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2 Jul 2021

4 tactical advantages VTact’s custom shooting ranges offer tactical teams

Here at VTact we truly understand the importance of providing tactical teams with an environment in which they can hone their skills.

Real tactical situations require pinpoint accuracy, exceptional judgement and calm, measured reactions under pressure. Field life: Soldiers hone tactical, technical skills

Because many tactical teams engage in life and death situations, simulating experiences in which your team can practice and hone critical skills has, in the past, been incredibly difficult. Lifeliner signal Soldiers hone technical, tactical skills | Article | The United States Army VTact has been working on this problem for some time and we are pleased to announce that we are now able to provide tactical clients with an exciting custom simulation site.

The VTact team set up multiple VTact 3D shooting dummies along with the VTact react units so that you can communicate the “danger” of each target to the team and then measure their performance. (Read more about the VTact 3D shooting dummies and react systems here Home – VTact South Africa)

This gives your tactical team 4 key advantages:

#1: VTact’s live tactical experience.

One of the key aspects that is most difficult to practice when training tactical teams is the chaotic environment many tactical teams face. This includes noise, visual impairments such as smoke, and unpredictable factors such as civilians.

VTact’s simulation sites enable tactical teams to practice in an environment where these elements are simulated. Smoke bombs, speakers, lighting and the placement of your VTact 3D dummies all add to the sites efficacy in recreating a live and dynamic tactical site.

#2: Training tactical discretion

One of the most important skills for tactical teams to learn is discretion. When to shoot and when to hold back. Honing these skills is incredibly difficult in an ordinary shooting range and incredibly dangerous if your tactical team gets this wrong in a live situation.

VTact’s custom tactical sites enable you to mark certain 3D shooting dummies as “dangerous” using the VTact react units. The VTact react units then provide the team with feedback on their decisions, including the time it took for them to make that decision and the accuracy of their decision. Read more here Home – VTact South Africa

Refining your tactical team’s discretion in highly stressful situations could be the difference between success and failure in the field.

#3: Training tactical accuracy

Accuracy at a shooting range vs accuracy in a live tactical situation is two very different things. Utilising VTact’s 3D shooting dummies and VTact’s React units in a dynamic live site simulation, VTact is able to provide your tactical team with the challenge of accurately shooting the right targets in the right place. You may have some targets that need a “wound” shot and others that need a “fatal” shot. VTact’s live simulation sites enable your team to train and measure this level of accuracy, giving them an enormous advantage in the field.

#4: Training as a tactical team

Key to any tactical team’s success is communication and field teamwork. This is difficult to train at a shooting range because of the static nature of the environment. VTact’s live simulation sites provide your team with an environmental simulation and targets to work with. Training as a team enables each individual to learn how to communicate more accurately, develop leadership skills and enable the team to work as a cohesive whole.

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These 4 key advantages to working with a custom tactical site are just the tip of the iceberg as the VTact team works with individual clients to build simulation sites that best mimic the environment your tactical team will need to work in. Some examples of different sites could include dense vegetation, water hazards, open terrain with little cover or buildings. Working with VTact you can also set up different simulation set ups which could include hostage situations, mixed civilian and target scenarios and much more.

Get in touch with the VTact team today for more information on how we can help train your tactical team with a custom simulation site. Home – VTact South Africa

25 May 2021

5 Reasons your Tactical Team need VTact React to Prepare them for Real Life Dangerous Tactical Situations

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The decisions tactical teams need to make in real life tactical situations have major, lasting ramifications, particularly when things don’t go to plan.

At VTact we understand the importance of giving tactical team members every opportunity to hone their skills so that in the heat of tactical situations they can make quick, calm, accurate decisions with the information provided to them. For this reason, the VTact team has developed the VTact 3D shooting target and the VTact React units.

Before we get into the 5 Reasons your Tactical Team needs to be practicing with VTact’s 3D Shooting Dummy and VTact’s React Units let’s first explain exactly what these elements are.

VTact React works with the VTact 3D life size shooting target dummy. It is a system that is placed around the dummy and uses LED red and green lights to indicate whether the shooter must or must not fire.

The VTact react unit works with a phone app that measures the reaction time and accuracy of each session.

Now let’s explore how this dynamic tactical training equipment, which has already helped so many tactical teams, could help your team train for live tactical situations.

#1 The right reaction at the right time

In any tactical situation tactical team members are required to make split second judgement calls that could either result in a criminal or a civilian being injured. Your team needs every opportunity to practice and hone the split-second reaction times it takes to get these reactions right. VTact’s 3D shooting Dummy and VTact’s React units gifts your tactical team as real as possible scenarios in which to make mistakes and learn.

#2 Practicing speed

Critical to any tactical teams’ success is the speed with which threats are identified and eliminated. Vtact’s React tactical system comes with 3 pre-programmed red and green light flash sequences that tests your teams’ reaction speed. Giving your team the opportunity to practice real feel tactical situations with the VTact 3D shooting dummy and React unit.

