Virtual war: The army and technology

Posted at: Thursday 6th September 2007 by James Gorbold

James Gorbold joins the British Army at its high-tech Land Warfare Centre to see just what the military are doing with the most expensive computer games in the world.

The rapid adoption of VBS2 by several other military organisations around the world is the best example of the growing trend of the military moving away from buying expensive proprietary systems to purchasing lower-cost, more technologically advanced simulators developed from off-the-shelf PC games. As such, it's fair to say that the voracious appetite of PC gamers for photo-realistic graphics has been of real benefit to the military, and in return, PC gamers should also benefit from the development of more sophisticated and realistic games.