Swedish Armed Forces are using VBS3 for training

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Swedish Armed Forces are using VBS3 for training



Combat training in a different way
June 23, 2015

Upstairs in a computer room at the Armed Forces' logistics and engine school in Skovde is fifteen students. They are all out in the battle, but run their data through computers.- I've just been out in the battle and lost the other crew. The hardest thing is to play the game fully and let the stress facing the other. But, in that everyone is so serious it becomes believable anyway, says Lieutenant Priscilla Hallberg, 22nd associated Company on line regiment.


Here are all the students, divided into groups and solve tasks as.
Photo: Carolina Karlsson / Armed Forces


Virtual Battlespace VBS III is a virituellt training game. It's about using the game to train logistics platoon, kompani-, and battalion level within the framework of a national high-risk operation, that is an attack.

It's like a LAN, a network where everyone is connected to the server. Practicing and practicing orders training and decision-making by individuals, managers and positions in kvartermästarfunktionen the platoon up to battalion level, says manager Thomas Dahlborg, a teacher at the Armed Forces' logistics and engine school.

The credibility of the game is high, says manager Thomas Dahlborg.

- You can choose whether to go in real time. There is also the opportunity to put all the data so the game can take into account the frictions that are real, such as being fired or go on discrimination, he says.

The students training in logistics kvartermästarfunktionen. The course is from the elevated preparedness for war.

- It is very instructive. There is a great variation on oral stridsövning, more lifelike even if one does not stand out in nature. One gets an impression that it takes time to pluck up, it's very easy to rush to such a thing in an oral stridsövning says Lieutenant Priscilla Hallberg.

Economically
Training game is one of two portable plants which are in Skovde garrison and for the first time on this course at the Armed Forces' logistics and engine school. The facility is really designed to train managerial positions in combat. There is an economic aspect of the matter also.

- It's cheaper than being out in the environment. The negative is that you do not get out as much, that you miss are frictions in the environment. The positive is that you really get what you want of exercise opportunity, says manager Thomas Dahlborg.

The aim of the course and practice the game is for the students to understand their role in a high-risk operation, and with the help of VBS III have experiences that they can take with them and train with their hemförband to rapidly reach operational effect.

- I'm not a computer game person basically but here you get to try to support and be supported. You can train different functions and it provides a better understanding both upwards and downwards. Above all, the role of leadership carriage I have not been able to practice the past so it will be a good experience to take with them, says Lieutenant Priscilla Hallberg.


By: Caroline Karlsson

Translated using Google.
Original story:
http://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/aktuellt/2015/06/stridsutbildning-pa-ett-annorlunda-satt/