Read more about VTact’s Tactical units here

#3 Practicing accuracy

Different tactical situation requires different responses and different shots. Should your tactical team make the wrong decision in the field, the consequences are dire and could include civilian casualties and related prosecution or the death of members of your team.

Accurate assessment and reaction are fundamentally critical for tactical team training which is why VTact’s React units are an absolute must have training equipment item – view our equipment here

With the VTact 3D Shooting Dummy and the VTact React system your team can practice a variety of tactical scenario’s that enable them to hone the tactical skills they need for real life situations.

#4 Repeat, Repeat, Repeat

Studies show that it takes 10 000 repetitions to master a skill- Read more here

The VTact 3D shooting dummy and the VTact React units enable your team to repeat the same scenario over and over until they have mastered it using the full spectrum of weapons used in common tactical situations.

#5 Measurement is the key to tactical success.

VTact React enables you to program different reaction sequences which can be used to challenge your team’s skills and test their reflexes. Using the VTact React phone app you can constantly measure each team member’s performance. This empowers you and the team member to track skill mastery, uncover critical weaknesses, and track the performance of the individual and the team as a whole.

Your tactical team deserves the very best in training opportunities so that when they are in the field, they make the right call at the right time.

VTact’s unique 3D Shooting Dummy, VTact React LED sequencing system and the VTact measurement phone app gives you the ultimate training tools for your team.

So, in summary, consider these three key benefits of the VTact 3D Shooting Dummy, the VTact React Unit and the VTact measurement phone app:

Training for individuals and the team as a whole
Honing tactical skills
Helping to ensure the correct reaction to threats.

VTact gives your tactical team a fighting chance. Contact us here today for more information.

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19 Apr 2021

VTact: South African Tactical Training Equipment to empower you – 4 Reasons why Vtact

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Made by South African’s for South African’s Tactical Training teams to prepare for South African Tactical situations.

There is a reason experienced South African tactical servicemen and women are renown thought out the world. They are brave, strategic and due to the variety of conflict situations they find themselves in, some of the most experienced in managing tactical circumstances as efficiently as possible – Read more here.

The biggest problem with training tactical servicemen and women is that if the training doesn’t equip them properly, the consequences in the field can literally be life or death – read article here. VTact tactical equipment has been designed by the very best South African tactical servicemen and women to help ensure that tactical training has the real- feel factors necessary to equip trainee servicemen and women for the field. Read more about VTact here.

Key to any tactical training are the shooting dummies used in target practice. Most tactical training requires team members to shoot at a target board painted either as a dartboard or with an outline of a human. There are a wide range of issues with using two-dimensional paper-based targets, including:

Shooting at a two-dimensional target when real-life situations include three-dimensional targets.
The behaviour of a bullet is different when it is hitting paper or board compared to flesh and bone.
Two-dimensional shooting targets are too easy to disassociate from leaving servicemen and women unprepared for real life situations.

VTact has solved these problems by creating a three-dimensional VTact rubber compound target that supports tactical training as follows:

1. VTact’s 3D shooting dummies increase tactical team accuracy.

Servicemen and women are able to better gauge the success of their marksmanship on a three-dimensional dummy. It is very difficult to understand the efficacy of a shot on a two-dimensional piece of paper or board because of the shape and curve of the human body. While the lines on ordinary targets give an indication of where the best area to aim for may be, a three-dimensional VTact target is much more effective in teaching servicemen and women where to aim because the impact of the bullet is more visible.

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2. VTact’s 3D shooting dummies enable strategic shooting practice

With a three-dimensional VTact shooting target, servicemen and women can practice different types of shots. In the field it is never as simple as “shoot-to-kill”. Learning where to shoot to disable an opponent could be the difference between a serviceman or woman doing jail time for homicide or receiving an accolade for bravery under fire. The three-dimensional VTact shooting target enables strategic shooting practice so that servicemen and women can practice the shots that will defuse a tactical situation as quickly as possible.

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3. VTact’s 3D shooting dummies empower servicemen and women to practice difficult shots

In normal shooting target ranges the targets are placed at right angle to the shooter’s gun, but in real-life situations targets may be at completely different angles. Helping servicemen and women to prepare for the unpredictable nature of real-life situations is critical to their success and may even contribute to their survival in the field.

Find out more about the VTact dummy here.

4. VTact’s 3D shooting dummies help to prepare servicemen and women psychologically.

The most difficult part of any tactical training is psychological training. To actively shoot at another human being, regardless of how dire the circumstances might be is the toughest part of tactical training. The VTact three-dimensional shooting dummy is more lifelike than a printed board, as is the sound of impact and resulting damage to the dummy. The VTact three-dimensional dummy helps to mentally train the servicemen and women so that they are able to react appropriately when the time is right.

Your tactical team are often faced with high intensity situations that require split second decision making. Assisting them to be as prepared as possible for any situation is not only your responsibility but a privilege as you train these incredible tactical warriors.

Get in touch with VTact today for more information about our 3D shooting target practice dummies.

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