War Game: Raven Shield

Virtual environments are increasingly used for military training and by researchers to collect human performance data before and in lieu of costly field experiments. The McKenna Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) site at Fort Benning, GA, is used for training and experimentation with Soldiers using new equipment and tactics. A low-cost reusable virtual representation of the McKenna MOUT site was built with the use of the popular first-person shooter PC game, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield , which focuses on small unit tactics in a complex urban environment. The high-fidelity custom environment is complete with accurate representations of buildings, terrain, vegetation, and combinations of enemy units and objectives that model real training situations.

An Officer Candidate School student participates in a collaborative situational awareness experiment at Ft. Benning, GA, 24 July 2003, using a revised version of the popular video game, Raven Shield. The wargame is based on Tom Clancy novels but was rebuilt to mirror exactly the terrain of Fort Benning’s McKenna MOUT site
An Officer Candidate School student participates in a collaborative situational awareness experiment at Ft. Benning, GA, 24 July 2003, using a revised version of the popular video game, Raven Shield. The wargame is based on Tom Clancy novels but was rebuilt to mirror exactly the terrain of Fort Benning’s McKenna MOUT site.

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War Game: Raven Shield

In Raven Shield, the third of the very popular Rainbow Six® series of Tom Clancy games, the player commands RAINBOW, an elite, multinational squad of special forces commandos against an elusive terrorist foe, travelling to locations around the world.

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The game was created by Ubi Soft, whose press release says about Raven Sheild:

Developed by Ubi Soft’s Montreal studio, in close collaboration with Red Storm Entertainment, Rainbow Six®: Raven Shield features a brand new Tom Clancy storyline in which Team RAINBOW is led all over the world in a string of dramatic operations. The game will utilize graphics technology provided by the next-generation Unreal™ engine to power 15 new single-player missions that include the discovery of a cache of biological weapons and stopping an armed gang from terrorizing a London bank.

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Combined Joint Task Force Exercise '96 at Camp Lejeune, NC, (MOUT training) a Marine checks around the corner of a building for intruders, 13 May 1996
During Combined Joint Task Force Exercise 1996 at Camp Lejeune, NC, (MOUT training) a Marine checks around the corner of a building for intruders, 13 May 1996.