Urban Warrior 5: Virtual Battle Simulation For The British Army

It sure does look like a video game but this one cost £1m to develop and is being used by the British Army to find out which resources it needs to invest once it gets control of its own budget. This simulation involved 220 soldiers and was carried out at the Army's Land Warfare Centre in Warminster, Wiltshire. The entire mission lasted for two hours as the soldiers took part in missions in a fictional French town titled ‘Lovelle’. ‘Lovelle’ was a replica of a French town where the Army had previously carried out real life training exercises.

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According to Col Tim Law, Assistant Director of Concerns and Experimentation, the experiment involved alternating variables like number of troops, amount of surveillance and available communication and finding out which among the above was most useful in a battle situation. Since the game was built with VBS2 software, the same software that is being commercial games to create environments there were some inevitable comparisons with the hugely popular Call of Duty franchise. But Dr Nigel Paling, Science Advisor with the UK Government's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has assured that they have recreated actual weapon effects and are “pushing the edges of realism and scale”.

Source: British army stages record-breaking virtual battle - BBC News

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