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Swedish Defense Industry Licenses Game Engine

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. And what a princess by lastninja · · Score: 3, Informative

    Worth saving.

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  2. Re:Swedish Defense? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative
    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 figuring out what to do with their army :-)