...fight easy!
Had some more time over so I felt that I should give you some info about the company I'm working at.
It's a part of the SAAB Group (http://www.saabgroup.com) and as you might know they focus mainly on the defence industry, the part where I'm working is called SAAB Training Systems (http://www.saabgroup.com/en/ProductsServices/BusinessUnit/saab_training_systems.htm) and they manufacture laser combat simulation equipment for military and law enforcement use.
The whole system, that costs a shitload, can handle up to 1500 players at a time, ppl or vehicles...
Each unit is prepped with a reciver (for the soldiers it's a vest and "halo") that has built in sound. When a soldier is hit, the vest starts to beep and he's "dead".
Every weapon is prepped with a sender that reacts to firing of blanks... so you use your own weapon and fire it like normal, but you score hits with harmless laser.
Add to that a GPS tracking of each player, gear to transfer the effect of indirect fire in to houses where soldiers hide and... a medical simulation (a soldier gets hit, if the medic manage to stabilise him in time he doesn't die), a gasmask that feels when you breath trough it, so if gas is on the battlefield and you don't manage to put the mask on fast enough ----> you're out.
Handgrenade sims, mine sims.... what not, that all works with laser and calculates the effect on the soldiers.
On top of that... a realtime surveillance and a after combat presentation on video, where you can see who "died" and when, who shot who and what each player did every second of the "play"...
It's paintball for grown ups, or as I say... The difference between boys and men is the price on their toys.
I've used some off this gear, live so to say, in the army and I can tell you that it's as close as you wanna be to the real shit.
So... when I walked in to the R&D Dep on my first tour and saw what they had to "play" with, I swear, I started sweating... It's bleeding amazing really.
So, some info, to start with... I can recommend their webpage, they have some good info there.
16 years ago
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^^ sounds absolutely awesome, cept where is the "how you could have saved lives indicator" ;)
good to hear your still alive man !!! and great news on the fun new intern u landed, i only know SAAB to make cars, guess u learn something new every day....
wow... well we'll leave it at that ;) aslong as your having fun m8 , dont let me stop you.
Good to hear your life is going in the right direction too, and mine is also now with the obama job and such , im working 7 days a week at the minute but its rocking me a much needed $500 a week and i get to chill ALOT !!! :) one more week of this madness tho, and then im off to sell tea in a shop for a friend of ours, which should be a piece of cake for a good old tea drinking brit like myself .
Back to PE !! man i should be back within a few weeks hopefully, we just caught up on our bills , so maybe we can look into getting some pc parts .. WOOHOO ! i might even spend a little on my return on some bot armour and bot dispensers ;)
so glad to hear some news from your side of the pond talk soon !
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