HAVELSAN’s upgrade work for its 360° Rear Projected Dome Display System has been successfully completed within the framework of the Turkish Air Force’s F-16 Full Mission Simulator. 

The upgrade concept includes replacement of Legacy LCoS projectors installed on the system with NVG compatible solid state LED DLP projectors. The upgrade involves replacing the Automatic Alignment System with a new Automatic Alignment System that features single-click calibration. An automatically controlled Motorized Optical Blending system has been integrated into the system to enhance night and NVG training. 

Color and Luminance stability of the system will now be guaranteed for long term due to usage of DLP Projection System with solid-state LED illumination source. This will decrease maintenance effort and operational costs substantially during the lifetime of the Simulator. 

Upgrade concept reckons with using Legacy Image Generators (thus Host Software and Visual Database) and Mechanical support structure to minimize the integration effort, also lowering the cost/schedule effect of the upgrade work.