Swedish Defense Industry Licenses Game Engine

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Posted by Zonk on Thursday September 30, 2004 @02:18PM
from the gaming-goes-commando dept.

Z00L00K writes "The Swedish defense industry has licensed the engine from Battlefield 2 by Digital Illusions for 4MSEK (about US $540,000). The engine will be used to develop training simulators for defense, and support of new command methods in the defense."

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and when you finish... (Score:5, Funny)

by Bin_jammin (684517) writes: <Binjammin@gmail.com> on Thursday September 30, 2004 @02:23PM (#10397204)

each mission, you get to save the princess

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- And what a princess (Score:4, Informative)
  
  by lastninja (237588) writes: on Thursday September 30, 2004 @02:42PM (#10397424)
  
  Worth saving [princess-madeleine.com].
  
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Swedish Defense? (Score:3, Funny)

by Zoshnell (573838) writes: <zoshnell AT hotmail DOT com> on Thursday September 30, 2004 @02:39PM (#10397383) Journal

Not to rag on Sweden, they have some fine looking women, good chocolate, and make a helluva meatball, but what are they preparing to defend against?

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- Re:Swedish Defense? (Score:1, Insightful)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  Uhm, what about that gigantic monstrosity of a neighbor, Russia?
  - Re:Swedish Defense? (Score:1, Insightful)
    
    by Anonymous Coward writes:
    
    Actually Sweden and Russia aren't really neighbours at all. There's this little country called Finland between them (and in the north both Finland and Norway)
    - Re:Swedish Defense? (Score:2)
      
      by Chess_the_cat (653159) writes:
      
      A neighbour is someone who lives in your neighbourhood. Not someone immediately adjacent to you.
- Re:Swedish Defense? (Score:2, Funny)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  The US Army?
- Re:Swedish Defense? (Score:2)
  
  by Leffe (686621) writes:
  
  The military's only function is keeping dangerous people off the streets, if they have more toys to play with they are more likely to stay.
- Re:Swedish Defense? (Score:2)
  
  by lastninja (237588) writes:
  
  Well it appears that Sweden is going to cut down/restructure the defense to counter terrorism and provide their part to the new EU army. At least that is my interpretation of the new defence proposition. And I think you have the chocolate confused with Switzerland (though i think Belgium is the new chocolate county of Europe). It was only a couple of years ago that Swedish chocolate was not allowed to be called chocolate in the EU because of the low cocoa percentage.
  - Re:Swedish Defense? (Score:1)
    
    by accelleron (790268) writes:
    
    it's not the chocolate that matters, man... IT'S THE CHICKS!
- Re:Swedish Defense? (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by I judge you (796415) writes: on Thursday September 30, 2004 @04:07PM (#10398284)
  
  Not to rag on Sweden, they have some fine looking women, good chocolate, and make a helluva meatball, but what are they preparing to defend against?
  To defend against invaders coming for the women, chocolate, and meatballs.
  Duh.
  
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- Re:Swedish Defense? (Score:2, Informative)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  The short story is that Sweden is not, and has never been, a member of NATO or any other pact. This has meant a few things:
  1. They need a big whopping army, since they don't have any pact countries to rely on.
  2. Since they're not in a pact, their army needs no offensive capability. It is purely geared for defence.
  3. Since they're not in a pact, they've managed to avoid getting dragged into a war for nearly 200 years.
  Traditionally their biggest worry was the USSR. Nowadays it mostly seems to be fig
And when you step on a landmine... (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday September 30, 2004 @02:40PM (#10397401)

Field engineer goes BORK BORK BORK

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how else (Score:4, Funny)

by pizza_milkshake (580452) writes: on Thursday September 30, 2004 @03:42PM (#10398022)

can you keep your 3d military models in shape?

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- Re:how else (Score:1)
  
  by accelleron (790268) writes:
  
  yes. You do it by pouring Belgian chocolate on the Swedish women.
lan party, military style! (Score:1)

by lublu (728626) writes:

I for one am going to wait for the first lan party, er lan war between Us Army and Swedish military. I wonder which is going to be better American Army or Battelfield 1942.

Real war is so old school and out of date anyways.

I've just had an idea - fraggin defence contractor!

And if you are going that far, mind as well build the real matrix.
Great, this'll be realistic (Score:2, Funny)

by Enlarge Your Penis (781779) writes:

Have the Swedish army medics worked out how to respawn dead soldiers then?
- Re:Great, this'll be realistic (Score:2)
  
  by djdavetrouble (442175) writes:
  
  Have the Swedish army medics worked out how to respawn dead soldiers then?
  
  who modded that down?? That was pretty fraggin funny !

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and when you finish... (Score:5, Funny)

And what a princess (Score:4, Informative)

Swedish Defense? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Swedish Defense? (Score:1, Insightful)

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Re:Swedish Defense? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Swedish Defense? (Score:2, Informative)

And when you step on a landmine... (Score:3, Funny)

how else (Score:4, Funny)

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lan party, military style! (Score:1)

Great, this'll be realistic (Score:2, Funny)

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