Swedish Defense Industry Licenses Game Engine

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Swedish Defense Industry Licenses Game Engine

Posted by Zonk on Thursday September 30, 2004 @06:18AM 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... by Bin_jammin · 2004-09-30 06:23 · Score: 5, Funny

each mission, you get to save the princess
Swedish Defense? by Zoshnell · 2004-09-30 06:39 · Score: 3, Funny

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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1. Re:Swedish Defense? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-30 07:01 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  The US Army?
2. Re:Swedish Defense? by I+judge+you · 2004-09-30 08:07 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  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.
3. Re:Swedish Defense? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-30 08:11 · 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 :-)
And when you step on a landmine... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-30 06:40 · Score: 3, Funny

Field engineer goes BORK BORK BORK
And what a princess by lastninja · 2004-09-30 06:42 · Score: 3, Informative

Worth saving.

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how else by pizza_milkshake · 2004-09-30 07:42 · Score: 3, Funny

can you keep your 3d military models in shape?
Great, this'll be realistic by Enlarge+Your+Penis · 2004-09-30 12:13 · Score: 2, Funny

Have the Swedish army medics worked out how to respawn dead soldiers then?