Defence Forces invest EUR 3m for virtual combat training

Finnish Defence Forces has spent three million euros for training in simulation combat environment, national broadcaster Yle reported.

The training will take place through on board computer games and will be used in all the military units by the end of this year, said the report.

The Armored Brigade, which has only one computer class, will get new simulator classrooms at the beginning of next year.

The simulator rooms will be equipped with about 1,200 computers.

"The computers within a garrison can be networked together. So far, we have not networked different garrisons together," Staff Officer Major Tom Malmström of Defence Command’s training unit told Yle.