Abstract: A device for improving performance and improving assessment in a combat training center includes light shot simulators with weapon-linked transmitters and/or transceivers as active equipment and personal or passive equipment of exercise participants, with light-signal receivers and decoding electronics as well as GPS equipment assigned to a person and/or exercise device, for a determination of position, as well as radio equipment of the persons and/or the device, for bi-directional communication with a central administration. The light-signal receivers are equipped for additional detection of the position of the exercise participants in rooms/buildings and vehicles, by means of the reception of signals from light-optic angle transmitters.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to an optical weapon effect simulation method for training of soldiers at least at two different weapons, whereas each weapon is equipped as an attacking as well as a target system. The attacking system has a laser pulse transmitter and measurement unit attached to the weapon which transmits laser signals with at least two different wavelengths .lambda..sub.1, .lambda..sub.2 and detects the appropriate signal reflections. The target system is provided with at least one retro-reflector with integrated selective filter, optical receiver with selective filter and evaluation electronics. Only laser pulses of a defined wavelength are reflected or accepted by the target system. Inherent errors resulting from reflections caused by numerous targets which cannot be separated and the falsification of target positions are eliminated. Target types are identified by the attacker based upon a wavelength of laser signal received.