The Scalable Advanced Graphics Engine (SAGE) is a hybrid gaming visual solution that provides richly detailed images and motion. SAGE models scenarios such as traffic on city streets or the effects of a mortar to provide a detailed training experience.
Realism comes from integrating gaming technologies including Havok™ physics, destruction, animation, artificial intelligence, cloth and script technologies. Dynamic terrain is based on the physical makeup and properties of the underlying soil.
SAGE leverages commercial gaming technology as the foundation for image generation. It is an affordable way to reap the benefits of advances in the commercial market without incurring the cost of a unique development effort.
When the mission is on the line, there’s one helicopter that’s consistently called upon to deliver. The rugged, versatile Black Hawk and its family of variants are trusted around the world for critical air assault, search and rescue, anti-submarine, and firefighting missions.
Sikorsky has built more than 5,000 Hawk aircraft for 36 nations worldwide. Together they’ve racked up more than 15 million flight hours, including 5 million in combat, thanks to a proven design and continuously improving technology that’s kept this venerable aircraft at the forefront.
Designed for combat resilience, HAWK airframes and landing gear systems have, since inception, incorporated Survivability and Crashworthiness features to endure and perform in challenging environments, both on land and at sea, with proven effectiveness in laboratory and battlefield conditions.
BLACK HAWK and SEAHAWK airframes, with 23mm projectile-tolerant structure and redundant flight controls, hydraulics, and electronics, along with a modular run-dry transmission, ensure aircrew safety under threat, supporting the HAWK family for another 50 years.
The HAWK family of aircraft, a powerful medium-class helicopter, boasts a compact design for air-transport and naval ship operations, landing in tight LZs or small ship decks. Combat-proven landing gear systems facilitate unimproved area landings, easily navigating obstacles like mud and rocks.
HAWK cockpits offer side-by-side seating, large, ballistic-protected digital workspaces, and full-authority control over systems via large MFDs. This unmatched ballistic protection ensures high crew coordination for an optimized flying experience.
Sikorsky has built and flight-tested HAWK helicopters for 50 years, maintaining high standards and safety as top priorities. As the inventor of modern rotorcraft, we stand by every HAWK aircraft produced.
The SAGE system
Runs on commercially available off-the-shelf computer hardware.
Provides the option for scalable configurations from a single desktop to distributed multi-channel, multi-machine configurations.
Draws from SE Core DVED databases, models and custom-built databases.
Includes a scenario generation tool for the quick addition of autonomous, reactive patterns of computer-generated avatars.