Project WARDEC

On 13th May, 2022, the Army Training Command signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) to develop a ‘Wargame Research and Development Centre’ in New Delhi.

  • Given a prototype name ‘WARDEC’, the project will be a first-of-its-kind simulation-based training centre in India that will use artificial intelligence (AI) to design virtual reality wargames.

About the Wargame Centre: The Wargame Research and Development Centre will be used by the Army to train its soldiers and test their strategies through “metaverse-enabled gameplay”.

  • The wargame models will be designed to prepare for wars as well as counter-terror and counter-insurgency operations.
  • The game would play out player versus player, player versus computer or even computer versus computer.

Significance: Wargame simulation helps the Army think of all possible scenarios. Aspects such as slope of terrain, weather, time, air pressure, enemy surveillance reach, reach of artillery, the position of troops, soldier’s health and enemy’s reaction capabilities are all taken into account by the use of AI.

  • The use of AI can provide a totally immersive training experience as it can simulate a battlefield close to reality and map several eventualities in the probable event of a war.

Rashtriya Raksha University

  • Rashtriya Raksha University is an institution of national importance under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. It is statutory body, located at Lavad village, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
  • The University aims to become an academic-research-training ecosystem for national security and policing
  • It also aims at providing security and strategic education in contemporary and futuristic security and strategic studies and interdisciplinary areas.

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