Cycle time reduction in ground battlefield simulation, for C4i systems, using time compression and time jump technique

Ground Battlefield Simulation (GBS) is carried out to avoid actual movement/usage of resources (manpower, vehicles and weapons). GBS usually stretches from hours, days to months, depending upon the Scenario visualized/exercised. Though we have already saved upon resources, time is still an important factor that we are always short of. Simulating a Ground Battlefield scenario of a few hours at normal pace may be acceptable (still not most of the time), but simulating a longer duration scenario and waiting for that period of time is really not feasible. As actual exercise or experimentation may require multiple runs of the same GBS scenario, scenario/cycle time reduction becomes necessary. This paper discusses need as well as mechanism of cycle time reduction in GBS.