics, and project combat vehicles and their subsystems, and is intended for engineers with a general or specialist experience in the field of technology combat vehicles.