The Real Cost Savings Behind Military VR Training
Traditional military training is expensive, ammunition, logistics, travel, range time, and personnel all add up fast. AVRT changes that equation significantly. Here’s how.
Ammunition cost
£0
Per VR training round
Location required
None
Deploy anywhere
Scalability
Unlimited
No per-head cost increase
No ammunition costs
Every live-fire training round has a price tag, and across large forces running repeated exercises, those costs compound rapidly. AVRT eliminates ammunition spend entirely while still delivering accurate, realistic weapon simulation. Whether your personnel are trained on the SA80 used by British forces or the M16 used by US troops, the system can be programmed to reflect the exact specifications of the weapon in their hands, no rounds required.
No location dependency
Live-fire ranges and specialist training facilities aren’t always where your soldiers are. Traditional training often means shipping personnel to specific sites, with all the travel, accommodation, and logistics costs that entails. With AVRT, the training comes to them. The system is fully portable, meaning it can be deployed in the field, on base, or wherever it’s needed, dramatically cutting the overhead of getting personnel to the right place at the right time.
Unlimited scalability without added cost
In conventional training, costs scale with headcount. More personnel means more ammunition, more instructors, more range time. AVRT breaks that relationship. The platform supports unlimited users without a proportional increase in cost, making it particularly powerful for large forces that need to train at scale, consistently, and without ballooning budgets.
Portability reduces infrastructure spend
Permanent training facilities are costly to build, maintain, and staff. AVRT is designed to remove that dependency entirely. Because the system is portable, there’s no need for fixed infrastructure, reducing long-term capital expenditure and giving military organisations the flexibility to train wherever operational needs demand it.
Scenario reusability
Building a live training exercise from scratch each time, coordinating locations, personnel, equipment, and logistics, is resource-intensive. With AVRT, scenarios are built once and reused indefinitely. They can also be tailored to specific operational requirements without the need to physically replicate the environment, making each training run both cost-effective and highly relevant to real-world mission contexts.